2011-2012 BCS Bowl Game Predictions (and a Heisman Winner, Too)
Everybody’s making BCS bowl game predictions – Kirk Herbstreit has Oregon winning the title, Stewart Mandel of SI has Alabama playing Oklahoma for the championship – and here are ours:
Ty Duffy
Jan. 2 Rose: Wisconsin (Big Ten) vs. Stanford (Pac 12) [Wisconsin emerges from muddled Big Ten. Stanford gets screwed out of title game. We have the great playoff debate again.]
Jan. 2 Fiesta: Notre Dame (At Large) vs. Oregon (At Large) [Fiesta has first pick. Grabs the sure thing.]
Jan. 3 Sugar: South Carolina (At Large) vs. Boise State (At Large) [SC loses title game, better candidate than Arkansas. Boise State is Boise State.]
Jan. 4 Orange: Virginia Tech (ACC) vs. West Virginia (Big East) [VaTech beats out FSU in title game. WVU the one decent team in the midst of mediocrity]
Jan. 9 BCS Championship: Alabama (BCS No. 1) vs. Oklahoma (BCS No. 2) [More than two undefeated teams. Dub this one the Inertia Bowl. Bama 28-14 Sooners]
Heisman Trophy: Andrew Luck [Sportswriters love a good story. Stanford had second-place finishers the past two years. Unless another Cam emerges, he's the guy]
Jan. 2 Rose: Wisconsin (Big Ten champ) vs. Stanford (Pac-12 champ) [Russell Wilson vs. Andrew Luck!]
Jan. 2 Fiesta: Notre Dame (BCS at-large) vs. Oklahoma (BCS at-large) [Yes, I temporarily had the Irish in the title game.]
Jan. 3 Sugar: Boise St. (BCS at-large) vs. Oregon (BCS at-large) [Final score: 58-56, with the Broncos winning on a Kellen Moore buzzer-beater.]
Jan. 4 Orange: Virginia Tech (ACC champ) vs. West Virginia (Big East champ) [Due to the heated nature of this rivalry ... this could be the best bowl game.]
Jan. 9 BCS Championship: Alabama (BCS No. 1) vs. South Carolina (BCS No. 2) [Impossible, you say? Rematches don't happen? Well I didn't want to go chalk, and I think Alabama and SC will go unbeaten, Alabama will narrowly win the SEC title game, and the computers will go with the Gamecocks here over unbeaten Boise St, 1-loss Oklahoma, 1-loss Stanford, 2-loss Notre Dame, 2-loss Virginia Tech and 2-loss Oregon. I think South Carolina wins the rematch, causing chaos. Boise State, despite not playing in the BCS title game, is your champ!]
Heisman Trophy: Just to be contrarian, I’ll go with Marcus Lattimore winning the Heisman over Andrew Luck. Also, regarding over/unders … my only two plays this year are Notre Dame over 9 (wish I had gotten 8.5, but oh well) and Penn State under 8. Remember, I went 3-for-3 on those last year!
Before making a prediction, remember: in the last five years, no team that has opened No. 1 in the AP poll has finished there.

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September 1st, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Lattimore’s 4.5ypc isn’t winning a Heisman unless he get 500 carries
September 1st, 2011 at 6:34 PM
Lol.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:34 PM
in the last five years, no team that has opened No. 1 in the AP poll has not finished there.
Wait, what? That’s not true. You need to take the not out of that sentence
September 1st, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Say whhhhhat?
Imagine all the annoying SEC chants coming out of that game.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:40 PM
USC Song Girls show up here because they can’t attend the actual bowl games.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:41 PM
If South Carolina makes it to the BCSCG, Stephen Garcia will be arrested 7 times between the SEC championship game and the national championship.
National Championship: LSU over Oregon
Heisman: Trent Richardson
September 1st, 2011 at 6:43 PM
Where is the BCS Championship Game this year?
September 1st, 2011 at 6:45 PM
New Orleans–hence my LSU pick
September 1st, 2011 at 6:47 PM
The only two times an SEC title game loser has gone to a BCS bowl it’s when 1 vs 2 were playing the SEC title game. South Carolina will not be 1 or 2 if they lose. Sugar will grab Arkansas, LSU, Georgia etc before them.
I think Boise gets hit with two losses and they’ll be no Non BCS qualifier this year so I’ll go.
