Mark Mangino begins a rigorous pre-season fitness regimen.
OU cheerleaders scramble to memorize the words to Boomer Sooner.
Nerds across the country prepare for twelve weeks out of the shadows as they don Micheal Jackson-esque pseudo-military uniforms to march in the band.
A Northwest Florida cryogenics lab begins de-icing Bobby Bowden.
Joe Paterno starts sundowning.
BYU embraces its African-American [...]
Now that we are past signing day and the NFL entry deadline, it’s time look forward to 2008. So it’s nice that Rivals.com has outlined every D-IA* team’s spring practice dates and their biggest question mark of the off-season.
SC starts March 25th and ends with the Spring Game April 19th. According to Rivals, the biggest [...]
It’s a good thing the Rose Bowl was more interested in preserving its “tradition,” because USC-Georgia wouldn’t have been nearly as fun to watch or as relevant as USC-Illinois and Hawaii-Georgia. I hope those bowl ratings Gordon Gee was hiding behind are absolutely soaring with this slate.
Posted in BCS, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, USC | No Comments »In addition to the aforementioned fake playoffs, now we can have instant gratification/dissatisfaction with the current system: just run the College Football Playoffs Simulations from ESPN.
CommishRob’s first simulation? SC wins it all.
CommishPhil’s didn’t go so well, as Hawaii thrashed USC in the first round (using the BCS seeding).
Mine (using the ESPN Power 16 seeding) had [...]
December 1, 2007 has come and gone, which means that this wild and crazy season is over. No one was great, everyone claimed to be good, and we are left with a system that is designed to give us a 1 vs. 2 game—based on the opinions of 167 people who don’t watch every game [...]
Posted in Appalachian State, BCS, Big 12, Big Eleven, Boston College, Coaches, Georgia, Hawaii, I-AA (we refuse to call it "FCS"), Kansas, LSU, Michigan, Mizzou, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pac-10, Polls, Stanford, Student Body Right, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia | 4 Comments »Here we go, thanks to Awful Announcing for listing the Week 9 College Football TV schedule.
Tonight: #2 BC at #8 Virginia Tech, Hokie Hokie Hi.
Tomorrow: Boise St at Fresno St, Can Boise win without the marrying man Ian Johnson?
Saturday:
Gameday: at Penn State as the ESPN/ABC corporate plan comes together with Gameday and the ABC national [...]
Let me tell you what college fantasy football has done for me. The Urban Poet is not necessarily a major college football fan. Like any good Trojan, he loves SC, hates UCLA, and talks trash about Notre Dame. Like any wise Trojan, he secretly hopes his future children will prefer UCLA, as the Urban Poet [...]
Posted in Bowling Green, Hawaii, Navy, Notre Dame, Student Body Right, Texas Tech, Toledo, UCLA, USC | 1 Comment »As we reported earlier, Jay Mohr likes to make jokes about USC being in a bad neighborhood and paying their players. Well, he’s at it again:
I am brand spanking new to the college game. I never went to college (I got rejected by a lot of them though) so I never had a team to [...]
The Pac-10 vs. SEC feud rages unchecked over at Bleacher Reportbeta, where Leon Wynn crunches a few numbers and comes to the conclusion that the SEC is truly THE powerhouse in college football. One of the stats he pulls out is the SEC’s non-conference record:
Since 2000, the SEC has the nation’s best nonconference record (including [...]
Posted in ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Eleven, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, SEC, Sun Belt, Troy, WAC, Western Carolina, Western Kentucky | 1 Comment »Upset Alert Recap: South Florida pulled it off at Auburn; so did Washington. Oregon put Lloyd Carr on suicide watch. UCLA and Texas survived tough games at home.
Virginia Tech looked to be the 2nd most overrated team in the country; however, Pat Forde feels that LSU is #1.
The Ole Ball Coach pulled his magic against [...]