2008-2009 College Football Bowl Projections

Good call at the Buckeyes competing for a win in their 3rd straight appearence.

Pryor brings us over the bridge as a very strong 2 QB combo system.

both of those teams deserve it even though im a avid dawg fan the buckeyes have more heart than anyone in their division

buckeye fan here and I enjoy the dawgs as well. I've worked in Georgia a few times and on one visit I was bragging on our local HS RB ranked 6th in the nation (now a Buckeye) and the guys at the place I was working at introduced me to some vid clips of their local RB Caleb King ranked 1 in the nation. I enjoy their love of football there.

This is a no brainer. The Florida Gators will be no.1 to start the season and they'll be no.1 at the end of the 2009 season. Not just because the Gators have the most dynamic player in college football returning for the 2009 season (Tim Tebow), watch out for RB Chris Raney sporting that 4.2 40, not to mention Eric Moody, Percey Harvin, and Brandon James the Gators will have the sickest offence in the nation. The Gator Defence has also improved tremendously, with this being the 3rd consecutive year at the top of Espn's 150 recruits the new defence with the Seasoned Sophomores and some of the most tallented Freshmen in the country at Florida the Gators will be a force to be reckoned with. All that I can hope for is that the bcs commitee will give us a team like USC, Oklahoma, or anyone who deserves it but Ohio State. I think the whole nation will agree with me on this, Ohio State doesn't deserve to be beaten up on in yet another national championship game. Even if they stroll through the big 10 conf. undefeated this year they should get a game that they at least have a chance to win like that bowl where they play Hawaii or Boise State. I mean lets face it the big ten is more like a D2 conference anyway.

Hmmmm....thought for sure that Division II Michigan manhandled the Gators last year. Also odd that a Division II school like Ohio State has more players in the NFL than the Gators.
Big Ten vs. SEC last 5 years:
2006 2005 2004
PSU 20 Tenn 10 Wisc 24 Aub 10 Iowa 30 LSU 25
Wisc 17 Ark 14 UF 31 Iowa 24 Minn 20 Bama 16
UF 41 OSU 14 Split 1-1 UGA 24 Wisc 21
B10 2-1 B10 2-1

2003 2002
Iowa 37 UF 17 Mich 38 Fla 30
UGA 34 Pur 27 Aub 13 PSU 9
Aub 28 Wis 14 Minn 29 Ark 14
SEC 2-1 (a rarity) B10 2-1
The numbers do not lie or pretend that they know football.
Also, let's not forget the 1995 championship when Nebraska STEAMROLLED the mighty Gators 62 to 24.....Ouch!!

Michigan "manhandled" florida last year? I'm pretty sure Florida was winning into the fourth. Secondly Michigan(number 2 in the big ten) beat a Florida team that was what, 4th/5th in the SEC? The SEC was what 7-2 I think last year in bowl games. The big ten really needs a championship to have a legitimate gripe to go to the bcs championship again after being trounced in the title game two years running.
My top three pics are USC, Florida, or Georgia fighting for number one this year.

These are the records for all SEC teams versus the Big Ten since 1900.

Alabama .556 5-4-0
Arkansas .250 1-4-1
Auburn .611 5-3-1
Florida .692 6-4-1
UGA .778 7-2-0
Kentucky .444 16-20-0
LSU .650 6-3-1
Ole Miss .125 0-3-1
Miss St .200 1-4-0
South Car .571 4-3-0
Tenn .636 7-4-0
Vandy .529 8-7-2

SEC 66-61-7

It is even more embarassing for your premise if you discount those pathetic teams from Mississippi (like most of us in the SEC do). Eight out of twelve SEC teams have winning records against the Big 10. The only teams that have losing records against the Big 10 are teams that, historically, have been considered "also rans" here in the SEC. Heck, even Vanderbilt has a winning record against the Big 10.


Interesting how I pulled up this information from the very sight that you used, but chose not to read or post.

I will give you this, right now and in most years, the SEC is top to bottom the toughest conference in the land. However, not long ago it was considered the 3rd or 4th best. Everyone has thier day. Before beating up on OSU to much, let's not forget that they won the national championship over an undefeated Miami team in 2002. Michigan, OSU and usually Penn State have as much talent (tradition aside) as any SEC team. Also keep in mind that anytime there is a Big Ten/SEC matchup, it is played in the deep south. I wonder how the Gators would fare in the wind and snow on a given November or December Saturday? Those games require what Big Ten schools offer, a hard nosed game of running the football (something that Big Ten country natives Les and Urban don't like to play). As a person that played the game for 12 years, I understand and respect talent and tradition, regarless of the instituiton.

The Buckeyes will be on top of the college football world once again because i dont think they can take the embarrassment of a third national title loss in a row for the great tradition of Ohio State and for the sake of Jim Tressel being one fo the best big game coaches in the game. My Buckeyes need to take it home once again and just think what people would be saying if they had won two in a row and standing nicely with nine national championships all time and shooting for three in a row this year

Well, lsutigersfan, look at the overall record, it's only 5 more wins than Big Ten, which is pretty embarassing and there are a lot of teams in the SEC barely over 500 against Big Ten. I'm in no way a Big Ten fan, in fact I was expecting a bigger differential between wins and losses for SEC, so that has to be kind of embarassing for SEC that it's so low. You can't discount those pathetic Mississippi teams because you might as well just discount some of the big tens bad teams and a lot of the teams in the SEC probably wouldn't be over 500

i want Ohio State to play Georgia and win....if they did that...they would get over their SEC and NC hump at the same time...would be a great story and an emotional win....especially for our seniors and juniors...

uga is faster, the whole SEC is faster. Georgia has great running game they have moreeno and a new guy caleb king who is much faster than moreeno