0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 12/27/2014
With conference play beginning across the nation next week, one pressing question applies to much of the Midwest: When did the Big Ten become the “Mediocre 13 and Wisconsin?” Outside of the Badgers, nearly every other team has fallen to a lesser opponent or otherwise faces serious issues coming into Big Ten play. However, it […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Cotton Bowl faded into relative obscurity over the past two decades, due to the death of the Southwest Conference and a reshuffling of the New Year’s Day bowl lineup. Beginning in the latter half of the 1990s and continuing for a number of years, the Cotton Bowl was moved to a late-morning kickoff for […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Orange Bowl’s reputation and stature took at hit in the Bowl Championship Series era. Think of Louisville-Wake Forest in 2007 and Cincinnati-Virginia Tech in 2009 in terms of buzz. Consider 2010 Iowa-Georgia Tech and 2012 West Virginia-Clemson in terms of attendance. This was not the same kind of event it was in the early […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The annual renewal of what are now called the New Year’s Six bowls marks the perfect time to look back at these classic postseason events. The Fiesta Bowl doesn’t own the longevity of the other New Year’s Six bowls, but its most memorable games left quite an imprint on the college football history books and […]
Where will Mike Gundy coach in 2015? The outcome of the 2014 Bedlam game could very well provide the answer.
0 comments by Allen Kenney on 12/24/2014
After reading Oklahoma State athletic director Mike Holder’s recent comments about Mike Gundy, it would be hard to imagine a more bizarre working relationship in major college athletics. The money passage from Holder’s interview with NewsOK.com columnist Berry Tramel: In the past, Holder and OSU coach Mike Gundy have disagreed over scheduling. Gundy prefers a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
A personal opinion: Christmas Day should shelve the sports. No day during the year should be more reserved for quiet time and a respite from frantic commercial activity than Christmas Day. * end of personal opinion* With that having been said, football fans who are at least 35 years old almost certainly recall the days […]
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He’s making a list. Checking it twice. Studying kickers and when he should ice. Santa Coach is coming… to town. * HO, HO, HO! MERRRRRRRRY BOWL SEASON! This isn’t about being naughty or nice, as you can see from the adjusted song lyrics above. This is about making some basic game management decisions as a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The story of any sporting event — the central measure of meaning found in one night’s athletic competition — is sometimes found in the how and the why of things. How did one team dominate the other? Why was one side able to establish leverage and seize opportunities? On other occasions, however, a given game’s […]
0 comments by Terry Johnson and Matt Zemek on 12/23/2014
Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo wanted to scratch an itch to become a head coach, and after Colorado State couldn’t land Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost, the Rams pursued Bobo, and he accepted the job. One SEC offensive coordinator, Jim McElwain, left Alabama to lead the Rams, and now another SEC offensive coordinator has made […]
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Colorado State knocked the ball out of the park by hiring Mike Bobo. The under-appreciated Georgia offensive coordinator has a distinguished resume and is just what the program needs to build upon the success of the Jim McElwain era. Make no mistake about it: Bobo isn’t perfect. Anyone who’s spent five minutes on a college […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart We’ve all been there. Your buddies tell you to go to a certain restaurant because the burgers are great, or the steaks are amazing, and you won’t be disappointed. We’ll stick with burgers in this example. So you get a Friday night and you’re all stoked to go […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/22/2014
The first Miami Beach Bowl was a messy and poorly-coached but immensely entertaining game. Memphis and BYU put on a double-overtime show for a national audience… and no one’s going to remember that years from now. The main thing — possibly the only thing — casual fans will take away from this game is that […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In the newly-expanded bowl lineup of 38 games, some of the four first-time bowls are what you’d expect in terms of the quality of matchup, especially since they’re all played before Christmas. It’s generally accepted that pre-Christmas bowls represent the undercard section of bowl season, with the matchups getting better after the final NFL Sunday of […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/21/2014
The bowl season began with five games on Saturday. What’s worth retaining from these games? Here’s a short list. 5 – GAME MANAGEMENT, BOWL STYLE: COACHES WHO TREATED BOWLS AS FUN EVENTS WERE REWARDED This is a topic we wrote about earlier in the week: Bowl games demand a different approach relative to the regular […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 12/19/2014
With the bowl games starting Saturday, I thought it would be interesting to take a quick peek at last year and which players had the best individual performances (in a winning effort): * Teddy Bridgewater — Louisville Stat Line: 35/45, 447 yards passing, 3 TD, 0 INT, 1 rushing TD Final Score: Louisville 36, Miami […]
