Four Daring College Football Predictions

Predicting what will happen in a college football season is about as much of a guessing game as there is in sports. But that's the beauty of making preseason predictions. If you're right it's a chance to brag for the next year or so -- and if you're wrong, it's easy to pass it off as a ridiculous prediction that you never really believed in anyway.

With that in mind, I throw caution to the wind and offer up some predictions for the coming season that are so outrageous, they very well may actually happen.

South Carolina will win the SEC.

If you aren't a South Carolina fan chances are this pick confuses you. Last year Coach Steve Spurrier got his Gamecocks as high as #6 in the nation, helped by a win over Georgia in Athens, before it all came tumbling down and USC finished with a 6-6 record and no bowl berth. This year the pieces are in place for the team to complete what they started last year, but since USC seems to be a popular pick as a dark horse to win the Eastern Division, I'll go one better and say they take the whole thing.

Linebacker Jasper Brinkley is back for one more season after missing last year with a knee injury and even at 80% he's still one of the best linebackers in the nation. The defensive secondary features more depth than any other position on the team and if everyone can stay healthy it should pick up where it left off last year as the nation's #4 pass defense.