Im Back!

Hey all,

It has been a while since I have posted last. I apologize. As much as I love the NFL, I want to keep this about NCAA football.

Since everyone is, I WILL NOT touch the Penn State scandal, nor Syracuse, nor anything controversial (until everything is 100 percent fact). That being said, tons of things have happened since I last wrote.

First, lets all welcome The University of Massachusetts (UMass) to the FBS world as they joined the Mid American Conference (MAC). Two years ago, they proved that they could perform at a high level as they had a great showing against Michigan. They came within 5 points of being the second team in 4 years to stun a top 25 team in Ann Arbor. However, unlike the Appalachian State game, Michigan was able to avoid the embarrassment. Anyways, welcome Minute Men! They play UConn, Michigan and Indiana this season (Good luck!)

We had some teams switch conferences this year. Missouri and Texas A&M are no longer in the Big 12. They joined the SEC officially in July. Other teams have joined new conferences in the past few weeks. West Virginia is now a member of the Big 12, as is TCU. Temple joined the Big East, Fresno State, Nevada and Hawaii all joined the Mountain West conference. The South Alabama Jaguars left the ranks of the 1AA Independents to join the Sun Belt Conference. University of Texas San Antonio and Texas State both left the FCS Independents as well, but joined the WAC.

Possibly the biggest news is a playoff is scheduled for 2013-2014. This will eliminate any doubt of who deserves to be national champions. Last year, the four teams in would have been LSU, Alabama, Oklahoma State and Stanford. A lot of people were saying that OK State would have beaten Alabama in a national championship. My response is, they could have, but it wouldnt have gotten to that point. LSU would have played Stanford (1 Vs 4) and Alabama would have played OK State (2 Vs 3). We still could have seen an Alabama vs LSU national championship, however, i doubt it.

This playoff is a great start, but it needs to be expanded. There will be errors in voting. We need an equal parts computer and human vote. This needs to be expanded to 32 teams. The top 25, and the next 7 teams.1 out of conference game is all that is necessary. Would anybody have missed LSU vs Western Kentucky? NO! LSU Vs Oregon, that was a good game. I want the out of conference game to be within 20 of each teams RPI. Had Auburn had to play a team like Wisconsin instead of Chattanooga, maybe then we would have gotten a fair look at how good they were down the stretch.

However, This debate will rage on, but we can all agree, this is a major step in the right direction!

Now, lets get to the meat of the post. Heisman hopefuls, and picks for the winners of each conference.

Here are my picks for Heisman Hopefuls:

In no particular order,

Landry Jones
Matt Barkley
Tyran Matthieu
Joseph Randle
and The trio of Ducks De'Anthony Thomas, Kenjon Barner and Darron Thomas

FCS Conference Champions!
Big Sky: Montana Grizz
Big South: Liberty
CAA: Old Dominion
Ivy: Brown
MEAC: Bethune-Cookman
Missouri Valley Conference: North Dakota State
NorthEast Conference: Albany
Ohio Valley Conference: Eastern Kentucky
Patriot: Georgetown
Pioneer: San Diego
Southern: Wofford
Southland: Sam Houston State
SWAC: Grambling State

Nationsl Champions: OLD DOMINION

FBS Conference Champions!

ACC: Virginia
Big 12: TCU
Big East: Temple
Big Ten: Michigan State
Conference USA: Tulsa
MAC: Ohio
Mountain West: Boise State
Pac 12: Oregon
SEC: Georgia
Sun Belt: Arkansas State
WAC: Utah State

National Championship: Oregon Vs Georgia

Oregon Wins!

Heisman winner: De'Anthony Thomas RB Oregon.

Next week, I grade each first round draft pick!