It’s that time of year where the wailing and gnashing of teeth begins – the first release of the BCS standings. The BCS is around for this year and one more, and then we shall finally have a playoff. But this is the system that we have now, so let’s take a closer look at […]

As much as I’d love to talk about this past weekend in college football, given the absolute chaos that reigned, I just don’t have the time to put together a full recap.  Hopefully, next week there will be more time to do so.  In the meantime, here’s a mini-version to tide you over. Nine top-25 […]

To borrow a song from the 60’s, where has all the defense gone? ESPN researchers noted the past football weekend as the second-highest scoring weekend in college football history. I don’t know exactly what benchmark they’re using, but their research budget (time and money) is much higher than mine, so let’s just leave it at […]

Welcome to the meat of the schedule, kids. For the most part, the games versus rent-a-win teams are done (LSU – Towson notwithstanding). Conference games are starting up, and with it comes the first Big XII game for West Virginia. It is a home game against Baylor, which means the Bears get to travel around […]

“Football games aren’t played on paper…they’re played inside television sets.” — Kenny Mayne Okay, let’s play a game called “Be Honest With Yourself”. How many people out there actually believed that Pittsburgh – two-touchdown loser to 1-AA Youngstown State and 24-point loser to Cincinnati – would go out and not only beat Virginia Tech, but […]

Well, that was different, now wasn’t it? This past week involved one of the biggest upsets in college football history, in terms of point spread. Louisiana-Monroe walked into Little Rock a 30 ½ point underdog, and walked out a winner. It wasn’t technically the biggest upset this year by point spread (that honor goes to […]

From Dictionary.com: Unprecedented: adjective. Without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled. Perfect weeks are not completely uncommon in the history of the pool. There have been quite a few since I’ve started keeping records in the 2009 season. There have even been weeks where two people have had a perfect week, […]