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Age is just a number, they say. You’re only as old as you feel, they say. In many ways, those statements will always be true, but in cutthroat professions, getting on in years will introduce its fair share of limitations. Even the most accomplished head coaches in this era of college football (including one who […]
ORLANDO, FL – SEPTEMBER 19: Head coach George O’Leary of the UCF Knights is seen as he screams on the sideline during an NCAA football game between the Furman Paladins and the UCF Knights at Bright House Networks Stadium on September 19, 2015 in Orlando, Florida. Furman won the game by a score of 16-15. (Photo by Alex Menendez/Getty Images)
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Every college football season is loaded with surprises. Some of these surprises are pleasant. Others aren’t. This column focuses on the latter. It includes a list of six teams that simply haven’t measured up to expectations. So, how did I arrive at the number six, instead of my usual seven? The teams on this list […]
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At the start of every season a slew of games are circled as must-see TV, but as the year grinds on, games arise which gain importance from the teams playing them as opposed to reputation and past victories. Here are five of the biggest games left this season that certainly weren’t on anyone’s big-game radar […]
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The SEC West is a beautiful disaster. A victim of the contrivances that are preseason polls, the SEC West is nothing like people thought it would be when the season started five weeks ago. The division has been stretched, squeezed, and turned inside out. As college football reaches its midway point, it’s worth gauging who’s […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/4/2015
It’s a Batman cartoon, or John Madden in his 1980s heyday at CBS, commenting on a hit or a devastating block. It’s most like a sprawling and drunken barroom brawl. The Pac-12, especially in the South, is wild and chaotic, straight from a John Wayne movie. Guys are staggering around, delivering punches in one moment, […]
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What, pray tell, is the “Boomerang Club?” Is it a group of all the people who have been hit by a boomerang on a Foster’s beer commercial? Is it a special cheering section at an Australian Rules Football contest, or perhaps a restaurant not too far from an AFL venue? (Said in a whispery voice: […]
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On Saturday, the college football landscape saw the latest playoff shake-up of the season. One gets the feeling it won’t be the last. With losses by UCLA and Ole Miss — the previous leaders of two of the Power 5 conferences, along with Notre Dame falling, it leads to the question of whether there will […]
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Play selection is easy to criticize in football. If you run and get stuffed, the masses will say you should have passed. If a pass is blanketed by the defense, the critics will shout about the need to have run the ball. Those are generalizations, but they’re part of how reactions to — and assessments […]
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)
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It’s become very tiresome. It’s become outdated, worn to the point of absurdity. It’s as stale as the day-old bread stand at the local supermarket… after it’s spent seven days on the shelf, unclaimed. Clemsoning — the gerund used to describe a certain ACC football team squandering prosperity — used to legitimately exist. Clemson would […]
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There is a lot to unbox after Alabama’s deconstruction of Georgia. The Crimson Tide embarrassed the Bulldogs on their own field. The destruction was thorough, and Bama showed why, even in a down year, it is one of the best teams in the nation. Non-offensive touchdowns are the ultimate type of game-changer in football, and […]
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Remember when UCLA led Miami late in the 1998 regular-season finale between the two teams in the old Orange Bowl stadium? The Bruins somehow lost that lead and the game. They failed to make the first BCS National Championship Game in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl against Tennessee. They played the 1999 Rose Bowl against Wisconsin […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/3/2015
It was a very clear theme and a very central question as the month of September came to an end: In the 2015 college football season, would teams unaccustomed to being the leaders and standard-bearers for their (power) conferences be able to handle the heat? Will Utah be able to stand up to the fresh […]
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You’re familiar with the Venn diagram. Two circles share a piece of territory in the middle, but partly exist outside each other. This is the ACC Coastal Division, one weekend into the month of October. The division is once again chaotic; that’s nothing new. Unpredictability has been the ACC Coastal’s middle name ever since the […]
BLOOMINGTON, IN – OCTOBER 03: Jalin Marshall #7 of the Ohio State Buckeyes fumbles the ball while defended by Marcus Oliver #44 of the Indiana Hoosiers at Memorial Stadium on October 3, 2015 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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IOWA CITY, IA – NOVEMBER 01: Wide receiver Tevaun Smith #4 of the Iowa Hawkeyes runs up the field in front of cornerback Matthew Harris #27 of the Northwestern Wildcats on November 1, 2014 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. (Photo by Matthew Holst/Getty Images)
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