Holy crap, you people need to stop getting so up in arms about all of this... the TC was proposing this hypothetically, just to talk about in good fun. It seems like some of you are just reacting so violently to someone (very indirectly) suggesting that, get this, the judges are, in fact, human beings and therefore neve quite objective. Heck, he wasn't even saying that much, really...
But I'll bite and contribute. I think, market wise, HNC in first and CC in second would be the best combination. Crown winning would be a little too far-fetched to swallow just yet, and so even the people that want it would feel a little weird about it. Cadets, however, were everyone's pre-season choice, and the whole no-narration thing this year would be successful in the New Coke/Classic Coke type of way. That being said, Crown in second would be plausible, I think.
I agree with the Troopers thing, though.