0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/4/2014
This has been a great week in American sports on numerous levels. The Kansas City Royals and Baltimore Orioles — two franchises that made the Major League Baseball postseason every year but once in a nine-season span from 1976 through 1984 — are now one win apiece from meeting in the American League Championship Series. […]
Among the teams that have unexpectedly risen to the top of a division or conference through week six, Arizona — in the Pac-12 South — seems to have more staying power and has accomplished more to attain its presently lofty perch. Keep this in mind about Arizona football, though: This is the only member of the original Pac-10 (it joined what had been the Pacific-8 in 1978) to have never made the Rose Bowl. Novembers and late Octobers have crushed this team in the past. If Rich Rodriguez can get to Pasadena, his reputation in the coaching community will be forever transformed. Arizona is certainly a program to watch over the next few weeks, as it tries to shed a history of almost unceasing misery.
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 10/3/2014
Thanks to its potent offense and some timely plays from its defense, Arizona defeated Oregon 31-24, propelling it into the national championship race. Make no mistake about it: the Wildcats were the better team Thursday night. Yes, UA trailed 7-3 at the half, but with the way their offense was moving the ball, it was […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Despite being division mates in the SEC West, the Tigers (Auburn and LSU) have only faced each other 47 times. LSU holds a 27-20 lead in the series. Since 1992, the schools have played every year with LSU winning 12 games and Auburn winning 10. One of the most memorable games of the series was […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/2/2014
What’s the greatest college football dynasty of all time? That’s a question which deserves to be explored, and it will be in the paragraphs below, but don’t think the answer is an easy or obvious one. That does a disservice to the notion of a dynasty in an age when attention spans are shorter. It’s […]
0 comments by Bart D
On Twitter @TheCoachBart Well, we’re through another week and unlike your undergarments (I hope), not much is changing in this space. Last week was one of those when someone went through the candy bag at Halloween and took out all of the Sour Patch Kids and Reese’s Cups and left you mostly with Boston Baked […]
0 comments by Joe Webb on 10/1/2014
Week 6 of the college football season is here and No. 3 ranked Alabama travels to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium at Hollingsworth Field to play Ole Miss as the top-priced game on the secondary market. Following the SEC matchup in price is a game between Stanford and Notre Dame, where the home team owns the third most […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
October is here. The games are supposed to be bigger, and there are supposed to be more of them. Week six does not disappoint at all. The SEC West alone gets a feature-level throwdown in each of the three main broadcast windows — one in the early window, one in the mid-afternoon window, and one […]
Charlie Strong does seem to be changing the way things are done at Texas, a very good thing for the Longhorns. Yet, that process of change just isn’t going to be a swift one. It will take time, and Saturday night’s loss to UCLA affirmed as much.
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A bizarre–if not laughable–report began circulating last week that beleaguered NFL commissioner Roger Goodell planned to hold a meeting with first-year Texas head coach Charlie Strong to discuss his approach to player conduct. At the time, it sounded as though an overeager Chip Brown of Horns Digest had been last in line in a game […]
0 comments by Bart D on 9/30/2014
On Twitter @TheCoachBart Heisman dark horse columns are hard. Not hard in the sense of roofing a house in 95-degree weather for 12 hours a day, but hard in the sense that they don’t really exist anymore. Really, they don’t. The Heisman is almost certainly going to a player on a top 10-ish team or […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
There are some parts of college football’s rules that make your brain hurt. They’re that stupid, that much of an assault on basic logic and what the naked eye can identify as a natural, normal event in the sport of football. Two such rules-based embarrassments were in evidence this past weekend, and we’ll talk about […]
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Consider this question: Acknowledging that the season is still a work in progress, which team gave the strongest indication this past weekend that it is likely to emerge as a surprise team in 2014? Matt Zemek and Bart Doan took a crack at this query, and found answers in different parts of the United States. […]
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As we check in with the Arkansas Razorbacks, the question has to be asked: Did Arkansas announce that it is here to stay with its performance against Texas A&M, or did the Razorbacks set themselves up for a downturn against an opponent that was clearly overrated… or are both statements true? Two Student Section editors […]
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.
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Today is the last day of September. How are certain teams doing after a weekend that didn’t provide a lot of upsets… but didn’t involve smooth and straightforward performances by a number of ranked teams? It’s worth checking in on a number of teams whose journeys through September were anything but peaceful. Florida State leads […]
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 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/29/2014
This story begins in 1974. It goes back to 1914 in an indirect way, but it begins in 1974. Michigan and Ohio State were in the middle of The Ten-Year War, the label given to the games the Wolverines and Buckeyes played from 1969 through 1978 under legendary coaches Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes. The […]
