2013 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PROJECTIONS!!!

THE INDEPENDENTS (TYLER)

The lone wolfs of the College Football world, The Independents will be the subject of today's College Football Predictions.

For the longest time Notre Dame has been the face of Independence. Joined by Army and Navy and finally by BYU, New Mexico State, and Idaho makes six schools holding their fate in their own hands.

As we all know well Notre Dame went to the BCS National Championship Game where they faltered beneath the beast known as Alabama. BYU finished 8-5 after a bowl win against San Diego State. Army finished 2-10 on a disappointing season. Navy finished 8-5 even after losing in their bowl game to Arizona State. New Mexico State and Idaho both finished their WAC runs at 1-11 before jumping to independence.

Since obviously there aren't any divisions or even a conference in the Independence world my predictions are pretty singular for each school. It's pretty obvious where the strengths are, It's Notre Dame with BYU coming in second. Notre Dame has so many "rivalry" games that they play every year, their schedules don't vary a whole lot, they suffered a few setbacks with the loss of LB Manti Teo on defense and would be returning QB Everett Goldston gone. This team turns to former starting QB Tommy Rees and stud DL Louis Nix III to lead this team to another great season. BYU loses the services of DE Ziggy Ansah, LBs Brandon Ogletree and Uona Kaveinga, and CB Preston Hadley on the #3 Ranked Defense from last year but return All American LB Kyle Van Noy to what should be another solid defense under Bronco Mendenhall. Thank all that is holy QB Riley Nelson is finally gone from the program so BYU can move forward on offense with RB Jamaal Williams and WR Cody Hoffman ready to put points on the board.

Army and Navy always have interesting games they play all across the map. Navy Head Coach Ken Nuimatalolo has put together some impressive teams the last few years and should continue his trend. Army loses their QB Trent Steelman to graduation and will probably struggle this year also. New Mexico State and Idaho just do what they do. However i think New Mexico State is putting themselves in a position to win more games because they get to pick and choose which games they play more so now.

Now for my predictions.... Don't laugh

INDEPENDENTS

BYU 9-3

Notre Dame 8-4

Navy 7-5

New Mexico State 5-7

Army 4-8

Idaho 1-11

I have BYU losing games to Texas, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame. While Notre Dame drops games at Michigan and Stanford and home games against Oklahoma and Arizona State. I don't have a whole lot put into QB Tommy Rees based on his previous play, you know what your going to get from him. BYU has a lot of weapons on offense with a quarterback that actually knows how to play quarterback and a defense that will not disappoint. 

These are my predictions. What are yours?