Published on: 15th November, 2009
The best story of the college football weekend was Stafon Johnson speaking and quoting his grandmother at a press conference On the field, Ohio State punched their ticket to yet another BCS bowl game with a thrilling overtime victory over Iowa. Jim Tressel has led the Buckeyes to five straight Big ...Published on: 8th November, 2009
The SEC is far and away the best conference in college football this season. Florida and Alabama have been top three teams all year long. It looks like one of those teams will be playing for the National Title as the SEC Title Game is a National Semi-Final Game in a ...Published on: 1st November, 2009
USC busted into the the ranks of the unbeaten teams in last week's BCS standings. They were the fifth ranked team and ahead of TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State. After their trip to Autzen Stadium, the Trojans are out of the national title hunt and might not win the Pac-10 for the first ...Published on: 4th October, 2009
The nature of a round-robin tournament is to eventually lead to a true tournament. It happens in so many sports, including NASCAR, where they have the Chase for the Cup. The sport of racing cars is more innovative than the powers that be of college football. And it is only one level ...Published on: 27th September, 2009
The big news is that Iowa went into a soggy Happy Valley and upset Penn State. Oh yeah, and Tim Tebow got hurt. Like everything associated with Tebow, the hits were both larger than life. A chin cruncher from the front and an epic knee collision on the way down. Head injuries ...Published on: 20th September, 2009
It was a day of reckoning. Some of the teams escaped while others fell victim to eerily similar fates. An overthrown pass by Kirk Cousins, the quarterback from Michigan State, saved Charlie Weis's job at Notre Dame. Another pick by Kyle McCarthy helped. I would say that you can't count on it all ...Published on: 13th September, 2009
The two big games lived up to the hype. Michigan beat Notre Dame in an instant classic. Northern Ohio fans got to see yet another long, heartbreaking drive in the Trojans win over the Buckeyes. Jim Tressel was able to use his conservative gameplan as the Buckeyes kept the game close. ...Published on: 6th September, 2009
The first weekend of the College Football Season started with the match-up of two top 20 teams in Boise, Idaho. The WAC beat the PAC-10 in a lack luster game. Oregon's LaGarrette Blount nullified the opening handshake with a post-game meltdown that included a YouTube friendly punch. Oregon coach Chip Kelly made ...Published on: 19th August, 2009
For years, the saying was that people were always talking about college football. In the 90's the talk became toxic after a string of co-national champions. The bowl system was deemed to be too sacred for a complete reformation. The compromise was the Bowl Championship Series. Every year the BCS has been tweaked. ...Published on: 5th August, 2009
The Bowl Championship Series is a regular season playoff system that is very flawed. The BCS was designed to place the two best regular season college football teams into a one game playoff. The biggest flaw in the BCS is that the parity of college football does not produce two clear ...