0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/4/2016
Mark Helfrich is not a bad coach because his Oregon Ducks blew a 31-0 halftime lead to the TCU Horned Frogs in this past Saturday’s Alamo Bowl. Helfrich isn’t a bad coach, period. He helped rescue Oregon’s season, which appeared to be headed off a cliff at one point but became (in its regular-season incarnation) […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
College football is a billion-dollar business. College football head coaches at Power 5 schools — with very few exceptions — receive seven-figure compensation levels each year. There is absolutely no excuse for kicking an extra point when leading by five with under five minutes left in regulation, but Todd Graham of Arizona State did exactly […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
A total of 80 men coached teams in the 40 bowl games which have just run their course. No man coached a better game than Tom Herman of Houston. The commander of the Cougars had his team ready to compete, hit, and perform at a desired tempo against Florida State in the Peach Bowl. Houston […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Southeastern Conference enjoyed a terrific bowl season this year. Eight bowl wins is a record for any single conference. An 8-2 record is undeniably strong, a record which points to pronounced consistency in a larger number of games than conferences which had seven bowl games or fewer. The SEC, spread across 10 games, packed […]
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0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg
I am not at all a fan of judging conferences based on bowl results, and certainly not based on only one season. There aren’t enough bowl games (I’m serious) to get a proper read on conference strength. The bowl games are about individual matchups and teams. With enough of those, we can get a bit […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 1/3/2016
There is only one game left in the 2015 college football season. It’s sad. It’s exciting that we get what looks like a really good College Football Playoff National Championship Game, but it’s a little sad that we will then have to go almost eight months without any college football that counts in the standings. […]
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It started December 19 — the journey through all 40 bowl games, the largest collection of postseason events in college football history. A week ago, I gave you my bowl grades for the first week of bowl season. With all of the bowls now completed (aside from the national championship Game), here are my grades […]
0 comments by Joe Webb
College basketball is about to partake in another week with a new No. 1 team atop the AP Top-25 poll, as the Michigan State Spartans fell to the Iowa Hawkeyes without Denzel Valentine who is still out due to injury. With the Kansas Jayhawks likely moving up from their No. 2 spot to college basketball’s […]
0 comments by Joe Dexter on 1/2/2016
One of the greatest runs in college football history came to an end on Friday. One year after winning the Sugar Bowl and a College Football Playoff national championship, Ohio State ushered out its senior class with a convincing 44-28 win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. That senior class is one of only two […]
0 comments by Mike Abelson
Michigan State this season was described with all the adjectives football types like to use for teams deemed “tough.” Hard-nosed. Physical. Full of grinders. High compete level. Except this team hadn’t played anyone like Alabama, and the Crimson Tide whipped the Spartans every which way for 60 minutes. The final score was 38-0, but it […]
0 comments by Bart D
Just in case y’all didn’t know, this four team playoff thing is working out just fine. Much like last year, where there wasn’t much suspense in the end, there was resolution. This is the bill of goods everyone wanted to purchase … finality over drama and controversy. Hope everyone is happy. Flatly put, Alabama dismantled […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 1/1/2016
Each team entered the Cotton Bowl with a different game plan. However, one was clearly more effective than the other. Despite the fact that Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry entered this game with 90 carries in his past two games combined, the Tide’s coaches were convinced that the way to beat Michigan State was with […]
ATLANTA, GA – DECEMBER 31: Chance Allen #21 of the Houston Cougars scores a touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Florida State Seminoles during the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl at the Georgia Dome on December 31, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/31/2015
You know that many members of the national college football press corps will rip the Florida State Seminoles for losing to the Houston Cougars in the 2015 Peach Bowl on Thursday afternoon in Atlanta. Florida State made itself a target by winning (and because of Jameis Winston, but mostly by winning). When teams become targets, […]
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Today is the day we’ve been waiting for: the College Football Playoff. Here’s a list of thoughts, observations, and things to watch out for in the semifinals: While it’s being used to motivate Oklahoma, pay no attention to last year’s 40-6 Clemson victory. Both teams are much different this year than they were a year […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Wednesday night’s Music City Bowl in Nashville was an ugly mess of a game. Moreover, no one was surprised that the clash between the Louisville Cardinals and the Texas A&M Aggies turned into a sloppy, disjointed, and cluttered affair. Louisville did well to rebound from a 0-3 start to make a bowl game, but in […]
