I've been thinking about this for a while, so I'll put it here since there's several days before the NCG. Who has a shot to make the Championship next year? I'd say that two things are almost a given. One, it's going to be someone from a major conference(I know, I'm a madman), and the other is that it will be someone who has a QB that isn't in his first year. With the exception of Leinart in the midst of the USC dynasty, I can't come up with any QB in the title game who was in their first year as a starter. So with that criteria in mind, who's left that could make it? ACC- Wake Forest, Florida State, NC State, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Miami, Duke Big 12- Mizzou, Kansas State, Kansas, Iowa State, Colorado, Texas, aTm, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State Big East- Louisville*, Rutgers, West Virginia, South Florida, Cincy, UConn Big 10- Michigan, Penn State, Purdue, Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois Pac 10- USC, Cal, UCLA, Oregon, Arizona, Arizona State SEC- Tennessee*, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vandy, Auburn, LSU*, Alabama, Mississippi State * indicates a Junior QB who has a chance to enter the draft So there's 43 teams. It's not difficult to trim 10-15 teams off that list to get a core of about 30 either.