Farewell 2011, hello 2012.

Now that the college football season is over with, we can look forward to pundits filling up airtime on ESPN with bold predictions for the next season.

Many claim to know who will win the national championship, who will win each conference—even sometimes the range a team will finish in.

This is not one of those articles.

It rather is one that identifies teams who lacked the exposure in 2011 who will come out and compete at the elite level in 2012. I have to put this disclaimer out there.

Now let's get started.

Begin Slideshow