Rose – Wisconsin- Oregon
Fiesta – Notre Dame/Nebraska
Sugar – Arkansas/ FSU
Orange – VT/South Florida
BCS- Alabama/Oklahoma
September 1st, 2011 at 6:48 PM
Bottom Line says Favre’s nephew was arrested right before the Mississippi State game.
/prepare for MEDIA MELTDOWN MODE
September 1st, 2011 at 6:50 PM
This is all kinds of hilarious
September 1st, 2011 at 6:51 PM
I know it’s already been said, but it must be said again. LSU/Oregon and Boise/Georgia playing at the same time is grade A bullshit.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:54 PM
herbie said oregon would beat bama in title game
September 1st, 2011 at 6:55 PM
totally fwiw
September 1st, 2011 at 6:56 PM
Not that “projections” matter, but I couldn’t resist….
September 1st, 2011 at 6:56 PM
They make their annual trip to Tahoe, as is tradition. Then we ogle them, as is tradition.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:58 PM
beef, what rating service is that? homodraft?
September 1st, 2011 at 6:59 PM
Upgraded to a two TV system for this season.
And yes, on Sundays, one may have the oft-ridiculed RedZone channel. Haters gonna hate.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:59 PM
Based off the yahoo rankings and projected season totals, it’s on the main league page
September 1st, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Lord knows you wouldn’t want the Raiders on there, although nobody can see them for half their games anyway
September 1st, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Yes, I temporarily had the Irish in the title game
Think of the pageviews you could have had.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Based off the yahoo rankings and projected season totals, it’s on the main league page
am i to expect this level of smacktalk all year?
#tryharder
September 1st, 2011 at 7:02 PM
I actually have a way of circumventing the blackouts.
/No details to follow, as I don’t want my system to be shut down
//oh, and fuck you
September 1st, 2011 at 7:03 PM
haha, went right over my head. Catching up on work I missed while drafting over here
September 1st, 2011 at 7:03 PM
gotta go. wife’ a saint letting me draft twice today while she watches all three wee ones. TBL smacktalk would push us to court
September 1st, 2011 at 7:04 PM
[Impossible, you say? Rematches don't happen? Well I didn't want to go chalk, and I think Alabama and SC will go unbeaten, Alabama will narrowly win the SEC title game, and the computers will go with the Gamecocks here over unbeaten Boise St, 1-loss Oklahoma, 1-loss Stanford, 2-loss Notre Dame, 2-loss Virginia Tech and 2-loss Oregon. I think South Carolina wins the rematch, causing chaos. Boise State, despite not playing in the BCS title game, is your champ!]
I applaud you for going out on a limb, but there are too many suppositions you just listed that would have to happen. Just pick USC East v Alabama and be done with it. If you get lucky and this happens then you’ll be featured in a Deitch (sp?) column in Januaray. However, now he’ll probably have to say you had done your work wrong.
In other news… Football!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2011 at 7:04 PM
The fucking SNF game last weekend was blacked out!! Couldn’t even handle a prime time game…
/shakes head
September 1st, 2011 at 7:05 PM
I somewhat understand the haters stance during the 1 PM games becuase it is all TD highlights for the most part. However, I love the RedZone the most during the 4 pm games. You actually get to watch the 4 or 5 games that are on for a long time
Sorry, I don’t want to be stuck watching the Washington Redskins during week 1. They are so god damn boring to watch.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:08 PM
It was preseason!!
/They are fucked though…maybe 20-25k season tickets. Probably not 1 sell out.
One of the funniest t-shirts of this young season so far…”How to Stop a Rape” with a frame-by-frame of Seymour decking Roethlisberger.
Clearly, our 2010 highlight.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Rose Bowl OSU/OREGON
September 1st, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Plus, no commercials. And it shows more than just TDs.
I feel like Jerry telling his dad that the Wizard is more than a tip calculator.
It does other things!
September 1st, 2011 at 7:12 PM
winners in bold
rose – OSU vs. stanford
sugar – LSU vs. nebraska
fiesta – VT vs. oregon
orange – free shoes vs. west fuckin’
BCS – alabama vs. oklahoma
heisman – lamicheal james
September 1st, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Totally agree, I enjoy watching it for the second set of games too.
Makes it easy to buy cheap seats off scalpers after it starts and go sit close. Also don’t have to worry about traffic that way. That stadium is terrible when full.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:14 PM
I predict at least one of these loss predictions comes true as shows up next year a correct prediction.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:15 PM
sub ND for VT in comment 32
September 1st, 2011 at 7:15 PM
I can’t wait for the outrage when Boise St. gets fucked again.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:20 PM
I can’t wait for the outrage when Boise St. gets fucked again.
