2008 “Big Six” Conference Champion Predictions
Posted by RaleighWatson on January 25, 2008
Though the previous season has just ended, I think it is time to make my 2008 college football conference champion predictions. I will also predict the national champion and the non-BCS team most likely to make a BCS bowl.
ACC- Clemson (As talented as anyone in the nation next season…besides USC, Georgia, and Oklahoma)
Big 12- Oklahoma (Sorry Missouri fans…they crushed you both times this past season)
Big East- West Virginia (Should have a lot to prove, Big East shouldn’t have any elite teams either)
Big Ten- Ohio State (Return a lot of players next season)
Pac-10- USC (Extremely talented football team…must determine the starting QB)
SEC- Georgia (If Florida had a defense, I would say the Gators have a better shot)
National Championship Game: USC vs. Oklahoma
USC and Oklahoma both have shots to go undefeated next year. USC will be extremely talented on both sides of the ball and should have no trouble scoring points as long as their QB can produce. Oklahoma may lose a game, but the fact that Texas will supposedly be down next year, along with their dominance over Missouri this past season, seems to suggest otherwise. If they do lose, I would expect Georgia to creep into the championship game with one or possibly two losses, similar to LSU this past season.
School outside of the “big-six” most likely to make a BCS bowl: Fresno State (talented football team playing in a weaker conference = a lot of wins and a high ranking)
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School outside of the “big-six” most likely to make a BCS bowl is BYU, not Fresno State. Look at the record:
2006: 11-2 undefeated in Mountain West Conference, and then whooped on Oregon 38-8 in Las Vegas Bowl
2007: 11-2 again undefeated in Mountain West Conference, and then beat our UCLA in Law Vegas Bowl
2008: returns 10 of 11 offensive starters, and 6 on defense.
Max Hall, Harvey Unga, Austin Collie, Dennis Pitta, Jan Jorgenson, David Nixon. Check out those names. Hall was the best sophomore QB in the country in 2007. To be clear: Mountain West is a better conference than WAC. Don’t forget MWC teams LEFT WAC to form new conference and WAC was left with all the wannabees. BSU & Hawaii have gotten highlighted while BYU was down fixing its coaching changes, BUT now BYU is back to dominating the non-”big-six” conference just like it did through the 70s, 80 and most of the 90s.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pm