Overall success with my predictions this weekend: I was 5-1 overall and the only game I missed was the one I couldn’t pick any other way: Bama lost to LSU, despite being ahead by 7 with fewer than 3 minutes to go in the 4th qtr. Final score was 41-34, which was the very personification of my fears about this game: I felt very strongly that if 40+ was scored in this game then LSU would be the winner. My hope was that it would be in the 20s or 30s, which it was as time ticked away, but a series of unaccountable errors sunk the ship. Forgive me if my gripping depression over the loss forbids me from discussing it further.
In other games I was perfect, 5-0, predicting FSU to beat BC and KU to beat Nebraska (though I don’t think anyone foresaw KU scoring touchdowns on 10 straight drives and taking Nebraska to the woodshed like they did). So BC and ASU will drop out of the top 5 in the BCS, and they should be replaced by Oklahoma and Kansas–Kansas should vault over West Virginia in my opinion. Why? Neither team has played a particularly challenging schedule, but WVU has a loss and KU doesn’t, which in my mind in this circumstance quantifies the jump. Sorry, WVU, play some quality opponents and this kind of speculation won’t happen. Of course, then you’d be saddled with a trio of losses, so what does it matter? Sit happy at no.6 because the meat of your schedule is still on the horizon.
Top 5 BCS prediction:
- Ohio State (LSU should be no.1. They won’t be, but they damned well should be.)
- LSU
- Oregon
- Oklahoma
- West Virginia
What the Top 5 would be if I had my say in it:
- LSU
- Oregon
- Ohio State
- Kansas
- Oklahoma
Am I wrong? Tell me why.
