by WCT, Wasting Company Time
If you are familiar with Baseball Tonight you know that they begin every season by asking the analysts for "bold predictions." Now this usually degenerates into them spouting off things like "the Yankees will win 140 games" and other nonsense that will almost assuredly not come true. Well, I have decided to bring that same sort of boldness to EC, but keep it out of the realm of the totally ridiculous. So with that, here is the next of my quasi-bold prediction for the 2007 College Football season. Feel free to contribute with your own in the comments, but remember, keep them quasi-bold people.
The Big 12 will become the worst BCS conference
Remember the late '90s/early '00s? When Texas A&M, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado were all perennial powers? When teams like Missouri and Oklahoma State added depth to the conference? That might has well have been 3oo years ago. This year, I think the Big 12 will be overtaken by the Big East and end up as the worst BCS conference.
Texas and Oklahoma are both good, but I really don't see either being solid national title contenders. I might be the last person in the world who isn't sold on Colt McCoy, and we can't forget that this three-loss team eeked out wins over Nebraska, Texas Tech, and Iowa last season. Now they have to replace two all-american DBs (Aaron Ross and Michael Griffin) from a secondary that was a weakness to begin with, and have to play a TCU team in week two that many are calling this year's "BCS buster?" What about the Sooners? RB Allen Patrick is supposed to be be a stud, but who is going to play quarterback for this team?
Texas and OU are no better, and some would say worse, than West Virginia and Louisville. If Nebraska and A&M keep underachieving, as they seem to every year, they will be overtaken by rising stars Rutgers and South Florida. The bottom of both of these conferences are basically a wash, so if you want to argue that Baylor and Colorado are better than Syracuse and UConn, have at it. I say they all stink. The key will be the teams in the middle. Texas Tech is basically a circus act that can score 80 points in a game, but never beats anyone of substance. They are like Hawaii-east. Kansas St. is a decent team that is usually good for an upset or two during the year, but they got smoked in the bowl game by Rutgers. Besides the fact that they have 50% more teams, what actually makes the Big 12 better than the Big East? This year, I say nothing.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Quasi-bold College Football Prediction of the Day
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I think the Big 12 will be overtaken by the Big East and end up as the worst BCS conference.
Wake Forest was the conference champ last year, Duke and NC won 1 game combined, "powerhouses" Miami and FSU are fading, coaches were fired left and right...and yet the ACC rarely gets mentioned as the worst BCS conference. Odd.
My quasi-bold prediction: after a scandal-filled, 5-loss reason, Bobby Bowden will announce before the end of the season that he's retiring. Oh, and upon hearing the news, Joe Paterno will break a hip doing the chicken dance.
Noone's worse than the Big East, and the ACC is extraordinarily overrated.
Other than than, you're spot on.
Quick question for WCT: Is "quasi-bold" a euphemism for "completely insane"? Just wondering, cause that's the only way this rabble works. The Big East is a great great conference....for basketball. In fact it's this year's conference version of Kentucka, an overrated team that, not suprisingly, you wrote would have a big season. The Big 12 is better this year and going forward for 3 reasons:
1)Rutgers and south florida are not "rising stars". Rutgers had a dream season last year and it's more likely that it was an aberration than the genesis of a football powerhouse. No one wins without top flight recruits and big time recruits ain't goin to rutgers (or south florida) by the dozens.
2) After this year, Louisville will start to slide. Brian Brohm is their last hope, because when he leaves to play on sundays, Petrino won't be there to recruit that kind of talent again. I'll tell you CAN recruit the creme de la creme--Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska.
3) The middle of the pack in the Big 12 would step in and provide the same results in the big east as rutgers with rutgers' schedule. There are 5 teams not named texas or oklahoma that could easily be the 3rd best team in the big east this year: Nebraska, texas A&M, texas tech, missouri and oklahoma state. Any of these teams could sweep the big east schedule outside of UL and WVU. The opposite is most definitely not true.
The big east is a top heavy league that will slink back into obscurity after this year. It's so thin after UL and WVU that a decent team like Rutgers could go 10-2 this year and not have ONE good win. Combine its non-conference games at Army, navy, buffalo and IAA (championship sub-division) Norfolk State, with the patsies in the big east as rutgers will have a record that looks nice but, like the big east, lacks depth.
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