0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/15/2014
After a wild weekend as far as officiating was concerned, I looked at five separate controversies plus a situation in which the replay process worked exactly as it should have. One situation not examined in that linked piece was the play-clock controversy at the end of the Kentucky-Florida game. It’s a situation the Southeastern Conference […]
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My goodness, this was some kind of weekend for college football. Once again, a slate of games that seemed to hold very little box-office appeal turned into a very entertaining 12 hours. Only the late games fizzled for the most part, and even then, Nevada-Arizona proved to be an exception in that regard. Part of […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/14/2014
In this week’s attempt to make sense of the just-completed college football weekend, there are several fairly easy calls to make in terms of identifying weaklings and teases across the country. Virginia Tech is a tease, given its loss to East Carolina. So is USC, at least as far as 2014 is concerned, though maybe […]
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You’ve probably never heard this idea before, but college football is pretty darn complicated. Saturday’s supposedly dead slate of nothingburger games produced a lot of entertainment, especially in the night window, with USC getting knocked off by Boston College, Florida surviving Kentucky, Purdue giving Notre Dame much more of a game than expected, and Penn […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/13/2014
Todd Gurley recalled Marcus Allen from Super Bowl XVIII in 1984. Gurley’s third-and-16 run in the third quarter of Saturday’s Georgia-South Carolina game might not have been as historically resonant as O.J. Simpson of USC in 1967, cutting back against the grain in front of head coach John McKay against UCLA. It might not have […]
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This is the nature of college football in the first few weeks of every season: The week-one or week-two result you thought was significant turns out to be a tease, a mirage, an event which fails to carry into the following week. College football is always volatile no matter the month, but it is especially […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 9/11/2014
One of the images of the night from a weird, wacky, topsy-turvy, trippy tilt between Houston and BYU:
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The same shadows that partially cover the Bevo logo above will blanket both the Texas Longhorns and the UCLA Bruins this Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Tex. UCLA and Texas will play in the shadows of history, and one of the most significant college football games from the 1990s. When the Bruins and Longhorns […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/10/2014
Let it be said up front: I loathe Bud Selig. I say this as a Montreal Expo fan, a baseball fan, and a citizen of the United States. Selig has harmed the Expos, the sport of baseball, and the nation that gave rise to the grand ol’ game in numerous ways. Tweet me, and you’ll […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/9/2014
The first coaching casualty of the season has already arrived: June Jones is out at SMU. While Jones exited stage right, a number of coaches at high-profile programs moved closer to and away from the hot seat in week two. There’s a lot to discuss about the nation’s FBS sideline sultans. * Question No. 1: […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/8/2014
So, USC athletic director Pat Haden apologized for conduct that was called “inappropriate” by Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott over the weekend.
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The only athletes that had a worse weekend than many Big Ten college football players — especially at the power programs — were Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Between the Federer and Djokovic losses in New York and the setbacks suffered by Michigan, Ohio State, and Michigan State on various gridirons, a lot of powerhouses […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/7/2014
Last week, the arrival of the first true “morning after” of the college football season — also known as Sunday — brought forth this piece on re-evaluating various teams after one game. There’s a unique quality to assessing teams after just one game. This Sunday, the addition of merely one more game creates a substantially different […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/6/2014
The season is two weeks old. Any contender for a College Football Playoff spot will have to remain on top of its game — and its ambush-avoidance skills — for 11 more games (10 for the Big 12 teams that won’t have to play a league championship game). As the heat of early September turns […]
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Here’s a smile and a laugh, courtesy of Arkansas State in its game against Tennessee: Hashtag #ChevyChaseCollegeFootballTweets, via
