0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 1/8/2015
Ohio State and Oregon will play for the first College Football Playoff national championship on Monday night, but the prediction has already been made official by a group of cute, adorable puppies. NBC late night host Jimmy Fallon had a group of puppies predict the winner of the national championship game by having them eat […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/7/2015
The bowls are over. What are the biggest headlines to emerge in these 38 games? We pared the list down to 10: * 10 – DIVISIONS CREATE DIFFERENT WORLDS The Mountain West’s Mountain Division, thanks to bowl wins by Utah State and Air Force, produced four teams with 10 or more wins. The Mountain West […]
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There are still a few people on this planet who like the Bowl Championship Series. Hey, nobody’s perfect. The much bigger remaining tension point among college football fans and pundits involves Team Four and Team Eight, the groups that think four or eight teams belong in the College Football Playoff. Team Four doesn’t want the […]
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It’s the kind of thing you couldn’t have made up if you tried. It’s the kind of fact that blows away your mind. It’s a reality which ripples across 76 years of American history, 76 years of collegiate sports history. It’s the longer-than-longshot which defies the odds and leaves you breathless. It’s part of the […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 1/6/2015
A second Ohio town has gotten in on the viral act of changing its name for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. First it was the city of Oregon, Ohio changing its name to “Oregon, Ohio Buckeyes on the Bay, City of Duck Hunters.“ The city of Urbana, Ohio will be taking more of […]
Blake Sims #6 of the Alabama Crimson Tide gets sacked by the Ohio State Buckeyes during the All State Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on January 1, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
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The national championship will be decided in less than one week as Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and Oregon take on Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes. While all that remains of the college football season is one game, the bowl season was nothing short of entertaining. Some teams managed to prove themselves while others disappointed. […]
Gary Patterson’s team never should have been moved up to third after week 14, in which the Horned Frogs beat 6-6 Texas. If the committee was consistent, it could have left TCU out of the field by never putting the Frogs higher than fourth. Putting them third only clouded the issue, especially after a 52-point win on Saturday against Iowa State.
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A coaching performance often stands on its own merit, but it can sometimes expose the extent to which an opposing coach lacks answers of any shape or form. The 10 most notable coaching performances of the bowl season fit into both categories. We’ll provide the details: * 10 – KYLE WHITTINGHAM, UTAH The aggressiveness of […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/5/2015
Sometimes, the winning team represents the major story in a sporting event. Sometimes, the losing team becomes the central story. Sometimes, the margin of victory rightly grabs a banner headline. Sometimes, the flow of the game — accompanied by a deceiving final score — earns extra notice. How did the 38 bowls shape the storylines […]
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Before the bowls, we explored the idea of which games meant more to each team; which games mattered to one team in particular; and which games were going to be more central as revealers of conference strength. Now that the bowls are over, though, there’s another exercise to engage in — judging the bowls based […]
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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The national championship will be decided in one week as Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and Oregon take on Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes. While all that remains of the college football season is one game, the bowl season was nothing short of entertaining. Some teams managed to prove themselves while others disappointed. Here’s a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/4/2015
The point is 10,000 times more true — and urgent — in the National Football League, which is a business without the pretense of amateurism: Football is serious business, serious enough that coaches (and the organizations whose fates lie in coaches’ hands) need to make the right game-management decisions. A multi-billion-dollar business should not tolerate […]
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Now that all the power-conference bowls are over (there’s still the GoDaddy Bowl between Toledo and Arkansas State), what can and should be said about the bowls? You’ll get many different opinions on the subject. Some will say that the bowls — as non-conference games with plenty of time for the coaches and players to […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/3/2015
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. George Wallace’s words in the midst of the tumultuous Civil Rights Era didn’t come true, but in college football’s bowl structure, the Pac-12 and Southeastern Conferences remain segregated. In what has become an enduring and prolonged problem for the sport, two of its Power 5 conferences simply can’t agree […]
0 comments by Bart D on 1/2/2015
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Sometime in the fourth quarter of the 2015 Rose Bowl, I made the mistake of getting on Twitter for a second. I like to know if I’ve missed anything, mostly news wise, while I was doing things more important than hanging out on the Internet for three hours. Bad mistake. […]
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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect The 2015 Sugar Bowl was basically the milk and bread aisle at the grocery store the day prior to the first snow/ice storm, and if you live in a place where snow/ice storms are possible, you know exactly what I’m talking about. This joint had it all. An absurd last […]
