We are just starting on March Madness, baseball has just begun, yet my ache for football is just beginning. Spring ball and recruiting are not my cup of tea, and the BCS political machine moves in small steps and results issued after a handful of meetings.

I don't have time to do 120 detailed previews for each team. That would involve actually assessing the incoming talent and loses to the NFL. I really don't think that predictions I have seen in the past based on these factors have produced successful results.

The plain fact is that the same teams that are good are good every year. The bad teams rarely change. Teams sometimes jump out of their place, only to fall back inline the next year. The BCS uses a four year window to evaluate conferences based on:

• The highest ranked team in the BCS standings
• The computer average of all conference members
• The number of teams in the top 25 in the final BCS standings

These are weighted here (in a proprietary manner) to represent the value a team would add to a conference near a BCS critical average of 0.5000 by my modeling of this data.

Think of this as an appraisal of the resent success more than a preview. A simple tease of football fluff to kill some downtime.

First up, the #120 North Texas Eagles Mean Green.

Head Coach: Todd Dodge (Third Year)
Offensive Coordinator: Mike Canalees (First Year)
Defensive Coordinator: Gary Deloach (Third Year)

 Schedule:

Long Forgotten are the four straight bowl appearances from 2001-2004. Somehow a win over Cincinnati was not enought to imprint them in our memory.

The good news is that there is nowhere to move but up, with a schedule where even slight improvements should allow for a few wins and a move away from the bottom of the pack. Another 2-10 record is not out of the question, but 5-7 could be within reach.