Who out there fully understands the BCS? Seriously. Email me if you do.
Here’s where we stand:
1. Ohio State
2. USC
3. Michigan
4. Auburn
5. West Virginia
6. Florida
7. Louisville
8. Notre Dame
9. Texas
10. California
11. Tennessee
12. Clemson
13. Arkansas
14. Oregon
15. Boise State
16. Rutgers
17. Nebraska
18. LSU
19. Georgia Tech
20. Boston College
21. Wisconsin
22. Oklahoma
23. Iowa
24. Missouri
25. Tulsa
Now, I don’t really care about a Top 25 because 10 teams will play in BCS bowls.
So, here are my first week projects with seeds in parenthesis.
National Championship Game: Ohio State (1) vs. Florida (2)
Fiesta Bowl: Auburn (7) vs. California (8)
Sugar Bowl: ACC Champion (10) vs. Louisville (5)
Orange Bowl: West Virginia (9) vs. Texas (6)
Rose Bowl: Southern California (3) vs. Michigan (4)
Here’s why:
- Ohio State will beat Michigan, but the Wolverines will have plenty of street cred to make the Rose Bowl. Everyone involved with the 28-14 USC win over Michigan in the 2004 Rose Bowl wants to see this go down again (probably the people in Ann Arbor more than Los Angeles residents.
- Southern California has a November gauntlet of: Oregon (11/11), California (11/18) and Notre Dame (11/25). All of them are home, but USC will lose one of those games, and I think it’ll be to California giving the Pac 10 two BCS teams.
- Florida will beat Auburn in the SEC championship rematch, but Auburn is more than worthy to beat up the Golden Bears in the desert.
- Okay…Louisville will beat West Virginia. Now, if they really smoke WVU and Notre Dame runs the table, it’ll be Notre Dame-Texas in the Sugar Bowl and whichever scrub team from the ACC versus Louisville in the Orange Bowl.
I think all of that makes sense. This shouldn’t be updated because I’m right, but by some small chance I’m not, I’ll tweak it.
Thoughts?
Comments (3)
I thought Notre Dame had a deal if they won 9 games they got a BCS bid? Their remaining schedule is UCLA, Navy, UNC, Air Force, Army, and USC. They are 5 and 1 right now and will finish no worse than 9 and 3 and probably will round out the season 10 and 2.
I agree wholeheartedly. Florida outplayed the Tigers for the better part of that game, they just fell victim to a few errors. Florida will win the rematch and get the chamionship berth over an undefeated WVU/Louisville.
I didn't realize that Pitt beat Rutgers. I thought I saw on ESPN that Raymell Rice ran for 225 yards and Rutgers completely shut down Tyler Palko. Hey Newsday, can we have somebody cover college football that actually watches the games?