NCAA Football 2011 Preview: What Teams Will Compete for the BCS Championship?

If you are looking to place a sports bet on the 2012 BCS Championship game, then you need to start doing your research now. Betting on the NCAA football champion from year to year is not like betting on MLB baseball. With baseball, you have players that stay with teams for years and establish a successful history. With the NCAA, players are at their best for two, maybe three, years and then they are gone. But while NCAA betting is not like following MLB baseball news, they both offer excitement to fans. So let’s get away from MLB scores and take a look at the top contenders for the 2012 BCS championship.

 

Auburn Tigers

We can’t address the 2012 predictions without seeing where the 2011 winner fits into the equation. The Auburn Tigers were not very deep at any position when they won the 2011 season. When key players such as quarterback Cam Newton and defensive lineman Nick Fairley were drafted into the NFL, the Auburn Tigers immediately dropped from contention in the BCS championship betting pool. The Tigers do not have a superstar quarterback waiting in the wings to replace Newton or any of the other departing star players.

 

Oregon Ducks

The Oregon Ducks battled back and forth with the Auburn Tigers all year long to see who would get the chance to play for the BCS title. The difference between Oregon and Auburn is that same competitive team from Oregon will be back, pretty much intact, for one more run in 2011-2012. The Ducks should have no problem dominating the Pac 10, and quarterback Darron Thomas may be the darling of the early NFL draft predictions. This is just a solid football team with its entire offense in place from last season and most of its defense. The other difference in Oregon is that they have players that can step in and fill gaps that were left by departing players. But the Ducks will only get one shot at this as most of the offense will get drafted into the NFL in the 2012 draft. That added pressure may be exactly what Oregon needs to win it all in 2012.

 

Stanford Cardinals

Even though the Cardinals will enter the season with a new head coach, they remain a BCS contender because of quarterback Andrew Luck. When the rest of the world expected Luck to enter the NFL draft, he decided to stay in school and finish his degree. That was probably the best news the Stanford Cardinals have had in a long time. If Luck gets hurt and does not play much of the season, then he could have just cost himself millions of dollars in draft position. But if Luck wins the BCS championship, then he will be a shoe-in to go number one overall in the 2012 NFL draft and he will be ready to perform as a starter in the pros. Luck has many of the components around him that he had last year, and that means that the Cardinals will also be making one more run at the BCA title before they start rebuilding again.

 

 

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