Who do you feel will win the national championship, barring injuries or some other event?
—Cordie Turbeville

Is this guy serious? What in screw did I spend six weeks and $1,500 in anger management therapy drafting preseason rankings for? To reiterate: I think Miami will win the national championship, barring the rapid propagation of idiot plague that has evidently seized our friend Cordie.

Excepting the six-point loss they suffered against Virginia Tech, the 'Canes' losses of last year—to teams like Clemson and North Carolina—will not be repeated this year. That leaves just Blacksburg and Tallahassee between Miami and Pasadena, and Florida State is as likely to snap its six-game losing streak against UM as one of its defensive backs is to convince an undercover police officer to snap his carrot. That makes the Hurricanes' Nov. 5 date at Tech the ACC Coastal Division's de facto championship game. Sure, they're breaking in a young new quarterback, but so are the Hokies—and Miami's didn't take a year off from football to rehab an addiction to high school sophomores.