0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/14/2014
You’ve probably never heard this idea before, but college football is pretty darn complicated. Saturday’s supposedly dead slate of nothingburger games produced a lot of entertainment, especially in the night window, with USC getting knocked off by Boston College, Florida surviving Kentucky, Purdue giving Notre Dame much more of a game than expected, and Penn […]
0 comments by Bart D
It’d seem since the ball wasn’t snapped and the play clock was at 0, Florida should be assessed a delay of game penalty, right? It was fourth down, and that didn’t happen. Mark Stoops was angry. Florida converted for a touchdown in overtime. And eventually, the Gators beat the Wildcats. Surely, the play clock […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/13/2014
Todd Gurley recalled Marcus Allen from Super Bowl XVIII in 1984. Gurley’s third-and-16 run in the third quarter of Saturday’s Georgia-South Carolina game might not have been as historically resonant as O.J. Simpson of USC in 1967, cutting back against the grain in front of head coach John McKay against UCLA. It might not have […]
0 comments by Bart D on 9/12/2014
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0 comments by Kevin Causey
In the not too distant past, Tennessee was a power in college football. It was just 1998 when the Volunteers won the national championship. Since 1998, they have had just four double-digit win seasons and they haven’t had a winning season in four years. Tennessee’s cumulative record from 2008 to 2013 was 33-41. Some bad decisions […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
The Iowa-Iowa State rivalry has covered 61 games since the first in 1894. Iowa is in control of the rivalry, leading 40-21, largely due to the strength of a 15-game win streak from 1983 to 1997. On Saturday the two teams will play at Kinnick Stadium in a game that is being overlooked by many […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 9/11/2014
Today is September 11. It is a day I will never forget for the rest of my life, and I am sure you can probably say the same. Everybody has a different way with remembering what happened that Tuesday morning in 2001, as well as the events that unfolded as the week went on. Most autumnal […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/10/2014
Let it be said up front: I loathe Bud Selig. I say this as a Montreal Expo fan, a baseball fan, and a citizen of the United States. Selig has harmed the Expos, the sport of baseball, and the nation that gave rise to the grand ol’ game in numerous ways. Tweet me, and you’ll […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney
In light of the Ray Rice incident and high-profile allegations of assaults against women involving college athletes, I’ve had multiple conversations lately with friends about the problem of domestic violence in sports. On the subject of college-level athletes, the discussions almost always include some mention of the NCAA potentially instituting severe, uniform penalties that span all […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
The Georgia-South Carolina rivalry has quietly became one of the best in the SEC. Georgia owns the series 47-17-2 but over the last seven years, the Gamecocks have four wins. South Carolina had built a three-game win streak, its first ever in the series, before Georgia won 41-30 last year in Athens. The big reason […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 9/9/2014
I will say now what I said two years ago: The NCAA was misguided in its handling of Penn State in light of a terrible sequence of events centering around the actions of Jerry Sandusky, but it was thrust into a position to have to do something to deliver a message. In handling an unprecedented […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/8/2014
So, USC athletic director Pat Haden apologized for conduct that was called “inappropriate” by Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott over the weekend.
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The only athletes that had a worse weekend than many Big Ten college football players — especially at the power programs — were Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. Between the Federer and Djokovic losses in New York and the setbacks suffered by Michigan, Ohio State, and Michigan State on various gridirons, a lot of powerhouses […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for me to release this week’s top 25. As always, here are a couple of things to remember about my poll: This poll is a projection of where each team will finish the season. I always factor strength of schedule into my rankings. Polls should reward teams that beat quality […]
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