Published on: 14th July, 2009
Last year, the ACC was Average Conference with no outstanding teams. It is a good thing to have so many decent teams, with even Duke playing some quality football, but top tier programs give a conference status. This year, Virginia Tech, Florida State, and Georgia Tech look to be the class ...Published on: 12th July, 2009
While college football fans have debated the issue of what would make more money, a playoff or the BCS, BCS Coordinator John Swofford recently answered that question in an interview with the website RealClearSports on July 5, 2009. RCS: Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated criticized your testimony in the House hearings, ...Published on: 11th July, 2009
With 36 bowl games last season, 72 teams went to bowls out of 119 schools in the FBS. In order to have so many bowl games, the NCAA has made it much easier for schools to become bowl eligible, allowing some very questionable teams be rewarded for a bad season. Now, ...Published on: 9th July, 2009
Continuing my survey of out of conference (OOC) schedules, I decided to take a look at the Big East, the weakest of the Automatic Qualifying (AQ) conferences. The Big East is still trying to recover from the ACC's great raid. With only eight teams, the Big East plays more OOC games ...Published on: 8th July, 2009
The Big 12 is not known for its great out of conference (OOC) schedules, but I wanted to look more closely at just how bad they really were this year. Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Oklahoma State all scheduled up this year, though Oklahoma actually plays its hardest OOC games away from Norman. Texas, ...Published on: 6th July, 2009
With the start of the season less than two months away, it is a good time to look at the best games for the opening week of college football. Week One will help show whether the WAC will rise up and challenge the MWC for the title of best ...Published on: 6th July, 2009
Introduction Growing up in the '70s, my favorite day of the entire year was not Christmas, but rather New Year's Day -- the greatest day for football each and every year. Even as a very young boy, I would start watching the games early in the day and watch everyone I ...