Once again Awful Announcing takes the time while battling the WWL to give us the announcer listings for week 6. Highlights: College football on ESPN or ESPN2 every night this week as they try and counter-program the MLB playoffs that they no longer carry. The best game of the weeknight slate is Thursday’s #8 Kentucky [...]
Posted in Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Stanford, Texas, The Other USC, USC, Wisconsin | No Comments »Petros’ favorite Trojan beat writer, Scott Wolf, tells us that the SC injury report continues to grow. With O’Dowd and Rachel out at least 3 weeks the OL better stay healthy and work better against the Farm, Arizoneverbeentoarosebowl, and 0-5 ND so that they can be playing like a unit when the Trojans arrive in [...]
Posted in Stanford, 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 »Thanks to Awful Announcing for having someone compile this list. Here are the highlights: Tomorrow, ESPN begins to completely whip our ass with the 25-hour pregame nightmare. Then we get LSU and Miss St with Fowler, Flutie, and James (are you kidding me that we have to put up with Craig James in the booth [...]
Posted in Cal, Georgia, Georgia Tech, LSU, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Syracuse, Tennessee, The Biz, UCLA, Va Tech | 1 Comment »College football took a backseat this weekend to other momentous sports moments (and we’re referring, of course, to Lorena Ochoa winning the Women’s British Open), but there were some happenings around the nation. They’re here in the roundup. The Jim Harbaugh Quote Machine continues to crank out good copy. The latest? “The most important goal [...]
Posted in Coaches, Florida, LSU, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, ROUNDUPS, Recruiting, Stanford, Syracuse, Texas, The Bigs, The Other USC, USC, Wyoming | 1 Comment »We think we speak for everyone when we say that it’s great having Jim Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh’s Mouth in the I-A coaching ranks. Well, maybe not everyone. He already aroused the ire of USC fans by suggesting Pete Carroll was leaving after this season and clearly annoyed Carroll with his “greatest team ever” comments. [...]
Posted in Coaches, Michigan, Stanford, USC | No Comments »Jim Harbaugh thinks maybe so: “There is no question in my mind that USC is the best team in the country and may be the best team in the history of college football,” Harbaugh said Thursday at the Pac-10 football coaches’ annual media day. Pete Carroll, as usual, demurs: “You’ve gotta love Jim, huh? I’m [...]
Posted in Pac-10, Stanford, USC | 2 Comments »Some say the Flutie-to-Phalen Hail Mary, others say The Play. In defense of the latter, this first-person account from Michael Silver is good reading.
Posted in "The 100", Boston College, Cal, Stanford, The U | 1 Comment »While Ivan Maisel tried to say that the Flutie to Phalen play was the best in College Football history, he is wrong. The guys at College Football News, on the other hand, get it right by taking us back almost 25 years to the play that kept John Elway from ever playing in a bowl [...]
Posted in Boise State, Cal, Oklahoma, Pac-10, Stanford | 1 Comment »We might be two months from the kickoff of the college football season, but down South, talking gridiron trash is a year-round sport. Take LSU coach Les Miles, who decides to provide a little pre-season locker room material for the Trojans: “I can tell you that I would like nothing better than to play USC [...]
Posted in Arkansas, Cal, LSU, Pac-10, Rome's Takes, SEC, Stanford, UCLA, Washington | 6 Comments »