alabama crimson tide Blake Sims #6 of the Alabama Crimson Tide gets sacked by the Ohio State Buckeyes during the All State Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on January 1, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

The 2014 Bowl Season’s Biggest Losers

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The national championship will be decided in less than one week as Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and Oregon take on Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes. While all that remains of the college football season is one game, the bowl season was nothing short of entertaining. Some teams managed to prove themselves while others disappointed. […]

Rumor: Everett Golson to LSU?

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Everett Golson went from being a Heisman Trophy candidate early in the season to being replaced as the starter in Notre Dame’s bowl game. With Golson scheduled to graduate in May, his future status is up in the air. Will he be the starting QB for the Irish next season? Will he even be on […]

Gary Patterson’s team never should have been moved up to third after week 14, in which the Horned Frogs beat 6-6 Texas. If the committee was consistent, it could have left TCU out of the field by never putting the Frogs higher than fourth. Putting them third only clouded the issue, especially after a 52-point win on Saturday against Iowa State.

Bowl Season: The 10 Most Notable Coaching Performances

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A coaching performance often stands on its own merit, but it can sometimes expose the extent to which an opposing coach lacks answers of any shape or form. The 10 most notable coaching performances of the bowl season fit into both categories. We’ll provide the details: * 10 – KYLE WHITTINGHAM, UTAH The aggressiveness of […]

Bowl Season: Quick Verdicts On All 38 Games

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Sometimes, the winning team represents the major story in a sporting event. Sometimes, the losing team becomes the central story. Sometimes, the margin of victory rightly grabs a banner headline. Sometimes, the flow of the game — accompanied by a deceiving final score — earns extra notice. How did the 38 bowls shape the storylines […]

Bowl Season: 10 Teams That Made The Strongest Impressions

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Before the bowls, we explored the idea of which games meant more to each team; which games mattered to one team in particular; and which games were going to be more central as revealers of conference strength. Now that the bowls are over, though, there’s another exercise to engage in — judging the bowls based […]

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.

The 2014 Bowl Season’s Biggest Winners

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The national championship will be decided in one week as Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota and Oregon take on Urban Meyer’s Ohio State Buckeyes. While all that remains of the college football season is one game, the bowl season was nothing short of entertaining. Some teams managed to prove themselves while others disappointed. Here’s a […]

Bowl Season: After The Bowls, It’s Clear Coaches Need Game Management Assistance… And Assistants

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The point is 10,000 times more true — and urgent — in the National Football League, which is a business without the pretense of amateurism: Football is serious business, serious enough that coaches (and the organizations whose fates lie in coaches’ hands) need to make the right game-management decisions. A multi-billion-dollar business should not tolerate […]

Bowl Season: College Football Still Doesn’t Know How To Assess Bowl Games

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Now that all the power-conference bowls are over (there’s still the GoDaddy Bowl between Toledo and Arkansas State), what can and should be said about the bowls? You’ll get many different opinions on the subject. Some will say that the bowls — as non-conference games with plenty of time for the coaches and players to […]

New Year, Old Lamentation: The Pac-12 And The SEC Remain Segregated In The Bowls

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Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. George Wallace’s words in the midst of the tumultuous Civil Rights Era didn’t come true, but in college football’s bowl structure, the Pac-12 and Southeastern Conferences remain segregated. In what has become an enduring and prolonged problem for the sport, two of its Power 5 conferences simply can’t agree […]

Alamo Bowl: Jim Mora, Bill Snyder, And HandshakeGate — The Images You Need To See

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You’ve probably heard something about the Jim Mora-Bill Snyder episode at the end of the Alamo Bowl on Friday, won by UCLA over Kansas State. Here are the three relevant images from that larger drama. The play which angered Mora: The first blow-by handshake from Mora: Then, the circle-back reunion with Snyder, involving a longer […]

Where will Mike Gundy coach in 2015? The outcome of the 2014 Bedlam game could very well provide the answer.

Cactus Bowl: Mike Gundy’s Play Call Almost Creates A Fat Guy Touchdown

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It’s the play from the Cactus Bowl no one can stop talking about: 300-pound defensive tackle James Castleman very nearly scored a long-distance FAT GUY TOUCHDOWN for Oklahoma State against Washington. Credit OSU coach Mike Gundy for being both fun and creative on a critical third-and-two play late in the game with the Cowboys clinging […]

Cactus Bowl: Watch A Helmet Lose Some Paint

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Oklahoma State defensive lineman James Castleman was the feel-good story in the Cowboys’ win over the Washington Huskies in the Cactus Bowl late Friday night. Oklahoma State gained a measure of field position late in the contest on a third-and-two conversion by Castleman, who rumbled past Washington defenders for a 48-yard gain. He took some […]

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