0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/7/2014
Last week, the arrival of the first true “morning after” of the college football season — also known as Sunday — brought forth this piece on re-evaluating various teams after one game. There’s a unique quality to assessing teams after just one game. This Sunday, the addition of merely one more game creates a substantially different […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Because so many teams chose to play a soft non-conference slate, there weren’t as many meaningful games on the schedule this week. However, here are some items to take away from what transpired on the gridiron this weekend: USC’s defense deserves all of the credit for its 13-10 victory over Stanford. Although the Cardinal dominated […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/6/2014
The season is two weeks old. Any contender for a College Football Playoff spot will have to remain on top of its game — and its ambush-avoidance skills — for 11 more games (10 for the Big 12 teams that won’t have to play a league championship game). As the heat of early September turns […]
0 comments by Bart D on 9/5/2014
If we ever decide that we want the aliens to know a bit about us, we might make one of those time capsules the way kids do at the beginning of middle school, to be opened only when they “graduate” eighth grade into high school and shoot it off into the cosmos. At some point, […]
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Even though they’ve only played 41 games in the series, Michigan and Notre Dame have created one of the best rivalries in college football. The rivalry started in the late 1800s when
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/4/2014
The larger theater of early-season football is defined and dominated by chaos. It’s not as though teams generally figure everything out in week two, especially if they played a cupcake in week one. We’re still very much in that part of the season when teams with young players at key positions are immersed in that […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for me to provide some thoughts, tidbits, and statistics for week two. Here’s what I’m looking at this week… I said it last week, but it bears repeating, it’s time to beef up the non-conference schedule. While it’s a slight improvement over opening weekend, there are still too many […]
0 comments by Bart D on 9/3/2014
On Twitter @TheCoachBart Anyone that’s been to the Horseshoe in Columbus, Ohio knows it’s a bit of a nut house, so to speak. Basically, that was a horrid play on words from a lot of levels, but the story is this: it’s one of the most raucous, college football obsessed, loudest, most intimidating road environments […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
This past week, the resumption of the college football season brought a nation of fans and observers back in touch with the uniquely exasperating experiences that flow from the sport’s rule and policy structure… and its replay-booth reviewers. Lots of situations once again exposed various loopholes, inconsistencies, and overall deficiencies in the way the sport’s […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney
Very little about how Texas head coach Charlie Strong goes about his business resembles that of his predecessor, Mack Brown. One notable exception is an apparent fondness for hokey slogans. His mantra for this season — “put the ‘T’ back in Texas” — alludes to infusing his squad with a range of T words in […]
0 comments by Bart D on 9/2/2014
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In yesterday’s Editors’ Roundtable at TSS, we looked at two of the more significant games from week one and identified our off-the-radar developments from the opening weekend of the new season. Today, we take a broader look at the college football landscape by examining two basic kinds of controversies: voting… and Wisconsin’s quarterback situation. * […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/1/2014
The Z Section will often feature a single-issue essay, but week one of a college football season is a good time for a notebook, touching on several items of interest so that you’re brought in touch with a wide cross-section of the college football world as the sport returns to our televisions and the rhythms […]
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We finally have games to review. It’s one of the best feelings any group of college football chroniclers can have. The editorial staff at The Student Section evaluates the two neutral-site games that turned out to be a lot closer than many expected. We also identify the off-the-radar developments from week one that are worth noting. * […]
