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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson on 12/30/2014
Now that Jim Harbaugh is officially the head coach at Michigan, everyone’s speculating about the future of Wolverine football. Some think UM will supplant Ohio State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin as the flag bearer for the conference, while others remain skeptical. To be honest: there are plenty of arguments on both sides. Here’s what the […]
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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The term alma mater means nourishing mother in Latin, and while it has a variety of uses, it usually refers to the place where one went to school-particularly college. In that sense, the school was the nourishing mother, or the place where you were able to get the sustaining materials necessary to grow. And while […]
0 comments by Bart D on 12/29/2014
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart They always say the two guys you have to worry the most about in a fight are the one with nothing to lose and the one who’s the most drunk, unable to feel normal pain and in full use of his “beer muscles.” If they happen to be […]
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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author on Twitter @TheCoachBart Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can, actually, go home again. Wolfe’s novel in 1940, published posthumously, was titled You Can’t Go Home Again, which makes sense considering the content, but wasn’t written with any futuristic inkling of Michigan football and Jim Harbaugh. It what has been […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Two major storylines in college football converge this Thursday afternoon in Arlington, Texas. One is deeply rooted in the sport’s history, while the other is powerfully and centrally connected to the story of the 2014 season. Both are equally compelling, and that’s why the 2015 Cotton Bowl is easily the best of the non-playoff bowl […]
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As the 2015 Rose Bowl approaches, the defending national champions from Florida State return to the scene of their crowning moment nearly 12 months ago against Auburn. The team that stands in their way has been more than a decade in the making. A perfect storm in the 21st century has made Oregon an annual […]
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Who: No. 3 Florida State Seminoles (13-0, ACC Champions) vs. No. 2 Oregon Ducks (12-1, Pac-12 Champions) What: The Rose Bowl Game Presented by Northwestern Mutual — College Football Playoff Semifinal Where: Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California When: Thursday, January 1, 2015 — 5:00 P.M. EST (ESPN) The first ever official College Football Playoff semifinal will […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/28/2014
The (December) 2014 Orange Bowl is notable because it marks Brent Musburger’s first-ever television call of the game. The Orange is the final major New Year’s bowl which can be added to the venerable broadcaster’s sprawling resume. That’s significant… and yet it pales in comparison to what the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Mississippi State […]
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This has been a magnificent, resplendent, roaring rebound of a season for the Texas Christian Horned Frogs. Stuck in the muck at 4-8 in 2013, the Frogs faced plenty of questions — all of them legitimate — about their very ability to survive, let alone thrive, in the Big 12. Yes, TCU had endured a […]
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While the present moment is definitely a happy one for both the Arizona Wildcats and the Boise State Broncos, there’s usually an undercurrent of “what might have been” attached to many of our satisfactions in life. This is very much the case on the eve of the second 2014 Fiesta Bowl (since it is being […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/27/2014
The Cotton Bowl faded into relative obscurity over the past two decades, due to the death of the Southwest Conference and a reshuffling of the New Year’s Day bowl lineup. Beginning in the latter half of the 1990s and continuing for a number of years, the Cotton Bowl was moved to a late-morning kickoff for […]
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The Orange Bowl’s reputation and stature took at hit in the Bowl Championship Series era. Think of Louisville-Wake Forest in 2007 and Cincinnati-Virginia Tech in 2009 in terms of buzz. Consider 2010 Iowa-Georgia Tech and 2012 West Virginia-Clemson in terms of attendance. This was not the same kind of event it was in the early […]
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The annual renewal of what are now called the New Year’s Six bowls marks the perfect time to look back at these classic postseason events. The Fiesta Bowl doesn’t own the longevity of the other New Year’s Six bowls, but its most memorable games left quite an imprint on the college football history books and […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/24/2014
A personal opinion: Christmas Day should shelve the sports. No day during the year should be more reserved for quiet time and a respite from frantic commercial activity than Christmas Day. * end of personal opinion* With that having been said, football fans who are at least 35 years old almost certainly recall the days […]
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He’s making a list. Checking it twice. Studying kickers and when he should ice. Santa Coach is coming… to town. * HO, HO, HO! MERRRRRRRRY BOWL SEASON! This isn’t about being naughty or nice, as you can see from the adjusted song lyrics above. This is about making some basic game management decisions as a […]
