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Welcome to This Damn Blog’s College Football Preview. I thought that it would be fun to post some college pigskin prognostications for the upcoming season and then check back in at the end of the year to see how I did.I think that Adrian Peterson’s Heisman chance left Norman with his erstwhile quarterback. Teams should now be able to key on Peterson making him less effective then he would have been with the threat of a credible passing attack. That opens the door for QB’s Troy Smith and Brady Quinn. In the end I think that the Notre Dame factor kicks in and Quinn wins the Heisman.

With all due respect to Boston College I think that the ACC Atlantic division should be decided early. If FSU beats Miami in week 1 and Clemson in week 3 Look for the Noles to win it again. Since I think the Miami may very well loose 4 games I am giving the Coastal conference to Virginia Tech.

Auburn, LSU, Georgia, and Florida look like they are the cream of the SEC. So the Tigers vs. the Tigers on September 16 should determine the winners of the SEC West and the worlds largest outdoor cocktail party the winner of the east. I’m taking Auburn at home and it would be poetic justice if the Dawgs beat an undefeated, higher-ranked, favored Florida squad.

USC is still the best team out west. Cal could give them some competition but the smart money is on the Trojans taking the Pac 10 again - but losing a game somewhere along the line. Louisville and West Virginia are pick’ em in the Big East - they meet in Kentucky on November 2. This game will not only determine the winner of the weakest BCS conference it very well may have nation title implications.

The big question in the Big Ten is will Lloyd Carr be fired when the Wolverines loose to Ohio State again this year. I would take the Buckeyes to win their first four games ( including against Texas in week 2 ) and win all the rest after losing to Iowa on September 30. Yep, Kirk Ferentz leads the Hawkeyes to the Big Ten Championship and with the help of a week non-con schedule an unbeaten season. How’s that for a dark horse?

Texas will rebound from the early loss to Ohio State to win their half of the Big 12 with Nebraska winning the North. I bet all those boomer sooners are pissed -knuckeheaded QB…

Notre Dame gets a BCS game invitation.

As you probably have already guessed, I am going out to the very end of the limb with my National Championship predictions. Sure, it would be much easier to pick two of the pre-season top 5 teams and write them in - but I am not going to do that.

National Championship Game: Iowa vs. the winner of Louisville - West Virginia.

Come on, you saw that coming, didn’t you? This is just as much about schedules and conferences as it is about these 3 teams. The Mountaineers should destroy everyone but Louisville on their schedule with Maryland, Pitt, and South Florida being the only (small ) potential road bumps. Louisville has a tougher non-conference schedule but if they can close the deal on Miami ( so close last year ) they benefit from the same soft Big East conference schedule.

I’m picking Iowa over whoever gets the Big East bid. So there you go Iowa fans, Drew Tate leads coach Ferentz’s Hawkeye’s to the 2006 National Championship.