Official Dawg Sports Random College Football Forecasts for 2009
by T Kyle King on Aug 27, 2009 4:30 AM EDT
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Now that you’ve seen my conference championship picks, it’s time for me to offer a few more general forecasts. These will follow no particular pattern, and, as a lawyer, I reserve the right to "plead alternately and inconsistently" (read: contradict myself). These are a few of the things I think will happen in the course of the 2009 football season:
- Although no SEC head coach will be fired this year, at least one SEC head coach will step down voluntarily.
- The winner of the September 3 showdown between the Boise St. Broncos and the Oregon Ducks will have one loss on its record on January 8, 2010. The loser of that game will have three losses on its record as of that date.
- At least one of the teams ranked in the preseason BlogPoll top ten will finish no better than .500.
- Neither the Boston College Eagles nor the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will win a bowl game this season.
- At least two Big East teams will be tied for the conference’s best record and the league’s BCS representative will be determined using tiebreakers.
- Exactly two Pac-10 teams will be tied for the conference’s best record and the league’s BCS representative will be determined to be the USC Trojans.
- The Duke Blue Devils will enter November with a record no worse than 4-4 but they will lose each of their last four games.
- When Bobby Bowden and Urban Meyer shake hands at midfield on November 28, it will represent the final meeting between the two men as the head coaches of their current schools.
- Tavarres King will rank third in receiving yardage for the Georgia Bulldogs this fall.
- Caleb King will rank third in rushing yardage for the Georgia Bulldogs this fall.
- The highest vote-getter among non-quarterbacks in the Heisman Trophy balloting will finish fourth in the running for college football’s most overrated award.
- The Florida Gators will go 13-1, win the Eastern Division outright, attend and win the SEC championship game, attend and win the national championship game . . . and lose to Georgia.
Well, those are my daring forecasts on the eve of the season. Now it’s your turn to tell me your opinion. Where am I spot on and where am I wide of the mark? What gutsy prognostications are you prepared to tell us now and stand by later? Fire away in the comments below.
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Nice list.
I do take exception with the Notre Dame prediction. Notre Dame will win a bowl game…it’ll just be one that takes place before Christmas.
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by RedCrake on Aug 27, 2009 7:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Mississippi State will hold Florida to its lowest offensive output of the season up to that point. They lose 35-0.
(This is less of a prediction and more of a prayer: Georgia will not wear black jerseys for any game this season.)
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by wwcmrd? on Aug 27, 2009 7:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Rennie Curran wins the Nobel Prize
Please do yourself a favor. Read David Hale’s post on a damn good dawg! And David wins a pulitzer…(all in a perfect world.)
I was a freshman in 1980. No wonder my GPA never recovered.
by DavetheDawg on Aug 27, 2009 8:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Your Final Point
I agree with everything (barring an unforseen injury to a certain member of that team) apart from the Gayturs winning the NC. I’m not prepared to make a guess as to who might win the 2009-10 season’s final game, but crowning Florida the victor seems a tad premature. To win a national championship in college football takes among other things, a great deal of luck. To win a national championship in back to back years just strikes me as almost impossible. (Anybody want to take the time to research how many times it’s been done before???)
This just seems like a time when we’re assuming everything will break just right every step along the way for Florida and they’ll waltz their way into the title game without so much as a hair out of place on Corch Meyers head.
As they say, there’s a reason they play the games and when it comes to college football … anything is possible.
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by Texan_Dawg on Aug 27, 2009 10:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Good Point
winning back-to-back National Championships in football is seemingly impossible in the BCS era. The only thing I can think of that would be more impossible would be back-to-back basketball national titles won by a “football school” with a football National Championship sandwiched in the middle.
by skigator93 on Aug 27, 2009 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
glad I'm young enough that soon the last 4 years will be a distant memory
Not saying the football team can’t do it, but with all due respect, basketball is only dependent upon 5 players and realistically only about 2-3. There seems to be a lot more players that have to perform all at one time to be successful in football on a championship level.
