0 comments by Student Section Staff on 10/27/2014
Seven years ago, who would have thought that Michigan, Texas, USC, and Florida would have encountered such profound upheavals? Each of those programs has faced a coaching transition since the end of 2007. Two of those programs have already burned through multiple coaches in that period of time, and a third — Florida — will […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/26/2014
It’s the kind of topic that lights up talk radio, Twitter, and the space in front of the water cooler in your work office on a Monday morning. It’s also the kind of topic that demands a fair hearing for both perspectives. Just exactly how should a head coach handle a situation in which his […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER
Weren’t we here last Saturday night when Florida State beat Notre Dame? Offensive pass interference was called on a pick play near the goal line, enabling the defensive team to ultimately thwart the offensive team. It seems the same thing happened in Saturday’s late-night thriller between USC and Utah, with Utah running a pick play […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 10/25/2014
The worst replay ruling ever? EVER? Yes. EVER. This was ruled an interception for Ohio State in the opening minutes of Saturday night’s game against Penn State, via SB Nation:
0 comments by TSS LOCKER
If one tweet from Saturday told the story of Michigan’s loss to Michigan State — not to mention the Wolverines’ season — it was this one, involving the University of Michigan’s student newspaper:
0 comments by TSS LOCKER
This is news to us: UCLA won, 40-37, scoring a touchdown after Colorado went ahead — but did not win — on a field goal in the second overtime inning of Saturday’s game in Boulder. Herbstreit promptly deleted the tweet, but where was someone else to provide him with necessary context? That might be the […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 10/23/2014
Not much went wrong for Miami on Thursday night against Virginia Tech. This was a rare exception:
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It’s one of the laws of college football physics: When anyone says that a given week is going to be dull, at least in certain spots, that week — especially the supposedly dull game window — springs to life. Last week, that law was violated. In the week-eight viewer’s guide, the 3:30 window was characterized […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The past week in college football featured one very important call the officials and replay booth got correct, whereas fans and writers watching on television were wrong (but understandably so). More about that incident will come later in this piece, but first, let’s hit the most ridiculous aspects of the week that was. * LENGTH […]
0 comments by The Editors on 10/21/2014
Most college football seasons involve an early-season game that becomes strange, aberrational to some degree, and ultimately misleading within the course of the season. No game in 2014 fits this description more than the Aug. 28 curtain-raiser between Texas A&M and South Carolina. The effects of this game on the reputation of Texas A&M in […]
0 comments by The Editors
While much of America was either going to bed or staying up to discuss how great (or awful) the pass-interference call on Notre Dame really was in its epic game against Florida State, something significant happened in the Pac-12. Arizona State made great use of a bye week and took down Stanford to alter the […]
0 comments by The Editors
There are 16 weeks in a college football season, though the sixteenth “week” is the Army-Navy reunion and nothing else. After eight weeks, though, a college football fan is entitled to think that the “midseason” has arrived. The editors at The Student Section therefore unveil their selections for the coach of the year in the […]
0 comments by The Buckeye Battle Cry on 10/20/2014
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s another cross-post from Bloguin’s Ohio State site, The Buckeye Battle Cry. Be sure to check out tBBC and Bloguin’s Penn State site, NittanyLionsDen, for coverage of this week’s Big Ten clash. * Let’s start this week with the big “upset,” where West Virginia hosted and halted the mighty Baylor offense in a Big […]
0 comments by The Editors
Heading into week eight of the college football season, it was known that the Michigan job would be open at the end of the season. Now, it’s almost a certainty that the Florida job will be open in December as well. Texas and USC replaced coaches after the 2013 regular season. These are not dull […]
0 comments by The Editors
The aftermath of Saturday’s riveting and consequential Notre Dame-Florida State demands further discussion, as does the Kansas State-Oklahoma game. Neither contest can be fully processed without an examination of what the result means for both teams. That’s the newest roundtable at The Student Section. * Question No. 1: How, if at all, did the Notre […]
