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

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Dryden said:
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.


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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alright, so the schedule might be a little harder than easy. PAC-10 isnt exactly known for their football teams with the exception of USC. i just cant invision a team that returns their heisman quarterback and most of their championship team from last year to struggle threw any of those games. maybe i am wrong but with the talent that that team has along with a medicore schedule and a great coach, i just dont invision them losing. of course i hope ur right cuz i believe they are the only team in the country that we cannot beat consistently. and hopefully the luck will run out but i just dont invision that happening this year. just personally how i feel espicially after the asskicking they gave Oklahoma last year.
 
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1) Texas will beat Oklahoma

2) Bowling Green over Wisconsin in opener

3) 1st season teams will win the Big East, & CUSA.

4) Arizona will give USC all they want and may upset them at home. They will finish the season around .500

5) Illinois will finish in the top 6 within the Big Ten.

6) Georgia will be a 6-5 team
 
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1) USC will lose one game, maybe even two... and some team will get screwed that lost to a more impressive opponent.... such as Tennesssee missing the title game b/c they lost to Florida while USC lost to Oregon (or someone like that)

2) Penn State will rebound some, but Michigan State will make some noise and win at least 7 games... including against Michigan.

3) Michigan will beat Notre Dame, but after losing to MSU and OSU the head coach will come under even more fire. We will enjoy this, but get worried our biggest advantage in The Game, Carr's ineptitude at coaching, might be ending soon.

4) Louisville obliterates the Little East... and goes on to smoke Urban Liar and his gators. After careful consideration, he'd definitely be my first choice for a whipping at the hand of the Cardinals...
 
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So when we kick Michigan's butt to earn the Rose Bowl bid, what do we do about Lloyd, LLloyd, LLLloyd? Does he become LLLLloyd, or should it be IVLloyd? These are the hard questions.

I'm still nervous about the lack of a running back. Counting on Smith to stay injury free as a running quarterback in a schedule as tough as ours is optomistic. Counting on the team to adjust to a scrambler at QB one week and one of two drop back style QBs the next can be very tough. Without a running back to take the load off the rest of the offense makes QB play all the more critical. This o-line and this o-coordinator/line coach has yet to prove that the Bucks can run against anybody better than Indiana.

If we have someone who can rush for 800 - 1000 yds for the season I'll feel like we can run the table. If not, look for some long faces in November.
 
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Matt Leinart will not win the Heisman.

Notre Dame will finish the season 10-2 with wins over USC, Tennessee and a Bowl opponent.

AJ Hawk will finish in the top five in Heisman voting and will win the Butkus Award outright.
 
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I believe LLLoyd is in reference to "Three-loss" Lloyd Carr. As in three losses per season. However, I'd lobby for each L representing each loss to us under Tressel. IVLLoyd for four losses, VLloyd for 5, all the way up to XLloyd for 10. However, L is 50 in Roman numerals. So after 50 losses he can go back to plain old Lloyd. An example for the 48th loss would be something like XLVIIILloyd. And of course, after a hundred losses, he'd be reduced to CLloyd.
 
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Anyone that says USC's schedule isn't easy is on crack. I'm not saying it's a cakewalk, but I'd rather play their schedule than an ACC, SEC, or Big 10 schedule. Please. Who is better, Cal or scUM? Iowa or ASU? Wisky or Arizona? Washington or Penn State? Give me a break...compared to the road we have to travel, USC can stroll blindfolded and get there.
 
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FKAGobucks877 said:
Who is better, Cal or scUM? Iowa or ASU? Wisky or Arizona? Washington or Penn State?
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Are you serious?! ASU blasted Iowa 44-7, and beat Northwestern and Purdue too. Wisky struggled to beat a 3-8 Arizona team, needing a FG with only 3 minutes to play to win by the whopping margin of 9-7. In direct Big-10/Pac-10 match-ups, the pride of the Big-10 was Indiana figuring out how to get into the end zone on one of Oregon's bizarre 7 1st quarter turnovers in that game -- otherwise Oregon outgained IU 500 yards to 200 and dominated the remaining three quarters.

You argument has little weight when Arizona State had the best record in the Big-10 last year. :roll2:
 
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Dryden said:
Are you serious?! ASU blasted Iowa 44-7, and beat Northwestern and Purdue too. Wisky struggled to beat a 3-8 Arizona team, needing a FG with only 3 minutes to play to win by the whopping margin of 9-7. In direct Big-10/Pac-10 match-ups, the pride of the Big-10 was Indiana figuring out how to get into the end zone on one of Oregon's bizarre 7 1st quarter turnovers in that game -- otherwise Oregon outgained IU 500 yards to 200 and dominated the remaining three quarters.

You argument has little weight when Arizona State had the best record in the Big-10 last year. :roll2:
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:lol:

I'll give you ASU and Iowa, even though I firmly believe that was a fluke...but tell me honestly, do you really think ASU is a better team than Iowa this year? And how is it an honest comparison to take Oregon, with all they have accomplished the last 5-10 years, and Indiana, the perennial Big 10 bottom-dweller? Uh, yeah, ASU beat Northwestern. Gee, that's tough. While a sore subject after last year, prior to that it had been what, 34 years since they beat OSU? Seriously, who doesn't beat Northwestern? Compare the B10 top to bottom with the Pac 10, and it isn't even close. Not even close. And the SEC is (at least recently) better than the B10. When the toughest game on your schedule is Cal, you have absolutely NO business whatsoever saying you have a tough schedule.
 
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Alright, let me put it this way...I think the bottom halves of the two conferences are probably about even. But I think the top half of the B10 vs. the top half of the P10 would favor the B10 to the tune of 4-1. And if you honestly took B10 #1 vs. P10 #1, on down the line, B10 would sing a tune of 8-2, 7-3.
 
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OSU USC - I think we could win the RB against them, but they are clearly the favorite
UM Oregon
Iowa ASU - This isn't 2004.
Purdue Cal
Wisc UCLA
MSU Arizona
Penn St WSU
Minnesota Oregon St
Northwestern Stanford
Illinois Washington
Indiana (they don't hurt us :))
 
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