Hope in College Football: The Top 25 Edition

As of right now, college football has not started yet, and therefore we are in the waning moments of a hope-filled season.  It is the time of year when everyone's team is undefeated, and they all have a chance.  Some of those hopes and dreams are unrealistic, but we have them nonetheless.

So before most of our dreams are destroyed by reality, let's take a little time out to hope.  Like Andy Dufresne said, "Hope is a good thing—maybe the best of things."

I have listed 25 things I hope for this upcoming season.  It is loosely based on the top 25 rankings.  If I don't mention your team, don't hate because I said LOOSELY.

As many of you know, I am a huge Longhorn fan, but in the interest of solidarity or unbiased...ness (?) or something, I'll try to keep that out of the top 25.

However, you know I can't write an article and not talk some Longhorn football, so soon to follow this article will be another about the top 10 things I hope for the Longhorns this season.

Enjoy.

1. I hope UGA does not make the BCS title game.  I never really liked the Dawgs, and now that I live here in Atlanta, I like them even less.  Now I know a lot of grads and I'm actually dating one, so it's not a personal thing—I just don't like them.  It's my list!  Feel free to comment or come back with your own.

2. I hope that somehow the Buckeyes redeem themselves without winning the National Championship.  They have enough of them and are super cocky, but man they have a received a lot of crap from everyone.

3. I hope that Mark Sanchez is the real deal (he seems like a really good kid), but that USC loses to Stanford AGAIN!  Wouldn't that be so fun, and such a head scratcher?  Maybe a loss to UCLA would be cool too.

4. I hope that the Chokelahoma Sooners lose every single game they participate in.  I hope they somehow lose practices too!  I hope that Sam Bradford rebounds with THE WORST QB efficiency rating ever.

I hope that the entire Oklahoma Sooner athletic department is involved in a scandal of epic proportions that involves cheating (naturally), gambling, inbreeding, and beastiality.  The NCAA would be forced to hand out the death penalty, but due to its hypocritical nature could not enforce it for very long.  However, all sports teams would be dismantled and the athletic director sent to prison.

In an extremely ironic turn of events, Oklahoma would turn to the last football player to not actually be convicted of a crime while wearing an OU uniform.  That's right—Josh Jarboe will become the new AD.  He would then establish "Lollipop" by Lil' Wayne as the new fight song and hire his posse as "consultants."

The chants of 80,000 rednecks singing about licking a (w)rapper would fill the air in Norman, Oklahoma on every Saturday afternoon in the fall.  A boy can dream, can't he?

5.  I hope Florida

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