Now that we are past signing day and the NFL entry deadline, it’s time look forward to 2008. So it’s nice that Rivals.com has outlined every D-IA* team’s spring practice dates and their biggest question mark of the off-season. SC starts March 25th and ends with the Spring Game April 19th. According to Rivals, the [...]
Posted in ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Eleven, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, NCAA, Pac-10, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC | No Comments »First it was stealing from Tommy Bowden’s staff again, now it’s poaching from Nick Saban’s. It is rumored that Major came home for the opportunity to take over for Mack down the road (when he is done taking all of DeLoss Dodd’s money). Will Muschamp is here for a year, max, and merely opening up [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Coaches, SEC, Texas | No Comments »Corso: Florida USC Georgia Ohio State Oklahoma Herbstreit: USC Georgia Florida Missouri Oklahoma
Posted in Florida, Georgia, Mizzou, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC | No Comments »Turns out the folks behind the Kansas City Star’s playoff bracket have done a little simulation of their own, which they call December Madness. Currently they’ve settled on the Final Four: OSU vs. OU and Va Tech vs. SC (who beat LSU to get there, by the way). Also, they’ve predicted each of the bowl [...]
Posted in BCS, Illinois, LSU, Navy, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC, Utah, Va Tech | No Comments »The Kansas City Star gets in on the action. And once again, you have to love that neither national title participant was a finalist. Great system we have. Oh, and OU beat SC in the final of the SportsCenter Playoff (Herbie and Corso). Because when it comes to national championship games, everybody knows that OU [...]
Posted in Oklahoma, USC | 1 Comment »Here is the bottom line: Chuck Casserly made a smart move for the Texans, who play in the Peyton Manning division; they needed a pass-rush presence and in two years he has figured it out. The Saints made a good pick based on the fact that they had Deuce: Reggie works well in space and [...]
Posted in North Carolina State, Texas, The Bigs, USC | No Comments »Nice to know that the two teams playing for the national title aren’t even deemed finals-worthy by SI readers…
Posted in BCS, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, USC | No Comments »In addition to the aforementioned fake playoffs, now we can have instant gratification/dissatisfaction with the current system: just run the College Football Playoffs Simulations from ESPN. CommishRob’s first simulation? SC wins it all. CommishPhil’s didn’t go so well, as Hawaii thrashed USC in the first round (using the BCS seeding). Mine (using the ESPN Power [...]
Posted in BCS, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, USC | 1 Comment »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 »As always we thank Awful Announcing for this week’s listing. Ok I am sorry to everyone for not posting in the past 12 days. After my visit to LA for the yawnfest that was the Homecoming win, I had a business trip then family in town so yeah I forgot to post about week 11. [...]
Posted in Arizona, Arizona State, BCS, BYU, Cincinnati, Duke, Florida, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas Tech, USC, Utah, West Virginia | No Comments »