Week 14 on the couch

Welcome to Championship weekend: the made up weekend to expand college football’s shadow into December and to line the pockets of a few conferences that have title games. But even though these conference title games are a huge money grab, at least we get one last weekend of games that will decide who goes to [...]

Week 12 on the couch

Ah, Week 12—or as it used to be called (before the BcS), Rivalry Weekend. This used to be the best weekend of the year but with the bastardization of rivalry weekend for TV and the 12-game schedule all we have is Harvard-Yale, Stanford-Cal and Ohio State-Michigan to pull us through a potential horrible weekend. (I [...]

Week 11 on the couch

Welcome to Week 11. We have very few games that mean anything (again) and I missed all of the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday action so here is how you should spend your Saturday watching college football.

Friday, November 13th

Tonight is Friday the 13th and will it be bad luck for Cincinnati as West Virginia [...]

Week 10 on the couch

We are coming down the home stretch, America. Five weeks left in the season and we still have seven undefeated teams. We also will have a new Pac-10 champ for the first time since 2002 thanks to the USC defense deciding that umbrella coverage and no pressure would be the best way to stop Oregon. [...]

Week 9 on the couch

Well we come to Halloween and we might know less about college football than we knew two months ago. I am stunned that the SEC has teams #1 & #2 and they both looked awful this past Saturday. Of course, USC played no defense for the 5th consecutive quarter and they need to be up [...]

Week 8 on the couch

Here we go, kids: the BCS Standings are out and as per usual they make no sense. However, the answer this time is that the computers don’t take into account half the season and the formulas are designed for a full 12-game schedule. Therefore, America doesn’t need to get bent out of shape about ratings [...]

Week 7 on the couch

Week 7 got off to a boring start last night as Louisiana-Monroe beat Arkansas State 16-10 in the rain. I know that ESPN is giving us games on Tuesday and Wednesday night to counter-program the baseball playoffs since they got pushed out by TBS. However, there is no baseball tonight (or last night) as baseball [...]

Week 6 on the couch

Week 6 arrives, and so does fall—with its gray skies, yellow leaves, and boring Big 11 games dominating early TV coverage. Week 6 is no exception, as the best game of the year (so far) does not start until 8pm eastern and the rest of the schedule is pretty terrible. So, if you have to [...]

Week 5 on the couch

Can we really already be five weeks into the College Football season? So far we’ve seen #3 lose (twice), #4 lose, #5 lose, #6 lose, and #7 lose—so we could be looking at 2007 all over again. Or a Texas/Florida title game, which would make me throw up, because 5 weeks of Tebow/McCoy banter [...]

Week 4 on the couch

Week 4 is here and the USC season is over. 11-1 is not going to get it done from the Pac-10 with 3 SEC schools in the Top 4 and Texas playing nobody but the 2 schools in Oklahoma for the rest of the season. So, with that we look forward to more [...]