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Pac-12 Championship – UCLA vs Stanford Predictions
This wasn’t the conference championship everyone was expecting and predicting early on in the year; Instead, Stanford get to host this game a year later than what they had in mind, while UCLA, already carrying one loss to the Cardinal this season (just last week) find themselves as big underdogs on the big stage once again.
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2012 NFL Season – Saints vs Falcons Predictions
The Atlanta Falcons were 8-0 when they rolled up into New Orleans, losing to the Saints 31-27 in one of the better games of this NFL season. Now it’s for the rematch, with the Falcons back on a roll, and the Saints in a situation where they can’t afford to lose.
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LSU Tigers – Les Miles Isn’t Going Anywhere
When the LSU fans look back at the 2012 season, how will they remember it? After all, there was nothing dramatic about it. Les Miles finished pretty much with the record he was expected to, 10-2 (before the Bowl game, not a BCS one), leading to quite a tempting offer from Arkansas Miles will turn down.
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BCS Bowls – All About the Money
College Football and bowl season are about one thing: Making money. That is why there hasn’t been a playoff and why the one installed is a limited, disappointing ones. Teams from the AQ conferences: The SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 Pac-12 and still the Big East don’t want to give up on the nearly $200 million that will be paid out by the BCS to the conferences represented in the five BCS bowls.
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USC Trojans – (Almost) Worst Team in California
The USC Trojans are quickly becoming the joke of not just the Pac-12 for the 2012 College Football season, but for the entire state of California. Remember; this is the team that was ranked number one on the AP preseason poll.
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AFC Division Leaders on Pace to Go Undefeated
Since the merger, over 40 years ago, 29 teams have gone on to go undefeated in their division play. Never have more than two teams done this in the same season. This year, in the AFC, the New England Patriots (East), Baltimore Ravens (North), Houston Texans (South) and Denver Broncos (West) are on pace to finish the season undefeated in their divisions.
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Seattle Seahawks – Russell Wilson is no Ordinary Rookie
Very few people believed early in the off-season that rookie quarterback out of Wisconsin, Russell Wilson, will be the starting QB for the Seattle Seahawks during the 2012 season when Matt Flynn was looking like the first choice for the job.
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Carolina Panthers – Cam Newton Great For a Night
The second seasons of Cam Newton in the NFL hasn’t gone according to plan, but there have been shining moments here and there. In the midst of a depressing season, one of the more exciting quarterback prospects in recent years finally had the kind of game people excepted to see much more of from him this season.
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Ohio State Buckeyes – Undefeated Doesn’t Mean Champions
Shouldn’t a 12-0 season in the Big Ten mean something? Not when Ohio State are serving bowl bans and eligibility for a conference title ban as well. This isn’t the first time over the last few years that a team will finish the season undefeated but out of reach of BCS glory. This isn’t the first time it’s happened to Urban Meyer as well.
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New York Giants – Back to Super Bowl Form
For pretty much the first half of the season, the New York Giants looked like the same team that won the Super Bowl last year; great defense and an Eli Manning who steps up in the fourth quarter each and every time. Then came a slide, and the usual doubts. Now, it seems the Giants have found the right formula to put them back on track.