Welcome to the 2009 regular season, college football fans. Here is the first in my weekly effort to guide fellow fanatics toward the best way to spend our time from noon to midnight (all times Eastern) or later each Saturday. Or you can look at it as my prediction of where Erin Andrews will be [...]
Posted in BCS, On the Couch | No Comments »The Wall Street Journal wants to see a USC-SEC matchup in the BCS championship game: With universal No. 1 Southern California seemingly certain to reach the national championship game — those Arizona State and Oregon obstacles look smaller and smaller all the time — the real drama lies with the unfolding derby between the Southeastern [...]
Posted in BCS, Big 12, Mizzou, Oklahoma, SEC, Texas, USC | 1 Comment »Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time. In addition to six straight seasons of 11 wins and a BCS bowl, this is a nice little stat that sidesteps [...]
Posted in BCS, Polls, USC | No Comments »Colin Cowherd this morning was describing ESPN’s big college football meeting, with Herbstreit, Corso, Saunders, Musberger, James, Flutie, etc., and they took a straw poll among their experts. 75% of them said USC would play in the national championship game. Discuss.
Posted in BCS, USC | 1 Comment »The Sports Blawger has posted a list of the top ten college football coaches. Some interesting choices along the way (for example, Urban Meyer over Mack Brown), but he ends up in the right place: 1. Pete Carroll, Southern California Yep. It’s Pete. If OSU dominates the Big-10, I don’t think they’ve invented a name [...]
Posted in BCS, Big Eleven, Coaches, Pac-10, USC | 1 Comment »Mark Mangino begins a rigorous pre-season fitness regimen. OU cheerleaders scramble to memorize the words to Boomer Sooner. Nerds across the country prepare for twelve weeks out of the shadows as they don Micheal Jackson-esque pseudo-military uniforms to march in the band. A Northwest Florida cryogenics lab begins de-icing Bobby Bowden. Joe Paterno starts sundowning. [...]
Posted in BCS, BYU, Boise State, Coaches, Florida State, Kansas, LSU, Navy, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Stanford, Top Tens, USC | 1 Comment »As part of his “rage-inducing college football predictions,” Mark Bradley thinks that USC will make it to the title game: Speaking of nonconference games … the winner of USC-Ohio State on Sept. 13 will play for the BCS title. It’ll be a Trojan conquest. That difference-in-speed thing again. Haven’t we dealt with the speed myth [...]
Posted in BCS, Georgia, USC | 3 Comments »It’s May, which means college football is in its dead period. Apparently, this also means that ESPN wants to get CommishPhil riled up.
Posted in BCS | No Comments »Apropos of the SEC’s recent playoff proposal (which was shot down, of course), I have to say that I find it interesting how much ABC clings to the Rose Bowl. Yes, it has great tradition. Yes, it’s in a pretty setting. Yes, the flowers are lovely. But you have an entire generation of fans that [...]
Posted in BCS, Pac-10, The Biz | 1 Comment »Right now on the front page of ESPN.com, their poll question asks, Which system would you prefer in college football? With just under 30,000 total votes so far, the tally is as follows: Plus-one: 22% Playoff (8 or 16 team): 71% Current BCS system 7% My math isn’t so hot, but I think that means [...]
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