2010 College Football Predictions: National Championship, Heisman Trophy, Coaches on the "Hot Seat," and Others
by T Kyle King on Aug 29, 2010 8:09 AM EDT
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PrintYesterday, I shared my conference championship predictions (which, unlike Desmond Howard’s, demonstrated my awareness of the fact that it is no longer 1992), so now the time has come for me to offer a few more random forecasts for the 2010 college football campaign (some of which probably are quite incompatible with one another, so no fair trying to square all of the following statements as though you were working a logic problem):
The lower-ranked of the two contestants will win the SEC Championship Game.
The Rose Bowl will pit a Big Ten champion with two losses against a Pac-10 champion with two losses.
Tavarres King will finish second on the team in receiving yards.
Caleb King will finish second on the team in rushing yards.
Following the season-ending showdown between the Clemson Tigers and the South Carolina Gamecocks, Steve Spurrier and Dabo Swinney will share a postgame handshake for the final time, as one of them will not be back as a Division I-A head coach in the Palmetto State in 2011.
Georgia will produce two 800-yard rushers but no 1,000-yard rusher.
The loser of the season-opening clash between the Boise St. Broncos and the Virginia Tech Hokies will have three losses on January 11, 2011, while the winner of the Labor Day night contest will have one loss as of that same date.
The Southeastern Conference will send two teams to the Bowl Championship Series, but only one of those two teams will emerge victorious from its postseason tilt.
In December, Kirby Smart will accept a Division I-A head coaching position.
The Holiday Bowl will pit brother against brother . . . literally: Bob Stoops’s Oklahoma Sooners and Mike Stoops’s Arizona Wildcats will square off in San Diego.
An eventual SEC division champion will win a game against the eventual runner-up in its own division in which the losing team has the would-be winning touchdown called back on a celebration penalty.
The Florida St. Seminoles will go into the fourth quarter of their game against the Florida Gators facing no more than a seven-point deficit, but the Tribe will come up short in the end.
Eleven of the twelve current SEC head coaches will still have the same job as of 8:00 a.m. Eastern time on January 1, 2011.
The Boston College Eagles, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the Utah Utes will have exactly one bowl win between them.
Reports that Rich Rodriguez will not remain as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines will leak prior to the Maize and Blue’s game against the Ohio St. Buckeyes.
South Carolina will lose in the Georgia Dome during the month of December.
The Georgia Bulldogs will go 8-4 during the regular season.
The Tennessee Volunteers will go 8-4 during the regular season.
The USC Trojans will go 8-4 during the regular season.
Mark Ingram will not be a Heisman Trophy finalist.
The Alabama Crimson Tide will not repeat as national champions.
I will be wrong about at least 50 per cent of the foregoing predictions.
Coming Soon: SEC forecasts for Labor Day weekend.
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In December, Kirby Smart will accept a Division I-A head coaching position.
Reports that Rich Rodriguez will not remain as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines will leak prior to the Maize and Blue’s game against the Ohio St. Buckeyes.
are you predicting kirby smart will be the next head coach of the wolverines?
Roll 'Bama Roll: The Champagne of 'Bama Blogs.
As I indicated, no two predictions necessarily need to be read in pari materia with one another.
Besides, I said Kirby Smart would accept a Division I-A head coaching position. That rules out Michigan, doesn’t it?
Go 'Dawgs!
Speaking as a University of Georgia graduate, . . .
. . . I have the utmost confidence that no University of Georgia graduate would agree to go coach in the midst of that madness, mess, and climate.
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You forgot a couple...
-After Ed Orgeron bites the thumbs off a recruit decommits from USC, the Trojans are put on double secret probation. Lane Kiffin leaves at the end of the season to take over as Head Coach of the Cleveland Browns.
- Florida loses to Ohio State in the BCS National Championship game. During the 4th quarter, Urban Meyer’s head explodes. Jeremy Foley promptly responds by hiring Willie Martinez as the next coach of the Gators.
"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't."
