Michael Weinreb of Grantland.com picks LSU as National Champs

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Playoff Participants

• LSU: Because the Tigers get Bama at home, and because the SEC will most likely revert to its smashmouth roots this season, and because I’ve been consuming graminoids for fun.

• Florida State: Reverting to classic Seminole tradition, they’ll beat Oklahoma State and thrash Clemson, then lose in overtime to NC State after several players are suspended for allegedly receiving free double meat at a Chipotle.

• Oregon: Honestly, it’s not impossible to imagine Oregon losing four games, because the Pac-12 is such a fascinating gantlet of quirks and tics that it almost makes Mike Leach seem relatively normal. And yet …

• Alabama: Because if there isn’t a second SEC team in this playoff, then, like, why are we here on this planet in the first place?

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Outlandish Prediction

A commissioner whose conference is shut out of the playoff will initiate a physical altercation in public with a commissioner whose conference earns two playoff spots, resulting in injuries to several bowl executives, a mascot, and Brent Musburger. The playoff will still be considered an unqualified success, though the best bowl game of the season will be the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl, which will end on a series of laterals that makes the Cal-Stanford play seem sedate, and which will cause at least nine heart attacks within the region.

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Florida State: Reverting to classic Seminole tradition, they’ll beat Oklahoma State and thrash Clemson, then lose in overtime to NC State after several players are suspended for allegedly receiving free double meat at a Chipotle.

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but I just don't see him getting enough carries for Heisman consideration.

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