0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 8/31/2015
The MAC Championship Game, first played in 1997, has never had the same match-up three years in a row. I don’t have a copy of the Gray’s Sports Almanac to say whether or not the coaches in the MAC are right or wrong, but the coaches are calling for a third straight meeting between Bowling Green […]
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Toledo will be without one of the top running backs in the MAC, and perhaps the nation, when the Rockets head to Arkansas in Week 2. Kareem Hunt has been suspended for the first two games of the 2015 season for a violation of team policy. Also suspended for the first two games is defensive […]
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Last year, the brand-new nature of the College Football Playoff made it harder to look at the whole of the season in advance and point to specific reasons for concern. Nobody really knew how the CFB Playoff committee would think through its decisions. Everyone had guesses, but no one had definitive answers. This season, it’s […]
Virginia has not beaten Virginia Tech since 2003, and the Cavaliers have defeated Frank Beamer’s boys only once since 1998. If Mike London can’t beat the Hokies now, he probably never will… because he won’t see the 2015 season as Virginia’s head coach.
0 comments by TSS Staff on 8/30/2015
It’s almost time for the games to start! Pull up a chair and let’s talk college football as TSS associate editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things college football. On Thursday, we discussed the biggest games of week one. On Friday, […]
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The college football season officially opened Saturday with Montana’s 38-35 upset of four-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State. Unfortunately, FBS play doesn’t start for a couple more days. With that in mind, here’s this season’s final installment of 7 Random Plays to Fire You Up For College Football. Enjoy!! 7. The Play (2001 Red […]
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I must have seen the movie a thousand times, but never before has Deep Impact made such an impacting impression on me. You know, this is the movie with Morgan Freeman as the president, Tea Leoni as the lowly reporter turned national news breaker, Elijah Wood as the amateur star-gazer turned unlikely hero and one of […]
0 comments by Bart D on 8/29/2015
On Twitter Simon Cvijanović bringing the situation to light. It’ll be interesting to see what Beckman does from here in the legal realm, at least. He suggested that he was taking this flogging of his reputation that way, as most people who feel themselves innocent would. Really, he has no choice, seeing as this ordeal […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/28/2015
As great as a dynastic college program or professional sports organization might be, the prevailing truth about big-time sports remains intact: It’s extremely hard to win repeat championships. Go through the histories of teams that repeated as either professional or collegiate champions. There will always be an exception here and there, but for the most […]
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It’s almost time for college football! Pull up a chair and let’s talk college football as TSS Associate Editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things college football. Yesterday, we discussed the biggest games of week one. Today we talk about neutral site […]
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Ohio State Buckeyes 2014 Record: 14-1 (beat Oregon in CFP National Championship Game) 1 Burning Question: Can the Buckeyes repeat as national champions? Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes were supposed to be a year away from a national championship run when they took the field last season. This idea gained even more traction after the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 8/27/2015
College football is messy. It always has been. It always will be, no matter how precise a playoff system the sport might devise or revise in the future. Think you have the perfect plan? A college football season’s imperfections and plot twists will usually (though not always — see Texas-USC in 2005) work around it […]
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TCU Horned Frogs 2014 Record: 12-1 (Won Peach Bowl) 1 Burning Question: Will TCU build on last season and make the playoff this season? Last season, TCU was clearly one of the best teams in the country, but a loss to Baylor kept the Horned Frogs out of the first playoff. TCU held a 21-point […]
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Urban Meyer, a superstar head coach and a national figure in college football, spoke at Big Ten Media Days on Monday in Chicago. Big Ten Network did not provide live coverage of his session with the media. ESPN deserves plenty of criticism for how it elevates the SEC and undercuts the levels of exposure it gives to conferences such as the ACC and Big 12. However, when BTN can’t provide live coverage of Meyer, Mark Dantonio, and the coaches of its other big-name programs, the collection of factors that feed into conference bias becomes a lot more complicated. It’s not just about ESPN loving the SEC too much; it’s about BTN and Pac-12 Networks being markedly inadequate when covering their own conferences. Conference bias is, in other words, a two-way street and a multi-source problem. ESPN’s competitors have to do a better job.
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The college football season is almost upon us! Kick back, pull up a chair and read our insights as we dive into week one of the 2015 college football season. TSS Associate Editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer Kevin Causey and special rotating guests in our weekly roundtable discussing all things college football. […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch on 8/26/2015
Richard Pitino has had a tough first two years in Minneapolis, as he has won just 14 conference games in two years as Gophers head coach, but the brass at the University of Minnesota has supposedly seen enough to give the coach a raise and an extension. Via ESPN: Pitino, who finished his second year […]
