0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 10/10/2014
This is The Student Section’s first basketball-themed Locker post of the season. It certainly leaves an image in the mind’s eye. Notice the fleck of gray hair near Bill Self’s right temple, accentuating his choice of attire:
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/9/2014
This Saturday of college football is going to be fascinating — not just in terms of the football, but the way the day unfolds on television. We’ll get right into this week’s viewer’s guide, and at the end of the piece, we’ll explain what’s meant in that statement above. * NOON EASTERN TIME WINDOW: FEATURED […]
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In the process of reviewing the past week of absurd occurrences in college football — and there were many –the point should settle into our minds: Bringing up these images and instances is not done just to make you angry, to merely recall various outrages so that you can yell, “YEAH! TELL ‘EM AGAIN!” This […]
0 comments by The Editors on 10/8/2014
The editors at The Student Section devote a stand-alone piece to this Saturday’s Auburn-Mississippi State game. The nature of this contest allows for more than a little discussion not just about the Xs and Os, but the significance of the moment. It’s true that the SEC West is competitive, but as everyone on this panel […]
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Being a college football writer in this specific week feels a little bit like stepping into the world of Janus, the Roman mythological god of dates and doors, the one who looks backward and forward with two faces. (Janus is the name from which we derive our month of January.) College football writers are still […]
0 comments by The Editors on 10/7/2014
So, that was some kinda weekend, wasn’t it? You might think there are no truly original movie concepts left to explore, but the notion of praising Arizona is pretty new to anyone who has chronicled college football for any appreciable length of time. That’s how crazy the past weekend was… and Arizona’s upset of Oregon […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/6/2014
If you go through The Student Section’s coverage of the month of September, you will see very little content about the makeup of this year’s football version of a “final four.” You will see no official projections of the College Football Playoff’s four-team field. You will see no bowl projections or top fives in the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/5/2014
Remember September 6, 2014 — four weeks ago, essentially? Remember when the Big Ten already seemed to be in a near-death state in terms of getting into the College Football Playoff? Remember when Oregon looked quite convincing in dispatching Michigan State, and Ohio State lost at home to the same Virginia Tech side that couldn’t […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/4/2014
For the first 58 minutes and 59 seconds of Saturday’s slippery, sloppy slog between Notre Dame and Stanford, Everett Golson looked nothing like the player who took command of the Fighting Irish’s offense in the first two games of the season against Rice and Michigan. Golson, whose 2013 season was wiped out due to his […]
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After the Mississippi State Bulldogs defeated a young and disorganized LSU squad two weeks ago, the discussion began in the SEC, especially its cutthroat West Division: Had Dan Mullen and his program arrived as a full-fledged force, or was the Bulldogs’ moment in Baton Rouge little more than a temporary surge aided by an opponent’s […]
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This has been a great week in American sports on numerous levels. The Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles — two franchises that made the Major League Baseball postseason every year but once in a nine-season span from 1976 through 1984 — are now one win apiece from meeting in the American League Championship Series. […]
“Hey, Big 12! We’re really good!” — The message BYU wants to send in its bowl game, even though the Big 12 won’t expand next year or the year after that. BYU is trying to plant seeds that will sprout several years down the line.
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It’s currently halftime of the BYU-Utah State game, and a major story is developing in Provo, Utah. BYU’s star quarterback, Taysom Hill, suffered an apparent ankle injury on this play late in the first half, courtesy of Yahoo’s college football blog, Dr. Saturday: More details will emerge after the game and in the days to […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 10/3/2014
The thrills, spills and chills of college football… well, just the spills, as this official found out in Friday’s Utah State-BYU clash, via Reddit’s college football Twitter account:
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After his Syracuse team lost to Louisville Friday night in the Carrier Dome, head coach Scott Shafer wanted to put the outcome of the game in perspective. This was his attempt:
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/2/2014
What’s the greatest college football dynasty of all time? That’s a question which deserves to be explored, and it will be in the paragraphs below, but don’t think the answer is an easy or obvious one. That does a disservice to the notion of a dynasty in an age when attention spans are shorter. It’s […]
