Written by Daniel Taylor at Total Sports Live
With conference championship week now in the rearview, we know what the bowl games will be. We know what the playoff will be. We know it all. Are you happy? Did it work out how you thought? Well, four fan bases are happy. And, for the most part, it didn’t work out how most of us expected.
Clemson going undefeated wasn’t on most of our preseason guarantee lists. Oklahoma winning the Big 12 wasn’t something I was expecting, TCU and Baylor were shoe-ins. However, I did foresee Alabama and Michigan State winning the SEC and Big 10, respectively.
The Crimson Tide are top-notch every season. No surprise that they were once again the best of the Southeastern Conference.
Ohio State was the favorite in the Big 10, but I picked Michigan State. All along, I said that MSU was the top team in the Big 10 because they had the best quarterback in Connor Cook. Cook wasn’t the quarterback that beat the Buckeyes, but he still has shown this season that he is the best in the conference.
Oklahoma had a huge season from quarterback Baker Mayfield and that led them to the promised land. The Sooners are a very dangerous team with a lot of talent and it’s nice to see Bob Stoops back in the spotlight. The Sooners, in hindsight, have an awesome team. That being said, I don’t think they’re better than the team they’ll be playing in the opening round of the College Football Playoff.
That team, of course, is the Clemson Tigers. A team that feels like Ohio State of 2014 (hitting all cylinders a year early) is coming into the playoff as the only undefeated team. They have a big target on the back of their orange uniforms. But Deshaun Watson and company have been great at stepping up to the plate. Watson won’t win the Heisman this season, but he’s already launched his 2016 Heisman campaign as a frontrunner that will finish in the top-three this season.
We know who’s in the playoff, and we know that predictions are coming. I’ll save mine. So be sure to check back for that.
I’ll also have my bowl predictions (along with seemingly everyone else online) in the next few weeks.
But first, who wins the Heisman?
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