I think there’d be more outrage if Boise didn’t get fucked this year. At least on the TBL commenting section.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:43 PM
If you guys want to REALLY catch the excitment of SEC football, there are about 30k empty seats in Nashville for UK vs WKU.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:45 PM
Which is why I rooted hard for Boise to win it all last year. I would have loved to see all of the hardcore college fans around here get all huffy puffy over it.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Why the frick are they playing in Nashville? That’s like LSU playing UL-Lafayette in Memphis.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:06 PM
It would mean they went undefeated and earned their way there. And the BCS works. And the pro-playoffers have to eat a big pile of rhino dung.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:07 PM
So WKU can get a home-and-home, but UK gets to split the gate.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:07 PM
watching the Jets/Eagles game … I’m dangerously close to giving a bust label to Kyle Wilson, the Jets 2010 1st round pick.
he’s getting beat by Riley Cooper & Sinorice Moss … No. 3/4 Wrs on the Eagles.
Some guy named Chad Hall just beat him for a TD.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:08 PM
It doesn’t even make sense.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:12 PM
The Eagles’ seventh-best WR is better than any other WR in the NFL.
/DREAM TEAM’d
September 1st, 2011 at 8:13 PM
TBL: How much bullshit was the flag that they gave to Pool after he knocked the product out of Riley Cooper? Shit was all shoulder.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:16 PM
Charlie Batch just shredded the Panthers for a long TD drive.
/like it matters
September 1st, 2011 at 8:17 PM
“Classics” have to be played in primetime.
I have no idea how a game being played for the second time gets to be called a “Classic,” however.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:18 PM
TBL: How much bullshit was the flag that they gave to Pool after he knocked the product out of Riley Cooper? Shit was all shoulder.
jerz, don’t they use preseason to warn players what they’ll be calling in regular season? preventive
September 1st, 2011 at 8:19 PM
I’m watching Sean Canfield prove that he’s the best third-string quarterback in the NFL.
/actually, he looked okay with the first teamers
September 1st, 2011 at 8:19 PM
I have no idea how a game being played for the second time gets to be called a “Classic,” however.
ask the NHL
September 1st, 2011 at 8:20 PM
It’s real to me damn it!
September 1st, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Vez… Green-Ellis 2 td’s… might not need much shit talk this year, scoreboards will do it all for me
September 1st, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Classic TBL right there.
/only Eagles-Jets game that matters this year is Dec 18th in Philly
September 1st, 2011 at 8:27 PM
Vez… Green-Ellis 2 td’s… might not need much shit talk this year, scoreboards will do it all for me
beef, my welker will help you, so i’m torn
September 1st, 2011 at 8:30 PM
He’s no Freddie Mitchell or Hank Baskett. I’ve heard of them.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:30 PM
Breesus you still around? What’s the story with this storm coming toward LA? Wife is supposed to go to new Orleans for a bachelorette party sat-mon
September 1st, 2011 at 8:34 PM
You mean Fred-Ex aka “I’d like to thank my hands” or Mr. Kendra Baskett?
They’re both better than Todd Stinkston.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:35 PM
wow, Aaron Maybin has some closing speed!
he’s made two nice plays in the first half
September 1st, 2011 at 8:35 PM
are nicknames necessary for everything, philman?
September 1st, 2011 at 8:35 PM
If it goes 50 miles east of the projected path, big trouble.
This is just going to be a small tropical storm, but it’s slow moving and it’s going to flood the shit out of everything.
The mayor held a press conference today and said you can park wherever you can this weekend.
As long as you don’t venture out to the sticks and stay near the touristy places downtown (the highest part of the city), you’ll probably be okay.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:36 PM
Some guy named Chad Hall just beat him for a TD
A golfer trying out for the NFL? Cool
September 1st, 2011 at 8:37 PM
The Saints unsung hero of SB 44.
