Archives

CLEMSON, SC – NOVEMBER 07: Deshaun Watson #4 of the Clemson Tigers runs with the ball against the Florida State Seminoles during their game at Memorial Stadium on November 7, 2015 in Clemson, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

TSS Top 25 Poll After Week 12

0 comments by on 11/23/2015

At the conclusion of each week’s games, the staff at the Student Section will team with writers from other Bloguin sites to publish a Top 25 poll. Here’s the latest installment, with some notes and analysis about our panel’s choices after a very exciting week 12. Rank Team Points 1 Clemson (6) 174 2 Alabama […]

Case Studies: South Florida

0 comments by

Willie Taggart, welcome back to the list of hot coaching names. Taggart — remember him? — was the artist formerly known as the architect of Western Kentucky football. Taggart, in relatively short order, guided the Hilltoppers from the 0-12 cellar at the end of the 2009 season (under former coach David Elson) to a 7-5 […]

Case Studies: Utah

0 comments by

If South Florida is the classic example of the late-November surge no one anticipated, the Utah Utes model the exact opposite case study: the late multi-game losing skid which abruptly turns a team’s first-ever division title in its new conference into a jarringly barren season. Utah — playoff contender for two and a half months […]

Coaching notebook: how reputations are (and aren’t) changing

0 comments by

We have just two weeks left in the regular season for a relatively small group of teams (those playing conference championship games or in one of a few conferences such as the Sun Belt and the Big 12), and only one week for most FBS programs. We’re not handing out awards here, but we are […]

Coaching carousel: match game

0 comments by

Schools need to have their ideal candidates and their backup candidates. Coaches can aspire to pursue certain jobs, but they should in most cases maintain reasonable expectations of what they’re likely to be able to obtain. Some of them should be content to stay where they are. Fans and pundits are busy trying to figure […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – OCTOBER 25: Head coach Chuck Pagano of the Indianapolis Colts looks on against the New Orleans Saints during a game at Lucas Oil Stadium on October 25, 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Saints defeated the Colts 27-21. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

Chuck Pagano is Miami’s Pete Carroll if the Canes hire him

0 comments by

Yo, Miami, if you give me a fourth of what you’re paying Korn Ferry, I’ll go find a coach for you. Or, hell, I’ll just give it to you here: Chuck Pagano. There will be plenty of rumors, innuendo, he-said-she-said over the coming months as the Hurricanes attempt to fill their vacancy. It’s a very […]

College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: Week 12

0 comments by

At our count last week, there will still 16 teams left alive in the College Football Playoff hunt. Now, with just two weeks left to go, we are down to 13. TCU was eliminated when they picked up their second loss, Wisconsin’s chances ended when Iowa clinched the Big Ten West, and Houston’s pipe dream […]

This is what Les Miles must feel like when his team averages at least four yards per carry in a game. No team has a higher winning percentage in such games since the 2005 FBS season.

10 reasons firing Les Miles would be really dumb (unless Jimbo Fisher is sealed)

0 comments by

It might happen. It seems as though the political and financial winds are swirling to the point that it WILL happen. We’re not dismissing the real possibility that it COULD happen. However, it never SHOULD happen, with the possible allowance of one very tenuous exception which we’ll address below. Les Miles really could be fired […]

Saturday’s biggest winner? Nick Saban

0 comments by on 11/22/2015

It was a very good Saturday for Nick Saban. See that photo above? That’s Saban taking the team picture with the 1998 Michigan State Spartans. The 1998 Spartans did not possess championship aspirations, and they did not fulfill them. Michigan State lingered in — if not obscurity — “second-class status” for quite some time following […]

MADISON, WI – OCTOBER 03: Head Coach Kirk Ferentz of the Iowa Hawkeyes stands on the sidelines during the first half against the Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Stadium on October 03, 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo by Mike McGinnis/Getty Images)

13-0 — if it was so easy, we’d see it more often

0 comments by

Hitting a baseball. Winning 70 NBA games. 16-0 in the NFL. Winning the Grand Slam in golf or tennis — ask Serena Williams. These are some of the hardest things to do in sports. We know this intellectually, on a “head level,” but do we really appreciate the enormity of the task and what it […]

Zeke Elliott, Ohio State, and handling frustration the wrong way

0 comments by

When you flood the basement, the rats come out. It was a long time coming for Ohio State — the loss to Michigan State, that is. The other stuff is just a lead-up to it. The fact that Ohio State had ripped off more than 20 straight wins is truly remarkable, even more so when […]

Was the Ohio State Quarterback Situation a Curse?

0 comments by

You know the saying; “If you have two quarterbacks, you actually have none.” That trend was supposed to be bucked with Ohio State this season, and there was good reason to believe so. Except in Ohio State’s case, rather than two, the Buckeyes had a trio of signal-callers, all with proven track records. Back was […]

NORMAN, OK – NOVEMBER 21: Matt Dimon #94, Steven Parker #10 and Baker Mayfield #6 of the Oklahoma Sooners celebrate a failed two-point conversion by the TCU Horned Frogs in the fourth quarter at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on November 21, 2015 in Norman, Oklahoma. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

TCU-Oklahoma Reaction: Give Sooners Credit for Winning

0 comments by

In nail-biter like the TCU-Oklahoma game which unfolded on a crisp November night filled with playoff intensity, it’s easy to come up with a number of different takes about what just transpired. After all, in a one-point ballgame, a number of things could have happened that would have produced an entirely different outcome. However, there […]

Oklahoma State is hunted down… and out of the playoff

0 comments by

Mike Gundy has done amazing work in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Nothing which happened Saturday night was going to change that fact. Nothing which happens for the rest of this season can change that fact. Oklahoma State — not Oklahoma, not Nebraska, not Texas, not a blue-chip program — should have played for the 2011 national title. […]

(Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

The Leash Grows Shorter For Les Miles At LSU

0 comments by on 11/21/2015

By the nature of the profession, it’s almost never pretty when the end comes for a legendary college coach, or even the very good ones who build and define their programs. The Tom Osborne moment in the 1998 Orange Bowl is rare. One need only to look at Gary Pinkel (a tumultuous season unlikely to end in […]

← Older posts
Newer posts →
Quantcast