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Show Predicting College Football champions: Oklahoma, Alabama, Alaba-ma, Notre Dame, Southern Cal, Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska, Penn State, Texas, etc. In recent years the crown has moved south-Georgia and Clemson were the most recent number-ones. i By PETE FRITCHIE Most of the predicting about the number-one college football foot-ball team in 1982 is over. The season will now demolish most of the hopes on the nation's campuses. INTERESTINGLY, few if any of the major prognosticates prognostica-tes picked the 1981 national . champions to finish in the first five. The feeling was that Clemson can't repeat. Nor can most undefeated teams in college ranks put together two undefeated seasons. sea-sons. Only rarely does a championship cham-pionship team repeat. This year most of the pickers are eyeing Pittsburgh, which has a big game with strong North Carolina Sept. 9, (nationally televised). BUT SO many unpredictable unpredict-able influences come into play in college football pre-season forecasts can't be taken too seriously. se-riously. Injuries to key players, play-ers, the weather, luck, sickness, sick-ness, scheduling, and many other things affect the outcome of college games. Too, college players are prone pro-ne to play wild and wooly games, and make a lot of mistakes. mis-takes. Who can say when the mistakes will come and when the great performances will come? OVER THE years a limited number of teams has produced a surprising number of national |