Big East
No West Virginia this year and a new team-or shall I say returning team-, Temple, joins in its place. But thanks to their outstanding quarterback play this team will pull it out in a 4 team-tie for the top spot..........
Louiseville 5-2
Cincinatti 5-2
Connecticut 5-2
Pittsburgh 5-2
South Florida 3-4
Rutgers 3-4
Temple 1-7
Syracuse 1-7
............Louiseville and Cincinatti will have the better overall record aside from the big east that will eliminate the panthers and huskies from the tiebreaker. Louiseville, because it will be on their field, will beat the bearcats head to head and this determines the overall Big East title. Syracuse is one of the teams in its last year but the schedule is more tougher this year and Temple gets their lone win against them late in the season being that neither would have nothing to play for. Syracuse has to go to Rutgers, South Florida, Temple, and Cincinatti-teams that they would otherwise beat at home save for maybe the last one. Their lone win will be the huskies.
Pacific 12
This year is the first year in two years that USC will finally get to play for a bowl and it may very well be the BCS National Championship Game. Two new coaches join the conference that have resumes on them. One being a former NFL head coach for teams such as the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks and the other being from a one year wonder Big 12 breakout team in 2008 that was led by quarterback Graham Harrell(now with the Green Bay Packers). Here's how the season plays out.............................
South
USC 9-0
UCLA 7-2
Utah 5-4
Arizona State 3-6
Arizona 2-7
Colorado 2-7
North
Oregon 8-1
Oregon State 6-3
Stanford 5-4
California 4-5
Washington State 3-6
Washington 3-6
...............USC will run the table and go undefeated leading up to the title game. With Jim L Mora the bruins will improve upon their 5-4 record last year and it will be helped due to the conferences' losses of Andrew Luck, Brock Osweiler, Nick Foles. The teams that had those are all on the bruins' schedule and they will host two of them. They also get the good offensive Oregon State Beavers at home, who will improve upon their 3-6 record last year due to the same exact scenarios of not facing those three signal callers, they get California at home, and the game against the huskies could go either way. The huskies did okay last season following the departure of Jake Locker but this year will be different as they have the road schedule go against them and face some tougher teams at home such as the number 1 ranked team in the country, the USC trojans. Oregon will win the North again and face off against USC for the Pac 12 title. Playing Oregon twice will be a tough task. I think USC gets them in the regular season but if it were not for losing LaMichael James they would not beat them twice. And this is going to be the feel good story of a team coming back from obscurity. The trojans will be motivated to put the last two years behind them and most people from all over will be rooting against Oregon in the big game. USC will be one of the teams playing for the national championship.
Southeastern Conference
The last three years' champions have come out of the SEC West. Both Alabama and LSU lost players to the NFL and LSU just suffered a big loss to their season in Tyrone Matthieu. Bobby Petrino is out at Arkansas and Auburn has been average without Cam Newton. The East has rising power with Heisman hopefuls Marcus Lattimore, Aaron Murray, and Connor Shaw and their respective teams looking to take the next SEC crown and this year is their best shot yet at doing so.
East
South Carolina 8-0
Georgia 7-1
Florida 6-2
Tennessee 3-5
Vanderbilt 3-5
Kentucky 1-7
Missouri 1-7
West
Alabama 8-0
Arkansas 6-2
LSU 5-3
Mississippi State 4-4
Auburn 3-5
Texas A&M 2-6
Mississippi 0-8
.................For just the fact that they lost their big defensive player, South Carolina will go into Death Valley and beat the defending SEC champions. They have newcomer Missouri, along with Tennessee, a Petrino-less Arkansas, and Georgia all at home. Their biggest contests on the road will be LSU and Florida but also Kentucky and Vanderbilt make up the other two games. Its their best shot yet. The week 6 contest between them and Georgia will ultimately decide who wins the east early on. Their opening at Vandy should not be overlooked as it does have the potential for an upset. With LSU's and Arkansas' problems, Alabama will as well go undefeated due also to not having to play either USC or UGA on their schedule from the East. Instead, the two teams they will play will be Missouri and Tennessee(an every year occurence). Additionally, Nick Saban knows how to reload after losing players but the team may not be as strong as in recent years. Missouri and Texas A&M have not played competition like this week in and week out and they will be in for a surprise welcome to the conference. It will be the gamecocks facing off against the crimson tide in the SEC showdown with South Carolina getting its first ever Southeastern Conference championship and because of beating three likely-to-be undefeated teams at the time they will jump their way up to the second spot in the final BCS standings.
