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Utah linebacker Gionni Paul (No. 13) collected a fumble recovery and an interception on Saturday. When Michigan stops coughing up the ball, says Student Section associate editor Terry Johnson, the Wolverines have a chance to be a very good team… not next season, but this season.

Utah a Victim of Arbitrary Polls

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Polls are fun for the people doing and consuming them. However, for the people whose lives are directly altered by them, well, not so much. With the latter being at the mercy of the former for reasons mostly still unknown, the Utah Utes find themselves in Still Disrespected Land, USA — population 10 or 12… […]

TSS Top 25 Poll After Week 4

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At the conclusion of each week’s games, the staff at the Student Section will team with writers from other Bloguin sites to publish a Top 25 poll. Here’s what our poll looks like after the conclusion of week four. Rank Team Points 1 Mississippi (2) 211 2 Ohio State (5) 207 3 Michigan State (1) […]

Your conference-based argument is invalid: everyone’s struggling

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We preface this piece by saying that the American Athletic Conference’s West Division is not struggling this season. Memphis, Houston and Navy could be in the process of giving us three teams which will be in the Group of Five’s New Year’s Six bowl hunt when November begins. However, that’s not the realm of the […]

Retained character, changed character: a season in search of itself

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College football is predictable in its volatility. It is stable in its lack of rock-solid certitude for all but a handful of teams in most seasons. This sport is unsurprising in how often it surprises, routine in its penchant for the grand plot twist. Yet, even by those standards — even with decades upon decades […]

Duke picked up a critical win at Georgia Tech last weekend. The Blue Devils probably didn’t expect Virginia to be an equally consequential contest the following weekend, but the other teams in the ACC Coastal didn’t expect Duke to represent such a key game last season. Duke is now finding out what it’s like to be on the other side of the tracks. Virginia-Duke will do a lot to shape the evolving ACC Coastal race.

Georgia Tech, Duke, and the paradox of staying power

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On a Saturday with 50 or more games, it’s easy to identify certain contests as being more important or attractive because they’re top-25 games or in-division games. Yet, those games stand out BEFORE, not after, the final result. When one sifts through the whole of a weekend — and in mid-December, the full regular season […]

Takeaways From Week 4

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Week four of the college football season was arguably the best one yet. Despite having just two games between top 25 opponents, the schedule produced a number of exciting contests and highly significant developments. Here are some things to take away from this weekend’s action on the gridiron. The Pac-12 is very much alive in […]

WACO, TX – SEPTEMBER 26: Seth Russell #17 of the Baylor Bears looks for an open receiver against the Rice Owls in the first quarter at McLane Stadium on September 26, 2015 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

TCU and Baylor take different paths on their Big 12 collision course

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One month down, two months to go until the Friday after Thanksgiving. Baylor and TCU have so much to overcome in October and most of November, but for now, they haven’t fallen off the ledge, and they’ve painted different portraits in the process. * For the third straight week, Baylor’s offense dismantled another opponent and […]

EAST LANSING, MI – SEPTEMBER 12: Head coach Mark Helfrich of the Oregon Ducks against the Michigan State Spartans at Spartan Stadium on September 12, 2015 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

What the hell is going on at Oregon?

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2015 feels a lot like 2007… but will the storm be followed by the calm?

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As of Sunday morning — September 27, 2015 — the college football season is still relatively young. A year ago, a wild September was followed by a stability-bearing October and a not-that-crazy November. The march to the first College Football Playoff certainly wasn’t free of clutter or controversy, but that controversy was mostly the making […]

C.J. Prosise Is Emerging As A Heisman Candidate

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have gotten off to a 4-0 start in a rather peculiar way. Instead of relying upon their starting quarterback, starting running back, and other projected starters elsewhere, the Irish have had to relegate themselves to the arm of the previously unproven DeShone Kizer, and safety-turned-slot-receiver-turned-running back C.J. Prosise. Forget for […]

Arkansas, Tennessee, and the SEC’s living hell

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Yes, if you’re Vanderbilt or Mississippi State — with very few SEC football championships to your name (none for the Commodores, one for the Bulldogs, in 1941) — you have lived the most impoverished existence in the conference over the longest period of time. However, for certain programs at the end of September, life in […]

EUGENE, OR – SEPTEMBER 26: Quarterback Travis Wilson #7 of the Utah Utes runs the ball in for a touchdown as safety Tyree Robinson #3 of the Oregon Ducks gives chase in the third quarter against the Oregon Ducks at Autzen Stadium on September 26, 2015 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Steve Dykes/Getty Images)

Utah Plays Perfectly, Demolishes Oregon

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Friday in our roundtable discussion, we asked the question, “Which team will separate itself from the field in Pac-12 this weekend?” For those of you that didn’t read that article (but you should, as several of the things we predicted have come to pass), I picked UCLA and Utah to emerge as the top teams […]

Watch: Penn State’s Fat Guy Touchdown Turns the Tide

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Faced with a third and 11 on its own 25, Penn State’s defense — trying to prevent San Diego State from scoring — was hoping for a stop. However, the Nittany Lions got a lot more than that. The Penn State pass rush got after San Diego State quarterback Maxwell Smith, forcing a fumble. Defensive […]

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