As the new college football season has already started with the California Golden Bears playing against the Hawaii Warriors in Sydney Australia and a slew of mega games taking place this Labor Day weekend, I have five predictions for the upcoming season. At the end of the year we will see how right I was.

1.The Texas Longhorns will take a leap.

I have been a huge Charlie Strong fan, since his days as a defensive coordinator at Notre Dame and Florida. He is a no-nonsense coach whose teams play stifling defense and give all out effort. I would’ve liked Arkansas to hire him. Now he's stuck suggling at Texas because of the errors in the final years of the Mack Brown era. However, Strong finally has a team that has his identity and it will show this year. The Longhorns will get 8+ wins and win a bowl game, and they will ultimately challenge for the playoff in three years.

2.Tennessee will prove to be over hyped.

It pains me to say this, as my parents are from Tennessee and my mother even went to the University, but they are very overrated. Last year they were super talented and should’ve won the SEC East effortlessly. Last year they had Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other teams on the ropes but couldn’t finish. Even with senior quarterback Joshua Dobbs, great running backs and receivers, and a great defense lineup, this team is not the ninth best team in the country. It will lose to both Florida and Georgia, which will kill their slim SEC and playoff hopes.

3. Michigan St. and UCLA will continue their recent upward trend.

Two of the best teams from last year are now being overlooked in their conferences because of some of the changes and improvements made by other teams. While I will not pick them to win their conference because there are more talented teams, I will say they will win 9+ games and will be in major bowl games.

4. Dalvin Cook from Florida St. will win the Heisman award.

Dalvin Cook, in a year of superhuman running backs, was hampered by a hamstring injury all season while miraculously still puttimg up 1691 yards and 19 touchdowns. This year, even though there are some problems with the FSU QB situation, I believe that he will win the Heisman despite his team losing to Clemson and them losing their bowl game. He is such a "home run hitter" when it comes to running the football. Look for Cook to break all sorts of records at FSU and come on top with the Heisman Trophy. Top-five finishers will be Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey-second, LSU’s Leonard Fournette-third, Clemson’s Deshaun Watson-fourth, and UCLA’s Josh Rosen-fifth place

5. Clemson will win the College Football Playoff, with Alabama, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame.

It will be a rematch of the title game. Alabama will beat Oklahoma, and Clemson will beat Notre Dame. The toughest omissions are Stanford and Michigan who will win the Pac-12 and Big Ten respectively, but because Notre Dame will have beat Stanford and Michigan’s loss to Michigan State and Iowa, this will put them out of the College Football Playoff... with Jim Harbaugh losing his mind in the process.