Simulated Gameday Experience

Honestly, not a bowl I find particularly interesting. A very quick overview… (read more)

Interesting fact: no eventual BCS champion has ever allowed as many points or yards in regulation as Texas did this Thanksgiving against Texas A&M. Call up the engravers, tell them to go ahead and sketch Florida’s name onto the Sears Trophy, right? (read more)

Rivals.com caught up with Stoops to discuss what has been a turbulent season that has seen Oklahoma lose four starters to season-ending injuries. And we’ve got what he was really thinking. (read more)

Last week basically confirmed what we already thought: Alabama and Florida are playing for the SEC Championship. As we move towards that inevitable showdown, the rest of the conference keeps on knocking each other down, as the recently-consistent Tennessee and Auburn outfits both lost on the road. Further down in the conference, Arkansas keeps keepin’ on, and might actually be the most predictable team in the SEC on a weekly basis. (more..)

Yes, there were all sorts of distractions in Knoxville this week (possibly consisting of pellet guns, arrests, and – of all things – a Prius. Yes, a Prius. What the hell, y’all?), but that’s no excuse for getting shellacked in Oxford. The Volunteers got outplayed and partially outschemed against the Rebels, and that’s in part to just how wantonly destructive Dexter McCluster was on Saturday. (more…)

Credit West Virginia for coming out to play in the first half; they had a good gameplan and executed it as well as you’d expect. They wanted to force Cincinnati to operate on the ground (they did, for the most part) and they wanted to use Noel Devine between the tackles (they did, for the most part). And yet, at the end of the game, West Virginia was down ten, outplayed in bits and pieces by enough to need two scores as the clock struck midnight. (more…)

A long time ago, back in 2005, I had a completely unknown sports “blog” that was mostly about changes in the BCS and computer ratings in general, with a little content about the ongoing college football season. It was a short-lived experiment, hosted via a livejournal account just to give you an idea of how truly newbie this was, that would see only three posts over all of 2006 before dying out. But if you wanted to know about how I got started writing about college football, there you go. (more…)

Go figure – one of the main storylines to come out of this game is yet another officiating controversy in a game involving one of the SEC’s two national title contenders. This time, it was an overturned Patrick Peterson interception of Greg McElroy with LSU down six. To some degree, it doesn’t matter what the call is, other than it happened. Alabama likely would’ve won the game anyway (it may be a fortunate gift that Leigh Tiffin hit a 40-yard FG to create the final score) but really, the SEC doesn’t need this. They don’t need more public questioning of their refs, but since Mike Silve opened that can of worms, no sense in putting them back now. (more…)

I’m a bit disappointed that The Simpsons took the obvious “so it came to this” opener, but somehow Clemson – perennially disappointing, losing to Maryland, full of talent but lacking in results, Clemson – has ended up in the driver’s seat of the ACC Atlantic. (more…)

This is a script we’re used to reading. At this point, Weis’s record against winning teams since 2006 is known and it’s bad (only one win from 2006-2008). By that standard, this season’s already been a rousing success with a convincing win over Nevada to open the season and a 20-16 squeaker over BC. However, there’s still the pesky matter of Notre Dame’s historical dominance of Navy; it’s safe to say that Navy hasn’t seen success like this in my lifetime – and probably in yours, too. This is Navy’s 2nd win over the Fighting Irish in three years, and the natives are whatever’s one step past restless. (more…)