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PFB Predictions: Looking at the 2019 College Football Season

Come for our bold predictions; stay for our contrasting hot takes on Texas.

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We are closing in on the last two weekends without college football. So it’s time for PFB’s staff to peer into our crystal ball and prognosticate about the upcoming season.

We’ll get to laying out our Oklahoma State-specific picks and go more in-depth on the Big 12 later, but let’s take a macro view by discussing college football on the whole starting with the Power 5 conference champions.

Kyle Cox: Who wins the SEC?

I’m gonna go out on a limb and take ‘Bama.

Marshall Scott: I will join you on that firm limb that can support the weight of many Big Als.

Kyle Porter: Georgia — I think they’re a monstrosity. An Oklahoma State-themed aside: Remember when the best defense of Mark Richt was, Well, we’re probably just going to go 9-3 or 10-2 every year because I don’t think anybody can recruit to this place better than he’s recruiting to this place. Yeah.

Cox: I love it.

Kyle Boone: Bama. Between Tua and Saban and more five-stars on the roster than OSU has ever signed, no shot it’s anyone else.

Porter: By the way — LSU is kind of a sexy fun sleeper. They get Florida and A&M at home.

Scott: It’s crazy the No. 6 team in the country is a sleeper. SEC baby.

Boone: LSU stinks. We say this about them every year, and every year they win 7.35 games.

Cox: Am I crazy to pick the Fightin’ Daxton Hills to win the Big Ten this year?

Boone: Not crazy, but I’m not there. Ohio State has way more dudes still. And until Harbaugh actually runs an offense that was bred post-1983, I’m not buying the UM hype.

Scott: I think if Michigan is ever going to finally take that step forward again, it would have to be this year. Urban’s gone, and sure Justin Fields is a stud, but he is still a freshman. With that said, I’ll also be taking Ohio State.

Porter: I love Boone’s takes.

I’ll take the other OSU, too. Michigan is Texas but worse on offense and colder

Boone: ????

Cox: Worse on offense than Texas? Ewww.

Boone: I feel like Texas won’t be as miserable on offense as in years past, but I agree with that take generally. Even if UM switches systems with their new OC, they still probably don’t have the ideal personnel to just up and become the Oregon of the Midwest.

Cox: I could pull a certain someone’s fave stat from last year. One of those teams was 13th in PPD and one was 38th.

Porter: PPD isn’t that cool anyway.

Cox: LOL

Cox: Are we all unanimous on Clemson rolling through the ACC?

Porter: Clemson is the new Bama.

Scott: Clemson might with every conference game by three touchdowns.

Porter: Clemson is Bama with better QBs and an easier road.

Cox: Moving on, who wins the Pac-12, and will anyone care?

I’m rooting for Washington State just because the more Mike Leach on Twitter the better.

Boone: Oregon. But they’ll probably still finish like 12th in the final polls.

Scott: Yeah, I too am going with Oregon, but I could see Oregon and the Washington schools beating each other up to the point that the conference isn’t relevant in the CFP picture.

Oregon also opens the year in Dallas against Auburn, so that could end the Ducks’ CFB hopes right there.

Porter: Washington — Petersen4Ever

Cox: Okay here’s one that’s close to home with a bonus. Which two Big 12 teams duke it out in Arlington on Pearl Harbor Day and who comes out on top?

Boone: Texas and OU, and Texas.

Porter: Why do you hate the state of Oklahoma, Kyle?

Also, where do I sell all of the Iowa State stock?

Boone: It’s too friggin hot here. I’m melting.

Cox: I’m taking Iowa State over Oklahoma

Scott: OU and Iowa State, and OU. The Longhorns have to go to Ames. I think they’ll drop that game, the OU game and some other random one.

Boone: You’re stuck with the ISU stock. It’s like owning all the Enron stock in 2000.

Porter: Texas beats Oklahoma State in the B12 title game.

Scott:

Boone: Brendon Costello finishes 20/24 with 3 TDs, 1 INT and a perfect QB rating.

Porter: lollllll

Boone: Well, near-perfect.

Cox: Where’s the Brock Purdy faith? Iowa State will beat OU at least once this year.

And I can’t even, Porter.

Cox: Okay, who’s your preseason Heisman pick?

Scott: One Trevor Lawrence for all the obvious reasons.

Cox: Yeah, I think I have to go with him. Or maybe I have to pick Shea Patterson based on my Big Ten champ prediction.

Porter: Fromm

Scott: I like that. I think he’s a solid dark horse candidate behind Lawrence and Tua. Again “dark horse” on the  No. 3 team in the preseason rankings.

Porter: Haha yes.

Boone: Trevor Lawrence.

Cox: Okay, who are your mid-August picks for the college football playoff? And who you got taking home that goofy looking trophy?

Scott: Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State, and holy pooh that’s a same-old, same-old boring selection of teams. I think Clemson goes back-to-back.

Porter:
Clemson
Texas (how do I always pick Texas?)
Ohio State
Georgia

Cox: I’m gonna go Alabama, Clemson, Michigan, Georgia. I’ll take Clemson to go back-to-back national champs.

Porter might love Texas as much as I’m down on Texas.

Scott: I truly hope a Texas or Michigan or heck even a Pac-12 team gets in to make it a little more interesting.

Porter: It’s embarrassing, I always do it. I don’t know why or how.

Scott: It’s because you and UT’s Kyle Porter are the same Kyle Porter.
Just googled him, and he transferred to Houston. Have fun with Dana.

I picked Penn State to win the natty last year, and I think I’m scorned from picking anything out of the ordinary this year.

Boone: Clemson, Alabama, Georgia and Texas in the CFP.

Cox: I think I’ve put Wisconsin in the Final Four a couple times.

 

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