0 comments by Kevin Causey on 12/7/2014
It was Championship Weekend and heartbreak was expected across the board, but the teams with the most on the line didn’t fall prey to the upset bug. In a twisting finish to a season that has seen “chaos” rule around every corner, the top six teams in the AP poll won their games. Of course, […]
0 comments by Scott on 12/6/2014
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0 comments by Ryan Palencer
The SEC Championship Game that everyone thought would be a blowout did not defy expectations. After a full season in which the SEC West and SEC East lived in different worlds, the matchup of champions from the two divisions was as lopsided as it figured to be. From the first drive of the game, Alabama […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Pac-12’s decision to stage a conference championship game at Levi’s Stadium in San Francisco made sense on a conceptual level. The league’s headquarters are located in the city, which is the geographical center of a conference that stretches from Seattle in the Northwest to Tucson in the Southwest and Boulder, Colorado, in the Rocky […]
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0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/5/2014
On a Thursday that swung the coaching carousel ’round and ’round, lots of college football writers and pundits, including those close to the program, viewed Nebraska’s surprise hiring of Mike Riley with approval: Fans and onlookers weren’t as charitable or as optimistic, to say the least: The split in opinion is obvious for a number […]
Kansas is facing yet another coaching search
0 comments by Steve Fetch
As a Kansas fan and alum, football season is a bit less exciting than basketball season to say the least. The one “positive” to being a Kansas fan is I have gotten really good at going through coaching searches. This is the third search for a head coach Kansas has undertaken since Mark Mangino left […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
With the College Football Playoff, more teams are in position to raise the trophy at the end of the season. What used to be settled in one game will now be settled in three. In the past, Championship Weekend was essentially the playoff that separated the teams with the championship pedigree from those without. With […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 12/4/2014
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Follow the author @RyanPalencer Age is just a number. That is a statement that is typically just for the elderly. However, on Wednesday night, Wisconsin learned the hard way at the hands of freshmen-oriented Duke that this can be the case. The Badgers, who fall on their home floor about […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
After the seventh week of the 2014 college football season, it sure seemed that a repeat of the crazy 2007 season was a distinct possibility. In 2007, Pittsburgh (above, cover photo) stunned West Virginia on the final Saturday of the regular season to knock the Mountaineers out of the BCS National Championship Game. On that […]
0 comments by Bart Doan and Matt Zemek
Would you be nervous if you spoke to the College Football Playoff Selection Committee today or any time before the start of the Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday night? It wouldn’t be a congressional committee or an executive committee, but it would be the committee that will make college football history on the sport’s first-ever […]
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Welcome to the latest “winners and losers.” In this edition, we break down the winners and losers from the ACC-Big Ten challenge. It had a few marquee games, some other games (to put it mildly for teams such as Clemson and Northwestern), and a lot of storylines. WINNERS Duke Blue Devils Holy hell, this team is […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 12/3/2014
The identity of Rick Pitino teams holds true for this new Louisville squad: The Cardinals once again possess athletic defenders who close off passing lanes and revel in a high-energy, helter-skelter style of basketball. The victim Tuesday night was Ohio State, a team which — unlike Louisville — thrived in settled halfcourt situations. The Cardinals’ relentless […]
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Put three college football writers in a room to talk about the Nebraska coaching search. Add water. Watch three different views sprout in three different directions. This is the joy of opinion-giving. You don’t need to take the cookie cutter from the kitchen drawer. Why are views of the Nebraska coaching search so different? There […]
