I couldn’t possibly be happier. For years I’ve been begging college football to do away with the atrocious system we call the Bowl Championship Series and settle their championship like every other sport in America. Set up a playoff, allow X number of teams to qualify and through a series of games let it be [...]
Sandusky Convicted: Now What For Penn State?
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty…. As the jury foremen rendered the verdicts against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandsusky on Friday night, the anticipated and expected verdict was finalized as he was convicted on 45 of the 48 charges he faced. With everything from endangering the welfare of a child to indecent contact with a [...]
Your Guide To An Enjoyable 2012-2013 CFB Season
College Football is the Vito Corleone of sports. Plain and simple. If you don’t understand that reference like I wouldn’t have a year or so ago, it is time for you to stop everything you’re doing, go out and rent the Godfather trilogy and then come back and tell me how brilliant I am. Not [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 6: Coaches Feeling The Heat
The college football landscape is quite the carousel of trust and support. One minute you can be as beloved as any man in the state and the next they have your head on a stick ready to throw you to the wolves. Each season the names of those in need for a major turnaround are [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 5: Top Five Non-AQ Teams Not Named Boise St.
Non-automatic qualifiers were seen but not heard only 10 years ago for the most part. However with the rise of TCU and Boise St. in the last decade, more attention is paid to those teams outside the power conferences. As popular as it is to predict national champions and Heisman winners, it’s almost as popular [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 4: Major Names to Learn…Replacing 2011′s Stars
Each and every year we wish goodbye and good luck to some of college football’s brightest stars. Be it the star quarterback, game-changing wide receiver or ferocious linebacker, teams every season have to turn over some of their top talent and hope other plays can step up and fill their vacated shoes. Sometimes these players [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 3: New Coaching Faces
College Football head coaching jobs are sort of like the ice cream truck on a summer day. You may have to wait a little while, but eventually they present themselves. So is the case in 2012 where 26 new head coaches will take to the sidelines for their debut seasons with their programs. Some names [...]
Why Petrino Shouldn’t But Ultimately Will Be Fired
So unless you don’t like sports or live under a rock, which in either case probably would mean you’re not reading this, you know by now that Bobby Petrino was put on administrative leave from the University of Arkansas in order for athletic director Jeff Long to look into the events. What’s he looking for? [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 2: Ten Teams Due for a Fall
As we covered in part 1, each college football season generally means some change. Though it may not always be drastic, there’s only a small percentage of teams that stay truly great or pathetically terrible. Otherwise teams generally fluctuate somewhere between great, good, decent, and poor. Some years you may jump 2-3 adjectives, some just [...]
2012 CFB Preview Part 1: Ten Teams on the Rise
Each college football season we tend to see the trend where some team comes from the weeds of the prior season to win a number of games and qualify for a bowl or become a BCS contender overnight. Sometimes it is easy to spot those teams. Other times we’re left at season’s end wondering how [...]
