0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/25/2015
The Memphis Tigers have given up a combined total of 87 points in their last two games. The Memphis Tigers are 2-0 in their last two games. Coach Justin Fuente’s team, which won the 2014 Miami Beach Bowl by a 55-48 score over BYU, is picking up where it left off last December. This isn’t […]
BLOOMINGTON, IN – SEPTEMBER 5: Nate Sudfeld #7 of the Indiana Hoosiers runs the ball as Brandon Williams #82 of the Southern Illinois Salukis pursues at Memorial Stadium on September 5, 2015 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D on 9/24/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect In the event you don’t feel old enough, the last time Indiana beat Ohio State at a football game was 1988. The Hoosiers have been to all of one bowl game since 1994, which is something remarkable considering being 98 degrees and upright usually gets you into one every few […]
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See the cover image for this story, above? It’s a bus. Two years ago, USC athletic director Pat Haden pulled a man named Lane Kiffin — whom you heard absolutely NOTHING about on Thursday (wink, wink) — off a bus at Los Angeles International Airport and fired him before he got to the school’s campus. […]
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Winning is hard. There is no doubt about it. It is a lot harder than losing. For instance, if a person were so inclined, s/he could lose on purpose. There are no ways to go about winning on purpose. So, yes, winning is much harder than losing — which makes winning, by default, hard. Enter: […]
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Some annual college football conference games are nothing more than that: conference games. They merely exist, and nothing more. Illinois versus Purdue is a conference game. AND? What’s your point? Exactly. Other conference games are can’t-miss blockbusters each year — some over a period of decades (The Iron Bowl, Michigan-Ohio State, USC-UCLA), and some within […]
BOISE, ID – SEPTEMBER 4: Washington Huskies cheerleaders during second half action against the Boise State Broncos on September 4, 2015 at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho. (Photo by Loren Orr/Getty Images)
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The schedule for week four of the season offers a fascinating blend of enlightened and familiarly depressing college football programming decisions. Some aspects of this schedule hit the sweet spot. Others don’t. Yet, the most conspicuous feature of the television slate for week four is that the better instances of time-slotting are — in some […]
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Every Monday night at 10pm, Associate Editor Terry Johnson hosts The Student Section Radio Show on Blog Talk Radio. This week, he interviewed Managing Editor Matt Zemek,
AMES, IA – NOVEMBER 29: Head coach Paul Rhoads of the Iowa State Cyclones reacts to a call in the second half of play against the West Virginia Mountaineers at Jack Trice Stadium on November 29, 2014 in Ames, Iowa. The West Virginia Mountaineers defeated the Iowa State Cyclones 37-24. (Photo by David Purdy/Getty Images)
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As college football enters week four, teams are building and burning their reputations. This era of college football is about winning now. When coaches don’t win, they get moved out. With only three games into the season, let’s open up a discussion about head coaches that need to get their ships turned around. If they […]
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Week four of 2015 looks a lot like week four of 2014. Good games on paper are few and far between, but if 2015 can rekindle the chaos of 2014, week four is sure to incite parties and break hearts across the country. Last year week four saw Indiana stun Missouri in Columbia; Mississippi State […]
BLACKSBURG, VA – SEPTEMBER 7: Braxton Miller #1 of the Ohio State Buckeyes runs for a 53-yard touchdown in the third quarter against the Virginia Tech Hokies at Lane Stadium on September 7, 2015 in Blacksburg, Virginia. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
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Bret Bielema — the big talker who belittled Ohio State’s schedule and then lost to a Mid-American Conference team at home — doesn’t deserve to be seen as a somebody in college football right now. Bielema — the man who gets into arguments with coaches after getting waxed by their teams on his own home […]
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All offseason, websites and bloggers and television pundits make projections and assessments about the college football schedule. Plenty of perfectly valid points are raised. It’s not as though these analyses are incorrect or misguided. They work with the information they have available. Team X gets a midseason bye week before its biggest road game. Team […]
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The biggest game in the American Athletic Conference was thought to be Thursday night’s scrap between Cincinnati and Memphis at the Liberty Bowl. Make no mistake: It’s still a huge game with major conference ramifications. Due to the nature of the beast that is college football, however, the game isn’t quite the epic clash and […]
HOUSTON, TX – SEPTEMBER 05: Greg Ward Jr. #1 of the Houston Cougars rushes with the ball in the second half against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles on September 5, 2015 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
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It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to unveil this week’s Group of Five Power Poll. Thanks to a few upsets, the top seven looks much different than it did last Wednesday. Please remember that the rankings are fluid and can (and often will) change from week to week. With that disclaimer out of the way, […]
