0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/2/2015
For the Alabama football program, gritty defense and making plays when they mattered the most on that side of the ball have been staples in the Nick Saban era over the past decade or so. Success in these and other realms of competition have allowed the Tide to earn BCS national championships in the 2009, […]
Urban Meyer, a superstar head coach and a national figure in college football, spoke at Big Ten Media Days on Monday in Chicago. Big Ten Network did not provide live coverage of his session with the media. ESPN deserves plenty of criticism for how it elevates the SEC and undercuts the levels of exposure it gives to conferences such as the ACC and Big 12. However, when BTN can’t provide live coverage of Meyer, Mark Dantonio, and the coaches of its other big-name programs, the collection of factors that feed into conference bias becomes a lot more complicated. It’s not just about ESPN loving the SEC too much; it’s about BTN and Pac-12 Networks being markedly inadequate when covering their own conferences. Conference bias is, in other words, a two-way street and a multi-source problem. ESPN’s competitors have to do a better job.
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 1/1/2015
With a loss in the Rose Bowl, Florida State’s two-season-long winning streak is now at an end. Ironically, the ‘Noles won’t make a return visit to the national championship game because they didn’t do what they’ve done in each of the last two seasons – make the most of their opportunities. That’s what made the […]
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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart Well, the dream is dead. Auburn lost, and thus, the world is not treated to a free Bloomin’ Onion tomorrow at Outback Steakhouse. Team Coconut Shrimp won (Wisconsin). They always say the quickest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, and unless you were a Wisconsin […]
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How can one sum up the view from Eugene in the wake of Oregon’s shocking Rose Bowl blowout of Florida State? It’s a view defined by refutation. Oregon spoke loudly on a picture-postcard New Year’s Day afternoon in the Arroyo Seco… but not with any words. The Ducks were as gorgeous and crisp as the […]
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The years come and go — a reality never more present than on New Year’s Day — and sports continue to amaze us. The new year of 2015 didn’t waste much time causing our mouths to drop, our brains to explode, our hearts to thump-thump-thump away. Like a slow-motion train wreck, one calamity after another […]
Florida State beat the Georgia Tech team that thrashed Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl. Are we really going to sit here and say that Florida State should not have been seeded first in the playoff? Being seeded third had a considerable impact on the Noles’ postseason fate.
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Behind a solid effort on both sides of the ball, Georgia Tech dismantled Mississippi State and proved that it should finish the season in the Top 10. Make no mistake about it: this was the most impressive win of 2014 campaign for the Yellow Jackets. After all, Mississippi State was the No. 1 team in […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/31/2014
This was supposed to be the Fiesta Bowl Boise State would not win. This was supposed to be the splash of cold water on an afternoon in suburban Phoenix when — interestingly enough — the weather outside University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale was cold, gray, and wet. This was supposed to be the main-event […]
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TCU came out and had a point to prove. The Horned Frogs did just that in the Peach Bowl with a dominating win over Ole Miss, which defeated both of the SEC participants in the “New Year’s Six.” While being left out of the playoff along with conference-mate Baylor, one had to wonder if TCU […]
Can Jim Harbaugh be a success running the Michigan program he once played for? (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
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Under the current paradigm of college football success, Michigan is not a great job. It’s located in a region of the country that is bleeding jobs and people. The weather sucks. The Wolverines play in a punchline of a conference. In the era of realignment, we’ve moneyballed college football by fixating on proximity to recruits […]
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Dear Rose Bowl, Red roses are meant for ladies, but you are that special grandfather who loves flowers, especially the big rose painted in the middle of your lush football field, the one America gets to see in all its splendor on New Year’s afternoon. You’re always dressed up for a big occasion, and you […]
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Before the 1978 Sugar Bowl, Bear Bryant had Woody Hayes try on his houndstooth hat (above). Nick Saban doesn’t wear houndstooth hats, and Urban Meyer doesn’t wear a white button-down shirt with a red tie and black pants. Yet, when Ohio State and Alabama meet on New Year’s Night in New Orleans, they’ll recall the […]
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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart It was around this time last year when we all knew what was coming down the pike with certain teams. Oklahoma had just wasted Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, and basically, three things became totally obvious and fool proof … 1. Oklahoma was going to ride this momentum […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/30/2014
War is always a defeat for humanity, said Pope John Paul II. Karol Wojtyla, bless his heart, wasn’t a college football fan — if he had been, he would have realized that in at least one case, “war” was a blessing. It’s true that Steve Spurrier versus Bobby Bowden from 1990 through 2002 was extremely […]
