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[sc:Other240banner ]College football writers Brett McMurphy and Mark Schlabach each came up with a comprehensive list of predictions of which teams will play in all post-spring bowl games. Same as anyone’s, the most intriguing bowl projections on their list are of the teams that will play in the Rose and Sugar bowl games, which make up the first two College Football Playoff games.<\/p>\n
For McMurphy, the January game in Pasadena will still feel like a regular Rose Bowl, as it\u2019s going to be a Big Ten-Pac-12 meet between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Oregon Ducks. Schlabach, on the other hand, also projected Oregon to be there, but with different opponents in the Alabama Crimson Tide.<\/p>\n
McMurphy sees the Buckeyes to come in strong again this season, possibly with another regular season sweep in the Big Ten. After all, Urban Meyer still has quarterback Braxton Miller and a defense which remains rock solid with All-Americans Joey Bosa and Michael Bennett. Schlabach obviously doesn\u2019t buy any of that, and he would rather put his money on the Crimson Tide than Ohio State to make it to the CFP.<\/p>\n
That means he\u2019s confident that QB Jacob Coker will handle the reins just as well as AJ McCarron. Or maybe Schlabach’s\u00a0confidence on Alabama comes from a solid top-to-bottom roster and Nick Saban\u2019s ability to make something out of a lower-tier quarterback.<\/p>\n
Schlabach doesn\u2019t even see the Buckeyes in the Sugar Bowl, opting to predict a Florida State Seminoles-Michigan State Spartans showdown at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Meanwhile, McMurphy has a rematch of the Alabama and the Oklahoma Sooners in the Sugar Bowl.<\/p>\n
Create a betting account now<\/a> and cash in on the upcoming college football season.<\/p>\n CBS has always been one of the forefront names in college football. Composing CBS\u2019 Eye on College Football staff are Jon Solomon, Dennis Dodd, Jeremy Fowler, Jerry Palm, Tom Fornelli, Jerry Hinnen and Chip Patterson, and these heavyweight commentators have weighed in on the upcoming season in some interesting ways.<\/p>\n *number of votes in parentheses<\/p>\n Atlantic First Place:<\/strong> Florida State (7)<\/p>\n Coastal First place:<\/strong> Duke (3), Virginia Tech (3), Pittsburgh (1)<\/p>\n Champion:<\/strong> Florida State (7)<\/p>\n The defending champions have experience, a top-rated defense, and reigning Heisman Trophy-winner Jameis Winston behind center. There wasn’t much debate among the panelists as all seven of them unanimously voted not only for the Seminoles to have the best record in the ACC, but also to win the conference championship over whichever team can win out of the hard scrabble Coastal division.<\/p>\n East First Place:<\/strong> Michigan State (2), Ohio State (5)<\/p>\n West First Place:<\/strong> Wisconsin (4), Nebraska (1), Iowa Hawkeyes (2)<\/p>\n Champion:<\/strong> Buckeyes (5), Michigan State (1), Nebraska (1)<\/p>\n As of this writing, Braxton Miller is hurt<\/a> and may miss the rest of the season due to injury, meaning the predictions above should be taken with a grain of salt. That means Dodd and Fowler \u2013 the only guys who voted a team other than Ohio State to win the conference \u2013 could see the odds of their picks rise. Dodd went for the defending Big 10 titlist Michigan State, while Fowler pinned his prediction on the Nebraska Cornhuskers.<\/p>\n First Place:<\/strong> Oklahoma (5), Baylor (2)<\/p>\n The spotlight will shine brighter on the Sooners, who are in the Top 5 of the consensus preseason rankings. With dual threat Trevor Knight as the team\u2019s quarterback, and a defense that no one in the conference can match, the Sooners are favored by the CBS\u2019 experts to set the best record in Big 12. Baylor will always have the best offense in the conference, but a suspect defense could explain why only Fowler and Hinnen voted for the Bears.<\/p>\n North First Place:<\/strong> Oregon (6), Stanford (1)<\/p>\n South First Place:<\/strong> UCLA (6), USC (1)<\/p>\n Conference Champion:<\/strong> Oregon (5), UCLA (1), USC (1)<\/p>\n Marcus Mariota\u2019s decision to come back to Oregon for one more year means the Ducks will be a contender on the national stage, let alone in the Pac-12 conference. The CBS experts\u2019 couldn\u2019t agree more that it\u2019s a tremendous boost for the Ducks, with five picking Oregon to win the conference<\/p>\n East First Place:<\/strong> South Carolina (4), Georgia (3)<\/p>\n West First Place:<\/strong> Alabama (5), Auburn (2)<\/p>\n Conference Champion:<\/strong> Alabama (4), South Carolina (1), Auburn (1), Georgia (1)<\/p>\n After falling flat on their faces last season, the Crimson Tide are out to reclaim their throne in the SEC. QB Jacob Coker has a tough act to follow, inheriting the quarterbacking chores left by A.J. McCarron, but leave it to Nick Saban to coax the transferee into having a great season. Alabama remains as the fave to win the SEC with a +140<\/a> price, and it reflects on the experts\u2019 four votes for the Crimson Tide against one each for South Carolina, Auburn, and Georgia.<\/p>\n[sc:NCAAF490banner ]\nCBS<\/h3>\n
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