CNNSI’s Stewart Mandel has finally come around to giving USC a little credit for their season-opening 50-14 win over Arkansas. It’s been very fashionable lately to discredit that win because Darren McFadden wasn’t 100% and “Arkansas is a different team now.” So what was USC supposed to do, not beat them? Were they supposed to [...]
Posted in Arkansas, USC | No Comments »ESPN’s Brad Edwards may be the only man alive who truly understands the BCS formula, and he says that as long as the Men of Troy win out, they will play in a dream Rose Bowl matchup against Ohio State… oh, wait, that game will be played in Glendale. Arizona. In the ‘BCS Championship Game.’ [...]
Posted in Arkansas, BCS, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC | No Comments »It seems that the Buckeyes are already National Champions. According to the post-game comments from Buckeye players in Pat Forde’s story, nobody can play with them. We seem to recall a certain Oklahoma team feeling the same way …
Posted in Arkansas, BCS, Big Eleven, Cal, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Pac-10, SEC, USC | No Comments »Since his demotion at ABC, Terry Bowden has been using his Yahoo! Sports column to tackle the serious issues of college football. Now, he takes the Top 8 each week and plays them off based on his best guess of what would happen if we had a playoff. In Week 1—before Texas, Cal and Auburn [...]
Posted in Arkansas, BCS, Big Eleven, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State | No Comments »Were Tommy Tuberville’s comments on Wednesday somehow prophetic? He did say, after all, that “I’ve about had it with this playoff deal,” Tuberville said after a lengthy, emotional argument for a playoff. “We all understand in our conference how tough it is. In our conference, that’s about the only chance we’d have to make it.” [...]
Posted in Arkansas, Auburn, SEC, USC, Washington State | No Comments »Gotta love when a school thinks they are good at football.
Posted in Arkansas, Pac-10, SEC, USC | No Comments »Darren McFadden, the Razorbacks’ star RB, is still listed as doubtful for the opener with USC after having the pin in his foot removed. McFadden, remember, placed the start of his season in doubt when he broke his foot during an altercation outside a bar this summer. However, with him doing range of motion drills [...]
Posted in Arkansas, Pac-10, SEC, USC | No Comments »Pete Carroll has decided with 2 weeks until the opener that John David Booty will be the starter when the Trojans take the field at Arkansas.
Posted in Arkansas, Pac-10, SEC, USC | No Comments »Arkansas coach Houston Nutt ended his QB controversy by naming Robert Johnson as the starter for the September 2nd showdown with USC. This means that the USC defense will have over 2 weeks to figure out how to knock Johnson out of the game so the fans can see Casey Dick.
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