Digesting a Season Completed, Part II

Given my miserable prognostication track-record on this blog, I must take a moment to give myself some faint praise. My college football preseason predictions turned out to be pretty on-point. I correctly guessed five out of the eight BCS slots and if Georgia had prevailed yesterday I would have been batting a cool .750. All right, so my grand prediction of a national title for Texas was a bit off. But how was I supposed to know that Chance Mock would be on the verge of transferring after getting supplanted at QB by a freshman? Oh well-- they're called bold predictions for a reason.

But the biggest reason I'm patting myself on the back today is because I correctly predicted that there would be no undefeated teams at the end of the regular season. The parity which has swept through college basketball is now reaching football too, as the nation's talent is spreading across the country. Combined with the longer schedule this season (most teams had a 12th game and thus an extra chance to lose this year) and tougher non-conference games, the nation's powerhouses could not sustain perfection for a full season. Look for this trend to continue in the future--one day, we may even see a two-loss team in the national title game.