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3 college football teams that need to right the ship immediately

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Two weeks of college football are down. Some teams have thrilled and some have fizzled. TSS associate editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey in our weekly roundtable to discuss teams that need to right the ship immediately before their season is lost. Before you read our roundtable make sure to bookmark our […]

Officiating in focus: ball spotting is hard (even for replay reviewers)

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When college football fans and commentators talk about bad officiating decisions every Saturday (or Thursday night, or Friday night), the biggest complaints generally revolve around pass interference, holding, and completed passes. The stakes are high, and holding penalties are so commonplace in the sport that the decision to either make or withhold a call on […]

This is what Les Miles must feel like when his team averages at least four yards per carry in a game. No team has a higher winning percentage in such games since the 2005 FBS season.

Coaching anti-clinic: LSU-Mississippi State was a theater of the absurd

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Coaching college football is serious business. Coaching college football in the SEC is almost a sacred trust. You would think that in a billion-dollar industry, coaches — if they felt they couldn’t personally handle the task of managing endgame situations — would make a relevant adjustment. You’d think that coaches would delegate the responsibility to […]

PROVO, UT – SEPTEMBER 12: Mitchell Juergens #87 of the Brigham Young Cougars catches this 4th down, 4th quarter go ahead touchdown between defenders Darian Thompson #4 and Dylan Sumner-Gardner #29 of the Boise State Broncos at LaVell Edwards Stadium on September 12, 2015 in Provo, Utah. BYU won 35-24. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)

CFB Playoff hopes: 5 teams that helped themselves, Week 2

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EAST LANSING, MI – SEPTEMBER 12: Chris Frey #23 of the Michigan State Spartans sacks Vernon Adams Jr. #3 of the Oregon Ducks at Spartan Stadium on September 12, 2015 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

TSS Top 25 Poll After Week 2

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Every week after all of the games have concluded, 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 week 2. Rank Team Points 1 Ohio State (8) 224 2 Michigan State (1) 207 3 Alabama 197 4 […]

PROVO, UT – SEPTEMBER 12: Mitchell Juergens #87 of the Brigham Young Cougars catches this 4th down, 4th quarter go ahead touchdown between defenders Darian Thompson #4 and Dylan Sumner-Gardner #29 of the Boise State Broncos at LaVell Edwards Stadium on September 12, 2015 in Provo, Utah. BYU won 35-24. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)

Takeaways From Week 2

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Thanks to three games between top 25 opponents, a handful of solid “mid-major” matchups, and a couple of mild upsets, week two of the college football season was one of the most exciting in recent memory. Here are some thoughts and items to take away from this weekend’s action: Michigan State is a national championship […]

EAST LANSING, MI – SEPTEMBER 12: head coach Mark Helfrich of the Oregon Ducks talks to Vernon Adams Jr. #3 of the Oregon Ducks during the game against the Michigan State Spartans at Spartan Stadium on September 12, 2015 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images)

Vernon Adams and Oregon grow together despite loss

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BYU is so lucky! Angry about that? Welcome to college football, pal

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Fans, when told that “YOUR TEAM IS SO LUCKY!”, often get upset. Indeed, it often feels like an insult to be told that your college football team won a game because it was fortunate more than anything else. I’ve been there. Before any of us who write about sports began to watch games as chroniclers, […]

Sep 12, 2015; East Lansing, MI, USA; Oregon Ducks quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. (3) gets grabbed by Michigan State Spartans linebacker Darien Harris (45) during the second quarter at Spartan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Raj Mehta-USA TODAY Sports

New season, same magic for Michigan State

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The complete overhaul of Michigan State football under head coach Mark Dantonio continues, in every conceivable form and fashion. Clearly, the Spartans pull in better talent than they used to. Just as clearly, that talent is coached and deployed better than it ever was under a litany of predecessors, including a fellow by the name […]

All The Right Things Will Be Said, But Expectations Shift for Notre Dame

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Brian Kelly said all the right things after Notre Dame barely got by Virginia on Saturday, but staying positive doesn’t magically makes things better. Situations don’t improve simply because someone might want them to. The Fighting Irish brought a pretty high set of expectations into the season, and the public also expected much of the […]

PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 5: Jahad Thomas #5 of the Temple Owls runs past Marcus Allen #2 of the Penn State Nittany Lions to score a touchdown in the second quarter on September 5, 2015 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jahad Thomas;Marcus Allen

Temple Defeats Cincinnati, Earns Respect It Should Have Gained Last Weekend

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Temple got absolutely zero credit for pummeling Penn State last week. In fact, the Owls received so little recognition for a dominant defense performance (10 sacks, 52 yards allowed over the final three quarters), that it entered Nippert Stadium as a 7-point underdog to preseason conference favorite Cincinnati on Saturday night. Rather than complain about […]

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