0 comments by Bart Doan, Matt Zemek, and Ryan Palencer on 12/10/2014
Part of any bowl guide has to give you a number of players you won’t regret focusing on, even at the expense of other players; other bowls (when there’s overlap between games); or most of all, other social engagements during the holiday season. Here’s one top-10 list from TSS editors Bart Doan and Matt Zemek, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/8/2014
There are 38 bowl games this season. Here are 38 quick facts to give you a sense of the larger postseason landscape in college football: * 38 – Number of bowl appearances by Duke from 1938 through 1960: 6. From 1961 through 2011: 2. Since the start of the 2012 season: 3. 37 – Duke’s […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The announcement of the first College Football Playoff standings created a lot of stories — more than many of us in the college football community were ready to expect. Let’s give you a brief overview of the top stories that emerged from the playoff announcement and then the completion of the 38-game bowl schedule (the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In the aftermath of Sunday’s College Football Playoff snub, the main thing TCU and Baylor fans are telling the college football world is that if their schools were named Texas or Oklahoma, they’d be making playoff preparations. It’s the kind of claim which is hard to scientifically verify or refute, but it’s a claim which […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/7/2014
Oh, my. We all knew the first Selection Sunday in the history of the College Football Playoff would be controversial, but could we have known that this announcement could usher in a new wave of change in college sports? More will be said on this by other Student Section writers in the coming weeks, but […]
That looks a bit like a Heisman pose, does it not? Marcus Mariota was average in the first half but genuinely great in the third quarter. He was, on balance, a moderately above-average player in this game. Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon will get the final say in the Heisman race on Saturday night versus Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This post comes to us from our friend Dale Newton at Bloguin’s Oregon site, The Duck Stops Here. Make DSH your go-to source for in-depth Oregon analysis during the coming week, as Marcus Mariota closes in on the Heisman Trophy next Saturday night. Also, stay with DSH for coverage of Oregon’s College Football […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The 2010 and 2011 Boise State Broncos won huge non-conference games in the Eastern time zone, far away from friendly soil. They won the kinds of games a team in Boise State’s region, conference, and overall position should have to win in order to play in a top-tier bowl. Consider for a moment what it […]
Baylor, which was torn to shreds by UCF in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl, badly needs to beat Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl — not only to bolster the Big 12 in comparison with the Big Ten, but to avoid an 0-for-2 albatross in premium postseason contests.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Baylor Bears defeated the Kansas State Wildcats on Saturday night in Waco, Texas, to finish with an 8-1 Big 12 record, atop the conference standings alongside the TCU Horned Frogs. You might have heard this at some point in the past week: Baylor beat TCU head-to-head. The score was 61-58. Just wanted to make […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/6/2014
The Pac-12’s decision to stage a conference championship game at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco made sense on a conceptual level. The league’s headquarters are located in the city, which is the geographical center of a conference that stretches from Seattle in the Northwest to Tucson in the Southwest and Boulder, Colorado, in the Rocky […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/5/2014
On a Thursday that swung the coaching carousel ’round and ’round, lots of college football writers and pundits, including those close to the program, viewed Nebraska’s surprise hiring of Mike Riley with approval: Fans and onlookers weren’t as charitable or as optimistic, to say the least: The split in opinion is obvious for a number […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/4/2014
After the seventh week of the 2014 college football season, it sure seemed that a repeat of the crazy 2007 season was a distinct possibility. In 2007, Pittsburgh (above, cover photo) stunned West Virginia on the final Saturday of the regular season to knock the Mountaineers out of the BCS National Championship Game. On that […]
0 comments by Bart Doan and Matt Zemek
Would you be nervous if you spoke to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee today or any time before the start of the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday night? It wouldn’t be a congressional committee or an executive committee, but it would be the committee that will make college football history on the sport’s first-ever […]
0 comments by The Editors on 12/3/2014
Put three college football writers in a room to talk about the Nebraska coaching search. Add water. Watch three different views sprout in three different directions. This is the joy of opinion-giving. You don’t need to take the cookie cutter from the kitchen drawer. Why are views of the Nebraska coaching search so different? There […]
0 comments by The Editors on 12/2/2014
The news broke on Monday that Baylor has hired a PR firm to help make the Bears’ case for the College Football Playoff. It’s hard to deny the notion that Baylor is worried that a possible Big 12 championship — which would be claimed with a win over Kansas State this weekend — won’t mean […]
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Rivalry games are unique creatures in the world of college football. They serve as examples of games in which the records of teams don’t always matter, and in which the margins of victory might not reflect the quality (or weakness) of the teams involved. How should the College Football Playoff Selection Committee evaluate this particular […]
