Every Power 5 conference has concluded their media days events from around the country, which means the media covering all five of the leagues have cast their predictions that are sure to be proven wrong once revisited in around six months.
As is the case in the SEC, the media has failed to correctly identify the champion of the league even 25 percent of the time since the league went to the present division format back in 1992.
No matter how woeful some of these predictions may prove to be by the time the fall rolls around, we present to you how each conference’s media forecast the upcoming college football season:
SEC Champion
- Alabama
SEC East
- Georgia
- South Carolina
- Florida
- Missouri
- Kentucky
- Tennessee
- Vanderbilt
SEC West
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- Alabama
- Auburn
- Mississippi State
- Texas A&M
- LSU
- Â Ole Miss
- Arkansas
ACC Champion
- Clemson
Atlantic Division
- Clemson
- Florida State
- NC State
- Boston College
- Louisville
- Wake Forest
- Syracuse
Coastal Division
- Miami
- Virginia Tech
- Georgia Tech
- Duke
- Pitt
- North Carolina
- Virginia
Big Ten Champion
- Ohio State
Big Ten East
- Ohio State
- Michigan State
- Penn State
- Michigan
- Maryland
- Indiana
- Rutgers
Big Ten West
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
- Northwestern
- Nebraska
- Purdue
- Minnesota
- Illinois
Big 12 Champion
- Oklahoma
Big 12 order
1. Oklahoma
2. West Virginia
3. TCU
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma State
6. Kansas State
7. Iowa State
8. Texas Tech
9. Baylor
10. Kansas
Pac-12 Champion
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- Washington
Pac-12 North
- Washington
- Stanford
- Oregon
- California
- Washington State
- Oregon State
Pac-12 South
- USC
- Utah
- Arizona
- UCLA
- Colorado
- Arizona State
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