- Lewis Grizzard
by RedCrake on Aug 29, 2010 11:43 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
....you really think Tennessee will win 8 games??
I will be shocked. Reeeeally shocked. I wasn’t surprised that they killed us last year…they still had tons of talent and depth. This year? Not so much. I think 6 wins would be a good season for them.
I would be surprised to see the Vols win 8 games...
… but I would be shocked if the Trojans only win 8 games. They’ve lost some talent, but they were still loaded with talent to begin with. I don’t think the drop-off for Southern Cal will start until 2011, when the seniors from this class leave and the recruits from this past year and from the 2011 class won’t be good enough to replace them.
I guess SC could feasibly lose 4 of the 6 games they have against Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Cal, Notre Dame, and UCLA, but teams that are on probation with a postseason ban sometimes have a habit of banding together in a “bunker mentality” kind of mindset and going undefeated, too. I’d say 8-4 is about equally as likely as 12-0 for them. (In other words, unlikely.) 9-3 or 10-2 sounds about right to me.
by vineyarddawg on Aug 29, 2010 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions
The Trojans went 8-4 last year with Pete Carroll as their head coach.
Is it really a stretch to suppose that they won’t be any better with Lane Kiffin as their head coach?
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Pete
had an off year and Barkley was a rookie. This is a better team, Kiffin will prove to be a better coach than you think. He did improve UT last season and they played pretty well in big games.
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"You can't sanction heart, and you can't sanction the will to win" - USC QB, Matt Barkley
I agree that Kiffin will be an unmitigated disaster...
… but so was Bob Davie, and he took Notre Dame to the BCS.
My anticipation of 2010 for SC is based mostly on the seige mentality thing. If we know there’s one thing Kiffykins is good at, it’s building a mountain out of a molehill and motivation. He’ll have them thinking they’re in the Oklahoma territory back in the 19th century and the Indians are a-comin’.
And if you don’t think the seige mentality thing works, remember that Terry Bowden went 11-0 at Auburn in 1994 while on probation with a postseason ban. And Terry’s not exactly a world-beater, either.
by vineyarddawg on Aug 29, 2010 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I think
you are on the right track, except USC plays 13 games this season (game in Hawaii allows exception). My guess is 10-3 or 11-2. But I wouldn’t rule out 12-1 or 13-0 if the team stays healthy. Depth could be an issue late.
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"You can't sanction heart, and you can't sanction the will to win" - USC QB, Matt Barkley
Drat.
I miscounted; my bad. At least I’m well on my way to being wrong about more than half of my forecasts!
Lane Kiffin is going to prove to be an absolute disaster. It may not show up in the record for a couple of years, but trust me when I tell you that no Trojan fan will remember him fondly five years from now. Lane Kiffin is USC’s Karl Dorrell. Count on it.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Aug 29, 2010 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Funny
the last only time the b’RUINS beat us this century Dorrell was the coach. His record was better at this point than Neuweasels . I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on this point.
How’s the weather been. I’m flying into Atlanta Thursday, god I hope the humidity isn’t killer.
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"You can't sanction heart, and you can't sanction the will to win" - USC QB, Matt Barkley
It's starting to get a little cooler in the mornings.
It’s humid during the day, but not too bad. Of course, I’m from around here, so I’m used to it.
Thanks for being willing to agree to disagree civilly about this. I can’t stand Lane Kiffin, but I bear the Trojans no ill will . . . as I hope you’ll bear in mind when I begin looking around the nation later this week. (Foreshadowing!)
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Aug 30, 2010 10:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I have to agree, that's pretty out there
…as they have, what, 75 scholarship players or something? No returning offensive linemen, no experienced QB, and their best prospect at RB transferred out? They will be doing well if they win six.
I cannot deny any of the points DawgGirl32, vineyarddawg, or rbubp have made.
I will, however, say this: take a look at the state of the Georgia program as it existed in August 1964, and ask yourself how crazy it would have sounded if someone had said, “The Bulldogs will go 7-3-1 and win the Sun Bowl.”
