These are the predictionsI had written down in my blog. Not too happy with myself for some of them. I'll review one by one along with two picks that were not in my original blog.

1. Notre Dame will win eight regular season games next year and lose in their bowl game.-this is the only pick I still feel okay about which was actually going out on a limb. The fighting Irish are 5-2 at this point and should win games against Navy and Syracuse. Add that with a win against either Boston College or Pittsburgh and a loss to USC and there is your eight wins.

2. Georgia will win the SEC. Unlikely at this point. Florida is a major stepping stone and that Alabama loss is still hurting. They are still in the fight though so we'll see.

3. USC will win the Pac 10 and play in the national championship game. Again unlikely. I don't feel too bad about this pick the way that USC was considered godly at one time this season, but the national championship is going to be hard to get to this year once again for the Trojans.

4. Oklahoma will win the Big Twelve and play in the national championship game. Ouch. Another miss I don't feel awful about, but this is now VERY unlikely since Texas would have to lose twice for Okla to get to the conference championship. Not going to happen.

5. Tim Tebow will not win the Heisman this year. This is probably my weakest pick of all considering how many possibile candidates there are in any season. However, all the talk of the time was on how Tebow was so likely to get better and if he did better how would he not get the Heisman again?

6. Ohio State will win the Big Ten. I don't feel good about this one. I just went with what seemed obvious. Ohio State with much of the same lineup with a year's maturity would make it through the weak Big Ten again wouldn't they? Darryl Clark came out of nowhere to me and energized Penn State.

Here was my other pick not showing up in my original blog.

7. Percy Harvin will win the Heisman. I saw this guy play last year a few times and he is electric. Give him the ball in space and he is gone down the field outsprinting the entire defense. No matter who I picked it was going to be difficult, and since he is at least being considered at the moment I feel okay about my choice.

And finally, the pick I was too chicken to make.....

Michigan will have its first losing season in forty years.  I had it written down at one point. I really did. Then I looked at the schedule and added up likely wins and likely losses in my mind. I got a number above .500 and said well, I guess I can't say that. Turns out that wasn't just me being a homer for my own team, I just did not realize the extent to how badly Michigan would be. The defense has been pathetic for supposedly being experienced, while the offense has actually exceeded my expectations at times. This was supposed to be a team not giving up many points and not able to score many but it is just bad all over. But if thats the sacrifice you make for a national championship in five years, so be it.