Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Revisiting the Past

Ohio State - no loss
WVU - no loss
USC - one loss (possibly undefeated)
Michigan - one loss
Texas - one loss
Louisville - one loss
Clemson - one loss
Auburn - one loss (fine, MAYBE two)
Florida - one loss (maybe two)
Arkansas - one loss (maybe two)
Notre Dame - one loss (maybe two)
Boise State - no loss??
Cal - one loss (probably two)
Tennessee - two loss (MAYBE one)

These were my predictions for the end of the year, back in October. First of all, I'm truly ashamed that Tennessee (9-4) made this list. All we really know now is that no one ever knew what Cal would do.

Let's look at the ones I got right:

Boise State - Thank you for making every game for the rest of the year suck.
Florida - who knew?
Louisville - Ah Rutgers...

The ones I almost got:

Ohio State - Enough has been said about this already.
USC - Oregon State and UCLA combined couldn't beat Michigan, although Oregon State had a classic bowl win.
Auburn - (it's in the parentheses and you get points for beating the national champs)
Michigan - Didn't see the second half of the Rose Bowl, but hey, I was close.

The overrated:

Texas - These guys didn't have it, but man is Vince Young great!
Notre Dame - e tu, Mel Kiper?
Clemson - a disappointing loss to Kentucky only makes me wish more that I had not read iii's blog.

The underachieving:

WVU - watch out for Slaton and White next year.
Arkansas - Slaton + White = McFaddon
Cal - Again, this year's Jekyll and Hyde award


All in all, not bad on the predictions and great for another year of college football. Here's to next fall and my early pick to win it all? Sadly, I'm going to have to go with USC. But I'm looking for big years from Wisconsin, Florida, and WVU as well.

1 comment:

Jesse Faris said...

Who knows? Maybe Alabama will start playing football now that they have a big time coach. Or maybe he'll just suck it up like Steve Spurrier upon his own return. Let's start a trend.