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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The nation’s longest winning streak falls in Seattle, setting up Ohio State’s visit to Washington
Aggie Nation is swallowing its tongue against Fresno St (overtime about to start)
Texas/TCU is about to start
We could have a sloppy track in Baton Rouge tonight
Having a parent from Ohio and having gone to SC makes me very happy about what is going on in the Big House
Boise St: the first team on Upset Alert to fall?
How on earth did Cal play that badly against Colorado St?
Four Top 25 teams (and a former Top 5 team) are being told to watch out this week:
Auburn hosting South Florida: Both of SI’s college football writers pick the upset.
Texas hosting TCU: TCU alum Dan Jenkins prays for the upset and Bob Davie picks the Horned Frogs.
UCLA hosting BYU: The battle for Ben Olsen’s soul…
Boise [...]
Many of you have no doubt seen Page 2’s “New Rules for College Football Fans to Live By.” But let’s be honest: that’s a lot to read, and somewhere around Rule 26.a.1 our eyes started to glaze over. So here’s a condensed list:
1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division I-A [...]
With Week 1 going through Monday and Louisville taking more $$$ from ESPN to play on Thursday (against the NFL), we don’t have a lot of time to take in all of last weekend before they are ready to go again.
It looks like ranked teams will be taking on better competition this week and some [...]
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- Tennessee at Florida September 15th
#1- Florida at LSU [...]
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 rivalry there [...]