...provided the members of the panel are honest brokers.
IF you believe, as do I, that winning one's conference is a prerequisite to winning the National Championship then 4 of the 5 winners of the major conferences should get an invitation to the dance. Yes, there will be exceptions if, should one year, two conferences have a down year or a 4-loss division winner pulls an upset but, for the most part, it should be pretty clean.
If you run on that assumption then it makes sense that your College Football Playoff predictions would mirror your Conference predictions. This lies outside rankings, numbers, 30 people meeting in a room etc. It's just simple math.
Because of this I'm predicting the following 4 teams will receive invitations to the newly minted College Football Playoff:
1. Ohio State (Champions - B1G)
2. Florida State (Champions - ACC)
3. UCLA (Champions - PAC 12)
4. South Carolina (Champions - SEC)
I think SC goes in with 2 losses but, by upsetting Alabama, they get the 4th seed. UCLA (with one loss) probably deserves the 2 seed but will get the 3 seed because....West Coast. Florida State and OSU will battle all year long for the first seed, with OSU winning out after an impressive B1G Championship rout over Iowa.
In the Championship Game I think it will be Ohio State and UCLA with the Bruins coming out on top for the championship in 2014/2015.
And yes, I've backed that up on a futures wager in Las Vegas. That would be the Bruins at 25/1
The weekly pick-em and odds tracker will be up before the first games are played on the 28th of August. At that point I'll continue my mission to prove you can beat 50% (and turn a profit) without an expensive gaming service and with just a modicum of research. (after all, we all have jobs right?)
Good luck this season, make a ton.
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