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Bloguin Top 50: No. 34 — Nebraska

Nebraska Cornhuskers 2014 Record: 9-3 overall, 5-3 Big 10 West, Lost Holiday Bowl 1 Will Mike Riley really be able to take Nebraska to higher heights than Bo Pelini … and if not, how will the program take it? If there was a surprising firing last offseason, it was Bo Pelini, who went 67-27 in […]

5 MAC storylines for 2015

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect 5. Lance Leipold, Buffalo, and worlds colliding. In the 118th episode of Seinfeld, we learn about The Worlds Theory, when George Costanza’s life with his fiance, Susan, intersects with George Costanza’s life away from her when Elaine wants to start chumming around with Susan. George isn’t happy for a period […]

5 Mountain West storylines for 2015

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect 5. Where will the annual surprising Mountain West teams be hiding this season? Last year, Air Force came out of nowhere with a 10 win campaign only a season after bottom feeding through a winless conference season. Going from 2-10 in one season to 10-3 was one of the better […]

Bloguin Top 50: No. 46 — Minnesota

Minnesota Golden Gophers 2014 Record: 8-5 Overall, 5-3 Big Ten (lost bowl game) 1 Burning Question: Does Minnesota realistically have the best chance to win the Big Ten West? Minnesota has improved in record (either overall, in conference, or both) every year since Jerry Kill was hired. However, Minnesota has been sort of stuck in […]

Top 10 College Football coaches who have not won a conference championship

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect If you really get to thinking about it, there’s very little logic in fabled kids’ fairy tales. Take, for instance, Little Red Riding Hood. While yeah, it’s an all-time classic, there’s never any thought process about the absurd decision making throughout it. Never has a story been written with such […]

Mark Hudspeth is your favorite underground band. For now.

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect This article won’t get many reads, but that’s fine. I probably should have titled it, “HERE’S HOW OHIO STATE COULD LOSE 5 GAMES IN 2015 AT FOOTBALL” to get extra clicks, but when they found out it was about a Sun Belt team, all bets are off. That’s how a […]

UAB is back, but where was this a year ago?

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Regarding things of great importance, the smart play is and always has been to take a step back before reacting. In the case of #FreeUAB, 48-72 hours might not do it full justice. Yeah, UAB football is back, and the end game is something I think most everyone wanted to see, […]

College football, ESPN, announce idiotic playoff schedule for 2015

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect What are you normally doing around 4 p.m. on a Thursday? Working? Sounds about right. College football doesn’t really care for your work ethic. ESPN (who is not at fault this time, as they tried to fight arrogant college football’s playoff plans as best they could) announced the times for […]

Propaganda season in college football begins with SEC Spring Meetings

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Propaganda season in college football, some will say, never really ends. Sports fan delusional season never seems to take days off, either. When Ohio State won the College Football Playoff (CFP) Championship (remember, kids, don’t call it a National Championship unless people aren’t voting on it. There’s nothing “national” about […]

Satellite camp battle a fruitless fight for SEC, but worth the try

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Overheard on no construction site while roofing a house ever in the history of man: “Hey, could you hand me that hammer. I gotta pop in these 40 bundles of shingles.” “I just put the nail gun by you. It’s all hooked up and ready to go.” “No, I prefer […]

Everett Golson to FSU is nothing to sneeze at

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Sometimes, things just fit into place. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sneeze as I typed the headline to this. At any rate, Florida State finds itself in an enviable position., The Everett Golson Irish Flight Tour 2015 made its final stop in Tallahassee and decided that was […]

Tom Crean draws a line in the sand with dismissals of Davis, Mosquera-Perea

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford Every attitude or action has a shelf life. I’m not sure anyone will understand this reference, but remember the band Blink 182. In the early to mid 90’s, Blink toiled mostly in the underground west […]

Jim Harbaugh’s new quarterback camp may be the wave of the future

Follow us on Twitter @TheStudentSect Ann Arbor’s Aerial Assault (A4 from here on out) sounds more like a vengeful female superhero video game than anything football related, but it might end up being the wave of the future in college recruiting if you have the opportunity to put something like that together. Consider it the modern […]

Jim Delany’s Freshman Ineligibility Manifesto Fails to Target the Real Point

Follow us on Twitter @TheStudentSect In 2007, the unemployment rate for college graduates was 5.5 percent; as of 2014, it’s 8.5 percent (Economic Policy Institute). As of 2013, the Center for College Affordability and Productivity reported that nearly half of college graduates were working jobs that require less than a four-year education. The CCAP also […]

Johnathan Taylor, Alabama, and the Danger of the “Hot Take”

Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Former Georgia and then Alabama football player Johnathan Taylor, all 6’4″ of him, recently appeared in court regarding charges of domestic violence and criminal mischief. That, in and of itself is where a horrific story should end. But it doesn’t. Taylor was arrested just over a week ago when his […]

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