0 comments by Kevin Causey on 11/21/2014
The USC Trojans won the 2004 national championship (yeah, I know they got stripped of the title but they still won the game) and played in the 2006 Rose Bowl for the 2005 season’s BCS national championship. That clash with Texas was one of the best games I’ve ever seen. In 2006, the Trojans appeared […]
0 comments by Bart D on 11/20/2014
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Follow the author @TheCoachBart Just play the damn game. Seriously, sack up and just play it, Texas and Texas A&M. A report surfaced from Fox Sports by way of HornsDigest.com savant Chip Brown this week that SEC officials would prefer Texas A&M and Texas … who could conceivably meet in […]
Ole Miss thumped the Blue Hose of Presbyterian two weeks ago, one of many SEC-FCS tilts late in the season that while don’t look like they’re worth looking at on television, are part of a brilliant SEC scheduling design that has bode very well for the conference in recent years.
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Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Follow the author @TheCoachBart If you take a little looksie at the college football schedule this week, you’ll notice something missing: SEC games worth watching. That’s right, one of the nation’s two most scrutinized conferences will spend the second to last full week of the season with four games against […]
0 comments by Bart Doan and Matt Zemek
In the SEC West, a bunch of teams are beating up on each other. In the Pac-12 South, a bunch of teams are beating up on each other. Is it all the same? Is it completely different? Is it something in between? This is an annually vexing component of college football: the cluttered, balanced division. […]
0 comments by Allen Kenney on 11/19/2014
Back in 2001, Bob Stoops was the hot name on football’s coaching carousel. Oklahoma’s head coach was a year removed from winning a national championship in just his second season in Norman and clearly had the Sooners on an upward trajectory after a decade-plus of wandering the desert. When the news broke that winter that […]
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Follow TSS @TheStudentSect Author on Twitter @TheCoachBart Relationships in life … all of them, from picking your next girlfriend to picking your next doctor to picking your next head football coach at Florida … they all follow the same path. Try as you might, you can’t get away from that psychological fate. It can’t even […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 11/18/2014
The College Football Playoff has changed the game, although we may still be attempting to determine if it is for better or worse. One thing I do know about the College Football Playoff despite a single game under the new format being played is this: the coaches’ poll may be the most irrelevant thing in college […]
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The SEC West remains a very tough division. The real issue raised by a number of its losses the past weekend is, “Just how much does an SEC West team’s strength of schedule change in light of week 12’s results?” More to the point, how did the past weekend affect the College Football Playoff prospects […]
Jake Waters and the rest of the Kansas State offense were noticeably sluggish against Iowa State. This Thursday, the Wildcats expect to play several notches better than they did against the Cyclones, and that’s merely a starting point for the showdown against Auburn. KSU must at least come close to its best performance. Anything average from the Wildcats, especially on offense, will almost certainly lead to a loss against Auburn’s turbocharged “Gus Bus.”
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The coming Saturday of games in college football is the annual SEC Cupcake Saturday (Non-) Showcase. This takes the air out of the balloon as far as the season is concerned. However, Thursday offers two highly important games: North Carolina-Duke in the ACC Coastal is one. The centerpiece, though, is a Big 12 showdown between […]
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The Heisman leader, Marcus Mariota, and the Oregon Ducks were idle this past weekend. Last week’s runner-up, Dak Prescott, had a rough outing as his Mississippi State team fell to the Alabama Crimson Tide. Jameis Winston and the Florida State Seminoles continued to struggle in the first half but deliver the goods in the second […]
Jimbo Fisher had to deal with a mountain of distractions, an ocean of injuries, and the harsh sunlight of constant scrutiny… and didn’t allow his team to fall off the precipice throughout an emotionally exhausting regular season. Not an ordinary feat, by any means.
0 comments by The Editors on 11/17/2014
Hypotheticals are not meant to indicate or suggest that certain events will in fact take place. No one’s predicting that Florida State will lose once in the next three weeks. However, what if the Seminoles do stumble? The Student Section editors try to get ahead of that question in this new roundtable. * Will FSU […]
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TCU remained in the middle of the College Football Playoff discussion by coming back to beat Kansas on Saturday. The win wasn’t emphatic, but it sure beats a loss. The Student Section editors discuss how that 34-30 win should affect TCU’s place in the sport’s pecking order. * Very simply, should TCU fall in the […]
0 comments by Terry Johnson and Matt Zemek
The Michigan job will open up soon, but the Florida job is now officially up for grabs. A highly interesting coaching carousel will spin in Gainesville, where Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley will try to maintain a very specific pattern: He failed to hire the right successor to Steve Spurrier, as Ron Zook fell on […]
0 comments by Terry Johnson and Matt Zemek
There are only three Saturdays left before the announcement of the first College Football Playoff field. (Has the season flown by that quickly? Insert sad emoticon here.) You know what the big topics are in the college football world. Mississippi State is one of them. Student Section editors Terry Johnson and Matt Zemek offer their […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Another week of college football brought us another week of nail-biters and upsets. The number one-ranked team in the country lost, number three and four narrowly escaped defeat, and number six was not so lucky. A top-10 team got blown out by a rival. A team with previous national championship aspirations lost to a team […]
