I was carefully reading through the college football page on ESPN.com to see if I had somehow missed anything interesting to read, and lucky for me, I had. A great article by Pat Forde about the dead zone that is the month of June concerning college football, and Mark Schlabach's uselessly early bowl prediction...... both of which apparently either had been recently added or went unnoticed the last time I checked the site. I also re-read Schlabach's preseason top-25, which has LSU at #12. That doesn't bother me given the quarterback situation and the tough road schedule, what does bother me is that Clemson and Texas Tech are ranked ahead of the Bayou Bengals. Not to discount the .....ahem.....other Tigers, or the Red Raiders, but when is the last time Clemson actually lived up to preseason expectations? And really Mark? Texas Tech? An adequate QB in a spread formation with a flashy wide receiver and a supposedly "improving" defense doesn't impress me. I'm not saying they don't deserve to be in the Top 25, but they aren't in the same league of talent that division rivals Texas and Oklahoma inhabit, while LSU most certainly is.
Anyway, back to Schlabach's bowl predictions. He predicts Georgia and Ohio State (ugh) for the national championship game. He also thinks LSU will play Texas in the Cotton Bowl, which I think is an accurate estimation of where both teams should expect this year: Good, but one win short of a BCS game.
Check out the links of the day for the articles mentioned, or go to the college football page on espn.com and look for "midsummer nights dream", " revised top 25" and "bowl predictions".
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