0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/22/2015
Mike Gundy has done amazing work in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Nothing which happened Saturday night was going to change that fact. Nothing which happens for the rest of this season can change that fact. Oklahoma State — not Oklahoma, not Nebraska, not Texas, not a blue-chip program — should have played for the 2011 national title. […]
0 comments by TSS Locker on 11/21/2015
Presented without commentary, here are some of Ezekiel Elliott’s postgame remarks in a question-and-answer format after the Ohio State Buckeyes lost to the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday:
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You don’t give Ron Cherry the business, Virginia Tech. He gives it to you, especially when you act up against North Carolina on Saturday afternoon:
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/19/2015
The Boise State Broncos have not enjoyed their 2015 season, given its spectacular implosions against Utah State and now New Mexico. Yet, Bryan Harsin’s team has certainly given football the most remarkable box scores of the season, box scores which legitimately rate as some of the most unique numerical collections in the sport’s history. Here […]
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The ideal college football schedule is just that: an ideal, far off in the distance. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, UGH! It’s that kind of a college football schedule this Saturday, a real gut-punch for fans of the sport on a national level. Let me tell you a little bit about myself, just so […]
STILLWATER, OK – DECEMBER 7: Quarterback Blake Bell #10 of the Oklahoma Sooners walks off the field after the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys December 7, 2013 at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 33-24. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
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Last Saturday, the Oklahoma State Cowboys avoided a repeat of history, specifically from the 2011 season. They escaped Ames, Iowa, with a win against Iowa State, something they couldn’t do four years ago. This Saturday, Oklahoma State steps into another time machine. Again, the Cowboys don’t have to travel very far into the past — […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/18/2015
This is getting to be a thing, to use the peculiar phrase. For two straight seasons, the South Carolina Gamecocks have misled the nation by providing an aberrational season-opening result, followed by a result against Georgia which did not fit with the rest of the SEC season. South Carolina offers lasting proof that September is […]
Sep 26, 2015; Durham, NC, USA; Duke Blue Devils running back Shaquille Powell (28) breaks away from the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defense and heads to the end zone for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of their game at Wallace Wade Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark Dolejs-USA TODAY Sports
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We’re nearing the end of the college football regular season. Accordingly, we’re in a much better position to evaluate teams. More precisely, we’re in a better position to not merely figure out where things went right or wrong, but why teams followed a given path. Two of the foremost examples from the Atlantic Coast Conference […]
Gary Pinkel has coached the best short-field team in the SEC over the past two seasons. Missouri has squeezed more production out of this one stat than any other SEC team since the start of the 2012 campaign.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/16/2015
There’s still so much to process and absorb about Gary Pinkel’s retirement at the University of Missouri… and no, we’re not even talking about the off-field stuff from a rather remarkable week in Columbia. The larger drama enfolding the program last week was quite compelling, regardless of personal views. For some, that series of events […]
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“It’s not a spaceship. It’s a time machine.” Don Draper’s description of “The Carousel” (not the wheel) in the Mad Men season one finale is not just the heart of one of the great moments and speeches in the history of television. It is an accurate depiction of how the college football coaching carousel will enable […]
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It’s deja vu at Oklahoma, in a beautiful and redemptive way. * It has been a recurring theme for most of the past five years: A number of college football’s more entrenched and credentialed coaches were running up against the reality that their programs were getting stale, or at the very least, losing the momentum […]
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The Student Section convenes the first part of a college basketball media roundtable, with help from our partners at Awful Announcing. The second installment of this roundtable will be published Tuesday at AA.
AMES, IA – NOVEMBER 14: Quarterback Mason Rudolph #2 of the Oklahoma State Cowboys breaks away from linebacker Willie Harvey #16 of the Iowa State Cyclones as he scrambles for yards in the first half of play at Jack Trice Stadium on November 14, 2015 in Ames, Iowa. (Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Mason Rudolph; Willie Harvey
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/14/2015
We’re two weeks past Halloween, but on Saturday evening in Ames, Iowa, the Oklahoma State Cowboys had to confront some ghosts. On a mid-November night in 2011, Mike Gundy’s team stood tantalizingly close to a spot in the BCS National Championship Game. The Cowboys could taste it, knowing that with just a few more wins […]
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The first day of the college basketball season featured many buckets… including the buckets of very cold water which drenched a number of ambushed programs. It’s always a part of early-season college basketball: New faces and new lineups in a sport played by only five human beings at a time will create November instability. That’s […]
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The word “extraordinary” can be used casually, to the point that the word loses its heft and its force. The past week for Missouri football was truly extraordinary… and it’s not even over. A chaotic and bewildering week ends for Missouri with the Tigers’ game against BYU on Saturday night in Arrowhead Stadium. The dramatic events […]
