0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/8/2015
This Saturday in college football, it’s impossible to avoid noticing how the nighttime schedule has been shaped. On the surface, it is exactly as it should be: In the featured ABC game at 8:07 Eastern time, Miami and Florida State — the schools who created college football’s most important game from 1987 through the 2004 […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 10/7/2015
It’s not exactly a secret: Many people don’t like ESPN. This means many different things for various consumers and evaluators of ESPN content. To cite just one example out of many, a lot of people hate it when ESPN insists on applying a label to a given week’s slate of games. Showdown Saturday. Survival Saturday. […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 10/5/2015
Duke has tweeted out a few looks at their new uniforms for the 2015-16 season and a few more are floating around the internet…. Photo shoot with
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Age is just a number, they say. You’re only as old as you feel, they say. In many ways, those statements will always be true, but in cutthroat professions, getting on in years will introduce its fair share of limitations. Even the most accomplished head coaches in this era of college football (including one who […]
0 comments by Ryan Palencer on 10/4/2015
On Saturday, the college football landscape saw the latest playoff shake-up of the season. One gets the feeling it won’t be the last. With losses by UCLA and Ole Miss — the previous leaders of two of the Power 5 conferences, along with Notre Dame falling, it leads to the question of whether there will […]
CLEMSON, SC – OCTOBER 3: Head Coach Dabo Swinney of the Cemson Tigers celebrates after defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 24-22 at Clemson Memorial Stadium on October 3, 2015 in Clemson, South Carolina. (Photo by Tyler Smith/Getty Images)
0 comments by Matt Zemek
It’s become very tiresome. It’s become outdated, worn to the point of absurdity. It’s as stale as the day-old bread stand at the local supermarket… after it’s spent seven days on the shelf, unclaimed. Clemsoning — the gerund used to describe a certain ACC football team squandering prosperity — used to legitimately exist. Clemson would […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 10/3/2015
After falling behind 21-0, UNC came roaring back and this trick play gave UNC their first lead of the game 31-28. UNC would never lose the lead as they won 38-31.
0 comments by TSS Staff on 10/2/2015
On Thursday, we explored some of the many games this weekend that pit Top-25 teams versus other Top-25 teams. Today, we are back with another question. Which one of the higher rated teams in the Top 25-versus-Top 25 games is most likely to lose? TSS associate editors Bart Doan and Terry Johnson join staff writer […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/30/2015
It’s true that as recently as the back end of the Charlie Weis era, Notre Dame football wasn’t particularly relevant. However, if Notre Dame falls into a ditch, history has shown that the football program quickly extricates itself from that unfavorable position and — like Touchdown Jesus — rises again in an Easter of the […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/28/2015
We preface this piece by saying that the American Athletic Conference’s West Division is not struggling this season. Memphis, Houston and Navy could be in the process of giving us three teams which will be in the Group of Five’s New Year’s Six bowl hunt when November begins. However, that’s not the realm of the […]
Duke picked up a critical win at Georgia Tech last weekend. The Blue Devils probably didn’t expect Virginia to be an equally consequential contest the following weekend, but the other teams in the ACC Coastal didn’t expect Duke to represent such a key game last season. Duke is now finding out what it’s like to be on the other side of the tracks. Virginia-Duke will do a lot to shape the evolving ACC Coastal race.
0 comments by Matt Zemek
On a Saturday with 50 or more games, it’s easy to identify certain contests as being more important or attractive because they’re top-25 games or in-division games. Yet, those games stand out BEFORE, not after, the final result. When one sifts through the whole of a weekend — and in mid-December, the full regular season […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/21/2015
September is always the month in which college football seasons need to be given time to settle. New players, new quarterbacks, new coordinators, new head coaches, new competitive dynamics in various divisions and conferences — flux is the constant, unpredictability is what’s predictable. September is the month in which the most volatile results of a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 9/18/2015
If you watched Friday night’s Florida State-Boston College game on the heels of Thursday night’s Clemson-Louisville clash, you’d swear that ACC stands for “acutely conservative conference,” with offenses unable to execute and therefore less inclined to take risks. When you wake up on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 19, you will greet an ACC that […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 9/17/2015
Take a look at the reaction from this Clemson fan, who is surrounded by Louisville fans, after the Cards returned a kickoff for a touchdown….
0 comments by Kevin Causey on 9/12/2015
Deshaun Watson is special. Check out this pass….
