Tim Brando: Louisville #1, Ohio State #2, aTm #3, Georgia #5.......Bama #7

video:



http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...m-brandos-top-10-for-college-football-in-2013

On the CBS Sports College Football Preview show on Sunday he released his top ten with the Louisville Cardinal ranked No. 1. Later on during the show, when the analysts were giving their BCS National Champion predictions, Brando once again went with the Cards. “I like Louisville ascending as the season goes forward against Ohio State,” he says. “Everybody has two losses everywhere else and the Cards do in the BCS one last time.”

note the "MISSING: LSU" highlighted in yellow at the bottom. Brando's daughter, Tiffany (an LSU grad), says on her twitter profile that she is an "LSU girl through & through!" ... and she responded to her dad by tweeting:
"Less than thrilled w/Dad's predictions for season's end, oh well. #geauxtigers"
Tim Brando is from Shreveport and is a UL-Monroe grad. From 1981 to 1986, Brando was WAFB-TV Baton Rouge's assistant sports director and did telecasts of LSU basketball as well as women's basketball

 

I like dis heya

 

views of the other CBS analysts:

Gary Danielson (a former QB for Purdue) predicted Bama over Clemson in the National Title Game

Spencer Tillman (a former All-American RB for Oklahoma) predicted Texas A&M over Ohio State in the National Title Game

 

this, of course, would give Bama a 3-peat (2011, 2012, 2013), and 4 of the last 5 (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)

 

this would give Texas A&M their first claimed National Championship since 1939.....74 years ago

 

this would be Louisville's first National Championship in football in history (they've won three national titles in basketball)

 

WTF are these guys smoking thinking A&M finishes in the Top 5, much less an NC?

 

for Clemson to get to the National Title Game, they'll have to navigate this schedule:

GEORGIA (at Clemson)
SC STATE (at Clemson)
@NC State
WAKE FOREST (at Clemson)
@Syracuse
BOSTON COLLEGE (at Clemson)
FLORIDA STATE (at Clemson)
@ Maryland
@ Virginia
GEORGIA TECH (at Clemson)
CITADEL (at Clemson)
@ South Carolina
ACC Championship Game (Charlotte, NC)


QB Tahj Boyd last year:
--#5 in NCAA with 165.58 QB rating
--#5 in NCAA with 36 passing TDs
--#6 in NCAA with 9.1 ypa
--#10 in the NCAA with 3,896 yards passing (287 of 427 for a 67.2 completion pct)
--added 514 yards rushing and 10 rushing TDs

vs LSU:
--22 yards rushing, 1 rushing TD
--36 of 50 (72.0%), 346 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT

 

His annual Boise State pick must have stopped getting the response he craves. No fly in the ointment?

 

Just more incentive for the Tigers!