0 comments by The Editors on 8/12/2014
Yesterday, in part one of our coaching roundtable here at TSS, we looked specifically at coordinators. Today, we broaden our focus in the realm of coaching. There are still coordinators to talk about, but we’re also interested in examining head coaches, surprising transactions, and the notion of whether fixed principles should be adhered to when […]
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There is one spot for the teams that aren’t in the Big 5 conferences to make a nationally relevant bowl game. Jerry Palm has it as the Peach Bowl, Phil Steele has it as the Fiesta Bowl. The game itself is up in the air, but there is one fact that doesn’t change: There is […]
Frank Beamer’s coordinators and other assistant coaches performed well this past weekend. Whether you choose to emphasize defense or offense — that’s your call.
0 comments by The Editors on 8/11/2014
The start of the 2014 college football season comes ever closer. You know you want to read about coaching intrigues, so that you can discuss them with your buddies at the water cooler or on the last few non-football weekends of August with your friends. The Student Section’s editorial team is here to help. We’ll […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
The SEC will see a lot of new faces under center this season, as the conference had four signal callers taken in the 2014 NFL Draft. Texas A&M will try to live life without Johnny Manziel, Georgia has to replace Aaron Murray, Alabama must move on from A.J. McCarron, and LSU will be without the […]
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.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/10/2014
Yesterday, we looked at the 10 most imprisoned teams from the 2013 season, the teams that always got trapped in the kinds of games they rarely if ever won. Today, we consider the 10 teams that consistently managed to do one of the following: A) It played the type of game that suited its personnel […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/9/2014
How can the story of a season — and the teams within it — be told? Part of the beauty of college football, with a vastness that stretches beyond 120 teams, is that there are so many ways in which to engage in storytelling. Today, the Statistical Summer continues by looking at 10 teams that […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Believe it or not, college football starts just two weeks from today when Sam Houston State faces off against Eastern Washington. With that in mind, it’s time for me to continue my 7 Plays That Will Get You Ready for College Football Series. This week’s edition will feature tackle breaking TDs… with a few ankle-breaking […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/8/2014
On Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in O’Bannon v. NCAA, the trial that captured the attention of the college sports community. In a narrow and very immediate sense, the NCAA lost. Yet, the nature of “losing” is much more clear-cut on a court where basketballs are dunked, […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
There are just three weeks until college football season kicks off. One of the interesting debates in the country is which team will get shocked in the first week or two. It happens every year, and with the recent news on autonomy arriving for the Big 5 conferences, it’s important to remember that the teams outside […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Yesterday, we looked at 10 teams that needed statistical advantages in order to win games in 2013. Today, we’ll look at the teams whose seasons (and trends) cut in the opposite direction. These teams won in spite of the stats, not because of them: * 10 – TROY Last season, the Trojans were 2-4 in […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 8/7/2014
In a look at the lighter side of college football, Chris Hardwick’s comedy game show @Midnight surprisingly featured University of Kentucky defensive tackle Cory Johnson on it’s nightly feature called “hashtagwars”. You may have read about Johnson’s weight fluctuations a couple of days ago over at the Big Lead and this lead to @Midnight’s hashtag war […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In a development that does not rate as a surprise, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors voted on Thursday to grant autonomy to the “power 5” conferences. The 16-2 vote, while undeniably a seminal moment in the history of intercollegiate athletics, is just the start of a long process that will continue to reshape […]
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
With FBS college football scheduled to start in less than three weeks (Georgia State hosts Abilene Christian on Aug. 27), it’s time to make some preseason predictions. Today’s edition breaks down what I think will happen in the Sun Belt in 2014. As always, if you disagree or want me to comment on anything further, […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney
Under the standards of the NCAA’s “runoff rule,” the requirements for obtaining a waiver of eligibility are pretty clear. For those acquainted with the morass of rules that constitute the law of the land in college sports, the runoff rule almost looks refreshingly simple. If the reports that Missouri is supporting Dorial Green-Beckham’s request for […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
On Wednesday, The Student Section produced a compilation of win-loss records over the past 11 seasons in terms of statistical advantages and deficiencies. These records since 2003 — for teams with more in-game first downs, yards, penalties, turnovers, and more — were tabulated in bulk, not in terms of the specific teams. In this latest installment […]
