You know what time of year it is, the time when everyone makes their pre-season predictions! I always find the preseason predictions amusing primarily because there is almost no accountability for making wrong predictions. But we’re about to change that at Subway Domer with the first ever Great Karnak Trophy. So let’s hop in the way-back internet machine and time travel to August 2011. It was a time filled with hope… before the dark times… before South Florida.
Here is what the collective Irish Blogger Cognoscenti thought before the 2011 season began:
|
Blogger |
Record |
Bowl |
Final Rank |
Champ |
Heisman |
| Subway | 12-1 | BCS Title Game | 4 | Oklahoma | Theo Riddick |
| Blog Davie | 10-3 | Fiesta | 13 | Alabama | Trent Richardson |
| Keith | NA | Rose | NA | NA | Andrew Luck |
| Frank | 10-3 | Sugar | 10 | Alabama | LaMichael James |
| NDTex | 12-1 | Fiesta | 4 | Alabama | Andrew Luck |
| One Foot Down | 13-0 | BCS Title Game | 1 | Notre Dame | NA |
| Irish Round Table | 10-2 | Orange | 8 | Oklahoma | Kellen Moore |
| We Never Graduate | 12-1 | Fiesta | 4 | Alabama | Landry Jones |
| Let’s Go Irish | 11-2 | Sugar | 11 | Alabama | Andrew Luck |
| Domer Law | 13-0 | BCS Title Game | 1 | Notre Dame | Michael Floyd |
| Matt Quirion* | 10-3 | Sugar | 12 | Oklahoma | Andrew Luck |
| REALITY | 8-5 | Champs Sports Bowl | not ranked | Alabama | Robert Griffin III |
So what do we learn, other than we’re all a bunch of unabashed ND homers?
1) A blog-year for a blog is much longer than a dog year for a dog, probably 1 year of blogging is analogous to something like 12-15 years in real life, making Subway Domer a cranky 70-year old man.
2) The Heisman can come out of nowhere, I mean, Waco.
3) Alabama <gag> was pretty good last season and not just on paper.
4) Other teams that look good on paper (Oklahoma) will often turn out to be made of paper.
5) Even with extremely rose-tinted glasses, even our biggest blogging bears couldn’t have foreseen the disaster that was the beginning of the 2011 season.
6) If we all keep predicting a breakout year for Theo Riddick it has to happen eventually, right?
And 7) that eternal pessimist, Blog Davie, is the first Great Karnak champ scoring closest on final record, final ranking (obviously correlated) and picking the National Champ, edging out Frank from UHND by going with a lower final ranking. Congrats, Blog.
Thankfully in football, as in life, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
13-0, Baby!!!
*UPDATED 12:28 Central. Formerly DomerMQ of Her Loyal Sons. @mquirion now tweets on technology, current events, and occassionaly college football.
