0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/28/2015
Thursday night in the ironically-named Valley of the Sun, Oregon and Arizona State will play a game which starts at roughly 10:35 p.m. Eastern time. This is, of course, the time slot for #Pac12AfterDark, a hashtag meant to capture the wackiness of the league which plays when much of America goes to sleep… especially on […]
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The city is Pittsburgh, but the program is affectionately known as Pitt — to the point that “Script Pitt” on Dan Marino’s helmet became a cherished college football look. (Why it had to be abandoned is beyond me. I digress…) Thursday night, the Steel City hosts both a game and a visiting team which bring […]
Gophers head coach Jerry Kill speaks with the media after the team’s practice in Minneapolis on Wednesday, December 18, 2013. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers have endured a difficult 2015 season, and that journey became a lot more painful on Wednesday morning. Head coach Jerry Kill had to retire from coaching due to the health problems he has faced for years. Kill becomes the third coach to retire from coaching during this season, joining Steve Spurrier […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/27/2015
Mountains are meant to cast shadows over a landscape, but this season, the Mountain West is standing in the shadows, all while the American Athletic Conference becomes the best Group of Five league by a country mile. It’s an unwelcome turn of events in the Rocky Mountains and areas beyond. The league which once had […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/26/2015
The Tennessee Volunteers are not going to play for a division or conference title in 2015. They won’t play in a high-end bowl game. Their remaining schedule, in fact, guarantees decreased publicity and diminished centrality as far as the national press corps is concerned. The sexiest television attractions on the slate have come and gone, […]
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With the news that Seth Russell is out for the rest of the season as Baylor’s starting quarterback, we are reminded that the Big 12 schedule is the biggest reason the conference title is entirely up for grabs, with four schools having a legitimate claim to the throne and three of them being unbeaten entering […]
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Kyle Whittingham should not be USC’s next head football coach. The reason is simple, and no, it’s not that Whittingham’s Utah Utes were smoked by the Trojans and interim coach Clay Helton on Saturday night. Wait — is this a trick question, then? How can it not be anything other than USC’s 42-24 drubbing of […]
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George O’Leary won’t be treated the way Steve Spurrier was for abruptly retiring in the middle of a football season. He shouldn’t be, either… but not for the reason(s) you might think. O’Leary’s retirement shouldn’t be met with the First Take-style debate, “Did he quit on his team or not?” His retirement should be met with […]
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Regardless of what is or isn’t said in public, it is very hard to deny the idea that the Miami Hurricanes reacted to the UCF Knights on Sunday afternoon. Sure, Miami faced its own upwelling of internal pressure to fire Al Golden, but when George O’Leary abruptly retired as UCF’s coach on Sunday, it became […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/25/2015
We are all meant for certain roles in life. This doesn’t, however, mean we all get to play them. * Each of us has a talent, a gift, something we do better than anything else (and which has a noble or at least productive aim, not a harmful one). Ideally, that gift falls in line […]
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Saturday night in Atlanta, the Florida State Seminoles became the victims of a play called the “Block Six,” the cousin of Auburn’s “Kick Six” against Alabama two years earlier. The plays are eerily similar in more ways than one. Not only did each sequence of events involve a long run — at least three-fourths of […]
BLACKSBURG, VA – OCTOBER 24: Quarterback Thomas Sirk #1 of the Duke Blue Devils throws a pass against the Virginia Tech Hokies in the first half at Lane Stadium on October 24, 2015 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Duke defeated Virginia Tech 45-43 in quadruple overtime. (Photo by Michael Shroyer/Getty Images)
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/24/2015
The Duke Blue Devils are trying to win the ACC Coastal for the second time in three years. That they’re not going for a three-peat is a source of frustration, but all they can do at this point is shrug their shoulders and say, “Hey — two outta three ain’t bad.” It’s not… if the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/23/2015
Week seven created one of the great all-time box scores in college football history. What else did it create? Find out below: * The games we surveyed from week seven: Missouri-Georgia Boise State-Utah State UCLA-Stanford Auburn-Kentucky Cincinnati-BYU Virginia Tech-Miami Pittsburgh-Georgia Tech Rutgers-Indiana USC-Notre Dame Oregon-Washington West Virginia-Baylor Iowa-Northwestern Ole Miss-Memphis Florida-LSU Michigan State-Michigan Arizona State-Utah […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/22/2015
With a not-very-sexy slate in week eight of the college football season, should anything be different from a programming standpoint, relative to previous weeks? Let’s examine that question. * The noon window is anchored by the Clemson-Miami game, one Al Golden almost surely has to win in order to have any reasonable hope of saving […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/21/2015
While the Florida State Seminoles and the Clemson Tigers will fight for a College Football Playoff spot and a New Year’s Six bowl in the coming weeks, the Miami Hurricanes and Duke Blue Devils figure to author the larger story of the ACC in 2015. You’re familiar by now with the notion of a “season […]
