<p>With football season just days away, it is time to inaugurate this year's edition of the CC College Football discussion. Looks to be a big year for a lot of reasons, and personally I'm looking forward to cheering on my 'Heels in Atlanta as they open up the season against LSU in the Georgia Dome!</p>
<p>Anyone else looking forward to getting this season started?</p>
<p>I’m a Terp and we tend to look forward to football season ending more than starting…</p>
<p>Comedian Russell Peters came to campus last year and asked us, “What’s your main football cheer?..‘Rah Rah–wait for basketball season’?”</p>
<p>Looking forward to the a great Gators season.</p>
<p>I have season tickets but I don’t think this year is going to be that great for us.</p>
<p>Whooo, Scarlet Knig — ehhhhh, forget it. Maybe we’ll win a trip to another no-name bowl game this year =</p>
<p>Roll Tide Roll!!!</p>
<p>I plan on going to the 7 home games and @LSU. This will be one hell of a season with the best running back duo in the country and an offense that will be significantly more potent. With Nick Saban as the coach, I’m really not too worried about the defense. </p>
<p>cabhax: I really look forward to playing y’all come September 11th. It should be a great game, and I can assure you people in Tuscaloosa have nothing but respect for your school and football program.</p>
<p>tom savage is supposed to be a stud, I’m rooting for Texas and TCU! Might go to the tcu Oregon state game at cowboys stadium.</p>
<p>It’s going to be an interesting football season for the Florida Gators. I’ve won season tickets and I’ll try to go to all home games. </p>
<p>@pramirez184 : I am really looking forward to see Alabama vs. Florida during the season.</p>
<p>Speaking of interesting seasons. It’s going to be an interesting football season for USC also.</p>
<p>There’s a lot to look forward to - Matt Barkley is ready for a breakout season after playing well last season (except for a few bad passing games and an average TD/INT ratio)</p>
<p>Plus, there’s hope Lane Kiffin can restore USC’s passing game (which has now gone through 4 offensive coordinator changes in the past 6 offseasons)</p>
<p>The sanctions won’t hit USC this year (only 1 player, Seantrel Henderson, left because of those - all other transfers left because of lack of playing time) but it will hurt USC’s depth.</p>
<p>Outside of USC, I predict Alabama will lose at least once. It’s nearly impossible to go undefeated these days, and this years Alabama looks a lot like USC in 2005. Returning heisman winner, loads of starters returning on offense, a defense that is talented but inexperienced that will slip at some point.</p>
<p>Here are my predictions:</p>
<p>Most overrated team: tie between Miami, Florida State, LSU, and USC (at least early in the season)
Most Underrated team: Iowa</p>
<p>Heisman Winner: LeMichael James, RB, Oregon</p>
<p>Conference Winners:
ACC: Atlantic- Clemson, Coastal: Virginia Tech, Champ Game Winner- Virginia Tech (tempted to pick UNC, but star players Greg Little and Marvin Austin might be ineligible because of NCAA investigation)
Big East: UConn (this conf is wide open as usual)
Big 10: Iowa (Ohio St. loses at Wisconsin and at Iowa, Iowa has Ohio St. and Wisconsin at home)
Big XII: North- Nebraska, South: Oklahoma, Champ Game Winner- Oklahoma
(Texas loses too much on offense to win the division)
Mountain West: TCU (Utah loses to TCU, Air Force finishes third, BYU fourth)
Pac 10: Oregon (UO and OSU game will decide the conference, USC’s reign is over and they finish 4th, watch out for Arizona)
SEC: East- Florida, West- Alabama, Champ Game Winner- Alabama (UGA will challenge for the SEC East crown provided that injuries don’t derail their season for the third year in a row)</p>
<p>BCS Games:
Rose: Iowa vs. Oregon
Fiesta: Oklahoma vs. TCU
Orange: UConn vs. Virginia Tech
Sugar: Florida vs. Ohio State
National Championship Game: Boise State vs. Alabama
National Champion: Boise State Broncos – let the revolution begin</p>
<p>Prediction on my team, Notre Dame: With an improved defense, a better head coach, and a manageable schedule, ND finished 9-3 with losses to Pitt, Utah and Stanford. ND beats USC in the Coliseum on November 27th. ND ends up in the Gator Bowl vs. Clemson and ends up with a win to end the year at 10-3. Irish WR Michael Floyd will be a dark horse Heisman candidate if he can stay healthy.</p>
