0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/14/2014
In November, shadows lengthen, so it’s very much a paradox that the Wisconsin Badgers and Nebraska Cornhuskers are trying to escape shadows when they meet inside Camp Randall Stadium on the third Saturday of college football’s cruelest month. Everything about this game evokes the image of shadows… and the accompanying need to leave them behind. […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 11/13/2014
The California Golden Bears provided comedy gold on Thursday night against the USC Trojans. Watch and laugh your brains out: and here’s a look at the full play from a couple of different angles via ESPN…. http://t.co/44gm5VOABl — CFBZ (@CFBZ)
0 comments by Matt Zemek, Scott King, & Steve Fetch
In a discussion of unfairly criticized and excessively admired college basketball coaches, which names would first enter your mind? The Student Section’s basketball writers and managing editor Matt Zemek explore these two topics in our latest season preview roundtable. The season tips off on Friday with the all-Pitino clash between Minnesota and Louisville. On Monday […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek, Scott King, & Steve Fetch
The coaches who grab our attention. The coaches who are set up to succeed. The coaches whose reputations are most on the line. Three coaching topics are brought to our lead basketball writers, Scott King and Steve Fetch, and Student Section managing editor Matt Zemek. Where do you stand on these questions, one day before […]
0 comments by Bart Doan and Matt Zemek on 11/12/2014
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Individual players — which ones rise or fall — shape seasons to a considerable extent. Yet, while the solo performer occupies a prominent place in basketball, the way whole rosters mesh (or fail to do so) is an even more central component of the journey from November through early April. Look at Kentucky last season. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek, Scott King, & Steve Fetch
With the college basketball season beginning on Friday, it’s time to dive into the journey ahead. Lead college basketball writers Scott King and Steve Fetch join TSS managing editor Matt Zemek in a roundtable on the coming season. This installment looks at key players from a number of different vantage points: breakout performers, lonely stars, […]
0 comments by Bart Doan and Matt Zemek on 11/11/2014
Should Mike Stoops be the defensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma next season, or does that question place too little emphasis on Baylor’s quality? Bart Doan: On Twitter:
Gary Patterson’s team never should have been moved up to third after week 14, in which the Horned Frogs beat 6-6 Texas. If the committee was consistent, it could have left TCU out of the field by never putting the Frogs higher than fourth. Putting them third only clouded the issue, especially after a 52-point win on Saturday against Iowa State.
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This is a question that will be revisited — probably with greater intensity — in the first week of December: What’s the worst thing the College Football Playoff Selection Committee can do on December 7? Maybe the decision will be made a lot easier by the on-field results of the next four weekends. However, if […]
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There was a lot more to process from the past weekend than the emergence of some very tantalizing end-of-season hypotheticals. Yesterday, we talked about 11-1 TCU versus 11-1 Baylor. We tossed around a playoff scenario pitting the Big 12 against the SEC West. We discussed the Big Ten going up against the SEC West under […]
0 comments by The Editors on 11/10/2014
Remember the end of the 2013 regular season, when one-loss Auburn was touting its resume over and against unbeaten Ohio State? That was a debate between a one-loss team and an unbeaten team. Ohio State lost to Michigan State, dousing the flames of controversy, but the debate did burst into color for the one week […]
Texas A&M winning, or Auburn losing — which matters more in evaluating the SEC? That’s another topic to argue about in the days and weeks ahead.
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Rivalry Week is a few weeks away in college football, but “Scenario Week” is here. After the six top-25 games of Nov. 8 sorted out a lot of issues in college football but created several new problems, it’s necessary to deal with various scenarios one by one. A particularly interesting hypothetical — one which could […]
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The twists and turns of the next four weeks could wipe this scenario off the board, but when the weather gets colder and we approach Thanksgiving, college football editorialists have to discuss certain possibilities, even if they don’t actually unfold. The hypothetical which could soon become reality — and which has everyone in college football […]
TCU and Baylor have already played each other, but both teams will have to face Kansas State in a cluttered and contentious race to the Big 12 finish line. How the Big 12 plays out will have something to do with Notre Dame’s status at the end of the season, provided the Fighting Irish can win out and finish at 11-1.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/9/2014
After the six top-25 games we witnessed on Saturday, a number of teams have either been eliminated from the College Football Playoff or consigned to the periphery of the chase. More urgently, though, the next college football Saturday is Nov. 15, marking week 12 of the season. It really does seem as though we’ve hit […]
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One of the defining characteristics of Kansas State football under head coach Bill Snyder is that the Wildcats are regularly in the right position. They might not be the most athletically imposing team in the Big 12 — in this or other seasons — but they mix ferocity with precision, applying pressure on their opponents. […]
