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In less than 2 weeks (or 2 weeks in my teams case) College Football Returns!

The Associated Press Preseason Poll

While Alabama is ranking #1, I don't think they will be the best team in college football, as they return just 2 starters on a defense. I have this feeling that the title game will be Boise St vs. Oklahoma. Just a feeling.

My team the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, should have a decent season. I say they go 8-4 or 9-3 with losses to MSU, Pitt, and Boston College. But they could surprise and have the best WR and TE in college football with Michael Floyd and Kyle Rudolph.

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In less than 2 weeks (or 2 weeks in my teams case) College Football Returns!

The Associated Press Preseason Poll

While Alabama is ranking #1, I don't think they will be the best team in college football, as they return just 2 starters on a defense. I have this feeling that the title game will be Boise St vs. Oklahoma. Just a feeling.

My team the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, should have a decent season. I say they go 8-4 or 9-3 with losses to MSU, Pitt, and Boston College. But they could surprise and have the best WR and TE in college football with Michael Floyd and Kyle Rudolph.

I haven't been following much in the offseason, as there are sports that mean more to me that took up the whole summer. However, I really don't see any reason to think that this is Notre Dame's renaissance year. I expect Purdue to give them quite a game today, and ND should count themselves lucky if they exit with a win. A game over .500 should be considered a good season for them this year, and finishing the season ranked is probably too much to hope for.

As always, I'm looking forward to the SEC. I think Florida's probably a bit overranked to start the season, and while 'Bama deserves their #1, I don't expect them to finish there. The SEC is just too brutal.

My alma mater will suffer as usual. I very nearly bought tickets for today's Braggin' Rights game in St. Louis, but I suspect that by the end of the day I'll be glad I didn't - Mizzou should beat Illinois handily, and that will pave the way for yet another sad Big Ten campaign.

As for a champion, I feel like it's hard to pick against the SEC. Last time we had a non-SEC champion was 2005, after all. However, while I expect either 'Bama or Florida to make the title game, I suspect Oklahoma will win it all. I don't put that much weight behind it, though, because it's a loooooooong season.

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I haven't been following much in the offseason, as there are sports that mean more to me that took up the whole summer. However, I really don't see any reason to think that this is Notre Dame's renaissance year. I expect Purdue to give them quite a game today, and ND should count themselves lucky if they exit with a win. A game over .500 should be considered a good season for them this year, and finishing the season ranked is probably too much to hope for.

Looking pretty good on this one so far, Navy is abusing them today to keep Notre Dame well out of being particularly respectable.

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As always, I'm looking forward to the SEC. I think Florida's probably a bit overranked to start the season, and while 'Bama deserves their #1, I don't expect them to finish there. The SEC is just too brutal.

Oh, hey, still doing well!

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My alma mater will suffer as usual. I very nearly bought tickets for today's Braggin' Rights game in St. Louis, but I suspect that by the end of the day I'll be glad I didn't - Mizzou should beat Illinois handily, and that will pave the way for yet another sad Big Ten campaign.

OK, not quite as good here. A little luck and perhaps a bowl is possible for Illinois this year. That might actually save Zook his job! Poor Ron Zook. Great recruiter, no results on the field.

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As for a champion, I feel like it's hard to pick against the SEC. Last time we had a non-SEC champion was 2005, after all. However, while I expect either 'Bama or Florida to make the title game, I suspect Oklahoma will win it all. I don't put that much weight behind it, though, because it's a loooooooong season.

I want to see either Oregon or Boise make it to the BCS title game. Both would make it too hard to pick a favorite. And they both look capable, all it takes is an Oklahoma misstep, I think.

Also, I just double posted almost two months apart. Seriously? Nobody else watches college football?

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As a current Notre Dame student and a lifelong (however not long that may be) fan, all I have to say is this:

sigh.

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Also, I just double posted almost two months apart. Seriously? Nobody else watches college football?

I've always thought the pros were much more fun to watch. The level of competition is better, and they actually have a good system for choosing a champion.

