Prediction Cap for a Friday morning

Well, let's throw out a few "bold" predictions this morning.  One prediction, per conference, in reverse-alphabetical order.

Boise State wins the WAC.  They beat everybody by 17 points or more, with the exception of the Nevada and Utah State games, which games are actually decided in the 4th quarter.  Make sure to watch those if you can.

The Sun Belt title will be decided by October 5th.  Not mathematically, obviously, but realistically.  Troy travels to Middle Tennessee State, winner takes all.  I'm not a betting man, but I'd put my money on Troy's Defense.

The SEC will have 6 teams in the top 25 all season, but never more than 2 in the top 10.  They are certainly a deep conference, but, just like most conferences in America, are top-heavy.

Oregon will not win the Pac 10 outright, or perhaps maybe not even share it at all.  So much off-season turmoil.  New starting QB in a conference with a lot of returning starters at that position.  5 Pac 10 road games.

TCU will be the first MWC team to repeat as champions since BYU in 2006-2007.  They can probably afford to lose one game and still be BCS eligible.  This would be the year for an 11-1 non-BCS school to make a BCS game (provided that it's an MWC school or Boise State).

Central Michigan will not repeat as the MAC champions.  They have been in the upper echelon of the MAC for the better part of a decade.  Brian Kelly helped them to the top.  Butch Jones filled in nicely after he left.  However, no school has 3 successful coaching hires in a row these days.

Army is the only independent not to play in a bowl game this season.  Again.  Notre Dame can actually get a decent bowl game this year.  The schedule is that easy...by Notre Dame standards.

Houston at SMU on October 23rd will decide the C-USA champion (the winner of that game wins their division and beats up on the other division champ in the title game).  I also project that that will be the highest scoring game of the season.

The Big Ten will not have an undefeated conference champion.  Ohio State plays at Wisconsin and at Iowa.  Wisconsin plays at Michigan State, Iowa, and Michigan.  Penn State plays at Iowa and Ohio State.  Iowa is Iowa: they will never go undefeated.

The Big East will, once again, not send a team to the National Championship Game.  They won't even have a team break the top 10 this season.  Well, let's say top 8.

Nebraska will finish the season in the top 10 for the first time since 2001.  They have one of the easiest schedules you'll see for a BCS conference contender.  Right now, they have 1 ranked team on the schedule.  And they play that game at home.  Oh, and they have 7 home games.  I never realized how much their schedule always looks like a Big Ten schedule until now...that should make the transition easy.

The ACC will, again, only send one team to a BCS game.  Only the conference champion will represent them.  Again.  For their sake, they better hope it's Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech, otherwise their abysmal BCS game record will certainly get worse.  Of course, that's assuming one of those two can actually win one.  Are they 1-10 now, is that right?

There you have it.  Happy Weekend, everyone!