Week 11 of the college football season features a rarity this late in the regular season: three different matchups between top-10 (AP) teams. Given the nature of how this will shape the college football playoff landscape, I thought that it might be interesting to break down each of these games, the teams, and the history […]

Tonight, the first College Football Playoff rankings come out, and it will be interesting to see on what the committee puts emphasis.  There seem to be two obvious candidates for the coveted #1 spot. Alabama has looked dominant against every opponent they have faced, but some would argue that they haven’t faced enough quality opponents […]

After the chaos of last week, you could forgive college football for regressing to the norm to a degree. And in our game, no major upsets meant no big point swings. But it’s extremely unusual to have multiple perfect pickers in a week, much less seven.  In the time that I’ve kept statistics on the […]

“Looking at this week’s games…well, this week’s games don’t look great on paper.” – Me, last week’s email “…no game is an absolute gimme” – Also me, last week’s email No team was safe this past week, as seven – count ‘em, seven – top-25 teams were upset by unranked opponents this past week. It […]

Over the past few years, the term “MACtion” has come into use to describe exciting games played (or hype upcoming games) in the Mid-American Conference, or MAC for short. It’s a little bit of a marketing tool, but sometimes the games truly live up to it. Perhaps peak “MACtion” was achieved this past Saturday, as […]

Washington State has one of the most difficult situations in which to win in the Power 5. Pullman, Washington, is the 37th-largest city in the state. Its home field, Martin Stadium, is the smallest in the Pac-12…by 10,000 seats.  Entering the 2017 season, Washington State football had the fewest wins in program history of any […]

Alabama heard that they were next. They heard from others that perhaps there were cracks in this team’s armor. Two easy but perhaps not overwhelming wins over outmatched opposition had some wondering if this was the best team in college football despite their current #1 ranking. Then Saturday came, and with it, a performance unlike […]

Train Right Open, Big Ben In. They’re six seemingly incongruous words, but put together, they have a fond spot in the heart of every Florida fan. With nine seconds left on the clock, on their own 37-yard line, all the momentum of the game against them, and having squandered about 25 seconds of game time […]

The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs had been having a rough night, trailing their counterparts from Mississippi State, 57-14. Now they faced third-and-goal from the 7. Their own 7. You see, on the previous play, second-and-goal from the Mississippi State 6, the ball was snapped over the quarterback’s head. It was promptly chased after and kicked around […]

Josh Rosen had a tidy little stat line this weekend: 19 for 26, 292 yards, 4 touchdowns. That’s a pretty good game’s worth of work. Thing is, Rosen did it in a quarter. Specifically, the fourth quarter of what ended up being the second-largest comeback in FBS history, a 45-44 UCLA win over Texas A&M […]