What a wild weekend of college football!  No less than ten ranked teams lost, and while admittedly several of them were to other ranked opponents, there were a few upsets.  Perhaps none was more surprising than Indiana’s 24-21 win over Michigan State.  While the Spartans were coming off of a loss to Wisconsin, not many […]

A football game consists of two 30-minute halves. “Thankfully,” Tennessee fans are saying today. “And not a second more,” Auburn fans are adding.  After looking somewhat lost in the first half against Florida, the Volunteers promptly reeled off 38 straight points in the second half to win against the Gators for the first time since […]

First off, I feel compelled to tell everyone (even myself)…I tried to warn you about North Dakota State. The Bison did it yet again, beating #13 Iowa (and taking home half a million dollars from the Hawkeyes in the process), 23-21 on a last-second field goal.  That makes it six in a row for the […]

Going into week 2 of the college football season, there didn’t appear to be many games of interest. Sure, there was the novelty of the Battle at Bristol, which ended up with a record attendance for a college football game.  Just shy of 157,000 people watched Tennessee beat Virginia Tech.  But most of the big […]

We’ve only had one week of a full slate of games, and it seems like there’s already plenty to talk about.  To wit: With #15 Houston’s 33-23 win over #3 Oklahoma, and Wisconsin’s 16-14 upset of #5 LSU, it marks the first time since 1972 that two AP preseason top-5 teams were beaten in their […]

The season is complete, and now it’s time for the awards!  First off, congratulations to the overall winner of the 2015 e-Systems College Football Pool: AUBrian  AUBrian finished the season with 2,318 points in the “drop two lowest weeks” format.  In second place was Jeff4Bama, who scored 2,312 points, and AllySun was third, with 2,307 […]

It’s the second year of the College Football Playoff, and the entrants are set.  This year didn’t provide nearly as much drama regarding the participants as last year, although one could certainly quibble about the seeding if one wanted.  Not counting the national championship game, there are forty – count ‘em, forty – bowls this […]

As a whole, I generally try to make this space a positive one.  I try to talk about teams that win games instead of teams that lose, because for the most part I don’t know what loyalties we have within our ranks.  I wouldn’t think it’s much fun to read negative items about your team […]

With the events of the past weekend, the number of undefeated teams has dropped to two: Clemson and Iowa.  The Tigers are 11-0 for only the second time in school history; the Hawkeyes have never been 11-0 before.  Clemson has a top-20 scoring offense and defense; Iowa rides offensive balance (208 yards rushing, 210 passing […]

Herbert Hoover had made a promise that he couldn’t keep. Before he became the 31st president of the United States, and the politician who famously promised “a chicken in every pot” just before the Great Depression hit in full force, Hoover was in a somewhat lesser position – that of student manager of the Stanford […]