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 [...]
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As always, big thanks to Awful Announcing for this week’s announcer schedule for college football.
Highlights:
Thursday night: South Florida at Rutgers (ESPN: Fowler/Flutie/James). South Florida’s last test on the road.
Saturday (Noon Eastern): Nothing worth watching.
Saturday (3:30pm Eastern): Florida at Kentucky (CBS: Lundquist/Danielson, Gameday in Lexington) and SC at ND—2 years ago a clash of Top 10 [...]
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The ESPN Championship Series continues with the weekend of October 27th. Penn State travels to Columbus and West Virginia goes to Rutgers. While the Nittany Lions are Kirk Herbstreit’s preseason favorite, apparently they are not Lou and Mark’s; they like the Buckeyes this week.
The honeymoon is over for America’s 2006 darling, [...]
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Here is their version; here is our version:
#16- Tennessee at California September 1st
#18- Florida St at Clemson September 3rd
#4- Virginia Tech at LSU September 8th
#14- TCU at Texas September 8th
#19- Miami at Oklahoma September 8th
#20- Notre Dame at Penn State September 8th
#8- USC at Nebraska September 15th
#9- Tennessee at Florida September 15th
#1- Florida at LSU [...]
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Although SBR is scrupulously apolitical, we realize that sometimes you have to dig deep to find fresh college football arguments. Thus, a piece from Political Affairs Magazine, wherein the author suggests that maybe we should add another element to the national title game decision:
Let me make a modest proposal to the NCAA powers that be. [...]
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Fans of the State University of New Jersey (Rutgers, for those not paying attention to Rece Davis each week) and area media are upset that Lee Corso dismisses Rutgers as a national title contender. I know that they are a long shot to go 12-0, but Newark Star-Ledger columnist Tom Luicci calls Corso “The [...]
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