How sad that everyone on CB seems to wear the blue goggles and can't see reality for how it is. Fortunately, spoxjox is here to set you all straight and give you a far more realistic and nuanced view of the upcoming season. Let me temper the silly, unfounded, boundless enthusiasm so blindly promulgated by certain CBers by injecting a bit of grounded common sense into these predictions.

You are welcome.

So realistically, here's how the season is looking:

Ole Miss: The surprise of the SEC, Ole Miss will finish the season with three losses, finishing second in the SEC West and, in the view of many, the second-best team in the SEC overall and ranked just outside the top ten. All three losses will be close, the biggest coming on the first game of the season, when BYU surprises them and wins by 13. BYU: 1-0

Texas: Another surprising turnaround, Texas will win an unexpectedly weak Big 12 and end up ranked #9, with only two losses, including a rather bad loss to BYU by three touchdowns when 9/11 comes a day early to Texas. BYU: 2-0

Utah: First year in the PAC-12, and Utah will end up second only to USC in the South division, and with two losses, just barely outside of a BCS game! Number 12 ranking at the end of the season! What a great time to be a Ute! Except on September 17, when The-Team-Many-Utes-Are-Trying-To-Convince-Themselves-Aren't-Rivals crush them at LES, 35-3, with Detmer^B^B^B^B^B^BHeaps passing for over 300 yards. BYU: 3-0

UCF: BYU's "trap game" ends up being nothing of the sort. The cream of C-USA finishes the season in the Top 20, their lone loss coming to the boys in Provo, where they endure their first shutout since their final game of 2008. BYU: 4-0

Utah State: A game with "revenge" written all over it looks much closer than expected at halftime at 7-7, after the Aggies run back the game-opening kickoff for a TD while two blatant clips go uncalled. BYU can't quite get in synch in the half, managing a TD early in the second quarter but otherwise sputtering, despite Heaps' 199 yards for the half. The teams' real colors come out in the third quarter, as Heaps passes for an astounding 318 yards and puts in five more TDs. Riley Nelson takes the snaps in the fourth, at least until he racks up 117 yards, mostly on two long TD runs. Lark mops up, not being allowed to pass, so only manages 70 yards running, and BYU refuses to score in the final minutes, instead mercifully running the clock out. The defense pitches a shutout (not including the game-starting TD with the non-calls), and BYU emerges victorious, 56-7. BYU: 5-0

San Jose State: ESPN's announcers fall all over themselves fawning on BYU as they struggle mightily to find some way to make the Cougar blowout/shutout interesting to the viewers. BYU: 6-0

Oregon State: The game that the media have been building up as BYU's "big midseason test" quickly goes south for the Beavers (another surprise PAC-12 team that finishes second in the North division). Homefield advantage allows Oregon State to score, but cannot prevent the lopsided, 38-10 loss. BYU: 7-0

Idaho State: BYUtv works out its inhouse kinks during the scrimmage as BYU manages its third shutout of the season. BYU: 8-0

TCU: The game everyone has been waiting for, and TCU delivers. In a hostile "neutral" stadium, BYU weathers a late TCU charge and manages a last-minute score, pulling out a deceptively large 28-20 victory over the fourth-ranked Frogs and eventual MWC champions, who will finish the season ranked at #10. BYU: 9-0

Idaho: BYU's fourth shutout of 2011 leaves ESPN's commentators again praising the Cougars and looking for something to keep the viewers from changing channels. Heaps comes out before the middle of the third quarter after throwing for over 500 yards. BYU: 10-0

New Mexico State: A fifth shutout yawner, a second consecutive 500-yard performance by Heaps. BYU: 11-0

Hawaii: Going to the islands after a bye, everyone wonders: Will BYU be rusty? Or overlooking the game? Or something else that makes them suck? Sorry, h8rz. In a stunning victory over the eleventh-ranked and previously undefeated WAC champions, BYU pitches its sixth shutout in twelve games in destroying the Warriors, who still end the season ranked in the Top 25 and win their Hawaii Bowl game. BYU: 12-0

NC game: The boys in blue travel to Louisiana to face 'Bama, who enjoy a virtual home game. The Crimson Tide lead at half, 20-7, but Heaps comes alive in the third with four touchdowns in a performance reminiscent of the Utah State game, and BYU cruises to a win and its second national championship over the favored team from Alabama, 45-27.

See that? No blue goggles at all. Just good, solid prognostication.