Predicting any football contest prior to the actual start of the game is in many ways a leap of faith. Faith that your team will either continue to perform as it has or rise to the occasion that it is faced with. Faith that your coaching staffs will correctly game plan for what their team can do or even sometimes faith that a miracle play or circumstance will enable your team to come out of the encounter with a win despite the odds against such an outcome.
For fans of the program, it’s often hard to step back and compare two teams objectively and determine accurately what is going to happen.