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Sports Central
January 8, 2004
David Martin |
Troubles, and Then a Split Title The college football season started with the specter of two coaching indiscretions looming over, if not outright haunting, their respective schools. It finished with a question mark haunting two other, happier programs.   |
Sports Central
December 3, 2004
David Martin |
Bad Times For College Football Fans This college football season opened with as much hope and as great an expectation of success and great competition as any in recent memory. Now, we must consider what has gone wrong with the game of college football. |
Salon.com
September 27, 2002
Allen Barra |
Notre Dame's return to glory! (Part 23) Why does the college's legendary -- but creaky -- football program have to keep coming back? |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Big Red Alert Iowa State's dismantling of Nebraska exposed the precipitous decline in the Cornhuskers' level of football talent |
Sports Illustrated
August 27, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Lord Helps Them Quarterback Jammal Lord gives Nebraska hope even when the offense doesn't click. |
Sports Central
December 18, 2005
Sara Normand |
Hawkins Goes From Bronco to Buffalo In the Big 12 championship game, Texas obliterated Colorado, 70-3. They won by 67 points, a margin better fit for a basketball blowout! What's worse, losing wasn't the only problem for this Buffalo football program ridden by controversies, rape accusations, and players accepting money. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2003
M. Edward Guest |
60-3: The Greatest Team Ever An argument in support of the 1993-1997 Nebraska Cornhuskers as the greatest college football team this nation has ever produced. |
Sports Illustrated
August 28, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Burning Questions Whatever happened to the Nebraska offensive line?... Should 'Canes fans worry about Penn State?... Which Oklahoma team is for real? |
Salon.com
November 29, 2001
Allen Barra |
Bring back the arbitrary college football polls! Sure, the old championship polls were bogus -- but the current system is just as bogus, and it doesn't even give fans anything to argue about... |
Salon.com
November 10, 2000
Allen Barra |
Have the Fighting Irish gone soft? Notre Dame is enforcing stricter academic standards in a push to deemphasize football. Why now? |
Sports Central
October 4, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
The BCS Projections ... For Now As we've entered the second month of the college football season, the BCS picture still looks fairly clouded. |
Sports Illustrated
November 8, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions College football fans, you are not alone. There is something just as convoluted and mind-boggling as the BCS. And the electoral college has existed for more than two centuries. So for one week, we will forget about the game's problems and embrace college football for what it is -- a game... |
Sports Central
November 8, 2007
Kevin Beane |
In Praise of the Quarterback Sneak The play never fails. |
Sports Illustrated
November 20, 2001 |
Ivan Maisel's Burning Questions Is Nebraska vulnerable against Colorado?... Does Florida have a chance of overtaking Miami or the Nebraska-Oklahoma winner and getting into the Rose Bowl?... What is Been Down So Long, Shreveport Looks Up to Me?... |
Sports Central
September 6, 2004
Michael Beshara |
Musings on Opening Day Some thoughts on the first full Saturday of College football. |
Sports Central
December 30, 2013
Adam Russell |
SEC's Run in the BCS Will End With FSU It seems only fitting that the one school that played in the first three BCS-era championship games -- winning one -- would close this chapter of college football history with a national title. Florida State appears to be a team destined to win it all. |
Sports Illustrated
July 18, 2002
Tim Layden |
Behind the curtain U.S. Rep. and former Nebraska head football coach Tom Osborne takes special interest in baseball's steroid rage |
Sports Illustrated
October 10, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Virginia Tech is the real deal My opinion of Virginia Tech began to change once I started spending time there. Frank Beamer is a very good coach with a very good staff. They seem to find players who arrive without an ego. |
Sports Illustrated
September 8, 2000
Austin Murphy |
Huskers pull their weight -- and more A trip inside Nebraska's amazing - and amazingly successful - 30,000-square-foot strength training facility... |
CIO
November 1, 2002
Scott Berinato |
Choosing Huskers over Ducks Last year, before any bowl games were played, coaches and sportswriters ranked the Oregon Ducks No. 2 in the land, ahead of the No. 4 Nebraska Cornhuskers. Both had 10-1 records. Yet the BCS ranked Nebraska 2nd and Oregon 4th. Here's how the two came to opposite conclusion. |
Sports Central
January 14, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
The Silly Season's Most Intriguing Hires The silly season. That crazy little time period right after the last game in which college football coaching changes run rampant and recruiting chases become national news. |
Sports Illustrated
July 3, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Early tests loom for several teams Gearing up for the college football season. |
Sports Central
July 7, 2011
Jean Neuberger |
Spotlights and Hot Seats: Predictions It's time to take a look at some college football teams whose coaches are under the gun to win this season, as well as some teams who are entering new eras as they say goodbye to their former conferences. |
Sports Central
December 3, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
Instant Reaction: The 2012-13 Bowl Season It's 35 games and three and a half weeks of pure football feasting. Another December and bowl season has fallen upon us. And as the matchups are now official, here's a rundown of initial thoughts as we head into the final stretch of the 2012 college football season. |
Sports Illustrated
October 20, 2000
Austin Murphy |
Big 12 battle Oklahoma anticipating showdown with Nebraska... |
Sports Central
