Looking Forward To......

[Eric]

What are you guys most looking forward to this season? Personally, I'm most interested in who the BCS teams are going to be. This is one of those years where a number of teams from each conference can win it.

Another thing I'm looking forward to, is Lloyd Carr. When are you going to step down, man? How about a little bowl success? That's what I'd like to see. If indeed this is his last year (I doubt it though), the most common name tossed around is.......Jim Harbaugh!!! That's right, I think he's the head coach at San Diego right now.

[Eric]

I only saw one game last year; and that was Michigan State and Indiana. MSU killed them, I left late in the 3rd quarter it was so ugly.

[mountainman]

I agree with you on the point about any number of teams could win it all. That ought to make things quite interesting.

There doesn't seem to be, at this point anyway, dominate teams out there. That doesn't mean that a couple or so won't emerge, but from what I've read everybody has some question marks or unproven talent. There's always that team chemistry thing to deal with too.

I'll be anxious to see which teams emerge, which teams are surprises, and which ones turn out to be disappointments.

[Spence]

Look out for Oklahoma.

What am I looking forward to? Healthy Spring, Healthy preseason, and having at least 2 unexpected db's play really well.

[openSkies]

I'm looking forward to what happens at Va Tech with the departure of Marcus, and I'm also curious to see what happens now that Tulane is back home (they are playing back at home now, right?).

I think it will just be interesting to watch teams after some of the stuff that happened last night.

Also the teams that are losing some key players (Texas, USC, etc). A good program can win a national championship... a great program can do it again (or come close) after they lose an MVP or two.

[mountainman]

What happened last night?

[Spence]

What happened last night?

I was wondering that myself. I'm out of the loop.

[Yeofoot]

I'm looking forward to making lots of friends at the sports bars.

I'm looking forward to not having that monkey on our back, though it would be nice to be the first team to win to BCS championships.

[Spence]

I'm looking forward to not having that monkey on our back, though it would be nice to be the first team to win to BCS championships.

The monkey doesn't get off Mack Brown's back, it gets bigger.

[Yeofoot]

watch out Spence!

[Eric]

I'm not as interested in who will be playing in the BCS championship as much as the other 8 BCS schools will be. It should be very interesting. Here is the list of contenders for conference championships:

ACC:

Virginia Tech
Florida State
Boston College
Miami

Big East:

West Virginia
Pitt
Louisville

Big 10:

Michigan
Ohio State
Iowa
Penn State

Big 12:

Texas
Texas Tech
Oklahoma
Iowa State
Nebraska
Colorado

Pac-10:

USC

SEC:

Alabama
LSU
Georgia
Auburn
Tennessee
Florida
South Carolina (beware, Spurrier will make sure at least he's in the race)

[Spence]

Pac-10:

USC

Not a lot of confidence in anyone else?

I think Mike Stoops and his team might make some noise in the PAC-10.

[Eric]

Oh, right, Arizona State. I'd give Stoops another year, he might just go to a bowl game this year.

But speaking of ASU, their passing game is so terrific, they can win the Pac-10. I'm not a firm believer in Cal or UCLA this season either. Oregon will get 9 wins this year too.

[Spence]

I think Stoops will have a defense. I think they will be pretty good. Maybe not good enough to beat SC, but they could.