It’s time for the awards!  Our biggest congratulations go to the winner of the 2014 e-Systems College Football Pool: AUBrian AUBrian finished the season with 2,212 points.  For the first time since I’ve been keeping records, there was a tie for overall second place between JagRag and maestro; each finished with 2,206 points.  Congratulations to […]

“Who’s In?” That’s the question that ESPN has been hammering into our minds all season regarding the entrants for the first College Football Playoff. Now we know. Alabama, Oregon, Florida State, and Ohio State will be the title contenders this year. Let’s take a closer look at each team. #1 Alabama is the SEC champion, […]

Rivalry week is always among the strangest weekends in college football. This week we had: Two teams combine for three fumbles on the one-yard line, one of which was returned for a touchdown (Georgia Tech-Georgia); Two teams combine for fifteen touchdown passes (a I-A record), 74 first downs, and over 1,400 yards of total offense […]

I love college football rivalry games. There is nothing in the world quite like them. Oh, there are rivals in other sports, but they generally play each other multiple times in a year. In college football, if you don’t beat your rival, you have to wait a full year to get another chance. The history […]

What a week! This week featured Alabama giving former #1 Mississippi State its first loss of the year, Virginia Tech going into Duke and knocking off the Blue Devils, Nebraska getting humbled by Wisconsin and Melvin Gordon (more on that in a second), and Arizona State becoming the latest highly-ranked team to come into Corvallis, […]

I thought it might be interesting to write one of these after the College Football Playoff poll of the week had come out, to give some thoughts on the process.  This week is a prime example that the committee does things differently than the “old school” way of thinking.  How so? How about a one-loss […]

Football is a funny game. Sometimes you never see the outcome of a game coming. Take two top-25 upsets from this past week. Florida, coming off of a 29-point loss to Missouri on Homecoming, proceeded to beat former #11 Georgia 38-20 behind the fifth-best rushing performance in school history (418 yards) while throwing the fewest […]

And then there were two. With Ole Miss’ loss to LSU, only Mississippi State and Florida State remain unbeaten in the Power 5 conferences.  Assuming that these two could stay undefeated and meet in the championship game, how would these two compare? Stat / Team MSU FSU Total Offense 9th 44th Rushing Offense 13th 104th […]

At one point in the second quarter, Indiana led Michigan State 17-14. I turned to my brother-in-law, with whom I was watching the Alabama-Texas A&M game, and said, “If Indiana ends up winning this, I’m giving up trying to pick college football games this year.” Consider that this had already occurred: Kansas State had gone […]

The town of Calhoun City, Mississippi, is an unassuming blip on the map.  Mississippi Highways 8 and 9 junction in the center of the town, which had a population of 1,774 in the 2010 census.  It is perhaps best known for being the birthplace of Dave Parker, the 1978 National League MVP and a two-time […]