/whiffed on the on-side kick
September 1st, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Just those three….Baskett didn’t really have that nickname, but Pinkston & Mitchell did.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:40 PM
That’s Hank Wilkinson to you.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:40 PM
Two turnovers and a safety
/and the Sean Canfield era is over
//hopefully
September 1st, 2011 at 8:40 PM
vick’s my qb philly
September 1st, 2011 at 8:42 PM
Two turnovers and a safety
love that beck song
September 1st, 2011 at 8:43 PM
One of them was an across-the-field INT that would make Brett Favre cringe.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:44 PM
One of them was an across-the-field INT that would make Brett Favre proud.
you mean
September 1st, 2011 at 8:44 PM
I dont care that the bills are getting whooped by the Lions. It’s just bullshit that preseason games get blacked out. Fuck you NFL.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:45 PM
Bucky can’t do pushups for shit.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:46 PM
Which is why I rooted hard for Boise to win it all last year. I would have loved to see all of the hardcore college fans around here get all huffy puffy over it. Mantis
I consider myself hardcore to the core, but I’d love this to happen for the same reason.
LSU/Oregon and Boise/Georgia playing at the same time is grade A bullshit.
Perfectly ochestrated by the ESPN/SEC cabal. Wait, no it isn’t at all. This is the first I heard of this. Dumb. Dumb. Dub. Boise/Georgia as the mid-afternoon game would have been the perfect lead in to LSU/Oregon.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:46 PM
every time i see gwen stefani i think, hey how come no one ever types about her at TBL, with al the babe talk that’s done
i’m a fan
September 1st, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Well, Jake Locker looks good.
/if anyone cares
September 1st, 2011 at 8:48 PM
I was gonna LOL hard at the ND to BCS talk.
then I saw possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:49 PM
I would have loved to see all of the hardcore college fans around here get all huffy puffy over it.
Duffy likes Michigan a lot but I don’t know if I’d call him a “hardcore college fan”
September 1st, 2011 at 8:50 PM
CBS doesn’t have the rights to this neutral site, made for TV bullshit. And I’m pretty sure that ESPN/ABC is contractually obligated to cover certain conferences in the afternoon slots.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:51 PM
I;m a fan. nice tight body, looks great in a bikini. does she have some new pics?
September 1st, 2011 at 8:54 PM
no jhs. just see her in vids at the gym
September 1st, 2011 at 8:54 PM
3 turnovers and a safety now in 17 minutes.
Canfield’s the only QB playing tonight. He’s playing himself right out of the NFL. This is beyond bad, even for a 4th preseason game. It’s the trainwreck you can’t look away from.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:55 PM
Thanks breesus…you don’t think it would cause flights to be cancelled on sat?
September 1st, 2011 at 8:55 PM
One of those games could have traded places with the Miami/Maryland slobberknocker on Monday night.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:55 PM
Am i the only one who thinks Alabama won’t be as good with a new QB and new #1 wide receiver?
September 1st, 2011 at 8:57 PM
I doubt the flights will be canceled. Right now.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:58 PM
sean canfield? oregon state?
September 1st, 2011 at 8:58 PM
Vince Young’s injury – you’ll laugh when you see it because nobody was near him and he went down – might be a hammy, could be a knee.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:59 PM
I didn’t think Memphis could be worse than they were last year.
I was wrong.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:00 PM
This is lots of fun.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:01 PM
The one and only.
This guy’s bad when Payton can’t do anything with him. The guy helped make Tyler freaking Palko into a backup QB.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:03 PM
National Championship will be Penn State over sacrificial lamb.
Come on UNLV, I just wanted one half of somewhat competitive football. And I took the point in my pool.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:05 PM
Mississippi has 193 yards of offense.
/after the first quarter
September 1st, 2011 at 9:05 PM
*State
September 1st, 2011 at 9:08 PM
they lose a heisman winner and a top 5 draft pick on the D-line as well.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:08 PM
Am i the only one who thinks Alabama won’t be as good with a new QB and new #1 wide receiver?
yes
September 1st, 2011 at 9:09 PM
he’ll rise from the ashes and take the staring job from Vick. the guy just wins.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Mississippi State got the ball back to start the 2nd quarter and scored again 1 minute later.
250 yards of offense 16 minutes in. Memphis is even worse than I thought they were 10 posts ago. They’re NAIA bad.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:12 PM
UNLV is driving but just can’t cash in for points. The defensive line isn’t doing very well right now.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:13 PM
Wisconsin doesn’t look nearly as good as you would think.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:15 PM
UNLV’s QB is like when you’re playing NCAA on PS3 & all 3 of your QB’s get injured so you have to use Arrelious Benn as your emergency QB.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:26 PM
Thanks again breesus
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:02 AM
More wet song girls photos please.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Nice try Jason. Gamecocks are going to get upset by the Pirates tomorrow so pick another team for the BCS game.