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I've always sorta preferred watching college football. For some reason I never noticed this threat, though.

As someone from Wisconsin, I was bouncing off the walls last week when they pulled off that win of Ohio State. That was a fantastic game.

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As a current Notre Dame student and a lifelong (however not long that may be) fan, all I have to say is this:

sigh.

Things are looking up these past couple weeks. Bring on the Trojans.

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As a current Notre Dame student and a lifelong (however not long that may be) fan, all I have to say is this:

sigh.

Things are looking up these past couple weeks. Bring on the Trojans.

Agreed. I find it interesting that we're seeing more success with our freshman squad than with the older guys who all got injured.

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This bowl season has been absolutely insane. I'm watching Stanford just beat the hell out of Virginia Tech right now, completely dominating both sides of the ball - it's 40-12 but it should really be 42-3. Just an incredible showing by the Cardinal.

I cannot wait for the Ducks to take on Auburn in the national title though. I generally don't care too much for the national championship game but this one would be a really amazing matchup even if I didn't have a dog (or a duck) in the fight this year. I think it's gonna be one of the best college games in history.

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Bowl Season has indeed been awesome. Glad to see the Irish take down Miami of Florida. The Rose and Sugar Bowls were both fun to watch as well.

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Bowl Season has indeed been awesome. Glad to see the Irish take down Miami of Florida. The Rose and Sugar Bowls were both fun to watch as well.

No kidding, a bowl game win for the Irish is a bowl game win, regardless of what the bowl is. Especially when it's against Miami.

As someone from Wisconsin, though, I was a bit disappointed by the Rose Bowl

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The Win is the thing that matters most in the book. We do play Miami of Florida again in 2012.

19 Returning Starters (10 on offense, 9 on defense) next season, things are looking good.

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they actually have a good system for choosing a champion.

I probably would stop watching college football if the bowl system got removed. The only solution people ever come up with other than "BCS SUX LOL" is a playoff, and I personally find that generic and really not a better solution anyway. How many teams do you put in? Four? Well, this year, that means only one 1-loss team gets in. How do you pick that team, and does it make it any more fair than the current system? Eight? Sixteen? Might as well make it a semi-pro league and take the colleges out of it if you're going to require playoff teams to play three or four more games to win the title, because the teams certainly won't even pretend to have student-athletes any more

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The Win is the thing that matters most in the book. We do play Miami of Florida again in 2012.

Great, maybe one of you will be ranked by then.

Who would have predicted that the first quarter of the title game would be 0-0 with these two teams? Impressive lack of offensive display, this!

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they actually have a good system for choosing a champion.

I probably would stop watching college football if the bowl system got removed. The only solution people ever come up with other than "BCS SUX LOL" is a playoff, and I personally find that generic and really not a better solution anyway. How many teams do you put in? Four? Well, this year, that means only one 1-loss team gets in. How do you pick that team, and does it make it any more fair than the current system? Eight? Sixteen? Might as well make it a semi-pro league and take the colleges out of it if you're going to require playoff teams to play three or four more games to win the title, because the teams certainly won't even pretend to have student-athletes any more

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The Win is the thing that matters most in the book. We do play Miami of Florida again in 2012.

Great, maybe one of you will be ranked by then.

Who would have predicted that the first quarter of the title game would be 0-0 with these two teams? Impressive lack of offensive display, this!

What I've thought they should do is keep the ranking system, and the bowl system the way it is, but make a 8-team tournament. A 8-team tournament would mean 7 playoff games. Why not just take the top 7 most prestigious bowl games and use them for the playoff? Keep the other bowl games as they are. I think it would more exciting, personally.

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they actually have a good system for choosing a champion.

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The Win is the thing that matters most in the book. We do play Miami of Florida again in 2012.

Great, maybe one of you will be ranked by then.

I'm sure my team likely will be if things keep going well. As for Miami (FL), they could be, the new coach can turn things around but its usually around year 3 when they do (And they will be in year 2 in 2012)