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
Posted in Boise State, LSU, Texas, Texas A&M, Va Tech, Washington | No Comments »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?
Posted in Boise State, Cal, Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, USC | No Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Auburn, BYU, Boise State, Michigan, Oregon, South Florida, TCU, Texas, UCLA, Washington | 2 Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Alabama, Boise State, Coaches, Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, The Other USC, The U, UCLA, USC | No Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Boise State, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi State, Oregon, Texas, Washington | No Comments »The folks at covers.com say yes. Here’s the excerpt from their take on the biggest point spreads of opening weekend: Idaho-USC Pointspread: -46 Can they cover? YES Wow. This is A lot of points, but then again, this is a huge mismatch. To be fair, it’s really the only cupcake on USC’s schedule and if [...]
Posted in Idaho, USC | No Comments »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 »Ian Johnson, who famously proposed to his girlfriend seconds after scoring the winning conversion in the Fiesta Bowl, has received threats on his life because he is African-American and his fianceé is white. Apparently it’s 1957 in Boise.
Posted in Boise State | No Comments »Thank you Pete Fiutak. In his mailbag, he says that John David is deserving of the preseason heisman hype, that USC is within 3 plays of having 4 straight titles (and he would have taken them over Florida). Hey as long as one writer covering college football besides Bruce Feldman likes USC and will objectively [...]
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