SC’s second-place ranking got you down? Well, take heart in the fact that we are nevertheless the Pac-10′s “clutch team past.” We’re not really sure what that means, but here’s the evidence in favor: The record speaks for itself. The Trojans: Own 11 national titles in five different decades. Own the highest all-time winning percentage [...]
Posted in Alabama, Coaches, Notre Dame, Pac-10, SEC, UCLA, USC, Washington State | No Comments »As Kansas cancels classes to celebrate Memphis’ inability to shoot free-throws, the rest of us are watching and reading about the 20 most meaningless practices of the year—because that’s all the college football we get until August 28th. (135 days and counting.) Alabama is in the post-Major Applewhite era, and seems very happy with the [...]
Posted in Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Oklahoma, UCLA, USC | No Comments »For the longest time I have hated the work of Terry Bowden. No one cheered more when ABC sent him packing from the studio show. However, when he tells a story about one of my favorite college football players and it’s really interesting, let me be the first to say: Good work, Terry. Most people [...]
Posted in Alabama | No Comments »First it was stealing from Tommy Bowden’s staff again, now it’s poaching from Nick Saban’s. It is rumored that Major came home for the opportunity to take over for Mack down the road (when he is done taking all of DeLoss Dodd’s money). Will Muschamp is here for a year, max, and merely opening up [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Coaches, SEC, Texas | No Comments »From, as always, Awful Announcing: Tonight: The Battle of the Techs, with the lovely Erin Andrews on the sidelines. I might watch, since there’s nothing else sports-related on television, but these two teams are seriously dull. Saturday: Early Games: Wisconsin at Ohio State on the Big Ten Network (noon Eastern). For those of you without [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona State, Boston College, Coaches, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Heisman Watch, Kansas, LSU, Navy, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon, Oregon State, USC, Va Tech, Wisconsin | 1 Comment »Fanblogs brings us StubHub’s list of 2007′s Top 25 College Football Rivalries, and, wouldn’t you know it, USC shows up twice in the top five. 1 USC at Notre Dame 20-Oct $409 1 $379 2 Ohio State at Michigan 17-Nov $408 3 $876 3 Oklahoma vs. Texas 6-Oct $400 2 $419 4 UCLA at USC [...]
Posted in Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Arkansas, Army, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa State, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Oregon State, Pitt, Purdue, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, Virginia, West Virginia | No Comments »Okay, here we go. As soon as you think that you might want to not watch much college football this weekend 7 of the Top 15 lose. #1 USC left all of their crisp play in LA and squeaked by U-Dub by 3. SC looked terrible and I would not be surprised if LSU is [...]
Posted in Alabama, Auburn, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Kansas State, Kentucky, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, USC, Washington | 2 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 »Apparently some writers don’t take ther AP Poll ballot as seriously as fans would like them to. (Thanks to TheBigLead for the heads up.) First, Parrish Alford, of the NE Mississippi Daily Journal, still thinks Louisville is #13 while Kentucky is #24. (And here I could’ve sworn that I saw Kentucky score at will against [...]
Posted in Alabama, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisville, The Other USC, UCLA, USC | 1 Comment »Awful Announcing again provides us with this weekend’s TV schedule (Sept 20th thru 22nd): The weekend opens with Texas A&M at Miami and Erin Andrews probably in a tank top—YEAH! (Erin will also be in Tampa for South Florida, so it might be a tank top twofer.) We’ll see if Coach Fran really has a [...]
Posted in Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, The Other USC, The U, USC, Washington State | No Comments »