0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/23/2014
A week from now, many of you will be watching ESPN’s signature traveling pregame show, the standard-setting College GameDay. One of the men who makes the show work is ESPN’s tear duct-loosening specialist, Tom Rinaldi. #CollegeFootballTwitter likes to joke about the tone and tenor of Rinaldi’s pieces, but when the smoke clears and the face […]
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On the final weekend before the FBS college football season begins, we’re talking about fumble luck here at The Student Section. Our first overview of the subject appears here. In this companion piece, we look at 10 powerhouse schools through the prism of fumble luck since 2005. We’ll primarily list the statistics and duck in […]
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With the odd-shaped object known as a football, weird bounces constantly invite the twin possibilities of great fortune and total disaster. “Fumble luck” is best captured with the naked eye; some fumbles are easily recovered, while others are true “50-50 balls.” Nevertheless, if the eye can’t cover every college football game in full (and it […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/22/2014
Earlier this week, The Student Section looked at other inconsistencies built into college football’s current rule structure. On Monday, we looked at the difference between run-based possession and pass-based possession in the end zone, and how the two were interpreted. On Wednesday, we examined another point of curiosity in the college football rulebook: Some unrecovered […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/20/2014
Monday, we looked at the inconsistency built into college football’s rules on the matter of run-based possession versus pass-based possession in the end zone. Today’s topic is the inconsistency built into college football’s rules on the matter of fumbles. Some fumbles are treated differently from others, for no truly good reason. This is something which also […]
When you consider Chris Fowler’s remarks, you’re free to arrive at your own conclusions. Just be sure to look at them from various perspectives: from a corporate perspective; from the GameDay production truck’s perspective; from Fowler’s own perspective; from the perspective of how different college football media coverage would have been if Ohio State had thumped Florida in January of 2007; and other vantage points you might not have previously considered.
0 comments by The Editors on 8/19/2014
Part one of our Editors’ Roundtable on college football television focused on individual broadcasters. Today, we focus on networks, individual shows, and the various ways in which all television outlets can improve the level of content on their broadcasts. Once again, Matt Yoder — publisher of Awful Announcing — joins the TSS editors to explore […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/18/2014
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As you prepare for the new college football season, consider the ways in which college football’s rules reveal substantial inconsistencies between and among certain kinds of plays. We’re going to take a look at a few such inconsistencies this week, beginning with the noticeable split between the ways in which run-based possession and pass-based possession […]
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Can you feel college football arriving at your doorstep? It’s just about here. With opening night (not Georgia State’s Aug. 27 game against an FCS team) 10 days away on Aug. 28, it’s time to prepare you for the season on numerous levels. The broadcasters you see and hear on Saturdays form one small but […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/17/2014
We come to the end of our Turf Battle overview of the past two seasons, giving you the numbers on short-field drive starts from 2012 and 2013. If you missed them, here are Friday’s numbers on teams from the Pac-12 and the SEC, and Saturday’s numbers on teams from the ACC, Big 12, and Big […]
Jimbo Fisher had to deal with a mountain of distractions, an ocean of injuries, and the harsh sunlight of constant scrutiny… and didn’t allow his team to fall off the precipice throughout an emotionally exhausting regular season. Not an ordinary feat, by any means.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/16/2014
Yesterday, in a statistical realm that will be called “Turf Battle” over the course of the coming regular season, we looked at short-field drives and points over the past two seasons in the Pac-12 and the SEC. Today, we round out the remaining power-five conferences. Tomorrow, we’ll look at the Mountain West, The American, and […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/15/2014
A few weeks ago, you were introduced to the world of short-field points, a statistic I’ve tracked the past two seasons before I came to Bloguin and The Student Section. What was once called “Enemy Territory” will now be called “Turf Battle,” and you’ll get weekly recaps throughout the coming season. As the Statistical Summer […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/14/2014
Michael Sam had already played his last down of college football when he publicly announced he was gay. Chip Sarafin of Arizona State has made yet another piece of history in American sports by becoming (what appears to be) the first openly gay college football player we know of. The story, in Compete magazine, is […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/12/2014
A few weeks ago, you read about the 10 worst officiating mistakes from the 2013 college football season. One of the enduringly frustrating aspects of officiating is not the officials themselves, who — like coaches and players and broadcasters and (yes) writers such as this one — are human beings. In other words, they are […]
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Yesterday, in part one of our coaching roundtable here at TSS, we looked specifically at coordinators. Today, we broaden our focus in the realm of coaching. There are still coordinators to talk about, but we’re also interested in examining head coaches, surprising transactions, and the notion of whether fixed principles should be adhered to when […]
