0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/28/2014
The 2014 college football season is just getting started, and we have a lot of games in front of us. Let’s not turn uncomplicated game summaries into term papers, okay? Here, via Patrick Southern, is your one-tweet summary of Wake Forest’s 17-10 loss to Louisiana-Monroe, keeping in mind that the Demon Deacons scored their touchdown […]
Where will Mike Gundy coach in 2015? The outcome of the 2014 Bedlam game could very well provide the answer.
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Can Oklahoma State’s defense — which loses seven starters and a number of key contributors from last season — stop reigning Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston and the Florida State offense? While it might not seem likely, it may be possible. Courtesy of
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The last time the Boise State Broncos met an SEC team, they beat the Georgia Bulldogs in 2011 in the Georgia Dome by two touchdowns. A lot has changed since then and the Broncos are coming off of a disappointing 8-5 season. What is the biggest difference between the 2011 Broncos team and today’s team? […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 8/27/2014
Georgia wide receiver Chris Conley led the Bulldogs last season with 45 receptions for 651 yards but his interests go far beyond the football field. Earlier this year he released a Star Wars fan film titled “Retribution” and it is approaching 400,000 views on Youtube. ESPN’s Ivan Maisel took a look at Conley’s “direction in […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 8/26/2014
Who doesn’t like a good bargain? Who doesn’t like pizza? Who doesn’t like an incredibly good deal on pizza? A Fayetteville, Arkansas pizza shop is ready to cook up a fantastic deal for customers if — IF — Arkansas opens the season with a 1-0 record. That would mean beating defending SEC champion Auburn, on the […]
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On Thursday, the Aggies will travel to Columbia to take on the Gamecocks at 6pm (EST) in the first ever live college football game aired on the SEC Network. This is only the Aggies third season in the SEC so our “fun fact” isn’t that troubling yet but if the Aggies lose to South Carolina […]
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I have had one TV in my home office fixed on FXX with The Simpsons marathon ongoing. I have been enjoying rewatching many of the classic episodes from when I still watched the show (I am looking forward to finally binge watching many of the episodes originally airing after 2004, when I started to stop […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 8/25/2014
Earlier this summer I posed the question on whether Twitter was good for college football. One great thing about Twitter is the back and forth interaction on a game day. Last week Athlon Sports posted 100 “Twitter accounts every college football fan should follow”. College football-ify your Twitter for 2014 with our top 100+ accounts: […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/24/2014
The exquisite beauty of college football, as manifested in the on-field chess match between coaching staffs, is that there are so many ways to win. The NFL is seeing Chip Kelly (tactics) and Pete Carroll (culture) expand pro football’s possibilities, a welcome sight to be sure, but college football has long owned a measure of […]
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If you follow college football religiously, you know that analytics are improving, thanks to the work of individual pioneers such as
From one vantage point, Auburn’s passing game with Nick Marshall will be a foremost factor in Saturday’s game against Mississippi State.
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You might recall this play from the 2013 Alabama-Auburn game: The great
This image gets the point across: Auburn didn’t do things in a conventional way last season. The Tigers won in a way that could be characterized as anything but “normal.”
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It’s the kind of topic made for Beano Cook. Dynasties — how long can they expect to last? Beano, were he still alive today, might have said, “Not since the Visigoths in fifth-century Rome has the world wanted a dynasty to fall as much as Alabama.” You might not agree with everything
0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/23/2014
Have you ever asked yourself, “How did our various universities, especially those that play big-time football, get their nicknames?” No, you haven’t? Well, read this next piece anyway… because you’ll learn things. Scott Allen, writing for a website called Mental Floss, made note of the preseason Associated Press Top 25 Poll and looked up the histories […]
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The Colorado State Rams are moving up in the college football world, and they reached a bowl game last season. Moving up and reaching higher, though, are not preventing the Rams from reaching out… to a young person in need.
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A week from now, many of you will be watching ESPN’s signature traveling pregame show, the standard-setting College GameDay. One of the men who makes the show work is ESPN’s tear duct-loosening specialist, Tom Rinaldi. #CollegeFootballTwitter likes to joke about the tone and tenor of Rinaldi’s pieces, but when the smoke clears and the face […]
