0 comments by Joe Dexter on 12/10/2015
It’s hard to imagine that we live in a world in which Ohio State and Notre Dame have met on the gridiron only five times during their long histories. Both programs will meet for the first time since 2006 — on a stage very familiar to both programs: the Fiesta Bowl in suburban Phoenix, where Jim […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
This all sounds very familiar. Clear deficiencies with the Indiana basketball program raise the question: Will another trip to the Big Dance — even with a “road team” seed (meaning road jerseys are worn in the first round as a lower seed) save the coach’s job again? Last season, Indiana struggled during various stretches, just […]
0 comments by Phil Harrison
Bowl season is upon us, and a whopping ten teams from the Big Ten are going bowling. Granted, two of them finished the season 5-7, but that’s a sad topic for another day. A bowl game means more practice time, more game film, and an ability to end the season on a high note. Each […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 12/9/2015
With the carnage that Larry Brown has left at another program, the best that one of the top teams in the nation can do this season is play the role of spoiler. SMU, off a 24-point beatdown of a solid Michigan team Tuesday night, is basically playing for pride this season — well, pride and […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Plenty of college football writers — including some at this very site — don’t care much for conference strength debates. I actually don’t mind them at all. This is bread-and-butter water-cooler sports talk. While that kind of conversation can easily turn into a junk-food debate with lots of unsubstantiated and highly selective knee-jerk comments, it’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – SEPTEMBER 3: Quarterback Travis Wilson #7 of the Utah Utes runs for a first down against the Michigan Wolverines at Rice-Eccles Stadium on September 3, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Abelson
Bowl season means a lots of weird matchups in lots of weird places. That creates a slew of quirks that are both fun and, in some cases, historic. Before the nation turns its lonely eyes to the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, here’s a list of ten cool nuggets this year’s bowl slate […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
On Monday evening the three finalists for the 2015 Heisman Trophy were announced. * Alabama running back Derrick Henry * Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson * Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey November 7 was the day Henry truly burst onto the Heisman scene, as he bested front-runner Leonard Fournette in a one-on-one matchup. As the season […]
0 comments by TSS Staff
Three writers that can’t quite agree on anything are ready to sling mud at one another once again in a weekly roundtable series. It’s time for Phil Harrison, Bart Doan, and Terry Johnson to solve the world’s problems one first down at a time in the heartland. It’s the weekly B1G Uglies series, with discussion about […]
of the Oklahoma Sooners against the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on September 12, 2015 in Knoxville, Tennessee.
0 comments by Allen Kenney
Preseason prognosticators figured upstarts Baylor and TCU would duke it out this year for the Big 12 crown. Instead, blue blood Oklahoma returned to the top of the conference, led by transfer quarterback Baker Mayfield and a rejuvenated offense. Mayfield, my pick for Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, and five of his Sooner […]
TUSCALOOSA, AL – NOVEMBER 07: Derrick Henry #2 of the Alabama Crimson Tide rushes away from Jamal Adams #33 of the LSU Tigers in the second quarter at Bryant-Denny Stadium on November 7, 2015 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Abelson on 12/8/2015
The Heisman Trophy finalists were announced Monday evening, and no one can complain about the three selected. Alabama’s Derrick Henry, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey, and Clemson’s Deshaun Watson are the three men invited to New York for Saturday night’s ceremony. Henry had a monster season, by any metric, for the Tide. He set the SEC single-season […]
CLEMSON, SC – OCTOBER 3: Head Coach Dabo Swinney of the Cemson Tigers celebrates after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 24-22 at Clemson Memorial Stadium on October 3, 2015 in Clemson, South Carolina. (Photo by Tyler Smith/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D
Often when you’re doing either some intentional or non-intentional people watchin’, you come across two people and just turn to the person with you and say, “you know, that couple just looks like they go together.” Other times, you say, “that guy and gal just don’t seem to fit.” There’s no real nuance to it […]
0 comments by Bart D on 12/7/2015
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression, and it’s true. It’s why you ideally don’t wear sweatpants to pick up job applications even if you’re only going to pick them up to fill out at home. It’s why single women paint on makeup and dress to the nines for trips […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
When conference partisans say their league has X amount of bowl games — as though that’s something to trumpet from the highest scenic overlook, rolling into the valley — I always like to do something in response at this time of year. The bowl lineup is set. All the bowl teams — 80 of them, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
If Clemson has the best head coach in college football for 2015, Oklahoma has the best assistant. If Dabo Swinney deserves to be the 2015 Coach of the Year in the FBS, Lincoln Riley deserves to be the recipient of the 2015 Broyles Award, given to the top assistant in the sport. As is the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The college football regular season — save Army-Navy — is over. It is time to honor the year’s best, and few topics are more paramount at this point on the calendar than the best coach over the past three months. Saturday, the Big Ten and ACC Championship Games matched the four best power-conference coaches in […]
