0 comments by Bart D on 10/24/2014
On Twitter @TheCoachBart Follow TSS @TheStudentSect It’s not a Cragislist ad per se, or a flier advising of a criminal on the loose needing reigned in, but WANTED this week in East Lansing is a big, burly man in flannel yielding an axe. Michigan and Michigan State play this weekend for a rivalry in odd […]
0 comments by Scott
The Student Section is ramping up for the start of college basketball season with its “top-26-because-25-simply-was-not-enough” preview. Steve Fetch has covered teams 26-22 and, earlier this week, 16-13. Meanwhile, I covered teams 21-17. We are now hitting the point of the preview where all of the teams listed have a legitimate shot at a Final […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
For weeks I have been on record saying East Carolina is the frontrunner in the Gang of Five access bowl hunt. After last night’s performance against Connecticut, and with the display of futility put on by Virginia Tech a little more than 300 miles northwest of Greensboro, I am not as certain as I once […]
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0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Halloween is a week away, but Illinois will be looking like ghosts this weekend when the Illini take on Minnesota in Big Ten action. To be more specific, Illinois will look like Galloping Ghosts in honor of an Illini legend who also happens to be one of the most significant figures in the sport’s history. […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/23/2014
It’s one of the laws of college football physics: When anyone says that a given week is going to be dull, at least in certain spots, that week — especially the supposedly dull game window — springs to life. Last week, that law was violated. In the week-eight viewer’s guide, the 3:30 window was characterized […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The past week in college football featured one very important call the officials and replay booth got correct, whereas fans and writers watching on television were wrong (but understandably so). More about that incident will come later in this piece, but first, let’s hit the most ridiculous aspects of the week that was. * LENGTH […]
0 comments by Bart D on 10/22/2014
On Twitter @TheCoachBart Follow TSS @TheStudentSect Like peering off into the distance and seeing the clouds whir by with a black sky on the horizon, sometimes, things are just easy to see coming. So you get that lawn cut just a little quicker than you otherwise would. When the College Football Playoff was created and […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch
The toughest teams for me personally to rank are mid-majors (or, since I hate that term, teams that are commonly referred to as mid-majors). Even with the increased parity in college basketball, watching Gonzaga destroy WCC team after WCC team does not provide clarity into whether this Gonzaga squad, as the yearly refrain goes, is […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney
The mind of the modern fan is notorious for selective hearing when it comes to the national dialogue about a favorite team. I don’t think I’m wrong, though, when I say the conversation about Oklahoma and its head coach has a pretty familiar glide path every time the Sooners lose: Stop me if you’ve heard […]
0 comments by The Editors on 10/21/2014
Most college football seasons involve an early-season game that becomes strange, aberrational to some degree, and ultimately misleading within the course of the season. No game in 2014 fits this description more than the Aug. 28 curtain-raiser between Texas A&M and South Carolina. The effects of this game on the reputation of Texas A&M in […]
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While much of America was either going to bed or staying up to discuss how great (or awful) the pass-interference call on Notre Dame really was in its epic game against Florida State, something significant happened in the Pac-12. Arizona State made great use of a bye week and took down Stanford to alter the […]
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There are 16 weeks in a college football season, though the sixteenth “week” is the Army-Navy reunion and nothing else. After eight weeks, though, a college football fan is entitled to think that the “midseason” has arrived. The editors at The Student Section therefore unveil their selections for the coach of the year in the […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Last week Dak Prescott jumped into the lead of the Bloguin Heisman Poll after his Mississippi State Bulldogs beat the Auburn Tigers. With a week off, would the voters see someone else who impressed them more than Dak has so far this year? Would Jameis Winston’s performance against Notre Dame bring him back to the […]
0 comments by Bart D on 10/20/2014
On Twitter @TheCoachBart Follow TSS @TheStudentSect During the writing of this piece (which doesn’t take exceedingly long, mind you), Baylor will be flagged for 6 more pass interference penalties, Texas A&M will give up 30 points, and Bill Gates will make $295 times how many seconds it takes this to be finished. College football almost […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
One of the best things about college football is the passion fans have for their team, their university, and their players. Of course, being so passionate about something also means that from time to time you get your heart broken. On gameday, Twitter is an amazing way to follow the ups and downs of college […]
