TEMPE, AZ – SEPTEMBER 26: Cody Kessler #6 of the Southern California Trojans throws a first half pass against the Arizona State University Sun Devils at Sun Devil Stadium on September 26, 2015 in Tempe, Arizona. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images)
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LUBBOCK, TX – SEPTEMBER 26: Josh Doctson #9 of the TCU Horned Frogs tips a pass while defended by Justis Nelson #31 and Jah’Shawn Johnson #7 of the Texas Tech Red Raiders during the fourth quarter on September 26, 2015 at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. TCU won the game 55-52. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)
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AUBURN, AL – NOVEMBER 08: Head coach Gus Malzahn of the Auburn Tigers reacts during the game against the Texas A&M Aggies at Jordan Hare Stadium on November 8, 2014 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
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We’re less than a month into the 2015 season and there are a number of teams that seem to be vying for the title of most disappointing in September. Perhaps leading the charge is Auburn. In four weeks, the Tigers have gone from preseason top-10 and playoff contender to 2-2 and outside the top 25. […]
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Saturday night, while the nation was stunned by the blowouts which emerged in the Pac-12’s stack of showcase games, and we all wondered how “Utah 62, Oregon 20,” could possibly happen, something else happened. This event should have a significant effect on the workings of a conference. It should also change how we view week […]
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As Saturday afternoon blended into Saturday evening, huge developments caught the attention of college football fans and bloggers. Florida pulled off the grand Houdini against Tennessee and a bewildered Butch Jones. TCU created “The Flea Tipper” to steal one on the road in Lubbock against Texas Tech and Kliff Kingsbury. Oklahoma State escaped Texas after […]
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Here’s a simple but big question to throw at you, right out of the gate: How much did you think college football changed this weekend? That question isn’t meant to be confined to the College Football Playoff race, or to the polls, or to hot seats. Think broadly. How did this weekend change the sport […]
Utah linebacker Gionni Paul (No. 13) collected a fumble recovery and an interception on Saturday. When Michigan stops coughing up the ball, says Student Section associate editor Terry Johnson, the Wolverines have a chance to be a very good team… not next season, but this season.
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Polls are fun for the people doing and consuming them. However, for the people whose lives are directly altered by them, well, not so much. With the latter being at the mercy of the former for reasons mostly still unknown, the Utah Utes find themselves in Still Disrespected Land, USA — population 10 or 12… […]
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At the conclusion of each week’s games, the staff at the Student Section will team with writers from other Bloguin sites to publish a Top 25 poll. Here’s what our poll looks like after the conclusion of week four. Rank Team Points 1 Mississippi (2) 211 2 Ohio State (5) 207 3 Michigan State (1) […]
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We preface this piece by saying that the American Athletic Conference’s West Division is not struggling this season. Memphis, Houston and Navy could be in the process of giving us three teams which will be in the Group of Five’s New Year’s Six bowl hunt when November begins. However, that’s not the realm of the […]
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College football is predictable in its volatility. It is stable in its lack of rock-solid certitude for all but a handful of teams in most seasons. This sport is unsurprising in how often it surprises, routine in its penchant for the grand plot twist. Yet, even by those standards — even with decades upon decades […]
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In week one or week two, it’s almost always too early to discuss the coaching carousel for specific jobs. We see far too many times in this business a scenario in which a team loses twice but then cleans up its act as September and the season move along. Recall when Mark Richt went 0-2 […]
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.
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On a Saturday with 50 or more games, it’s easy to identify certain contests as being more important or attractive because they’re top-25 games or in-division games. Yet, those games stand out BEFORE, not after, the final result. When one sifts through the whole of a weekend — and in mid-December, the full regular season […]
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It came as a revelation… and the revelation was not a happy one. I had thought this was the worst rule in the college football rulebook, and that this clock-start/stop policy was about as bad. On Saturday night (and then through study on Sunday morning), I realized that college football has a rule which is […]
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Week four of the college football season was arguably the best one yet. Despite having just two games between top 25 opponents, the schedule produced a number of exciting contests and highly significant developments. Here are some things to take away from this weekend’s action on the gridiron. The Pac-12 is very much alive in […]
WACO, TX – SEPTEMBER 26: Seth Russell #17 of the Baylor Bears looks for an open receiver against the Rice Owls in the first quarter at McLane Stadium on September 26, 2015 in Waco, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
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One month down, two months to go until the Friday after Thanksgiving. Baylor and TCU have so much to overcome in October and most of November, but for now, they haven’t fallen off the ledge, and they’ve painted different portraits in the process. * For the third straight week, Baylor’s offense dismantled another opponent and […]
