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Northwestern players react as they walk on the court during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Wisconsin in Evanston, Ill., on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. Wisconsin won 76-49. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

What does Northwestern need to make the NCAA Tournament?

0 comments by on 1/19/2016

One fact every college basketball fan has heard at one time or another concerns Northwestern’s history with the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Namely, that Northwestern has no history. The Wildcats have never earned a March Madness bid. Not once. It has not happened since the NCAA created its championship basketball tournament in 1939, though Northwestern […]

Jan 11, 2016; Glendale, AZ, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide defensive back Marlon Humphrey (26) celebrates after recovering an onside kick during the fourth quarter against the Clemson Tigers in the 2016 CFP National Championship at University of Phoenix Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

Clarifying the Rule on Alabama’s Onside Kick

0 comments by on 1/15/2016

This picture has been flying around college football social media since Monday’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson: If the picture is right, that’s a very big deal. A lot of people think the referees got the rule wrong and that Alabama should not have been awarded the ball because the ball did not […]

FBS Conference Championship Deregulation Leaves Big 12 in a Quandary

0 comments by on 1/14/2016

The NCAA announced on Wednesday that a proposal to deregulate conference championship games in FBS had passed. It was not complete deregulation, but it was close enough. Long story short, any FBS conference–even one with less than 12 members–can now hold a conference championship game as long as the conference meets one of two conditions. […]

Does the College Football Playoff Really Want the 4 Best Teams?

0 comments by on 1/12/2016

Since the very beginning of the College Football Playoff, director Bill Hancock has doubled down on his statement that the CFP selection committee’s job is to select the four best teams to compete in the CFP. He emphasized it many times, including here and here. It was the running theme in his reddit AMA, which he […]

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Houston’s Peach Bowl win salvages the AAC’s bowl season

0 comments by on 1/4/2016

I am not at all a fan of judging conferences based on bowl results, and certainly not based on only one season. There aren’t enough bowl games (I’m serious) to get a proper read on conference strength. The bowl games are about individual matchups and teams. With enough of those, we can get a bit […]

Lamenting the end of college football season? Week 1 of 2016 will be epic

0 comments by on 1/3/2016

There is only one game left in the 2015 college football season. It’s sad. It’s exciting that we get what looks like a really good College Football Playoff National Championship Game, but it’s a little sad that we will then have to go almost eight months without any college football that counts in the standings. […]

TSS Bowl Grades: December 28-January 2

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It started December 19 — the journey through all 40 bowl games, the largest collection of postseason events in college football history. A week ago, I gave you my bowl grades for the first week of bowl season. With all of the bowls now completed (aside from the national championship Game), here are my grades […]

Kirk Ferentz is the right man for Iowa, and not just because of this season

0 comments by on 12/30/2015

Kirk Ferentz has been infamous among the college football pundit world for being an unfireable (I know, I know, I made up a word) coach. He parlayed success early in his coaching career into a buyout the university could not afford, and everyone knew it. His critics pointed out that since then, he produced nowhere […]

of the Michigan State Spartans against the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium on December 5, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Connor Cook’s Huge Blunders in the Biggest Wins of His Career

0 comments by on 12/29/2015

We have noticed a trend. It’s probably a meaningless confluence of circumstances. Sometimes trends are meaningful statistics, sometimes they are fun facts, and sometimes they are just huge coincidences. This is almost certainly the latter, but it is something to bear in mind as we look ahead to Michigan State’s playoff game against Alabama in […]

TSS Bowl Grades: December 19-26

0 comments by on 12/28/2015

Thanks to the wonders of television and a natural inability to sleep, I have been able to see an inordinate amount of college football this bowl season. I’m not complaining about it one bit. After watching almost the entirety of just about every bowl game (I might have missed a few plays here or there […]

What Might Have Been: What the BCS Would Have Looked Like in 2015

0 comments by on 12/7/2015

One of the main stated goals of the College Football Playoff was to restore the primacy of New Year’s Day in college football tradition. Part of this is obviously the two semifinal games. Another important part, though, is the collection of New Year’s Six games, which are supposed to provide top-level matchups between highly-ranked teams. […]

What the Committee Taught Us: Selection Day

0 comments by on 12/6/2015

Last year, the College Football Playoff selection committee threw us a huge, if not completely unexpected, curveball on Selection Day. No one was sure how the committee would deal with the TCU/Baylor/Ohio State debate. TCU was expecting to be in because they were sitting at No. 3 the previous week, but we have learned in […]

Complete Bubble Watch and Bowl Projections: December 5

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Bubble Watch The original plan was to have a Bubble Watch here for any teams that would be debated for the final Playoff spot. Well, there aren’t any. The four Playoff teams are locks. I was thinking of presenting Stanford’s resume for comparison against Michigan State’s and Oklahoma’s resumes, but there really is no point. […]

Week 14 College Football Playoff Rooting Interests

0 comments by on 12/4/2015

We are down to just eight College Football Playoff hopefuls, in addition to two others we feel we should mention as well. Their scenarios en route to the Playoff are more or less clear, though there are a few possibilities where we honestly won’t know who will make the Playoff until the committee tells us […]

ATHENS, GA – NOVEMBER 3: Head Coach Mark Richt of the Georgia Bulldogs celebrates after the game against the Ole Miss Rebels at Sanford Stadium on November 3, 2012 in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)

Mark Richt will make Miami relevant again by doing things his way

0 comments by on 12/2/2015

Miami has had two head football coaches since Larry Coker was fired in 2006. Both of them represent fascinating stories that are worth their own separate chapters in the history of the program, but they have something very important in common: neither Randy Shannon nor Al Golden were established top-level coaches before coming to Miami. […]

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