College Football Musings
- Marshawn Lynch is still the best running back in the Pac-10, but the second and third best both play for Oregon. Jonathan Stewart and Jeremiah Johnson are a pretty devistating one-two punch. I think both of them have a future in the NFL.
- Nobody really looks unbeatable this year. Ohio State is close, but I think even they are vulnerable to a high-octane offensive team. Fortunately for them, I don't think they'll have to face one, at least until the title game...and maybe not even then. No way does this year's Ohio State beat last year's Texas...or USC, for that matter.
- Washington is looking pretty damn good. Willingham has his boys ready to play. I give the Huskies two more years before they crack the top 10.
- I still say Tennessee isn't that good...but WR Robert Meachem is one hell of a football player. After single-handedly beating Cal, he has kept the Vols rolling on an otherwise ho-hum team. I wouldn't be shocked to see Meachem tear up Georgia next weekend en route to a narrow Vols win. Further down the road, I see Meachem as a guy who is going to be very successful playing on Sundays. He is flying under the radar now and probably won't be a first round pick, but he should be.
- Gee, Arizona State sure could use some senior leadership at quarterback right now. Arizona State, as I said before, is on its way out in terms of being a respectable team. Dirk Koetter is probably the Pac-10's worst coach, and Mike Stoops at Arizona is going to be getting the lion's share of the local recruits. Expect Arizona State to look a lot like Washington State, maybe as soon as next year.
- How can a team be overrated when everyone knows they are overrated? I don't know. Ask Notre Dame.
- USC is looking very, very mortal. They needed a bad call in the middle of the fourth quarter to hold off a mediocre-at-best Washington State team. They didn't have Jarrett at that game, but WSU still should have been a laugher, and it was anything but. USC had better be careful next weekend against Washington, or they might find themselves with a loss. USC finishes their season against Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame, and then at UCLA. They will lose at least one of those games. They might lose two.
- I think it's fairly clear at this point that the winner of Ohio State/Michigan this year will be playing for the title. I think it's also clear that Ohio State is the likely winner of that game. What is not clear is who they will be playing. I hate to say it, but my best guess is that it will be West Virginia by default, because I don't see anyone in the Big East beating them. Ohio State would most likely beat West Virginia pretty soundly in what would be one of the more boring national championship games ever. I'm hoping Louisville, Rutgers, or South Florida takes out West Virginia. If that happens, my guess is the winner of Auburn/Florida plays against Ohio State...but that might not be much better.
- USC/Cal is being billed as the Pac-10's de-facto title game, but I think that Cal's game next weekend at home against Oregon might be equally important in terms of finding out who will be playing in Pasadena in January. I don't know if anyone is going to come out of Pac-10 play without a conference loss, and the winner of Cal/Oregon has a great chance of going at least 7-1 in conference play. Chances are, that will be good enough to punch a ticket to Pasadena this year.
- SEC football rivals golf in terms of boringness.
- Wild long-term predictions:
Nate Longshore will win at least a Rose Bowl for Cal by 2009, if he sticks around that long (and maybe even if he doesn't).
Tim Tebow will win a title for Florida by 2010. Tebow is Urban Meyer's dream come true.
Jimmy Clausen will win a title for Notre Dame by 2011. They will have recruited some corners by then. I have been watching Clausen's high school games, and this kid is the next Dan Marino. Believe the hype.
- Nobody really looks unbeatable this year. Ohio State is close, but I think even they are vulnerable to a high-octane offensive team. Fortunately for them, I don't think they'll have to face one, at least until the title game...and maybe not even then. No way does this year's Ohio State beat last year's Texas...or USC, for that matter.
- Washington is looking pretty damn good. Willingham has his boys ready to play. I give the Huskies two more years before they crack the top 10.
- I still say Tennessee isn't that good...but WR Robert Meachem is one hell of a football player. After single-handedly beating Cal, he has kept the Vols rolling on an otherwise ho-hum team. I wouldn't be shocked to see Meachem tear up Georgia next weekend en route to a narrow Vols win. Further down the road, I see Meachem as a guy who is going to be very successful playing on Sundays. He is flying under the radar now and probably won't be a first round pick, but he should be.
- Gee, Arizona State sure could use some senior leadership at quarterback right now. Arizona State, as I said before, is on its way out in terms of being a respectable team. Dirk Koetter is probably the Pac-10's worst coach, and Mike Stoops at Arizona is going to be getting the lion's share of the local recruits. Expect Arizona State to look a lot like Washington State, maybe as soon as next year.
- How can a team be overrated when everyone knows they are overrated? I don't know. Ask Notre Dame.
- USC is looking very, very mortal. They needed a bad call in the middle of the fourth quarter to hold off a mediocre-at-best Washington State team. They didn't have Jarrett at that game, but WSU still should have been a laugher, and it was anything but. USC had better be careful next weekend against Washington, or they might find themselves with a loss. USC finishes their season against Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame, and then at UCLA. They will lose at least one of those games. They might lose two.
- I think it's fairly clear at this point that the winner of Ohio State/Michigan this year will be playing for the title. I think it's also clear that Ohio State is the likely winner of that game. What is not clear is who they will be playing. I hate to say it, but my best guess is that it will be West Virginia by default, because I don't see anyone in the Big East beating them. Ohio State would most likely beat West Virginia pretty soundly in what would be one of the more boring national championship games ever. I'm hoping Louisville, Rutgers, or South Florida takes out West Virginia. If that happens, my guess is the winner of Auburn/Florida plays against Ohio State...but that might not be much better.
- USC/Cal is being billed as the Pac-10's de-facto title game, but I think that Cal's game next weekend at home against Oregon might be equally important in terms of finding out who will be playing in Pasadena in January. I don't know if anyone is going to come out of Pac-10 play without a conference loss, and the winner of Cal/Oregon has a great chance of going at least 7-1 in conference play. Chances are, that will be good enough to punch a ticket to Pasadena this year.
- SEC football rivals golf in terms of boringness.
- Wild long-term predictions:
Nate Longshore will win at least a Rose Bowl for Cal by 2009, if he sticks around that long (and maybe even if he doesn't).
Tim Tebow will win a title for Florida by 2010. Tebow is Urban Meyer's dream come true.
Jimmy Clausen will win a title for Notre Dame by 2011. They will have recruited some corners by then. I have been watching Clausen's high school games, and this kid is the next Dan Marino. Believe the hype.
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