Throwing away money.
Based on talent alone:
I'd venture to guess there are about 6 teams capable of winning the national championship
Georgia
Alabama
LSU
Ohio State
Michigan
USC
Who am I missing? I guess these teams have almost enough talent but everything would have to go right and the guys above would have to have something catastrophic happen:
Penn State - They'd have to beat both tOSU and Michigan
Texas - Can they stop anybody on defense?
A&M - Do you trust Bobby Petrino to be allowed by Jimbo to actually run a decent offense?
Clemson - Garret Riley enough to modernize their offense?
Florida St. - They have a lot of good players coming back and they play in the ACC.