2011 UCLA Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 12, 2011 at 4:05 pm

Things have not gone the way Rick Neuheisel envisioned when he accepted the head job at his alma mater. Following a 4-8 campaign,... 

2011 Washington State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 3, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Other than a 31-14 victory at Oregon State, Washington State didn’t have much to cheer about in 2010. The Cougars lost their... 

2011 Oregon State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm

After four straight seasons with a winning mark in conference play, Oregon State fell to 4-5 against league opponents last year. The... 

2011 Utah Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 2, 2011 at 2:03 pm

Utah enters its first season in the new Pac-12 Conference following a 10-3 campaign last year. Winning 10 games is nothing to... 

2011 Virginia Tech Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 2, 2011 at 1:24 pm

Virginia Tech opened the 2010 season with back-to-back losses against Boise State and James Madison, all but ruining their shot... 

2011 Stanford Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 2, 2011 at 12:47 pm

Stanford went 12-1 overall and 8-1 in the Pac-10 last season. Its lone defeat came to Oregon, who finished the regular season... 

2011 Wake Forest Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm

Wake Forest managed to win just three games in 2010, and were only 1-7 in ACC play. A big reason for their struggles was their... 

2011 Maryland Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 1, 2011 at 4:09 pm

I was surprised when Maryland decided to part ways with head coach Ralph Friedgen, who was the 2010 ACC Coach of the Year. Freidgen... 

2011 Colorado Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 1, 2011 at 3:39 pm

Colorado’s last season in the Big 12 Conference didn’t go as well as it had hoped. The Buffaloes finished 5-7 overall... 

2011 North Carolina State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on August 1, 2011 at 1:55 pm

After failing to deliver a winning season in his first three years at North Carolina State, head coach Tom O’Brien nearly... 

2011 Florida State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 28, 2011 at 3:10 pm

In the first year under Jimbo Fisher, the Florida State Seminoles finished with an overall record of 10-4. It was the first time... 

2011 California Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 28, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Cal played league champ Oregon tougher than any other team in the Pac-10 last season. It held the highest scoring team in the... 

2011 Oregon Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 28, 2011 at 11:12 am

With last season’s 12-1 campaign, which included a 9-0 conference record and Pac-10 title , Oregon improved to 22-4 under... 

2011 Washington Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 27, 2011 at 3:17 pm

Steve Sarkisian has Washington moving in the right direction. After seven consecutive non-winning campaigns, Sarkisian led the... 

2011 USC Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 27, 2011 at 2:19 pm

USC has fallen on hard times by the standards that were set during the Pete Carroll era. The Trojans have nine losses the last... 

2011 Baylor Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 27, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Baylor used a 7-2 start last season to reach its first bowl game in 16 years. The Bears lost their final three regular season... 

2011 Kansas Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 26, 2011 at 1:32 pm

Turner Gill’s first season in Lawrence was a difficult one from the start. The Jayhawks opened up their campaign with an... 

2011 Texas Tech Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 25, 2011 at 3:09 pm

Texas Tech went 8-5 in Tommy Tuberville’s first season on the job and punctuated its campaign with a 45-38 victory over... 

2011 Missouri Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 25, 2011 at 1:15 pm

16 starters return from last year’s 10-3 squad, but unfortunately Blaine Gabbert isn’t one of them. With Gabbert having... 

2011 Oklahoma State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 23, 2011 at 11:23 am

Oklahoma State shocked the college football world in 2010. Expected to finish near the bottom of the Big 12 South, the Cowboys... 

2011 Oklahoma Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 22, 2011 at 12:42 pm

With last season’s 12-2 campaign, Oklahoma improved to 129-31 under coach Bob Stoops. His 80.6 percent win rate is the highest... 

2011 Northwestern Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 21, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Northwestern won seven of its first 10 games last season before quarterback Dan Persa went down with a season-ending injury. ... 

2011 Indiana Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 21, 2011 at 12:10 pm

Indiana went 5-7 in 2010 and had great opportunities to walk away with three more victories against Iowa, Michigan and Northwestern.... 

2011 Purdue Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 20, 2011 at 2:56 pm

Purdue put itself in good position to reach its first bowl game since 2007 when it got off to a promising 4-2 start, but it lost... 

2011 Minnesota Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 20, 2011 at 1:03 pm

Minnesota is hoping to turn over a new leaf under new coach Jerry Kill. The former Northern Illinois skip has a history or turning... 

