A Championship List Revisited
by Year2 on Aug 13, 2010 10:30 AM EDT
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PrintAround this time last year, for fun I posted a list of the ten teams that I thought collectively would win the next ten national championships. It's not that they all would have one crystal football apiece, but that at the end of the 2018 season, none of the ten previous national championships would reside outside those ten campuses.
Well, Nick Saban and Alabama made me one-for-one with their national championship in 2009. Here's the list in alphabetical order. The rationales are on the original post.
- Alabama
- Florida
- Georgia
- LSU
- Michigan
- Oklahoma
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Texas
- USC
If I could change it now, I would give serious consideration to dropping Michigan and USC. Michigan because the Wolverines didn't show nearly as much improvement as I thought I'd see last year, and USC because the program is a smoking crater with Lane Kiffin at the controls. The ones I'd sub in probably would be two out of Utah (now that it's going to be a Pac-12 school), Nebraska (Bo Pelini's good and fairly yound), and Notre Dame (so is Brian Kelly). But, this is the list I made, so this is the list I'm stuck with.
What about you? What would you change about the list? Also, I offer the same three questions as last year:
-If I gave you the entire Big East together as one team, would you take it?
-If I gave you the entire ACC together as one team, would you take it?
-If I gave you all of the current non-Big Six schools (excluding Utah, who's getting called up to the big leagues) together as one team, would you take it?
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Like your list and your suggestions for changes, Dave. RichRod is in a make-or-break year at Michigan, and not that long ago I wrote a blogger listing him as one of my “fickle four” on the 2010 coaches’ hot seat along with the Zooker (who’s #1 on the list), Dan Hawkins at Colorado and Dennis Erickson at Arizona State.
Florida is a given; as long as Urban Meyer’s in charge our Gators will be a powerhouse – it is safe to use the word “dynasty” yet to describe the Meyer Era?
Brian Kelly will do something good with Notre Dame and eventually turn that program around once he can recruit the right guys and completely rebuild – IMHO they finally got it right when they hired him to replace Cheeseburger Charlie. I just hope that the Irish fans will cut him some slack.
Agreed on Kiffykins and USC; already the NCAA is investigating some of the things he did at UT. He likes to talk the talk, but he can’t walk the walk – Urban, Saban and Frank Beamer knocked his ego down a few pegs last season. Question is, how long will he last out there in La-La Land if he can’t win?
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On the huskies blog i asked that very question.
2 years seemed to be the answer before he bolts or is fired.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. Womens MMA, the next big thing in sports. 3 weeks till the first game of college football. UTAH vs Pitt. September 2nd 2010.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Aug 13, 2010 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Thanks for pointing out Utah.
The Acc team would be Fsu getting back to their national prominence under Jimbo Fisher. I won’t mention a big east team b/c i think their whole conference will be absorb by the big ten and acc when they goto 16 team superconferences.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. Womens MMA, the next big thing in sports. 3 weeks till the first game of college football. UTAH vs Pitt. September 2nd 2010.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Aug 13, 2010 10:47 AM EDT reply actions
Let’s wait and see on Jimbo; the jury’s still out on him. But yes, the Big East doesn’t really have a very strong team to be a contender for anything big at this time.
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by O-town Gator on Aug 13, 2010 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
If you must know
It was the Fiesta Bowl win in ’04 that got me interested in Utah.
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Yeesh.
Four quarters of ABC/ESPN hacks pretending like Utah beating the 2nd worst BCS team ever was a sublime accomplishment? Pass.
OK I lied
It was watching my new coach hammer someone in the Fiesta Bowl specifically that got me interested in Utah. Not so much the commentary or opponent.
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hawaii being the worst correct?
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. Womens MMA, the next big thing in sports. 3 weeks till the first game of college football. UTAH vs Pitt. September 2nd 2010.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Aug 16, 2010 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
But – let’s not forget that Urban Meyer raised the bar at Utah before he left to come to Florida. That’s the main reason why the Utes are at the level they are today.
