0 comments by Matt Zemek on 1/1/2015
The years come and go — a reality never more present than on New Year’s Day — and sports continue to amaze us. The new year of 2015 didn’t waste much time causing our mouths to drop, our brains to explode, our hearts to thump-thump-thump away. Like a slow-motion train wreck, one calamity after another […]
Florida State beat the Georgia Tech team that thrashed Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl. Are we really going to sit here and say that Florida State should not have been seeded first in the playoff? Being seeded third had a considerable impact on the Noles’ postseason fate.
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Behind a solid effort on both sides of the ball, Georgia Tech dismantled Mississippi State and proved that it should finish the season in the Top 10. Make no mistake about it: this was the most impressive win of 2014 campaign for the Yellow Jackets. After all, Mississippi State was the No. 1 team in […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 12/31/2014
This was supposed to be the Fiesta Bowl Boise State would not win. This was supposed to be the splash of cold water on an afternoon in suburban Phoenix when — interestingly enough — the weather outside University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale was cold, gray, and wet. This was supposed to be the main-event […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
TCU came out and had a point to prove. The Horned Frogs did just that in the Peach Bowl with a dominating win over Ole Miss, which defeated both of the SEC participants in the “New Year’s Six.” While being left out of the playoff along with conference-mate Baylor, one had to wonder if TCU […]
0 comments by TSS LOCKER
Early in the Peach Bowl, TCU is running all over… and around… Ole Miss. Trevone Boykin, the Horned Frogs’ quarterback, put a little Bill Raftery “lingerie on the deck” with this pitch fake:
Can Jim Harbaugh be a success running the Michigan program he once played for? (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
0 comments by Allen Kenney
Under the current paradigm of college football success, Michigan is not a great job. It’s located in a region of the country that is bleeding jobs and people. The weather sucks. The Wolverines play in a punchline of a conference. In the era of realignment, we’ve moneyballed college football by fixating on proximity to recruits […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Dear Rose Bowl, Red roses are meant for ladies, but you are that special grandfather who loves flowers, especially the big rose painted in the middle of your lush football field, the one America gets to see in all its splendor on New Year’s afternoon. You’re always dressed up for a big occasion, and you […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Before the 1978 Sugar Bowl, Bear Bryant had Woody Hayes try on his houndstooth hat (above). Nick Saban doesn’t wear houndstooth hats, and Urban Meyer doesn’t wear a white button-down shirt with a red tie and black pants. Yet, when Ohio State and Alabama meet on New Year’s Night in New Orleans, they’ll recall the […]
0 comments by Bart D
Follow TSS on Twitter @TheStudentSect Author @TheCoachBart It was around this time last year when we all knew what was coming down the pike with certain teams. Oklahoma had just wasted Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, and basically, three things became totally obvious and fool proof … 1. Oklahoma was going to ride this momentum […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 12/30/2014
It’s tough to lose for a rival but WOW…how about when you score the game winning goal for them?
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Georgia was pinned back inside their own five yard line with a red-shirt freshman at QB and facing the #2 ranked rushing defense in college football. So what do they do? They hand it off to freshman Nick Chubb and he rumbles 82 yards…. 3Q UGA N. Chubb run for 82 yds for a 1ST […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
War is always a defeat for humanity, said Pope John Paul II. Karol Wojtyla, bless his heart, wasn’t a college football fan — if he had been, he would have realized that in at least one case, “war” was a blessing. It’s true that Steve Spurrier versus Bobby Bowden from 1990 through 2002 was extremely […]
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0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Now that Jim Harbaugh is officially the head coach at Michigan, everyone’s speculating about the future of Wolverine football. Some think UM will supplant Ohio State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin as the flag bearer for the conference, while others remain skeptical. To be honest: there are plenty of arguments on both sides. Here’s what the […]
Can Jim Harbaugh be a success running the Michigan program he once played for? (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)
0 comments by Dave Singleton
The term alma mater means nourishing mother in Latin, and while it has a variety of uses, it usually refers to the place where one went to school-particularly college. In that sense, the school was the nourishing mother, or the place where you were able to get the sustaining materials necessary to grow. And while […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated teased some news earlier tonight…. I'll have some college football media news coming later tonight. — Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch)
