Any given Saturday, any team is vulnerable. Don’t believe me? Take a look at this past Saturday, where at one point, top ten teams Alabama, Stanford, Baylor, Auburn, and South Carolina all were in dogfights against teams that they were favored to beat handily. Four of them managed to make it out alive, while Stanford […]

Because of the early games this week, this will need to be an abbreviated version. Please note the early start time of the first game – I think it may be the first time we’ve ever had to pick a Wednesday night game! #MACtion Congratulations to BritanniaTex, who wins week 11 with 145 points! AUBrian […]

In the earliest days of college football, teams played games in bunches. It wasn’t uncommon for a team to take an extended train trip away from campus, playing games on different campuses and cities as they went. For example, 130 years ago, Michigan’s 1883 football “season” was a four-game stretch between November 19 and November […]

November – where championships can’t be won, but they can certainly be lost. In the recent history of the BCS, only 2004, 2005 and 2010 stand out as years when the two teams that started November in the 1 and 2 positions ended there unscathed. Otherwise, chaos tends to reign. Remember 2007? Yes, 1 and […]

The first BCS standings are out, and with it we find some familiar, and some not-so-familiar, names at the top. No one expected the first BCS top ten to include Missouri, Miami, Baylor, and Texas Tech – none of them were even ranked in the preseason! Missouri’s case is especially incredible, as the Tigers have […]

From Merriam-Webster.com… upset (transitive verb): to defeat unexpectedly. To force out of the usual upright, level, or proper position. To throw into disorder. Examples: this past week! This was the first weekend of true upsets this year in college football, and the impact could be felt far and wide throughout the country. In the SEC, […]

A note about each team in the current AP top 10: #1 Alabama gave up 628 yards and 42 points to Texas A&M. They’ve given up 871 yards and 19 points to the other four teams they’ve played combined. #2 Oregon has not scored less than 55 points in a game this year, nor have […]

This will have to be an abbreviated version, as I was out sick Monday and Tuesday, and there’s an early game this week… Congratulations to War Ralphie, who wins week 5 with 114 points. In second place was badgerTime with 113 points, and aggiemom and Pachyderm tied for third with 111 points apiece. Standings after […]

Okay, I knew that last week’s slate of games weren’t the best. I knew that there would be a lot of easy wins, and not too many toss-ups. So I figured there would be a few perfect weeks as a result. But fourteen perfect pickers? Uh, no. Didn’t see that coming. So let’s spend a […]

So that Alabama-Texas A&M game was just another boring SEC slugfest, huh? Sixty-two first downs (31 by each team), 1,196 combined offensive yards (798 of it through the air), and 91 points later, one could hardly say that the sixty minutes they had seen represented SEC football of recent years, or Alabama football in particular. […]