goingoneight
4/27/2008, 01:39 AM
There may be a few spring games left or something like that. I'm not asking for your top 25 or whatever, but how do you see things shaking out in 2008? It should definitely be a fun coversation.
Conference Champs?
Pac 10? goingoneight says USC whilst keeping his fingers crossed for Mikey Stoops in AZ. I honestly think they'll rematch with 11-1/10-2-ish Ohio State in the "Grandaddy of them all." In which case we pray for the start of the great SC bowl skid.
That covers the Pac 10 and BIG 11... next is the Big East. Very hard for me to pick against WVU considering their track-record, but something tells me something is going to happen to Pat White and Co. this year along the lines of Meatchicken/Appy State. IOW, the media will make too much of a team with lots of holes to fill and a good QB might not be enough. It would be nice to see Cincy win the BIG East to help us out in the end of things, though. I'm still saying WVU.
BIG 12? I still really like OUr chances to three-peat unless for some odd reason we come out looking like we did in early 2005 and early 2006 defensively, which is a strong possibility given the defensive starters gone. However, no one on OUr schedule scares the crap out of me. It's not who, it's where... can we win in Stoolwater and Collie Station? I don't see us terribly worse than 2006 and 2007, but I don't see us any better yet, either... I'll predict an 11-1 finish with another BIG 12 Title and lots of crossed fingers on selection Sunday by Sooner faithful hoping the BCS forgives us for an inevitable off game (it's become a pattern since 2000).
Good Lord, that means we get WVU back in Glendale. :eek: Maybe... different year, familiar faces, different team... we'll see, I guess. One thing we do know is that Quentin Chaney will light it up if that's the case. :D
SEC? Look, I don't think they're some godly assembly of athletic freaks whose "speed" and "strength" is unmatched. I think a top program is a top program and the likes of OU, USC, WVU, etc. all would challenge for the SEC crown if placed there. However, we're not there, they're not there and right now the SEC is the best overall conference. Does that mean they'll produce the best team in the country? Not likely... I mean, Boise State wouldn't have went any better than we did in the 2006 schedule, but look what they did on the big stage.
I'll go with 10-2 UGA over par LSU team in the SECCG. Then I'll predict the media love so thick that even two blowout losses can't keep them out of Miami. Sugar Bowl at worst.
Not a top ten or anything like that, but teams you really think will be in the thick of things come November.
goingoneight says:
Oklahoma
USC
Georgia
Texas Tech
whoever wins the Colorado/WVU game (likely WVU, but I wouldn't be shocked to see CU do well this year)
Conference Champs?
Pac 10? goingoneight says USC whilst keeping his fingers crossed for Mikey Stoops in AZ. I honestly think they'll rematch with 11-1/10-2-ish Ohio State in the "Grandaddy of them all." In which case we pray for the start of the great SC bowl skid.
That covers the Pac 10 and BIG 11... next is the Big East. Very hard for me to pick against WVU considering their track-record, but something tells me something is going to happen to Pat White and Co. this year along the lines of Meatchicken/Appy State. IOW, the media will make too much of a team with lots of holes to fill and a good QB might not be enough. It would be nice to see Cincy win the BIG East to help us out in the end of things, though. I'm still saying WVU.
BIG 12? I still really like OUr chances to three-peat unless for some odd reason we come out looking like we did in early 2005 and early 2006 defensively, which is a strong possibility given the defensive starters gone. However, no one on OUr schedule scares the crap out of me. It's not who, it's where... can we win in Stoolwater and Collie Station? I don't see us terribly worse than 2006 and 2007, but I don't see us any better yet, either... I'll predict an 11-1 finish with another BIG 12 Title and lots of crossed fingers on selection Sunday by Sooner faithful hoping the BCS forgives us for an inevitable off game (it's become a pattern since 2000).
Good Lord, that means we get WVU back in Glendale. :eek: Maybe... different year, familiar faces, different team... we'll see, I guess. One thing we do know is that Quentin Chaney will light it up if that's the case. :D
SEC? Look, I don't think they're some godly assembly of athletic freaks whose "speed" and "strength" is unmatched. I think a top program is a top program and the likes of OU, USC, WVU, etc. all would challenge for the SEC crown if placed there. However, we're not there, they're not there and right now the SEC is the best overall conference. Does that mean they'll produce the best team in the country? Not likely... I mean, Boise State wouldn't have went any better than we did in the 2006 schedule, but look what they did on the big stage.
I'll go with 10-2 UGA over par LSU team in the SECCG. Then I'll predict the media love so thick that even two blowout losses can't keep them out of Miami. Sugar Bowl at worst.
Not a top ten or anything like that, but teams you really think will be in the thick of things come November.
goingoneight says:
Oklahoma
USC
Georgia
Texas Tech
whoever wins the Colorado/WVU game (likely WVU, but I wouldn't be shocked to see CU do well this year)