0 comments by Bart D on 12/7/2015
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression, and it’s true. It’s why you ideally don’t wear sweatpants to pick up job applications even if you’re only going to pick them up to fill out at home. It’s why single women paint on makeup and dress to the nines for trips […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
When conference partisans say their league has X amount of bowl games — as though that’s something to trumpet from the highest scenic overlook, rolling into the valley — I always like to do something in response at this time of year. The bowl lineup is set. All the bowl teams — 80 of them, […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
If Clemson has the best head coach in college football for 2015, Oklahoma has the best assistant. If Dabo Swinney deserves to be the 2015 Coach of the Year in the FBS, Lincoln Riley deserves to be the recipient of the 2015 Broyles Award, given to the top assistant in the sport. As is the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The college football regular season — save Army-Navy — is over. It is time to honor the year’s best, and few topics are more paramount at this point on the calendar than the best coach over the past three months. Saturday, the Big Ten and ACC Championship Games matched the four best power-conference coaches in […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg
One of the main stated goals of the College Football Playoff was to restore the primacy of New Year’s Day in college football tradition. Part of this is obviously the two semifinal games. Another important part, though, is the collection of New Year’s Six games, which are supposed to provide top-level matchups between highly-ranked teams. […]
Rich Rodriguez now faces the central task of making sure his players don’t lose faith after a classic Arizona stomach-punch loss against USC. The one original Pac-10 member without a single Rose Bowl appearance has to stay the course. If it does, the Pac-12 South is still there for the taking. The winner of this division will probably have at least two conference losses by season’s end. Arizona can overcome just about any scoreboard obstacle, but the Wildcats’ offense needs to be able to score more than 13 points through three quarters at home. The Wildcats were stuck on 13 after 45 minutes in home games against California and USC. The Wildcats overcame the Golden Bears. They weren’t able to make one last kick against USC. Start-to-finish consistency on offense is what Rich Rod has to cultivate over the next month and a half.
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
Rich Rodriguez did the right thing by turning down the South Carolina job. Had he accepted the job, it would have been an even bigger mistake than bolting West Virginia for Michigan. Make no mistake about it: South Carolina isn’t the glamorous job some in the media are making it out to be. Sure, it’s […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The bowl selection process demands improvement. It demands improvement for reasons that go far beyond the reality of seeing Georgia State play 5-7 San Jose State in Orlando on CBS Sports Network before Christmas. Yes, bowl matchups can and should be better, but it’s about so much more than that. I have long believed bowl […]
COLUMBUS, OH – NOVEMBER 21: Ezekiel Elliott #15 of the Ohio State Buckeyes runs into Damon Knox #93 of the Michigan State Spartans and Riley Bullough #30 of the Michigan State Spartans at the line of scrimmage in the second quarter at Ohio Stadium on November 21, 2015 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)
0 comments by Phil Harrison
The final College Football Playoff rankings are out, and according to almost everyone in the media and beyond, there was an absence of controversy this year. Notre Dame tapped out last week and all the conference championship games went to form, leaving a somewhat drama-free, status quo four-team selection with Clemson, Alabama, Michigan State and […]
0 comments by Bart D
Let’s get one thing out of the way: there is no such thing as too many bowl games. If you think there are, I don’t want to hear you kvetching in July when it seems like meaningful sports will never occur on your Saturday night, especially that of the football variety. For the most part, […]
0 comments by Joe Dexter
In the College Football Playoff era, if you don’t win the game everybody circled before the season, there is no reason to feel left out when the committee overlooks you on the day the tickets were handed out to the Dance. This is true even if you were king a year ago. The Ohio State Buckeyes entered […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg on 12/6/2015
Last year, the College Football Playoff selection committee threw us a huge, if not completely unexpected, curveball on Selection Day. No one was sure how the committee would deal with the TCU/Baylor/Ohio State debate. TCU was expecting to be in because they were sitting at No. 3 the previous week, but we have learned in […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
What to make of the now-concluded push for the College Football Playoff? Four teams clearly made the cut, but that’s not the same thing as saying that we know these are the four best teams in college football for the 2015 season. Is Alabama better than 11-1 Ohio State? Is Oklahoma better than 10-2 Notre […]
STILLWATER, OK – DECEMBER 7: Quarterback Blake Bell #10 of the Oklahoma Sooners walks off the field after the game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys December 7, 2013 at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Oklahoma defeated Oklahoma State 33-24. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D
The CFB Playoff committee will get on television one final time this season and act as though the end result of picking this year’s playoff participants was akin to splitting the atom, much like a bad auto mechanic using a bunch of terms he thinks the customer doesn’t understand to drive up the price of […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
In the coming days, college football reporters will sift through the drama which unfolded Saturday, as University of Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne didn’t merely say that Rich Rodriguez would remain his program’s football coach: It is currently a point of dispute as to whether or not South Carolina made an offer to Rodriguez, only […]
0 comments by Yesh Ginsburg
Bubble Watch The original plan was to have a Bubble Watch here for any teams that would be debated for the final Playoff spot. Well, there aren’t any. The four Playoff teams are locks. I was thinking of presenting Stanford’s resume for comparison against Michigan State’s and Oklahoma’s resumes, but there really is no point. […]
