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Stability And Change: Rating The 5 New Coordinators For Established Head Coaches

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Over the past several weeks, we’ve seen some brand-name programs and their established head coaches fill vacancies at the coordinator positions, either offense or defense. This discussion does not concern new coordinators under new head coaches or new coaching staffs. This is a focus on programs with firmly-placed head coaches needing to adjust their staffs […]

The 5 College Football Coaches Facing The Most Pressure In 2015

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In looking back at the 2014 season, several coaches looked down the barrel of Old Demon Pressure and produced some of their best work. Paul Johnson, Kyle Flood, Bret Bielema, Mark Helfrich, Gary Patterson are primary examples of coaches who had a lot to prove to their critics last season, and promptly answered the bell. […]

Paul Johnson has done so much this season at Georgia Tech, and yet, things being what they are, a loss to an SEC West team would allow the Yellow Jackets to unfairly be seen as “not ready for prime time” or something to that effect. The rewards of victory are real for the Jackets; so are the costs of defeat. This is why the Orange Bowl is so compelling.

The 10 Best Coaching Performances From The 2014 College Football Season

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The season’s over. There’s not much of a need for a prelude here. Just what were the 10 best coaching performances in the sport over the past four and a half months? The envelope, please: 10 – P.J. FLECK, WESTERN MICHIGAN The Broncos definitely “rowed the boat” for their young and excitable coach. Much as […]

during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at AT&T Stadium on January 12, 2015 in Arlington, Texas.

Ohio State Flattens Oregon On The Urban Highway, Completing A Circle First Drawn In 2007

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On January 8, 2007, Urban Meyer ushered in the Southeastern Conference’s reign over the rest of college football. The Ohio State Buckeyes absorbed a defeat that shook up the Big Ten for the next several years. Eight years later, Meyer presided over another decisive national championship game victory, only this time, he led Ohio State […]

Six Questions On Ohio State-Oregon: Semifinal Lessons, Tension Points, Legacies, And More

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“Overture, coitins, lights. This is it, you’ll hit the heights. And oh, what heights we’ll hiiiiiiit. On with the show, this is iiiiiiiiit!” — The Bugs Bunny Overture, Looney Tunes * Student Section writer Ryan Palencer and editor Matt Zemek discuss tonight’s national title game in six questions: 1. This is the first time a […]

Football And Basketball Are Different, But The College Football Playoff Invites NCAA Tournament Comparisons

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College football and college basketball ARE different. These sports ARE apples and oranges. You can’t play 68-team football tournaments. You can’t reduce a basketball field to four teams after just 13 games. Basketball teams have a real non-conference season. Football teams determine clear-cut conference champions (well, except for the Big 12), whereas a two-way tie […]

Oregon’s Playing For Itself On Monday Night… And Also The Western United States

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Yes, the Rose Bowl pulled in only 91,322 fans this year. The short-of-capacity attendance figure showed that not enough Californians or West Coasters were able to fill the Granddaddy in the absence of Florida State fans who — being pragmatic — wanted to save travel expenses for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game… the […]

How To Improve Bowl Attendance? College Football Doesn’t Seem To Understand

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Thursday at The Student Section, we gave you a compilation of various links and statistics which (hopefully) offered you a much fuller picture of the reality of declining bowl attendance. This piece is an attempt to offer a solution to college football’s power brokers, specifically the people in charge of the College Football Playoff and […]

The 10 Biggest Stories From The 38 Bowls

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The bowls are over. What are the biggest headlines to emerge in these 38 games? We pared the list down to 10: * 10 – DIVISIONS CREATE DIFFERENT WORLDS The Mountain West’s Mountain Division, thanks to bowl wins by Utah State and Air Force, produced four teams with 10 or more wins. The Mountain West […]

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