Crazy or not, it happened. Selling Coach Dooley short was a mistake in 1964, and it’s a mistake in 2010.
Go 'Dawgs!
It's debatable...
Mayor King: I served with Vince Dooley (when I worked at Kroger), I knew Vince Dooley, Vince Dooley was a friend of mine (I think).
Mayor King, Derek Dooley is no Vince Dooley.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
True.
Derek has prior head coaching experience.
Don’t forget that, when Vince was hired, the reaction in Athens was: “Vince who?”
Derek’s father and uncle (Bill) were successful college head coaches (unlike, say, Monte Kiffin, who has been a successful assistant but was a failed college head coach). I can’t imagine that at least some of that didn’t rub off on Derek.
From the time Lane Kiffin was hired at Tennessee to the time Lane Kiffin left Tennessee, I said he was a charlatan who would not succeed and who wouldn’t be around long, and (except for an over-the-top prediction that the Volunteers wouldn’t go to a bowl game) I was right. Trust me when I tell you that the Big Orange got the right guy this time.
I hope I’m wrong, but I wasn’t wrong a year ago, and I don’t believe I’m wrong now.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Aug 29, 2010 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Desmond Howard's national championship picks were better than Beano Cook's.
He picked Notre Dame to win the BCS National Championship Game over Army.
BEANO COOK PICKED NOTRE DAME???
Must be an alternate universe, I tell you!
UGA and Auburn
will play each other………… twice this year ……………and split.
Where are the 8 wins?
Okay so: UT Martin, UAB, Memphis, Mississippi, Vandy, Kentucky. I don’t see where the other two can come from out of: Oregon, Florida, Alabama, LSU, Georgia, South Carolina.
I assume since Oregon is good enough to win the Pac 10, they will be good enough to beat Tenn. I take it you’re predicting a UGA loss to Tenn. Frankly, while not all that high on our prospects for this season, I feel pretty good about that game. Back-to-back away games against LSU and Georgia is a brutal stretch for an inexperienced ball club and coach. I don’t like the Vols chances in either game. Perhaps they can sneak a win out of South Carolina but that’s an away game after Florida.
Frankly, I’d say they have a shot pulling off a post-bye week upset if they were playing anybody but Alabama. I think a .500 season for the Vols will be an accomplishment.
just 2 more
Oregon and South Carolina, my guess.
The Ducks won the Pac 10 last season, with Masoli at quarterback. Even then I wasn’t impressed, seeing them lose to Boise State and later (not to my surprise) Ohio State. I take the rise of Stanford last season as an indication that the Pac 10 as a whole was down last year.
They can beat SCarolina too, since the Gamecocks tend to run out of gas in the second half. Some might even use the term “choke” and if I were one of their fans, I wouldn’t take a single win for granted until I saw the team finish a season strong.
Deal or no deal SEC prections
“South Carolina will lose in the Georgia Dome during the month of December.”
When we eventually get to an SEC championship game, I know our fans will be disappointed in the immediate aftermath if we lose. However, I would take that result and run with it right now.
Do you think this is true for everyone but Florida and Alabama fans this year?
by GwinnettGamecock on Aug 29, 2010 4:26 PM EDT reply actions
On the other hand
There are two college football games in the Georgia Dome during the month of December.
Georgia will go 8-4...
is probably a more accurate prediction for this season with Ealey suspended for at least 1 or 2 games which most likely includes South Carolina and possibly more. I don’t think you’ve mentioned which games that Georgia won’t beat, but I could predict a Florida and an Auburn loss as likely. Having South Carolina played early in the season doesn’t help as we will be facing the toughest defense prior to the Florida game. If you think that’s bad, we’ll going to face a tough offense as well in Arkansas the following week, and I’m not sure our defense is ready for it. I do think that 3 out of the 4 losses we might have this season will come as close losses. I say might because the South Carolina and Arkansas games can go either way. Still, Georgia probably won’t be favored in either of the two games.
by thefirstgenesis on Aug 29, 2010 7:24 PM EDT reply actions
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