my responce to it

Nice to see you are drinking the ESPN kool aid and enjoying it. But here is where I see how things stack up.

Notre Dame- They do have potential, with Darias walker as a decent running back Quinn as a Qb and their offense rearing to go they have a shot.  Weak Schedule, not so fast.  They Play Georgia State there. Not a grade a class team but definitely dangerous. Penn State has the Defense that can bite Notre Dame in the A hole. Michigan I believe is going to be better this year. More on them later. Then of course USC. At the Coliseum. WOW. And ND has a D that showed last year that if you have some fast people( I.E OSU) they can get burned for, oh lets just say 670 yards.Also taking USC to the final seconds is true, but hey Fresno took them all the way too and I am not chalking them up as NCAA champs for next year either

Ohio State- They to me are like USC last year. All offense no defense. When you replace the caliber of defense they had, 9 of the 11 starters. Yea their D is going to drop off. You cant replace Capt Cavemen and company and think that you will stop everyone. Everyone contends that the back-ups have valuable playing time. In fact, some played entire games during injuries.
When Carpenter was absent from the line up from injuries two LBs subbed. In three games (Mich, ND and one other) they managed to come up with 1 tackle between them and zero in the Fiesta Bowl. Keep in mind, these two are the returning blue chip LBs filling the shoes of Hawk and Carpenter.
All but one DL is being replaced, but the guy returning is a bad mofo. Another DL started the end of the season. The others didn't really play.
The DBs have 3 converted WRs that played 11 games averaging just under 1 tackle a game. The other safety spot has never played and is also a converted WR.
In 2004 when they had this type of inexperience their defense was 30th total and 35th in run defense, even w/ Hawk and co. They gave up over 400 yards a game and almost over 500 to Northwestern and Iowa. Also I think that their luck is up against Michigan this year!!!

Texas does have a huge question mark at QB. But honestly with what we have returning, this year they don't have to win it as much as just don't fucking lose it. Our running backs are Charles, ( heisman candy in a year or two mark it down) Sevin and Hank the Tank. Our defense is honestly going to be better than last year. Two words Gene Chizik, Sergio Kindle< ( iknow more than 2 ha ha)

USC- great team great talent and great recruiting. ???s are, does John David Booty( serial Killer??) still has back spasms that make a epileptic seem calm? Their running backs this year need to step up. Thankfully they have Dewayne Jarret and enough LBs to stock the Pac-10.

Oklahoma the Great white Hype- Rhett Bomar is bullshit my personal opinion, AP is awesome. But lets go over these facts.
2004- with a better QB(jason white)with a healthy AP  against Texas  12 points ( yea that still burns my ass. ) agaisnt USC 17 points
2005- Healthy AP  lost to TCU and 17 agaisnt oregon With AP at 50% 12 points against texas. Their O line is starting over and I really think that they will feel it( or least Bomar when he peels his ass off the turf)