Hey Urban Poet: Chuck Weis is listed at around 350lbs so I think that is right. Also, the “Dwarf from Shreveport” was left on the sideline all day so that also helped out a lot. Oh and there are no Division-I offensive players playing currently for Notre Dame. So, Ohio State dominated Michigan St for [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Cal, LSU, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon, USC | No Comments »As SI considers the ‘Pac-10 vs. SEC’ question, Bill Trocchi seeks some outside help in constructing his latest conference power rankings: For this particular exercise, I forwarded Ken White, the senior oddsmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants, 10 hypothetical matchups. Keep in mind that White’s company sets the odds for 90 percent of the casinos [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Cal, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Oregon State, Pac-10, SEC, Stanford, Tennessee, The Other USC, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Washington, Washington State | 5 Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona State, Arkansas, Army, Cal, Florida, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Utah, West Virginia | 1 Comment »Faithful readers might remember that we came in at #9 on an earlier list of college football’s best unis. Turns out we’re moving up—the latest list, from Dayn Perry at FOX Sports, has us at #2: Exceptionally cool helmets, colors, striping and cleats. It’s a look that’s also stood the test of time. The Pac-10 [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Pac-10, Syracuse, UCLA, USC, Washington | No Comments »Our friends at the Worldwide Leader have decided who will play for the alleged BcS title and in turn have created BcS chaos. On November 17th, they have Michigan finally beating Ohio State and finishing the season 12-0. Then, over Thanksgiving weekend, they have SC and LSU surviving scares from ASU and Arkansas. Finally, Championship [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Arkansas, Big Eleven, Florida, LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, Pac-10, SEC, UCLA, USC | No Comments »No more messin’ around. It’s roundup time. The LA Times recaps a contentious practice yesterday in Troy, as Stafon Johnson raised Pete Carroll’s hackles following an impressive run. After Johnson and safety Will Harris got into it, Johnson threw the ball at Harris. Then this happened: Coach Pete Carroll immediately got into the running back’s [...]
Posted in Akron, Arizona State, Coaches, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi State, NCAA, ROUNDUPS, USC, Vanderbilt | 1 Comment »Usually at this point of the college football year (and make no mistake, it didn’t take ESPN airing a daily “College Football Live” to prove that college football is now a year-round sport), hysteria runs rampant. The preseason guides are on newsstands, polls and predictions are being made by every myopic fan and blogger from [...]
Posted in Arizona State, BCS, Cal, Coaches, LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Oregon State, Texas, UCLA, USC, Washington | 2 Comments »The powers that be have decided that USC will play on Thanksgiving for the first time since 1938; the UCLA game has been moved to December 1st.
Posted in Arizona State, UCLA, USC | No Comments »Today at a news conference in Tempe, Arizona State will announce they are mortgaging their program to get Dennis Erickson. Erickson is definitely a winner—he’s also a crook who has never been able to recruit kids that stay out of trouble and, on second thought, really hasn’t won anything with his own players. The worst [...]
Posted in Arizona State, Pac-10 | No Comments »Cal, Oregon and USC that is the order or greatness in the Pac-10 according to ASU QB Rudy Carpenter. I hope that the SC players see this and they prepare for the second six games better than they did for the last four.
Posted in Arizona State, Oregon, Pac-10, USC | No Comments »