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DJ'S FREE WEEKLY COLLEGE FOOTBALL PICKS
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DJ's Football Picks Season Record
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 25 PREVIEW 2005
1. USC
This team is just loaded on offense, and not too shabby on D either. Heisman QB, great backs, even though Reggie Bush wouldn’t run between the tackles even if he was offered naked cheerleaders as a reward. A reward, I might add, I wish more people offered me. Oh yeah, solid line, and excellent receivers including frosh phenom to be Patrick Turner who turned down the SEC to play out West. I cringe imagining what kind of money, girls, or blackmail SC could have offered that Tenn. couldn’t or wouldn’t match. Only problems with the Trojans are in the booth. That’s right Norm Chow did make a teeny tiny difference. Petey C I’m sure has been about as integral to the play calling as my appendix is to me. The other issue is in the D-line. They lose Cody and Patterson. Patterson though unsung was the beast that made the line work. Also unlike a number of the current players these two didn’t deal drugs (or collect, it’s fine line, CB Eric “Easy-E” Wright and his 136 ecstasy pills, jeez who I gotta kill to get invited to his house parties), rape, or become academically ineligible. Seriously it’s D-1 college f-ball at a big time school, you make it through the alphabet in under ten tries they’ll find a way to keep you eligible. Still even with the losses SC has recruited well enough not to a sieve on defense.
2. MIAMI
The ex-cons (also want to include the cons here don’t want to ruffle any gangsta feathers) that everybody seems to have forgotten about. This is a solid team with a great line anchored by all-world tackle Eric Winston. If Kyle Wright can out perform Brock Berlin they are in great shape, and if he can’t he should quit football and take up croquet. Tyrone Moss is a solid if unspectacular TB. The receivers should be good and if they stop dropping the ball, possibly great. Moore and Olson are excellent targets. The Defense should be intimidating and not just because of their rap sheets. The front four are good and the back seven have a chance to be elite. Miami has a tough schedule but get FSU sans about four starters early on.
3. LSU
Creampuff (mmm creampuffs…) OC schedule including North Texas and Appalachian State makes LSU a legit Rose Bowl contender. I was never a huge Saban fan, he recruited well but his offenses never blew me away. You just can't have such poor QB play and expect to win National Championships (let's be honest USC would have destroyed LSU or OU two years ago). Saban lost at least 3 games a year except for once. That does not put him in the all world category. They have lots o’ very good receivers so if Miles can get the Offense to move the ball in the air there is no reason LSU couldn't play for a ring. And if he doesn’t good luck reasoning with 50,000 drunk red necks at the end of the season. Congrats Les it’s a dream job.
4. Tennessee
They could be higher but you never know when the next arrest could be announced. 15 of the 85 scholie players were arrested at one point or another during the off-season. For the mathematically challenged that means 17.647% of the team’s players were accosted by THE MAN. But heck it’s the SEC where if “you ain’t cheatin you ain’t tryin.” These guys might get denied preferential access to the astrophysics classes but past that, come Saturday these boys will be playing ball just like the good lord intended.
5. TEXAS
If this team were coached by anybody but Mack Brown they would be number 2.
The fact is Brown can’t beat OU. Heck even with the assloads of NFL talent he has every year I just don’t think he‘d be able to put the fear of God into a Pee- Wee team much less the entire big 12. I also can’t figure out why nobody has corrected Vince Young’s throwing motion. When the ball actually gets to a receiver, the two people who look most surprised are Young and Brown, closely followed by the guy who caught the ball. This team has top 2 or 3 talent on both sides of the ball. I see them losing a couple of games but still playing in a BCS bowl, particularly if Macky turns on the waterworks again. Remember the Longhorn motto: why play your way in, when you can cry your way in.
6. LOUISVILLE
Now that they are playing in the Adorable East (formerly known as Big East, and later the Little East) it’s hard to see the Cards losing to anyone. The big difference between them and the rest of the East is they are actually good. Take them out of this league, and they’re just the Sun Belt Conference but without the cute name. They don’t lose enough fire power to be slowed down. Should be BCS bound.
