0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/24/2014
The story of any sporting event — the central measure of meaning found in one night’s athletic competition — is sometimes found in the how and the why of things. How did one team dominate the other? Why was one side able to establish leverage and seize opportunities? On other occasions, however, a given game’s […]
0 comments by Terry Johnson and Matt Zemek on 12/23/2014
Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo wanted to scratch an itch to become a head coach, and after Colorado State couldn’t land Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost, the Rams pursued Bobo, and he accepted the job. One SEC offensive coordinator, Jim McElwain, left Alabama to lead the Rams, and now another SEC offensive coordinator has made […]
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Colorado State knocked the ball out of the park by hiring Mike Bobo. The under-appreciated Georgia offensive coordinator has a distinguished resume and is just what the program needs to build upon the success of the Jim McElwain era. Make no mistake about it: Bobo isn’t perfect. Anyone who’s spent five minutes on a college […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart We’ve all been there. Your buddies tell you to go to a certain restaurant because the burgers are great, or the steaks are amazing, and you won’t be disappointed. We’ll stick with burgers in this example. So you get a Friday night and you’re all stoked to go […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/22/2014
The first Miami Beach Bowl was a messy and poorly-coached but immensely entertaining game. Memphis and BYU put on a double-overtime show for a national audience… and no one’s going to remember that years from now. The main thing — possibly the only thing — casual fans will take away from this game is that […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In the newly-expanded bowl lineup of 38 games, some of the four first-time bowls are what you’d expect in terms of the quality of matchup, especially since they’re all played before Christmas. It’s generally accepted that pre-Christmas bowls represent the undercard section of bowl season, with the matchups getting better after the final NFL Sunday of […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/21/2014
The bowl season began with five games on Saturday. What’s worth retaining from these games? Here’s a short list. 5 – GAME MANAGEMENT, BOWL STYLE: COACHES WHO TREATED BOWLS AS FUN EVENTS WERE REWARDED This is a topic we wrote about earlier in the week: Bowl games demand a different approach relative to the regular […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 12/19/2014
With the bowl games starting Saturday, I thought it would be interesting to take a quick peek at last year and which players had the best individual performances (in a winning effort): * Teddy Bridgewater — Louisville Stat Line: 35/45, 447 yards passing, 3 TD, 0 INT, 1 rushing TD Final Score: Louisville 36, Miami […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Miami is — along with New Orleans — one of the great winter party destinations for American football fans. The city has served as the longtime host of the venerable Orange Bowl game, and it has also hosted 10 Super Bowls. Miami is a city made for postseason football, so it might be easy to […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch
While the FBS is new to this whole playoffs thing, the other divisions in college football are no strangers to settling things on the field. The FCS playoffs are into the semifinal round, and three seeded teams — including the top two seeds — remain in the hunt to claim the national title. Will it […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart I was watching the timeless holiday classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer last week when it struck me that Santa’s whole system needs an about face, and to bring in an HR guy at some point. He basically dismissed Rudolph’s chances of being on the sleigh team just […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/18/2014
Saturday, the bowl season kicks off with five games. One will be played in Boise, Idaho. One will be played in Montgomery, Alabama. One will be played in Albuquerque. Two will be played in the best party cities this nation knows: New Orleans and Las Vegas. Of the two games in party cities, one will feel […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The story of the last two New Mexico Bowls is the story of why bowl games are a (wait for it) Land of Enchantment as far as college football fans and pundits are concerned. Bowl games don’t always hit the sweet spot (see the 2011 Fight Hunger Bowl between 6-6 Illinois and 6-7 UCLA), but […]
Duke picked up a critical win at Georgia Tech last weekend. The Blue Devils probably didn’t expect Virginia to be an equally consequential contest the following weekend, but the other teams in the ACC Coastal didn’t expect Duke to represent such a key game last season. Duke is now finding out what it’s like to be on the other side of the tracks. Virginia-Duke will do a lot to shape the evolving ACC Coastal race.
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/17/2014
It’s not as though dozens of bowl teams won’t be motivated. Yes, you’ll get the occasional “sulking bowl team” such as USC in the 2012 Sun Bowl against Georgia Tech, but in most cases, the “motivation factor” manifests itself in the form of the underdog that really, really wants to prove a point or make […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
There are hundreds of different ways to approach bowl season — let’s at least take a few different views of this unique part of FBS college football, something which separates it from every other American team sport. No best-of-seven series, no bracketed tournaments. You can call bowls one-game exhibitions. You can call them one-game championships. […]
