Apparently, Notre Dame really wants to keep their schedule as easy as possible for the next decade.* Looks like USC and Michigan till 2018, a few Catholic school battles with BC, and eight or nine guaranteed wins (Just like this past season, right?), which puts them in the middle of the BCS money grab.
Speaking of [...]
December 1, 2007 has come and gone, which means that this wild and crazy season is over. No one was great, everyone claimed to be good, and we are left with a system that is designed to give us a 1 vs. 2 game—based on the opinions of 167 people who don’t watch every game [...]
Posted in Appalachian State, BCS, Big 12, Big Eleven, Boston College, Coaches, Georgia, Hawaii, I-AA (we refuse to call it "FCS"), Kansas, LSU, Michigan, Mizzou, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pac-10, Polls, Stanford, Student Body Right, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia | 4 Comments »From, as always, Awful Announcing:
Tonight: The Battle of the Techs, with the lovely Erin Andrews on the sidelines. I might watch, since there’s nothing else sports-related on television, but these two teams are seriously dull.
Saturday:
Early Games: Wisconsin at Ohio State on the Big Ten Network (noon Eastern). For those of you without DirecTV enjoy not [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona State, Boston College, Coaches, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Heisman Watch, Kansas, LSU, Navy, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, Oregon State, USC, Va Tech, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »Here we go, thanks to Awful Announcing for listing the Week 9 College Football TV schedule.
Tonight: #2 BC at #8 Virginia Tech, Hokie Hokie Hi.
Tomorrow: Boise St at Fresno St, Can Boise win without the marrying man Ian Johnson?
Saturday:
Gameday: at Penn State as the ESPN/ABC corporate plan comes together with Gameday and the ABC national [...]
As the last Saturday in October approaches, a couple of “experts” are already making their picks for this weekend’s games:
Dan Shanoff, formerly of ESPN.com’s Page 2 and now a weekly College Football contributor at Deadspin likes Ohio State over Penn State, Oregon over USC, Cal over ASU, Florida over Georgia at the Cocktail Party, WVU [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Boston College, Cal, Florida, Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Rutgers, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia | No Comments »Saturday, September 15, 2007
College Gameday: live from Lincoln, Nebraska, 10:00 AM EDT (Fowler/Herbstreit and the other two)
No. 5 Florida (2-0) vs. No. 22 Tennessee (1-1), 3:30 PM EDT, CBS (Lundquist/Danielson); Florida -8
No. 10 Ohio State (2-0) at Washington (2-0), 3:30 PM EDT, ESPN (Franklin/Cunningham); Ohio State -4
No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) at Alabama (2-0), 6:45 PM [...]
SI predicts the conference champions (my thoughts in brackets):
ACC: Virgina Tech over BC in the money-grab title game.
[Agreed.]
Big 12: Texas over Nebraska in the money-grab title game.
[I'm thinking OU instead.]
Big Eleven: Michigan.
[Wisconsin.]
Big East: West Virginia.
[L'ville.]
Pac-10: USC, (12-0) and off to the BcS title game.
[Agreed, in spite of Booty.]
SEC: LSU (13-0) over Florida in the original [...]
Some say the Flutie-to-Phalen Hail Mary, others say The Play. In defense of the latter, this first-person account from Michael Silver is good reading.
Posted in "The 100", Boston College, Cal, Stanford, The U | 1 Comment »Not to jump ahead of ourselves (and don’t worry, we’ll continue breaking down the Trojan moments that made the list), but Ivan Maisel has concluded his countdown of the top 100 college football moments of all time. No doubt fans will quibble with the list - because that’s what fans do, they quibble - but [...]
Posted in Alabama, Army, Boston College, Cal, Florida State, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Stanford, Texas, The U, USC | 2 Comments »