August 26, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
Problems Under the Golden Dome Following its 1977 national championship, punctuated by a decisive victory over No. 11 Texas in the Cotton Bowl, the Notre Dame Fightin' Irish slipped in the national rankings. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2012
Adam Russell |
Is the Offensive Explosion an Omen? With all this offensive production on both sides of the field, could this be an omen of things to come in college football? |
Sports Illustrated
September 17, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Early returns Three programs that have shown signs of football arthritis won in unexpectedly glorious fashion. Notre Dame, Penn State and USC all beat ranked opponents, and their teams, if not their actual horn-rimmed, white-socked coaches, look 25 years younger. |
Salon.com
September 8, 2000
Allen Barra |
Passing fancy The Bill Walsh-inspired offensive revolution has had an unexpected drawback: Every NFL team looks the same now. |
Sports Central
November 9, 2005
Mike Griffenberg |
Notre Dame Not as Good as Advertised However, Notre Dame will be a major player in the college football world as long as Charlie Weis is there, just not this year. |
Sports Central
November 26, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Case for Florida After Notre Dame's 22-13 win against USC effectively clinched its spot in Miami on Jan. 7, the Fighting Irish will almost surely play the winner of next Saturday's SEC Championship Game between Georgia and Florida for the BCS crown. |
Sports Central
November 21, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Is the BCS Really All Bad? From the moment the computers churned out the rankings that stuck Nebraska in the national championship a few years back, we had a travesty on our hands. |
Sports Illustrated
November 21, 2000
Kelley King |
Darkened Knights There are many reasons why Rutgers should win in football, but the Scarlet Knights continue to lose |
Sports Central
July 19, 2011
Andrew Jones |
Rants and Predictions Sounding off on inconsistency and cheating in sports. Plus predictions for the upcoming college football season. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
College Football Programs Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, analyzed 115 of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools to calculate the worth of the football programs, and the numbers are jaw-dropping. |
Sports Central
October 8, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
Tressel's Buckeyes: How Long Will it Last? Jim Tressel's style of football is more suited for the National Football League than even the Big 10 because of his beliefs: the punt is paramount; causing, not making, turnovers; and field goals put "points on the board." |
Sports Illustrated
October 25, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions This is the week things start to get interesting. The first BCS rankings are out just in time for a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup. Nebraska-Oklahoma is the biggest game of the season so far -- at least until next week -- and has national-championship implications... |
Sports Central
March 20, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
Who's Hot and Cold in Big Ten Expansion Talk Hot: William Blair Company -- Why is an investment firm hot? The Chicago Tribune recently reported that this investment firm evaluated five schools: Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, Missouri, Syracuse, and Rutgers for the purpose of Big Ten expansion. |
Sports Central
August 5, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
7 Bold College Football Predictions With college football officially just a month away, it's time to make some predictions for the upcoming season. |
Sports Illustrated
April 30, 2002
Ivan Maisel |
Going Coastal Notre Dame spent the spring trying to get a grip on its new football coach's West Coast attack... |
Sports Illustrated
November 1, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions A few weeks ago we had this weekend circled as a showdown Saturday. But it has lost some luster. Florida State-Clemson and Virginia Tech-Miami are no longer marquee games; they are mismatches. Sure, they have national championship implications, but neither game will be close... |
Sports Illustrated
October 26, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Chat Reel Will Washington State put up enough points?... BCS: valid or not?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated
October 27, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
Chat Reel: SI's B.J. Schecter Breaking down Oklahoma-Nebraska from several angles... |
Sports Illustrated
October 31, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
Still not sold on Oklahoma November is upon us, the time of year when one glance at the BCS rankings sends you into paroxysms of rage or laughter, depending on your emotional involvement... |
Sports Illustrated
January 4, 2002
Austin Murphy |
Cane Whuppin' Unbeaten Miami flogged Nebraska early and often to win an undisputed national title... |
Sports Central
November 29, 2006
Ryan Hojnacki |
College Football Predictions: Championships Selections for college bowl games. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2000
Allen Barra |
The NFL's minor league? The marketing firms and New York pundits who want a college football playoff system have one thing in common: They don't like or understand college football. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2007
Wailele Sallas |
What About the Little Guy? Our college football society has taken away the little guy and replaced it with overpowering BCS schools that have a golden ticket to the big game. |
Sports Central
December 12, 2012
Joshua Duffy |
2012 College Football Bowl Pool Guide College football is stupid. Not the sport itself, but how it runs its post-season. Even when we get our long-awaited playoff, it's still going to be stupid. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2005
Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #5: Pasadena Projections A closer look at the ten teams with the best shot at heading to the Rose Bowl. |
