Uneducated, Unresearched Picks for the Football Season

Let's start with college football (which is slightly researched after watching one week of games, but still mostly uneducated):

BCS Bowls:
National Championship Game - USC vs. West Virginia
Rose Bowl - Cal vs. Wisconsin
Sugar Bowl - LSU vs. Louisville
Orange Bowl - Clemson vs. Florida
Fiesta Bowl - Texas vs. TCU

National Champion - USC (daring pick, huh?)
Heisman Trophy - Steve Slaton (West Virginia)

Season in Nutshell: The USC Trojans will coast to another National Championship with only California putting up any real competition (the UCLA game will be a blowout). West Virginia knocks off Louisville to reach the title game behind the Heisman Trophy-winning season of Steve Slaton. Florida defeats LSU in the regular season only to lose to the Bayou Bengals in the SEC title game, so neither team goes undefeated.

Who does? Wisconsin. They get left out of the BCS title game due to a lackluster out-of-conference schedule and because they dominate a weak Big 10. Hawaii, everyone's pre-season darling, is a bust, but TCU loses just once (to Texas) and gets a rematch at the end of the year in the Fiesta Bowl.

Biggest surprises - Vanderbilt & North Carolina go bowling, Georgia does not, Bobby Bowden finally steps down after another disappointing season and Bob Stoopes resigns from Oklahoma after more off-the-field problems cloud the season.

NFL Predictions:

AFC
North - Pittsburgh
South - Indianapolis
East - New England
West - San Diego
Wildcards - Denver & Baltimore

NFC
North - Green Bay
South - New Orleans
East - Dallas
West - San Francisco
Wildcards - Chicago & Arizona

AFC Championship - San Diego vs. Indianapolis
NFC Championship - New Orleans vs. Dallas
Super Bowl - San Diego vs. New Orleans
Champion - San Diego Chargers
MVP - L.T. (again)

Season in a Nutshell: The San Diego Chargers lose in Week 1 to Chicago, but rally together to win the AFC despite the suspect coaching of Norv Turner. Rivers explodes in his second year as a starter, but Tomlinson is still the force that makes them go and Shawn Merriman dominates on the defensive side of the ball. The Indianapolis Colts surprise many by earning home field advantage with the best regular season record. The AFC busts - Cincinnati, Jacksonville and the NY Jets. Marvin Lewis is fired at the end of the year. Houston is a pleasant surprise, nearly making the playoffs. The Titans struggle - Vince Young is booed at home.

In the NFC, the surprise team is the Arizona Cardinals, who finally find a way into the playoffs under Ken Whisenhunt. The Dallas Cowboys also thrive out from under Bill Parcells' icy glare & Terrell Owens re-emerges as the best wide receiver in the game. New Orleans follows up last year's success with more of the same as Reggie Bush becomes an MVP candidate. The NFC busts - Philadelphia and Seattle. Jon Gruden, Andy Reid and Tom Coughlin are all fired at the end of the year. Atlanta wins 8 games without Vick.

My fantasy team fails to make the playoffs. It happens when you have the 12th pick of the draft.