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Your prediction for surprising outcomes of the 2005/6 college football season

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I feel Bowling Green will win a close one in Madison

Lloyd will lose 3

Notre Dame will be lucky to finish .500

Iowa and Drew Tate will not live up to the potential

Oklahoma and Miami(Fla) will have similar seasons

Miami(OH) will win the MAC

JoePa will still have a terrible record

Big East will get murdered in their BCS bowl game

USC will not win the National Championship, but will play in it

Ohio State will beat scUM by a late field goal

Texas will not win the Big XII
 
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USC will loose 2 games this season.

we will spend the better half of the year searching for a qb. which will largely negate our godlike wr core and leave most of us ripping our hair out.

no big 10 team will survive the season undefeated.

there will be 3 1 loss teams in the big 10. analysts nation wide will still state that this is proof that there MUST be a playoff game to solve the problem even though such a statement is completely contradictory to reality.

the big 10 will send 6 teams in bowl games (tOSU, scum, purdue, iowa, penn state, and wisky). 5 of which will win. 3 will dominate in their victories. purdue will be the lone loss playing a team clearly superior.
heres to the bucks proving me wrong! :cheers:
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Trev Alberts will make an intelligent statement on national TV....

....but don't put any vCash on that.
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I was just thinking how much I was enjoying my own bloody thread and still trying to wrap my mind around Dryden's OSU/VaTech prediction, which I hadn't considered.

Now you go and predict something like this and blow all my mental gaskets! :biggrin:
 
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If USC were beaten in Hawaii it would surely be one of the biggest upsets of the start of the season.

Biggest surprise of the entire season .. ND wins 8 games, including knocking of the Vols in South Bend.
 
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My prediction. The OSU offense will have us all looking for antacids and wondering why we thought different! We make it to the Rose Bowl and play Va Tech for all the marbles, but the AP gives another half National Championship to....you guessed it, USC!
 
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just a question for everyone who is picking USC to lose two games.. who will they lose too? they have an easy schedule. the hardest game comes against cal at cal but cal lost their leading rusher and quarterback. their team is also stacked. i just cant see them not winning the NC this year or in the near future with their recruiting classes they get every year.
 
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Cal, Fresno State. Those are your two teams.

Cal brings back Marshawn f-ing LYNCH (who is the MAN) and a JUCO Superstar. Tedford's a genius.

Fresno State has the best team its ever had. They are a hardnosed, toughass team that is your closest thing to a BCS buster.

My prediction: Tresselball stays around, and we all want to rip our hair out. It will cost us the Penn State and Iowa game.
 
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illinoisbuckeye said:
just a question for everyone who is picking USC to lose two games.. who will they lose too? they have an easy schedule.
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I'll bite on this one since I'm picking USC to lose two games -- I'm not omniscient, if I were I'd be in Vegas betting against USC, but I don't buy that USC's schedule is easy. At Hawaii is never a cake walk no matter how good the visiting team is, Arkansas has some football players, at least the last time I watched, at Oregon, at ASU ... you kidding??? Those are easy games?! At Notre Dame, at Washington, at Cal ... with a side of Fresno?! The top tier of teams in the country would be looking at 8-3 with this schedule, and that would be considered a success. There are between six to eight 'loseable' games on USC's schedule, four of them I would take seriously (@Oregon, @ASU, @Cal, Fresno). Pick any two of those.

Look ... I don't care if Washington and Notre Dame were a combined 0-22 last year ... you don't just walk into their place and win simply because you laced up the shoes. USC has, IMHO, a very tough schedule, particularly since all the Pac-10 home/road games seem to fall in the favor of all the traditional quality opponents getting USC at their place. I think the bullseye and the coaching staff losses are too much to bare -- USC looses two very close games, probably in closing minute TOs or FGs.

Really, to go undefeated in college football you have to be both lucky and good. USC's luck will run out. Eventually a fumble will bounce the other way, a FG will bounce off the post ... etc. If Petey goes undefeated again, fuck it ... I'll be his #1 guy.

Oneshot said:
My prediction: Tresselball stays around, and we all want to rip our hair out. It will cost us the Penn State and Iowa game.
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I think 9-2 is a possibility too, but I don't think the Bucks drop the game v. Iowa. If OSU loses two, it'll be the road games @PSU and @UM.
 
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Dryden said:
Really, to go undefeated in college football you have to be both lucky and good. USC's luck will run out. Eventually a fumble will bounce the other way, a FG will bounce off the post ... etc. If Petey goes undefeated again, fuck it ... I'll be his #1 guy.
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i won't go that far...:P but i feel the same way you do. USC will be a cocky team looking forward to another nc birth. and hey, why shouldn't they be? but this will cost them atleast one game. a bad break will cost them another. USC is clearly one of the most talented teams in college football. that point isn't very argueable. but if college football has taught us anything, its that talent and strategy do NOT guarantee victory. USC has been both good AND lucky over the last few years. as dryden mentioned, luck runs out from time to time. USC is overdue some bad luck. i wouldn't be shocked in the least to watch them drop 2 games to teams that they should destroy. *shrug* happens every year to great teams. not sure why people are so awe struck by USC...
 
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Fresno state is a BCS buster in the beginning of the season. They haven't proven they can bust a BCS late in the season (when depth becomes an issue). A November game (Carroll has never lost in November) at the Coliseum? USC is more likely to lose 2+ games then they are to lose to Fresno State.

Washington is just bad. Willingham can turn them around, but not this year.

I ran my own numbers for USC's probability of going undefeated:

at Hawaii 85%
Arkansas 85%
at Oregon 70%
at Arizona State 75%
Arizona 90%
at Notre Dame 75%
at Washington 90%
Washington State 90%
Stanford 95%
at Cal 65%
Fresno State 90%
UCLA 80%

That comes out to a 9.22% chance of going undefeated through the regular season.
 
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