2011 Illinois Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 20, 2011 at 11:39 am

Coach Ron Zook entered the 2010 season on the hot seat but is breathing much easier after leading Illinois to a winning record... 

2011 Vanderbilt Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm

There’s no sense in beating around the bush. First-year head coach James Franklin has his work cut out for himself at Vanderbilt.... 

2011 Michigan State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 19, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Michigan State went 11-2 in the 2010-11 season and earned a share of the Big Ten title with a 7-1 conference mark, but closer... 

2011 Iowa Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm

Following an 11-2 campaign that was punctuated with an impressive Orange Bowl win over Georgia Tech, expectations were sky high... 

2011 Mississippi State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 18, 2011 at 4:07 pm

Dan Mullen’s second season as Mississippi State head football coach was a good one. He led the Bulldogs to a 9-4 campaign,... 

2011 Mississippi Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 18, 2011 at 3:54 pm

The 2010 season was a tough pill to swallow for Mississippi. After back-to-back nine-win campaigns in Houston Nutt’s first... 

2011 Arkansas Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 18, 2011 at 3:35 pm

Heading into the 2010 season, Arkansas was a sleeper to win the BCS championship. While it didn’t achieve that goal, it... 

2011 Kentucky Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 14, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Kentucky has played in a bowl game each of the last five seasons. This run will be put to the test in Joker Phillips’ second... 

2011 Clemson Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 13, 2011 at 2:53 pm

Clemson fans are passionate, and they hate losing to rival South Carolina. Last season’s embarrassing 29-7 home loss to... 

2011 Georgia Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 12, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Georgia was a much better football team last season than its 6-7 record might lead you to believe. The suspension of star wide... 

2011 Wisconsin Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Wisconsin improved to 49-16 under Bret Bielema with last season’s 11-2 campaign. After losing its first Big Ten game to... 

2011 South Carolina Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 8, 2011 at 1:27 pm

In 2010, coach Steve Spurrier took South Carolina some place it had never been – the SEC championship game. South Carolina’s... 

2011 Texas A&M Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 7, 2011 at 2:51 pm

Texas A&M is coming off a strong 9-4 campaign. It got out of the gate 3-3 but exploded to win its final six regular-season... 

2011 Notre Dame Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on July 5, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Notre Dame rebounded from a 1-3 start and finished Brian Kelly’s first season in South Bend with an 8-5 record. The Irish... 

2011 Nebraska Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 30, 2011 at 11:51 am

Under Bo Pelini, who is 30-12 through his first three seasons in Lincoln, Nebraska has started to resemble the powerhouse it was... 

2011 Texas Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 29, 2011 at 2:40 pm

2010 was a difficult year for coach Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns. Texas had posted nine consecutive 10-win campaigns until... 

2011 Florida Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 29, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Gone is Urban Meyer, who went 65-15 at Florida and won two national titles. In is Will Muschamp, who is set to embark on his first... 

2011 Alabama Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 28, 2011 at 2:44 pm

With last season’s 10-3 campaign, coach Nick Saban improved to 43-11 since calling Tuscaloosa home. His Tide weren’t... 

2011 LSU Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 28, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Les Miles improved to 62-17 since coming to Baton Rouge after leading LSU to an 11-2 campaign in 2010. The Tigers defeated Florida... 

2011 Auburn Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 27, 2011 at 2:53 pm

Auburn’s 2010-11 campaign was one to remember. The Tigers finished a perfect 14-0 and hoisted the BCS championship trophy... 

2011 Ohio State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 27, 2011 at 12:28 pm

Ohio State is coming off a season in which it went 12-1 overall and capped things off with a 31-26 win over Arkansas in the Sugar... 

2011 Tennessee Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 24, 2011 at 1:24 pm

Coach Derek Dooley led Tennessee to a 6-7 record in his first season in Knoxville. The Vols lost six of their first eight games... 

2011 Penn State Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm

After turning in yet another winning season, the legendary Joe Paterno improved to 401-135-3 in his 45 years at Penn State. A... 

2011 Michigan Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 23, 2011 at 11:23 am

Michigan won its first five games in the 2010 regular season before losing five of its last seven. It was enough for the Wolverines... 

2011 Sun Belt Football Predictions
Written by Jimmy Boyd on June 22, 2011 at 2:50 pm

Here are my 2011 college football predictions for the Sun Belt Conference: 1st Place: Troy Trojans – Last season, the Trojans... 

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