Alabama Favored to Win Allstate BCS National Championship

ESPN and its platforms will have full coverage of all five of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) matchups for the second straight year, and in anticipation of the upcoming games ESPN analysts took a crack at predicting the winners.

ESPN analysts’ selections are as followed:

• No. 5 Oregon was the favorite as the winner of the Rose Bowl Game Presented by VIZIO – netting 80 percent of the votes, while 20 percent selected No. 10 Wisconsin
• No. 15 Clemson also earned 80 percent of the selections to be victorious over No. 23 West Virginia (20 percent) in the Discover Orange Bowl
• No. 13 Michigan claimed 78.6 percent of the analysts picks over No. 11 Virginia Tech (21.4 percent) for the Allstate Sugar Bowl
• No. 3 Oklahoma State was chosen as the winner of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl – grabbing 66.7 percent of the votes, while 33.3 percent picked No. 4 Stanford
• The Allstate BCS National Championship featuring an anticipated rematch of No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama saw 66.7 percent of the analysts selecting Alabama, while 33.3 chose LSU

All five BCS games can been found on ESPN, ESPN3 and ESPN Radio, while the Allstate National Championship will also air on ESPN 3D and ESPN Deportes.

2011 ESPN Analysts College Football BCS Picks

ESPN analysts did not pick games they are calling

The 2012 BCS on ESPN: BCS Survival Guide; BCS Across ESPN Platforms; ESPN Studio Presence at BCS; Bowls by the Numbers 

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