0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/28/2014
Thursday night marked the first full night of college football for the new season. It also marked the debut of the SEC Network as a live-game broadcast outlet. In the first half of the network’s season premiere game, the Texas A&M-South Carolina clash, the booth team of Brent Musburger and (especially) Jesse Palmer heaped praise […]
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Fellow Student Section editor
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/27/2014
In terms of Xs and Os, the future of college football lies in what SB Nation’s
0 comments by The Editors on 8/26/2014
Our topic for today’s Editors’ Roundtable is a very simple one: Game. Week. Say my name: “GAME. WEEK.” * Question No. 1: A general question before tackling the specifics of week one: How much stock do you normally put into week-one performances? Bart Doan: On Twitter
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/25/2014
See that photo above? We’ve arrived at the time of year when college football begins again, meaning that through the first weekend of April, you’ll see football or basketball games with student sections all over the country. Yes, for the next seven and a half months, we have big-ticket college sports in our lives — […]
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GAME WEEK! GAME WEEK! GAME WEEK! We made it, everybody! Tomorrow, we’re going to talk about the 2014 season precisely because it’s GAME WEEK! However, before we devote all our energy to what’s in front of us, it’s important to gather ourselves for a moment and take stock of what’s now in the past, starting […]
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As everyone knows, college football is stepping through a threshold this season, leaving the Bowl Championship Series behind and entering the world of the College Football Playoff. With the sport embarking upon a new journey, it is caught between two worlds. The new system, such as it is (it’s really just 13 people deciding based […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/24/2014
The exquisite beauty of college football, as manifested in the on-field chess match between coaching staffs, is that there are so many ways to win. The NFL is seeing Chip Kelly (tactics) and Pete Carroll (culture) expand pro football’s possibilities, a welcome sight to be sure, but college football has long owned a measure of […]
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If you follow college football religiously, you know that analytics are improving, thanks to the work of individual pioneers such as
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There’s more to be said in response to the question, “How much does a four-yards-per-carry average matter in a game?” Our overview of this issue got things started, but how do the nation’s FBS teams stack up within the context of their conferences? That’s what we’ll look at in this final installment of our Statistical […]
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Who needs three yards and a cloud of dust when you can have four yards and a cloud of stats? The Statistical Summer ends today at The Student Section, with the first game week of the FBS season upon us. Spend the final FBS-free weekend of 2014 mulling over some statistics that have helped shape […]
From one vantage point, Auburn’s passing game with Nick Marshall will be a foremost factor in Saturday’s game against Mississippi State.
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You might recall this play from the 2013 Alabama-Auburn game: The great
This image gets the point across: Auburn didn’t do things in a conventional way last season. The Tigers won in a way that could be characterized as anything but “normal.”
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It’s the kind of topic made for Beano Cook. Dynasties — how long can they expect to last? Beano, were he still alive today, might have said, “Not since the Visigoths in fifth-century Rome has the world wanted a dynasty to fall as much as Alabama.” You might not agree with everything
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/23/2014
Have you ever asked yourself, “How did our various universities, especially those that play big-time football, get their nicknames?” No, you haven’t? Well, read this next piece anyway… because you’ll learn things. Scott Allen, writing for a website called Mental Floss, made note of the preseason Associated Press Top 25 Poll and looked up the histories […]
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The Colorado State Rams are moving up in the college football world, and they reached a bowl game last season. Moving up and reaching higher, though, are not preventing the Rams from reaching out… to a young person in need.
