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NORMAN, OK – SEPTEMBER 19: Quarterback Dane Evans #9 of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane looks to throw against the Oklahoma Sooners September 19, 2015 at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Tulsa 52-38.(Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)

Which Ranked Team is Most Likely to Be Upset in Week 8?

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Where will we find upsets in week eight? The midpoint of the college football season is here. A lot of football has been played but a lot of question marks remain. Many of those question marks concern top-25 teams. This week there aren’t a lot of “prime time” matchups. This brings us to our question […]

20 for 20: week seven

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Week seven created one of the great all-time box scores in college football history. What else did it create? Find out below: * The games we surveyed from week seven: Missouri-Georgia Boise State-Utah State UCLA-Stanford Auburn-Kentucky Cincinnati-BYU Virginia Tech-Miami Pittsburgh-Georgia Tech Rutgers-Indiana USC-Notre Dame Oregon-Washington West Virginia-Baylor Iowa-Northwestern Ole Miss-Memphis Florida-LSU Michigan State-Michigan Arizona State-Utah […]

EVANSTON, IL – OCTOBER 17: C.J. Beathard #16 of the Iowa Hawkeyes evades the tacke of Max Chapman #1 of the Northwestern Wildcats during the second quarter at Ryan Field on October 17, 2015 in Evanston, Illinois. (Photo by Jon Durr/Getty Images)

How good is Iowa? We might not know until December

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Kirk Ferentz and Iowa do this from time to time. The smarter people on our staff seem to have seen this ahead of time. Iowa is just sort of “there” every college football season. Here and there, when he loses just enough, people start complaining about Ferentz’s salary of $4 million, one of the top […]

WACO, TX – OCTOBER 11: Trevone Boykin #2 of the TCU Horned Frogs looks for an open receiver in the first half against the Baylor Bears at McLane Stadium on October 11, 2014 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

The 10 Most Important Games Of The Season’s Second Half

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The first half of the college football season is over and the final stretch of 2015 is nearing, which means it’s time to determine the 10 most important games left. A number of teams are trying to make their case for a spot in the second College Football Playoff. With 14 undefeated teams remaining, the playoff […]

The ideal college football schedule: week eight

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With a not-very-sexy slate in week eight of the college football season, should anything be different from a programming standpoint, relative to previous weeks? Let’s examine that question. * The noon window is anchored by the Clemson-Miami game, one Al Golden almost surely has to win in order to have any reasonable hope of saving […]

The 2015 TSS Heisman Poll: Season Premiere

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For the three years, I hosted the Bloguin Heisman Poll at Crystal Ball Run, and last year was the inaugural edition at TSS. Starting this week, the weekly poll of Bloguin writers begins again, and has been re-named from the Bloguin Heisman Poll to the TSS Heisman Poll. Many teams have reached the midpoints of their seasons. This […]

LSU’s win over Wisconsin and Auburn’s win over Kansas State did more to shape perceptions (and resumes) in the 2014 college football season than any other non-conference games. This point cannot be forgotten when a full account of the season is ultimately rendered.

Leonard Fournette and the Force-Fed Heisman Narrative

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As a friend of mine was listening to the radio Wednesday morning, he heard one of the talk show hosts ask the question, “How can you not have Leonard Fournette on your Heisman list?” Naturally, this friend immediately sent me a text message asking me the same question, since he didn’t see Fournette’s name on […]

PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 5: Jahad Thomas #5 of the Temple Owls runs past Marcus Allen #2 of the Penn State Nittany Lions to score a touchdown in the second quarter on September 5, 2015 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

Week 8 Sampler Platter: A slow week with big possibilities

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It’s Sampler Platter time again. It’s that week of the year when nothing of merit is happening on paper in the FBS, so College GameDay heads off to the greener pastures of the lower divisions. Week eight doesn’t promise anything in advance because of the carnage college football has wrought on itself. There is only […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – OCTOBER 17: Quarterback Travis Wilson #7 of the Utah Utes passes the ball in the second quarter of their game against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Rice-Eccles Stadium on October 17, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr/Getty Images)

Pretending to be on the CFB Playoff Committee: First Look

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Much appreciation to the tens of readers who took part in the Hurt and Helped Themselves columns. With so much of the season in the books, we (or I) can get a jump on what the members of the CFB Playoff committee should be thinking (if they’re playing with a full deck). There’s no real […]

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Season Shapers: Miami and Duke possess potential

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While the Florida State Seminoles and the Clemson Tigers will fight for a College Football Playoff spot and a New Year’s Six bowl in the coming weeks, the Miami Hurricanes and Duke Blue Devils figure to author the larger story of the ACC in 2015. You’re familiar by now with the notion of a “season […]

Season Shapers: Northwestern and Nebraska meet this Saturday

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In identifying the season-shaping teams from each of the Power 5 conferences, it’s very hard to look past the Northwestern Wildcats and the Nebraska Cornhuskers when the Big Ten comes up for discussion. No, it’s not because the two teams meet this weekend in Lincoln, returning to the site of Nebraska’s Hail Mary victory in […]

UCLA, Cal, and a fight for visibility in the Pac-12

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The UCLA Bruins are not likely to win the Pac-12 South. The California Golden Bears will have to thread the needle — part of which means beating Stanford — in order to win the Pac-12 North. The two teams which will play in the Rose Bowl stadium on Thursday night should not be expected to […]

Rick Pitino, Scandals, and the Ugly Truth Behind College Basketball

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College basketball has always been a different sport than its other mainstream counterparts. It doesn’t have that natural audience tuning in which football does. Major League Baseball has a history unlike others, but folks continue to tune in during its lengthy regular season, while shooty hoops only sees large audiences during March Madness. Nor is […]

Season Shapers: Oklahoma State can follow many paths

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At the midpoint of the college football season, which teams are still alive in conference races and have a lot to say about the way in which their respective leagues will be remembered? In the SEC, it’s Texas A&M. In the Pac-12, California and Oregon are part of that discussion. In the Big 12, Kansas […]

The Student Section’s Pick Six

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The stripper story surrounding Rick Pitino, Louisville, and college basketball does not seem like it is going away. Hopefully, since the topic is more complicated than immoral-narratives, some nuance is used before the world declares some sort of ban on all things recruiting trips. Link dump. * College Football Andy Schwarz has an absolutely terrific column […]

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