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by O-town Gator on Aug 13, 2010 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I only have great things to say about Urban Meyer. Not only did he bring Utah to national prominence,,,
he helped bowling green become much better. Everywhere this man has been the team has left a better team and no troubles with the ncaa. Urban Meyer is a great coach and i’m very happy he has his two bcs ncg victory’s on his resume.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. Womens MMA, the next big thing in sports. 3 weeks till the first game of college football. UTAH vs Pitt. September 2nd 2010.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Aug 14, 2010 1:40 AM EDT up reply actions
i disagree with subbing utah
Id instead go with Boise even tho its an out of BCS school but you cant argue that they have come close to it every year for the past 4 and have solidified their title as a very good program. Eventually the NCAA is gonig to have to give them a shot at the title.
Until “Bitche” State can (1) prove they belong in the big leagues by beating the big dogs week in and week out instead of the cupcakes, and (2) stop whining and sniveling like little snot-nosed brats, they deserve to be snubbed.
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by O-town Gator on Aug 13, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions
They don’t need to do either of those to win a championship, though. I’m actually mildly surprised they went to the MWC; they had a pretty good setup in the WAC getting credit for beating 1 good team a year.
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by AllSaintsDay on Aug 15, 2010 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Boise took a trip east of the Mississippi once.
It required a laugh track.
I thought the Benny Hill theme was more apropros
Jared Zebransky certainly wouldn’t disagree with that.
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Yeah. UGA cut them down to size back in ’05.
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by O-town Gator on Aug 13, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Agree with taking out USC, but not Michigan
Although the defense still has a ways to go, Michigan won’t stay down the whole decade.
Probation (and Kiffin) is going to decimate USC for at least the next five years.
Take all the Big East – No. West Virginia is the only threat in that whole group.
ACC – Yes. Out of FSU, Miami, VT, NC there’s a very good chance one of them will get there.
Outside the Big 6? Boise would be the most likely, but once they join the MWC it’s going to be tough playing BYU and TCU every year.
Yeah
And even if things don’t work out with Rodriguez, Michigan is still a destination program. It’s never far away from excellence.
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As for the three questions at the end
Yes, I would take a Big East team. Dave Wannstedt has a nice program at PItt, and South Florida is only on the up and up with Skip Holtz at the helm. I would predict one of those two teams would probably win a championship in the next ten years.
I do think the ACC will probably win one too. Specifically, I think Virginia Tech will have a year where they don’t screw up and lose a game they should win (seems to happen all the time- I’ve been watching the Chokies blow their chance at an NC since Bryan Randall was taking snaps). Also, Miami has made great strides the past few years, and who knows what Jimbo Fisher will do in Tallahassee. I don’t believe the hype coming out of FSU, but you never know.
No no no, irrevocably no. No was does a non Big-Six school deserve to even PLAY for an NC. The only exception may be if a MWC school ran the table and had two quality BCS conference on the non-con schedule. With the recent realignment, the already flimsy claim these school had to play for the NC has become even flimsier.
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Good points. Wanny seems to have found his niche in coaching; he couldn’t cut it in the NFL but he seems to have Pitt on the right track and isn’t a bad recruiter either.
As far as the rest of the Big East, UConn is a program on the rise, and Randy Edsall will be a target for a top-notch school who may be firing a coach to be poached away as a replacement. South Florida will be OK with Skip Holtz; it will be interesting to see if Charlie Strong can bring The Ville back to the level that Bobby Petrino had them at before he bailed on them. Cinci will be in transition, and I wouldn’t expect them to be that much of a factor.
As I said previously, the jury’s out on Jimbo. As far as Virginia Tech goes, I do hope they beat those smurf-turfers into submission and prove that they aren’t ready for the big leagues.
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by O-town Gator on Aug 13, 2010 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Utah plays Pitt, Iowa State, Notre dame late in the season too. Along with TCU, Byu and a much improved Wyoming team.
If you look at my sig you can see that Utah vs Pitt is one of the firts games of the season on sept. 2nd. They play at Rice Eccles stadium in Salt Lake City at an elevation of 4700 feet with a qb that has around 17 pass attempts. Plus its a night game. I like our chances to be undefeated and be playing Tcu when they are undefeated in the 7th or 8th week of the season.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. Glory favors the bold. Chance favors the prepared mind. Luck, well i have that too. University of Utah goes to the Pac-12 conference in 2011. I expect them to compete immediately for the conference CG. Brock Lesnar will defeat Cain Velasquez. Womens MMA, the next big thing in sports. 3 weeks till the first game of college football. UTAH vs Pitt. September 2nd 2010.
by wolfmanshowlforever on Aug 14, 2010 1:46 AM EDT up reply actions
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