0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/5/2015
All season, you’ve read what — in my mind — constitutes the “ideal college football schedule” for each week of the season. This week, with so many important games, it seems more appropriate to simply lay out the schedule than to talk endlessly about it. Sound good? Here’s how I would take all of Saturday’s […]
BATON ROUGE, LA – SEPTEMBER 25: Patrick Peterson #7 of the Louisiana State Univeristy Tigers celebrates after scoring a touchdown by posing as the Heisman Trophy against the West Virginia Mountaineers at Tiger Stadium on September 25, 2010 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
0 comments by Mike Abelson
The Sampler Platter is always nourishing, but this week, it’s particularly tasty. This is it. It’s the main event. It’s the biggest college football weekend ever. It’s a cataclysm on the gridiron. It’s mega. There will never be a bigger series of sporting events in American history. Okay, there might have been an exaggeration or […]
Oct 31, 2013; Houston, TX, USA; Houston Cougars running back Ryan Jackson (22) celebrates scoring a touchdown against the South Florida Bulls during the first half at Reliant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Thomas Campbell-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Terry P. Johnson
This week’s Group of Five Power Poll is a day late because of #MACtion on Tuesday and Wednesday night. With two of the top teams on this list in action, I wanted to wait until all of the results were in before making a decision. As always, remember that these rankings are fluid, and will […]
0 comments by Joe Webb
The initial College Football Playoff rankings were released on Tuesday, but change is already coming as two teams in the top four square off this weekend in the biggest SEC matchup of the season to date. The Alabama Crimson Tide welcome the LSU Tigers to Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa Saturday with all sorts of postseason […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 11/4/2015
The TCU Horned Frogs play a numbers game this Saturday against the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Actually, they’re playing more than one numbers game. 11-on-11 is one. 1-on-1 on the perimeter is another. TCU’s offense will try to get the best positional matchups it can find against Oklahoma State’s secondary, which certainly felt under siege last weekend […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It is true that Everett Golson might not start (or maybe even play in) Florida State’s huge game this Saturday at Clemson. The Seminoles and head coach Jimbo Fisher are keeping their cards close to the vest, as they should. There’s no real need to announce to the world which man will start against the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Stealing signs — the expression conveys the act of theft, which therefore makes it seem entirely inappropriate on the surface. Yet, we all know that stealing signs is a part of sports. It shouldn’t ever be a point of discussion or the source of investigative activity, right? Not according to Washington State coach Mike Leach […]
Rick Pitino and Louisville made The American a much stronger league in 2014 compared to the current 2015 version. Sure, SMU leads the conference this season, but it achieved a lot more in the 2014 campaign. Why is 2015 SMU’s RPI at 18 while last season’s team carried an RPI of 53 into Selection Sunday? The answer becomes very obvious as you continue to read this piece… and no, it’s not about winning games, either.
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
It probably feels played to death at this point, but more has to be said about the Louisville basketball scandal. Most scandalous stories tend to remain in view until either a larger, more scintillating story appears or the people at fault for the scandal — or those close enough to it — have to face […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Leonard Fournette has dominated the Heisman Trophy conversation in 2015. Last week, the LSU Tigers were idle. With TCU’s Trevone Boykin and Clemson’s Deshaun Watson in the spotlight, will they be able to creep up in the standings? In the recent past, the Heisman Trophy has been very unpredictable during the course of the season. […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer
With last Thursday’s 26-19 win at Pittsburgh, North Carolina now has itself a week away from potentially taking a stranglehold on the ACC Coastal Division. In order to do so, it has to get past an old rival in Duke. Everyone loves a Duke-Carolina game. ESPN always loves to put it in primetime. Dicky V […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch
The Colonial lost its identity a bit when VCU and George Mason left, and the quality of play in the conference has taken a bit of a hit as well. C0-conference champion Northeastern (part of a multi-team regular-season tie) won the tournament and narrowly missed a first-round upset of Notre Dame.
0 comments by Allen Kenney
The undefeated Baylor Bears, ranked No. 2 in both major polls, are dealing with a huge problem as they vie for a bid to the College Football Playoff. It’s not the one you’re thinking of. With junior quarterback Seth Russell now shelved for the rest of the season, the focus around Waco has turned to […]
HOUSTON, TX – SEPTEMBER 05: Houston Cougars take the field against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles on September 5, 2015 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
0 comments by Bart D
The Gang of Five watched Toledo lose on Tuesday night to Northern Illinois, magnifying everything which already applied to the American Athletic Conference below: * Anyone who’s done some serial dating in their life knows how this story ends. You’re going out with three to four gals at the same time, because that’s what you […]
0 comments by Bart D on 11/3/2015
For the most part tonight, college football media, bloggers, message board wall flowers, and water cooler conversation junkies will be sitting around the picture box salivating at ESPN’s CFB Playoff committee rankings show like starving junkyard dogs do at a plump tom cat licking its paws right outside the gate. If we’re all honest about […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Given that Cam Newton just played a Monday Night Football game, let’s recall his most significant Monday game to date: the 2011 BCS National Championship Game between Oregon and Auburn. Those two programs and their head coaches have traced similar (though not identical) paths. They have much to prove in November, and regardless of how […]