7. MICHIGAN
Yes, they are good with the freshman phenom backfield now a year older and better. However, haven’t we danced this dance before? The Wolverines are always good and should be in the hunt every year, yet they always stumble. It’s hard to believe anything will change this year. Upside with those uniforms they always win best dressed, and isn’t that more important. It’s not who you are it’s how you look. If Carr can get the kids to buy into that motto this season could actually be a success.
8. OHIO STATE
Another team with quality talent particularly at LBer. TG jr. is as dangerous as an NCAA investigator at Mo Clarett’s famous free hooker night at the Horseshoe. Since OSU can’t (or won’t) throw the ball they ain’t playing for any title but upset the Longhorns (as easily said as is done) and they could easily be playing in a BCS bowl.
9. OKLAHOMA
Gee Bob sorry about that ass kicking in the big dance. Christ, did you really think OU could suck that much in a title game two years in a row? Well they can and they did. Now they get to rebuild. Upside is the only dangerous teams in the Big 12 are Texas (Sooner fans stop laughing, they always try super duper hard) and Texas A&M (OU will probably lose to these guys). Other than that it should be clear sailing the only other hiccup could be an early season away game against UCLA. That is if UCLA has figured out that the other team isn’t going to get tired just because their offense is on the field 80% of the time. Peterson could get 1,000 carries this year as QB situation looks as grim as Stoopsy after his Orange Bowl re-education day.
10. FLORIDA
Hey I love Urban Warfare. These guys should be more fun that a FSU QB wandering around half-naked saying he’s god (and let me tell you I hear that’s a lot of fun). If the Gators pickup the offense they can beat anyone, but the schedule is too tough to get through unmarked. The SEC is about to get woken up by some 21st Century football, and they thought they hated Spurrier.
The Rest
11. GEORGIA
If anybody’s still eligible come their first game they should be good, but I wouldn’t hold your breath.
12. V-TECH
They always manage to sneak their way in, why would this year be any different. If Baby Vick can himself out of the drugs and the 15 year olds anything could happen.
13. IOWA
Good team, but God invented cable specifically so you never have to go there to watch a game.
14. TEXAS A&M
Fear Franchione, he’ll be back. He’s just a year or two away from becoming Mack Brown’s daddy, and yes I mean that in a sexual way.
15. PURDUE
Once again we wait to see if Purdue belongs among the elites. They don’t.
16. FSU
I just want to get all the disappointments grouped together. They have a QB who calls himself God and they don’t start him. Let me be the first to say it’s time for Bobby to retire, how can you not put the rock in the kid’s hands, he’s got moxy (and a disease too, but I think it was mostly the moxy).
17. TEXAS TECH
It’s like watching the fun n’ gun offense on crack, who doesn’t love that.
18. OREGON
Team with arguably the best growing conditions for really primo weed, that’s gotta be worth something
19. BOISE STATE
With the blue field and the potato obsession you would think they had the best weed, effort is still worth something.
20. FRESNO STATE
Don’t bet against Pat Hill possibly the biggest redneck in a state that doesn’t call the Civil War, The War of Northern Aggression
21. ALABAMA
Unless Brodi Croyle’s leg falls off, which is unfortunately not out of the question this team could do some damage. Maybe this year to someone other than
themselves, if not they’re not above framing a coach or two.
22. MIAMI of OHIO
Top 25 sure but I refuse to discuss a team that has to remind itself where it is from.
23. AUBURN
You were good last year but USC would have annihilated you. The fact that there is no Santa is the best thing that could have happened to you.
24. UTEP
Mike Price is a good coach with or without hookers, but I like him better with.
25. UCLA
Think Field of Dreams, “if you stop the run you will quit sucking”
Also deserving a look but I got better things to do than write about teams headed for the prestigious Craftsman and Wells Patio Furniture Bowl:
-Northwestern
-ASU
-NC State
-California
-Penn State
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