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by BCDawg97 on Aug 27, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
With 7 from the offense (including you-know-who), the top 22 from the defense, and all important special teams players back from last year, not to mention with them being an extremely heavy favorite in the polls, Florida is in position to make its own luck.
All they have to do is play up to their potential in every game. Had they simply done that last year, they’d have been 14-0.
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by Year2 on Aug 27, 2009 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
if "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas...
Well lets just hand them the trophy now and save everyone their money.
Yet, they didn’t play to their potential in all the games last year (but enough that mattered of course). So what happens this year? Is it a guarentee that they’ll play to their potential in all 12-14 games this year?
You know, if a lot of teams “play up to their potential” in every game, there’s lots of teams that can go 14-0. What happens if USC, OK, or Texas play to their potential? I’d say they are pretty equally talented top to bottom, so who wins. The best team on paper, doesn’t always win.
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by BCDawg97 on Aug 27, 2009 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
SEC Coach Stepping Down
I assume your are referring to Brooks, but I hope you are referring to SOS
by MikeInValdosta on Aug 27, 2009 11:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I assumed the latter was what the “at least” part was for.
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by Year2 on Aug 27, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ok, here's a couple:
-Oklahoma will not finish in the AP Top Ten.
-Penn State will play in, and lose the BCS title game.
-Virginia Tech will beat Alabama, but will lose 2 ACC games.
-Mississippi State will be the most-improved team in the SEC.
by Hobnail_Boot on Aug 27, 2009 2:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I've got one
I predict that no matter how many wins Ole Miss gets, no major TV network will ever show the band playing this. (That is, the part starting at 0:38.)
I’m playing spoiler for that link I just posted, but I just love hearing the Ole Miss band playing the “fast version” of Dixie. It seems like they almost never play it, though… I think maybe only postgame after a Ole Miss victory at home or in a bowl game? (Ok, that was an unintentional swipe at the Rebs.) I’ve been to a couple of Georgia/Ole Miss games in Oxford, both UGA wins, and don’t think I’ve ever heard this played live. It’s very difficult to find on the interwebs, too… have to do quite a bit of searching.
Call me backwards, call me a redneck, call me ignorant… call me what you will, but hearing this version of Dixie always makes me stand a little taller, get a little gleam in my eye, and get goosebumps on my arms. [Additional politically-oriented comments redacted. This is a sports blog, after all.]
by vineyarddawg on Aug 27, 2009 4:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Looks like you like Oregon a lot
Assuming they beat BSU. I’m not so sure. Lot of things need to go right for them. Reminds of another team I know!
Florida will not win the National Championship. This is just another wave of adoration for the clear cut number one team in the land; and that honor will likely fall to at least one more team this year. Haven’t we seen this movie before?
He Who Shall Not Be Named will miss at least one game because of injury this year. I don’t care who you are, you simply cannot take a beating like he has (475 carries!) and not be put out of commission for at least a week in your whole college career……right?
by Ben In Georgia on Aug 27, 2009 6:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Really, I wouldn't be surprised if this one is completely backwards
•The winner of the September 3 showdown between the Boise St. Broncos and the Oregon Ducks will have one loss on its record on January 8, 2010. The loser of that game will have three losses on its record as of that date.
I expect the Ducks to win. That should be the only regular-season game Boise loses. With a loss and a WAC schedule, Boise should not be in the top 16, so no BCS spot. Hence they likely get a favorable bowl matchup and win that.
On the other hand, Oregon probably loses at USC, Cal is probably better than them, and everyone else on their schedule except the Washington schools and maybe Purdue are good enough to pull an upset. Not to mention that if USC and Cal live up to expectations the Pac 10 might finally get 2 BCS teams, making their bowl game more loseable than usual. So they could easily lose three games.
by drothgery on Aug 28, 2009 12:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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