Who’s next for championship?

A championship season is the result of talent, skill, preparation, dedication and a bit of luck. Even the best teams have seen championship hopes derailed when the wrong player suffered an injury at the wrong time. And some teams, perhaps not the most talented, had players who made the right moves at the right times in the right games.

PAUL WOODY

Georgia Tech in ACC, Eagles in NFL will be champions

This is not what anyone in Boston, Tallahassee, Fla., Chapel Hill, N.C., Miami and especially Blacksburg wants to hear. Georgia Tech will win the 2009 ACC championship. And with the right combination of victories, luck and computer rankings, the Yellow Jackets are a darkhorse team to play in the BCS title game against . . . well, we'll get to that in a minute. This is not what anyone in Washington, Dallas, New England or Tennessee wants to hear, but the Philadelphia Eagles will win the Super Bowl, defeating . . . we'll get to that in a moment.