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What’s The Matter With Beating Kansas? The View of TCU This Week

TCU remained in the middle of the College Football Playoff discussion by coming back to beat Kansas on Saturday. The win wasn’t emphatic, but it sure beats a loss. The Student Section editors discuss how that 34-30 win should affect TCU’s place in the sport’s pecking order. * Very simply, should TCU fall in the […]

John Beilein is a freakin’ wizard, and Zak Irvin might be the newest breakout player at Michigan who will cast a spell over Big Ten opponents this season.

College Basketball Preview: Potential Breakout Sophomores

With one and dones becoming such a prevalent part of major college basketball these days, we often forget there are a lot of elite recruits, and sometimes not so elite recruits, that blossom as sophomores to become one of the best players on their respective teams. This season should be no different, as there are […]

Student Section Spotlight: An Introduction To Our Lead Basketball Writers

It’s a very big week for college football at The Student Section, but college hoops starts on Nov. 14, and we have a season to preview. The college basketball articles you’ve seen so far at TSS have been our preseason poll segments. Lead writers Scott King — publisher of Bloguin’s Cincinnati site Bearcats Blog — […]

PHOTO: Bill Self, Master Of Ceremonies

This is The Student Section’s first basketball-themed Locker post of the season. It certainly leaves an image in the mind’s eye. Notice the fleck of gray hair near Bill Self’s right temple, accentuating his choice of attire:

Statistical Summer: Notable “Fumble Luck” Seasons

With the odd-shaped object known as a football, weird bounces constantly invite the twin possibilities of great fortune and total disaster. “Fumble luck” is best captured with the naked eye; some fumbles are easily recovered, while others are true “50-50 balls.” Nevertheless, if the eye can’t cover every college football game in full (and it […]

Editorial Section: Coaching Roundtable, Part II — The Coaching Industry

Yesterday, in part one of our coaching roundtable here at TSS, we looked specifically at coordinators. Today, we broaden our focus in the realm of coaching. There are still coordinators to talk about, but we’re also interested in examining head coaches, surprising transactions, and the notion of whether fixed principles should be adhered to when […]

Statistical Summer: The 10 Most Imprisoned Teams Of 2013

How can the story of a season — and the teams within it — be told? Part of the beauty of college football, with a vastness that stretches beyond 120 teams, is that there are so many ways in which to engage in storytelling. Today, the Statistical Summer continues by looking at 10 teams that […]

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