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 »The weekend of September 15th got its own Sportscenter segment yesterday as the ESPN Championship Series discussed Tennessee at Florida and USC at Nebraska. Rece, Mark and the Old Leprechaun discussed both games. Even though Lou liked Tennessee, they took Florida at home. Both Lou and Mark took SC to win in Lincoln. (I am [...]
Posted in Florida, Nebraska, Tennessee, USC | 1 Comment »ESPN kicked off the season with Rece, Mark, and Lou talking about the big games from Sept 1st and Sept 8th: Tennessee at Cal and Virginia Tech at LSU. May went with Tennessee and Holtz went with Cal; Rece broke the tie, giving Cal the win and moving them into the Top 10. For the [...]
Posted in Cal, LSU, Louisville, Tennessee, Va Tech | 1 Comment »Here is their version; here is our version: #16- Tennessee at California September 1st #18- Florida St at Clemson September 3rd #4- Virginia Tech at LSU September 8th #14- TCU at Texas September 8th #19- Miami at Oklahoma September 8th #20- Notre Dame at Penn State September 8th #8- USC at Nebraska September 15th #9- [...]
Posted in Alabama, Boise State, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Rutgers, Tennessee, Texas, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 2 Comments »No asterisks in this roundup. Just cold, hard facts. And snarky opinions. As the L.A. Daily News’ Scott Wolf reports in his USC blog, there is no bad blood between Pete Carroll and the guy who nearly had Carroll’s job: Mike Bellotti and Pete Carroll do not hate each other. But there is a spirted [...]
Posted in BCS, Big Eleven, Boise State, Coaches, Oregon, Pitt, ROUNDUPS, Syracuse, Tennessee, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech | 4 Comments »In his most recent mailbag, Stewie Mandel ranks the best and worst coaches in College Football. The Top 10 is full of all the usual suspects with our savior Pete Carroll at #1. (One surprise was Jim Grobe at #7, since 99.7% of college football fans couldn’t even have named the Wake Forest head coach [...]
Posted in ACC, Big 12, Coaches, Pac-10, SEC, Tennessee, USC | 1 Comment »In an effort to get ready for the season, here is Mark Schlabach’s breakdown of the best games each week—along with a list of teams that should be on upset alert. The Tennessee/Cal game on September 1 should go a long way toward shutting Les Miles up, while, in Week 2, he puts Texas on [...]
Posted in BCS, Big 12, Big Eleven, Cal, LSU, SEC, Tennessee, Texas, The Biz, USC | No Comments »Here are the college football attendance figures for this past season. Not much to be surprised about in the top three—Michigan, Penn State, Tennessee—but it is interesting to note that one Pac-10 school happened to outdraw the national champs …
Posted in Florida, Michigan, Penn State, Tennessee, The Biz, USC | 1 Comment »Rocky Top Talk gives us a humorously ambiguous headline from back in the day: Reminds us of a certain school down South that just might take its football a little too seriously …
Posted in LSU, Tennessee | No Comments »So Tennessee is out. I thought that LSU would continue the Les Miles led tradition of losing big SEC games. However, JaMarcus Russell drove them down to end Rocky Top’s BCS dreams. (again Steve Spurrier’s quote “You can’t spell Citrus without UT” is ringing in my ears) Ohio State and Michigan are now 1 game [...]
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