The nation’s longest winning streak falls in Seattle, setting up Ohio State’s visit to Washington Aggie Nation is swallowing its tongue against Fresno St (overtime about to start) Texas/TCU is about to start We could have a sloppy track in Baton Rouge tonight
Posted in Boise State, LSU, Texas, Texas A&M, Va Tech, Washington | No Comments »Four Top 25 teams (and a former Top 5 team) are being told to watch out this week: Auburn hosting South Florida: Both of SI’s college football writers pick the upset. Texas hosting TCU: TCU alum Dan Jenkins prays for the upset and Bob Davie picks the Horned Frogs. UCLA hosting BYU: The battle for [...]
Posted in Auburn, BYU, Boise State, Michigan, Oregon, South Florida, TCU, Texas, UCLA, Washington | 2 Comments »Many of you have no doubt seen Page 2′s “New Rules for College Football Fans to Live By.” But let’s be honest: that’s a lot to read, and somewhere around Rule 26.a.1 our eyes started to glaze over. So here’s a condensed list: 1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division [...]
Posted in Alabama, Boise State, Coaches, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC | No Comments »Apparently Big 12 officials want to make up for Oklahoma getting screwed at Oregon last year: turns out the onside kick in the Arkansas State/Texas game that was ruled an illegal formation was a mistake by the homer officials. Arkansas State recovered near midfield and then would have had a shot to pull an App [...]
Posted in Appalachian State, Arkansas State, I-AA (we refuse to call it "FCS"), Texas | No Comments »With Week 1 going through Monday and Louisville taking more $$$ from ESPN to play on Thursday (against the NFL), we don’t have a lot of time to take in all of last weekend before they are ready to go again. It looks like ranked teams will be taking on better competition this week and [...]
Posted in Boise State, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi State, Oregon, Texas, Washington | No Comments »What is this play, of all plays, doing on the eve(ish) of a new season? Well, we’re just wrapping up some loose ends to clear the slate. With Texas trailing USC 38-33, Vince Young already had used 928 Sneak to score in the fourth quarter of the 2006 BCS Championship Game. On fourth down at [...]
Posted in "The 100", Texas, USC | No Comments »As previously discussed, Emmanuel Moody has now decided to join the Gators. We find this whole situation fairly odd. This kid out of Coppell, Texas spurns Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M to go to USC with 2 other 5-star recruit tailbacks; gets to play as a true freshman; and then, when he is not immediately handed [...]
Posted in Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, USC | 1 Comment »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 [...]
Posted in ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Eleven, Boston College, Coaches, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pac-10, SEC, Texas, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | No Comments »Okay, this is getting ridiculous. All 12 “experts” from ESPN pick USC to win the national title. Three experts like the Trojans over Texas, three more take SC over LSU, two pick USC over Michigan (nice rematch), two more like SC over West Virginia, and the unique picks are SC over OU and SC over Virginia [...]
Posted in LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »Last year ESPN had its first mock season with a PLAYOFF, played out on the 6pm Sportscenter each night going week by week through the season. This year’s version (ESPNU Championship Series) kicked off last night, with Rece Davis, Mark May and Lou Holtz (who said, and we were shocked by this, that Notre Dame was going [...]
Posted in Florida, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, The Biz, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »