Worst.....Predictions.....Ever!

I couldn't have been more wrong with my predictions throughout the baseball playoffs. I succeeded in picking 6 of the 7 playoff series wrong, with my only correct one being the Mets over the Dodgers, in the first round, and I came very, very close to picking the Dodgers as my "surprise" pick. Anyways, as many writers have said, this year saw some of the worst playoff series ever played. The Tigers rolled over the listless Yankees. The Twins made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes to get swept by the A's. The Padres failed to turn the tables on the Cardinals, whose record was so bad they really didn't belong in the playoffs to begin with, just like last year's Padres. The Mets buried the Dodgers in boring fashion. Did the Tigers-A's series even happen, or did the A's just forfeit? The one series that could have been good, the Cardinals and Mets, was tarnished because A) The Cardinals W-L record was worse than 8 out of 14 AL teams (more than half!!!!) and B) Both pitching staffs were so messed up that the fans of just about any of the other 28 teams were wishing that their team could face either team in the NLCS. The World Series will be remembered for a 40+ pitcher cheating after being declared a changed man by the media a year after beating up a cameraman for no reason, the Tigers not being able to execute basic little league defensive skills, and a team that had a worse record than the Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays at just 4 games over .500 winning the World Series. Don't get me wrong....I sorta like the Cardinals because their fans hate the Cubs just like Sox fans, so I'm sure their win with the Sox win last year added to the misery of the Cubs, which is always fun. But I think baseball fans for now need to put 2006 behind them and hope 2007 is a little more entertaining.


On to the BCS.
Conference Leaders (Ties broken by BCS rank)
ACC: Boston College (15)
Big 12: Texas (7)
Big East: West Virginia (3)
Big Ten: Ohio State (1)
C-USA: Tulsa (NR)
MAC: Central Michigan (NR)
Mountain West: BYU (NR)
PAC-10: California (10)
SEC: Florida (4)
Sun Belt: Middle Tennessee State (NR)
WAC: Boise State (14)

At-Large Teams: Michigan (2), Louisville (5), Auburn (6), USC (8), Notre Dame (9)

First Round Matchups
#1 Ohio State vs. #16 Middle Tennessee State
#8 USC vs. #9 Notre Dame
#4 Florida vs. #13 Tulsa
#5 Louisville vs. #12 Boston College
#3 West Virginia vs. #14 BYU
#6 Auburn vs. #11 Boise State
#7 Texas vs. #10 California
#2 Michigan vs. #15 Central Michigan