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Should He Stay Or Should Bo Go? Assessing Bo Pelini at Nebraska After Another Blown Lead

0 comments by The Editors on 11/24/2014

Nebraska will not win the Big Ten this year. It won’t even win its division. Bo Pelini must endure another year of questions after his defense failed to protect another double-digit lead. Is Nebraska no longer “Nebraska,” or should the Huskers rightly expect more out of their program? That’s the question at the heart of […]

UCLA Re-Enters The Playoff Picture: Where would The Bruins stand against Ohio State?

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UCLA has, in the eyes of some writers — such as Ted Miller of ESPN — re-entered the College Football Playoff discussion. What if the Bruins do manage to make the Pac-12 Championship Game and upend Oregon? How would UCLA compare at 11-2 to a 12-1 Ohio State team that struggled against Indiana on Saturday? […]

Notre Dame, Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke: The 1978 Final Four Has Taught Us An Important College Football Lesson in 2014

0 comments by on 11/23/2014

In 1978, college basketball’s Final Four convened in St. Louis, Missouri: Notre Dame, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Duke competed for the national championship in hoops. This year, the 1978 Final Four has taught college football fans and pundits a lesson that must be absobed each and every autumn: The process of grading teams doesn’t fully end […]

The Pac-12 South Has A Lot of Ranked Teams, But Just How Good Is This Division?

0 comments by Bart Doan and Matt Zemek on 11/20/2014

In the SEC West, a bunch of teams are beating up on each other. In the Pac-12 South, a bunch of teams are beating up on each other. Is it all the same? Is it completely different? Is it something in between? This is an annually vexing component of college football: the cluttered, balanced division. […]

Bob Stoops to Florida? If You’re Lucky, Gators

0 comments by Allen Kenney on 11/19/2014

Back in 2001, Bob Stoops was the hot name on football’s coaching carousel. Oklahoma’s head coach was a year removed from winning a national championship in just his second season in Norman and clearly had the Sooners on an upward trajectory after a decade-plus of wandering the desert. When the news broke that winter that […]

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Auburn, LSU, And Texas A&M All Lost: What Does This Mean For the SEC West’s Second-Place Team?

0 comments by The Editors on 11/18/2014

The SEC West remains a very tough division. The real issue raised by a number of its losses the past weekend is, “Just how much does an SEC West team’s strength of schedule change in light of week 12’s results?” More to the point, how did the past weekend affect the College Football Playoff prospects […]

The Student Section College Basketball Media Roundtable, Part I: TV Timeouts, Game Windows, And Endgame Fouls

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The college basketball season is fully underway, with showcase games arriving on the schedule (Michigan State-Duke and Kansas-Kentucky on Tuesday). We’ve previewed the season over the past week at The Student Section. Today and tomorrow, we give you a media roundtable for the sport, featuring special guest Matt Yoder of Bloguin partner site Awful Announcing. […]

Jake Waters and the rest of the Kansas State offense were noticeably sluggish against Iowa State. This Thursday, the Wildcats expect to play several notches better than they did against the Cyclones, and that’s merely a starting point for the showdown against Auburn. KSU must at least come close to its best performance. Anything average from the Wildcats, especially on offense, will almost certainly lead to a loss against Auburn’s turbocharged “Gus Bus.”

Kansas State And West Virginia Play This Thursday Night: What Does It Mean For The Big 12?

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The coming Saturday of games in college football is the annual SEC Cupcake Saturday (Non-) Showcase. This takes the air out of the balloon as far as the season is concerned. However, Thursday offers two highly important games: North Carolina-Duke in the ACC Coastal is one. The centerpiece, though, is a Big 12 showdown between […]

Jimbo Fisher had to deal with a mountain of distractions, an ocean of injuries, and the harsh sunlight of constant scrutiny… and didn’t allow his team to fall off the precipice throughout an emotionally exhausting regular season. Not an ordinary feat, by any means.

The Hypothetical That Probably Won’t Become Reality: What If Florida State loses Before December 7?

0 comments by The Editors on 11/17/2014

Hypotheticals are not meant to indicate or suggest that certain events will in fact take place. No one’s predicting that Florida State will lose once in the next three weeks. However, what if the Seminoles do stumble? The Student Section editors try to get ahead of that question in this new roundtable. * Will FSU […]

What’s The Matter With Beating Kansas? The View of TCU This Week

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TCU remained in the middle of the College Football Playoff discussion by coming back to beat Kansas on Saturday. The win wasn’t emphatic, but it sure beats a loss. The Student Section editors discuss how that 34-30 win should affect TCU’s place in the sport’s pecking order. * Very simply, should TCU fall in the […]

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