0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/1/2015
Every week this season, The Student Section will offer not so much a viewer’s guide — you generally know where to find the game you want — as a vision of what a future college football schedule might look like. I will add: “Should look like.” Before going any further, let this much be said: […]
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The Big Sky Conference has had some of the bigger stars in mid to low major college basketball over the last few seasons. The obvious example is Damian Lillard, who went from star at Weber State to star with the Portland Trail Blazers, but just last year the nation’s leading scorer was none other than […]
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In the second part of our college football media roundtable, published a week ago, many of our panelists discussed the kinds of issues which remain a part of the annual landscape of this sport on television… but weren’t on the radar screen 25 years ago. The shifts witnessed within the college football television industry — […]
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The year 2016 is a leap year, with 29 days in February. The year 2015, as a college football television year, is a “Bo Jackson leap year” for the SEC and CBS. What could that term possibly mean, you ask? It’s actually very simple: Just as the calendar gains a day in a leap year, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/31/2015
Fans, bloggers, pundits — all of us — easily recognize head coaches. On a national level — beyond the realm of the local beat writer or the team-specific specialist — the people who cover college football from a distance will more immediately identify the face of a head coach than the face of an assistant. […]
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As we prepare for a new FBS college football season, it’s worth looking at coaching once again, this time in the form of game management. One of the more remarkable aspects of the 2014 FBS season was that on multiple occasions — not just once — two highly-credentialed head coaches committed grade-school coaching errors… and […]
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Last year, the brand-new nature of the College Football Playoff made it harder to look at the whole of the season in advance and point to specific reasons for concern. Nobody really knew how the CFB Playoff committee would think through its decisions. Everyone had guesses, but no one had definitive answers. This season, it’s […]
Virginia has not beaten Virginia Tech since 2003, and the Cavaliers have defeated Frank Beamer’s boys only once since 1998. If Mike London can’t beat the Hokies now, he probably never will… because he won’t see the 2015 season as Virginia’s head coach.
0 comments by TSS Staff on 8/30/2015
It’s almost time for the games to start! Pull up a chair and let’s talk college football as TSS associate editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things college football. On Thursday, we discussed the biggest games of week one. On Friday, […]
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The college football season officially opened Saturday with Montana’s 38-35 upset of four-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State. Unfortunately, FBS play doesn’t start for a couple more days. With that in mind, here’s this season’s final installment of 7 Random Plays to Fire You Up For College Football. Enjoy!! 7. The Play (2001 Red […]
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I must have seen the movie a thousand times, but never before has Deep Impact made such an impacting impression on me. You know, this is the movie with Morgan Freeman as the president, Tea Leoni as the lowly reporter turned national news breaker, Elijah Wood as the amateur star-gazer turned unlikely hero and one of […]
0 comments by Bart D on 8/29/2015
On Twitter Simon Cvijanović bringing the situation to light. It’ll be interesting to see what Beckman does from here in the legal realm, at least. He suggested that he was taking this flogging of his reputation that way, as most people who feel themselves innocent would. Really, he has no choice, seeing as this ordeal […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/28/2015
As great as a dynastic college program or professional sports organization might be, the prevailing truth about big-time sports remains intact: It’s extremely hard to win repeat championships. Go through the histories of teams that repeated as either professional or collegiate champions. There will always be an exception here and there, but for the most […]
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It’s almost time for college football! Pull up a chair and let’s talk college football as TSS Associate Editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things college football. Yesterday, we discussed the biggest games of week one. Today we talk about neutral site […]
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Ohio State Buckeyes 2014 Record: 14-1 (beat Oregon in CFP National Championship Game) 1 Burning Question: Can the Buckeyes repeat as national champions? Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes were supposed to be a year away from a national championship run when they took the field last season. This idea gained even more traction after the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/27/2015
College football is messy. It always has been. It always will be, no matter how precise a playoff system the sport might devise or revise in the future. Think you have the perfect plan? A college football season’s imperfections and plot twists will usually (though not always — see Texas-USC in 2005) work around it […]