<p>My prediction for USC: SC starts 5-0 with a soft early schedule and moves up to the top 10 in the AP Poll. They lose at Stanford, at home to Oregon, at Oregon State (USC hasn’t won in the state of Oregon since 2005), at Arizona and at home to ND (keep in mind that USC has had a ton of trouble for the past 5 years defending against teams that run spread offenses). USC can’t afford any injuries (especially on the offensive line) because of a lack of depth resulting from a large number of transfers. Final record is 7-5</p>
<p>That is quite the bold predictions there. I would love to see how this season plays out. I’ll keep your post in mind and see how accurately it falls through, hopefully I don’t forget this post. </p>
<p>Note to future self: “It’s the past self, I just want to say ‘Hi’ to the 2011 self.”</p>
<p>I got my hands on season tickets to The Ohio State Buckeyes home games. It’s going to be amazing. I predict OSU taking the conference then going onto a bowl game again. Just going off previous trends. Either way, I look forward to the bucks dominating Michigan at the 'shoe again this year</p>
<p>I love this thread</p>
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<p>I agree that LaMichael James is one of the best RB in the country but he will not win the heisman. RBs usually only win the heisman if their team is in the national championship or they rush for an absurd number of yards. Oregon is probably not a top-2 team and James suspended for the season opener (New Mexico) where he would have padded his stats.</p>
<p>Most likely winner will be Terrelle Pryor, QB, Ohio State. If not him then probably another QB will win.</p>
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<p>It is so hard to say exactly what the deal is with USC vs the spread. There are some high profile losses to spread offenses (2005 vs Texas, 2007 vs Oregon, 2009 vs Oregon) but at the same time USC has also totally shut down some high powered spreads (2007 vs Illinois, 2008 vs Oregon). </p>
<p>Also, Oregon’s spread offense looked so good vs USC in 2009, that “USC can’t defend the spread” seemed obvious, until Stanford’s power I offense (really, the conceptual opposite of the spread) also steamrolled USC’s defense two weeks later.</p>
<p>USC has a new DC in Monte Kiffin, too. Though USC’s base defense won’t change (Pete Carroll was Monte Kiffin’s protege) you can bet Monte will want to prove he can defend the spread. Last year at Tennessee he gave Florida’s spread and Tim Tebow a lot more than everyone expected.</p>
<p>Predictions:
Rose: Iowa (Big-10 at large) vs. Oregon (Pac-10 champ)
Fiesta: Nebraska (Big-12 champ) vs. Boise State (WAC champ)
Orange: Cincinnati (Big East champ) vs. Miami (ACC champ)
Sugar: Georgia (SEC at large) vs. Oklahoma (Big-12 at large)
National Championship Game: Ohio State (Big-10 champ) vs. Alabama (SEC champ)
National Champion: Ohio State</p>
<p>Third straight bowl for the first time. That’s kind of sad :(</p>
<p>XU football, undefeated since 1973! </p>
<p>(We haven’t had a “real” team since then…[Xavier</a> University | Football | History | Story](<a href=“http://www.xavier.edu/football/historystory.cfm]Xavier”>http://www.xavier.edu/football/historystory.cfm))</p>
<p>(Though we do have a club team now…but yeah…)</p>
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<p>That would be an amazing game.</p>
<p>Personally, I’m hoping Miami throttles Ohio State in their game this season. Nothing against Ohio State, just really want to see the ACC have a breakout year.</p>
<p>^Are you talking about Miami, Florida? Sorry, I’m from Ohio…so…“Miami” and “UC” mean something different to me than to most people in the US…</p>
<p>^^^^ Haha, Miami of Ohio throttling the Buckeyes. That’s classic</p>
<p>On a side note, I don’t get all the hype for Pryor. He had one good game all season. If you look at his entire body of work last year, it’s evident that he is not a Heisman caliber QB. Pryor needs to learn to stop throwing the football like it’s a shot put to have success this year.</p>
<p>I’m so excited to go to a Badger game! Ordinarily I’m not a huge football fan, but I’m actually really excited for game days. :)</p>
<p>^ Wisconsin is my pick to win the Big 10.</p>