0 comments by Steve Fetch on 1/14/2015
With conference season (finally) underway, the college basketball landscape is starting to take shape a bit and teams can more comfortably be sorted into tiers. While this means we have seen some surprising teams (I’ll admit I didn’t see Oklahoma State coming), it also means we have some disappointing teams. Sadly, the latter are what […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The 2014 college football season, now over, is only beginning to be processed. This was a major transitional moment in the sport’s 146-year history. It marked the passing of the baton from the Bowl Championship Series — 16 years of tumult and upheaval — to the College Football Playoff. We all had a sense this […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart Well, we’ve come and gone through one year of the CFB Playoff, and we survived to tell about it. Some of the myths were debunked … like folks not tuning into the regular season with as much fervor … but we learned a lot this year. Most of […]
0 comments by Bart D on 1/13/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart The world has now had a day to digest the finality of the first College Football Playoff, which ended with an Ohio State championship. You’ve probably read a healthy amount about those Buckeyes … and rightfully so. This will never happen again, a third-string quarterback coming off the […]
ARLINGTON, TX – JANUARY 12: Running back Thomas Tyner #24 of the Oregon Ducks gets stopped at the 1 yard line in the second quarter against the Ohio State Buckeyes during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at AT&T Stadium on January 12, 2015 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Even though the Ohio State offense will receive most of the credit for its victory over Oregon in the College Football Playoff’s first title game, it was the Buckeye defense that won the national championship. Make no mistake about it: the Scarlett and Gray offense turned in another outstanding performance in this contest. Cardale Jones […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
It is hard to win a football game when losing the turnover battle by three. It is nearly impossible to win that same game by three scores. However, Ohio State claimed the first playoff-era national championship in those very circumstances. The recipe for victory was quite simple: dominance up front on both ends of the […]
during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at AT&T Stadium on January 12, 2015 in Arlington, Texas.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
On January 8, 2007, Urban Meyer ushered in the Southeastern Conference’s reign over the rest of college football. The Ohio State Buckeyes absorbed a defeat that shook up the Big Ten for the next several years. Eight years later, Meyer presided over another decisive national championship game victory, only this time, he led Ohio State […]
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0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 1/12/2015
Former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel has made his way down to Arlington, Texas for tonight’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game between Ohio State and Oregon. If there was any question as to who Tressel was supporting (there wasn’t), his red sweater vest while on the field and this tweet have answered it; TIME […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Oregon coach Mark Helfrich will have a chance to steal the show on Monday night in Arlington, Texas, in the first-ever College Football Playoff National Championship Game. However, there is no question that as gameday arrives and the Ducks prepare to face the Buckeyes, the center of attention is Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer. […]
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Prop bets are pretty sucker-ific. But it’s the College Football Playoff Championship Game — and the first one in history at that. Who’s it going to hurt if we just take a look at what online gaming site Bovada has to offer? Let me hit you with five enticing prop bets that might make Monday […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer and Matt Zemek
“Overture, coitins, lights. This is it, you’ll hit the heights. And oh, what heights we’ll hiiiiiiit. On with the show, this is iiiiiiiiit!” — The Bugs Bunny Overture, Looney Tunes * Student Section writer Ryan Palencer and editor Matt Zemek discuss tonight’s national title game in six questions: 1. This is the first time a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/11/2015
For many of us, the scales even out in life if we live long enough. The Kansas City Royals eventually made the World Series again. The San Francisco Giants, with no World Series titles since coming to the Bay Area in the late 1950s, then won three in the past five seasons. Bo Ryan finally […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
College football and college basketball ARE different. These sports ARE apples and oranges. You can’t play 68-team football tournaments. You can’t reduce a basketball field to four teams after just 13 games. Basketball teams have a real non-conference season. Football teams determine clear-cut conference champions (well, except for the Big 12), whereas a two-way tie […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
It is hard to make the Notre Dame and Virginia offenses look bad. No one had been able to do so prior to Saturday. However, the proverbial rock met the hard place when the two squared off in South Bend. Coming into the game, Notre Dame was leading the nation in offensive efficiency while Virginia […]
