Rivals.com asked its college football round table to name the school that is the most prohibitive favorite in its conference. The answers were BYU, Ohio State, and yes—USC.
This shouldn’t be a news flash. USC already has won six Pac-10 championships in a row, dominating the league like it never has been dominated before. Since its [...]
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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.
BYU embraces its African-American [...]
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 biggest [...]
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 games. [...]
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. Ohio [...]
From the “thinking about the misfortune of others helps us feel better about our own” department comes today’s discussion question: When was the last time a so-called power had a season as awful* as Notre Dame’s currently having? (Their victory over UCLA notwithstanding.)
One proposal might be USC’s 3-8 in 1991, which included losing a nationally [...]
In honor of SC’s beatdown of Nebraska (and Utah’s beatdown of UCLA, Michigan’s beatdown of Notre Dame, etc.), we bring your attention to “The greatest beatdowns in history.” USC, and the Pac-10 in general, make a few appearances in the top 100:
18. 2005 Orange Bowl: USC wins second straight national title with 55-19 win over [...]
Posted in Big Eleven, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Pac-10, UCLA, USC, Utah | 1 Comment »Okay, so you got no live updates this week; I apologize. I was taking online defensive driving to get out of a ticket, so I saw very little of the daytime action and then the family came home and it was daddy/daughter time until SC started.
First, maybe I was wrong about SC. For the first [...]
The Pac-10 vs. SEC feud rages unchecked over at Bleacher Reportbeta, where Leon Wynn crunches a few numbers and comes to the conclusion that the SEC is truly THE powerhouse in college football. One of the stats he pulls out is the SEC’s non-conference record:
Since 2000, the SEC has the nation’s best nonconference record (including [...]
Posted in ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Eleven, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, SEC, Sun Belt, Troy, WAC, Western Carolina, Western Kentucky | 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 Ben Olsen’s soul…
Boise [...]