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Sports Central
August 27, 2004
David Martin |
College Football Preview: Mountain West and C-USA The Mountain West Conference and Conference-USA are studies in the strength of mid-major conferences. But Mountain West was the only mid-major that didn't lose a team to another conference in last year's shake-up, while C-USA is undertaking a huge facelift come next year.   |
Sports Central
August 18, 2004
David Martin |
College Football Preview: ACC and Sun Belt The ACC? It's Florida State's conference. The Sun Belt Conference? No one outside the Sun Belt even knows it exists. Still, North Texas is the best team in the conference. |
Sports Central
December 12, 2008
Brad Oremland |
How John Swofford Killed the BCS Another column whining about how college football needs to reform its Division I postseason -- and offering a proposal that has no chance of becoming reality. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2004
David Martin |
College Football Preview: Big East and MAC For the first time in 16 years, the school I've rooted for as long as I've known anything about college football is legitimately in the national championship hunt. |
Sports Central
May 17, 2012
Kevin Beane |
The Rise and Fall of the WAC The WAC has gone, in the last 30 years, from second tier to third to fourth to conference non grata and, in all likelihood, is not going to be a conference beyond 2013, or at very least not one that plays football at the Division 1-A level. |
Sports Central
December 15, 2011
Kevin Beane |
The Best and Worst College Incumbents Here are the best coaches that have not been tabbed -- yet -- to a move to a more illustrious program. |
Sports Central
August 30, 2004
David Martin |
College Football Preview: Big 10 and Pac-10 Predictions for the top ten college football teams of this season and more. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2008
Matt Thomas |
BCS-Mania! Predictions on what will or will not happen as we zip through college football's stretch run. |
Sports Central
August 29, 2007
Jonathan Lowe |
Tough Pills to Swallow (Part II) Predictions for 10 college football teams, including USC and Iowa State. |
Sports Central
August 21, 2004
David Martin |
College Football Preview: The SEC The SEC is one of the strongest conferences around, and so a type of parity has overtaken it. In the East, Georgia. In the West, Auburn. |
Sports Central
November 10, 2008
Andrew Jones |
How the BCS Could Become a Nightmare Solutions are offered for problems brewing in the BCS. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2005
Kevin Beane |
Forecasting the Bowls Twenty-eight college-football bowl games; twenty-eight fearless predictions. |
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
April 10, 2010
Andrew Jones |
Could This Be the Year For Boise State? The Boise State Broncos will need some help to get to the National Championship Game. Here are some scenarios that will help. |
Sports Central
December 24, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
A College Football Christmas Wish List First, let the Boise State Broncos win a game in Hawaii... |
Sports Central
September 2, 2015
Jonathan Lowe |
2015 CFB Preview: Question Quantity When a new college football season comes calling, fans are looking for answers. |
Sports Central
October 27, 2004
Adam Russell |
Facelift in Order For College Football What college football needs is a complete overhaul of how it's structured, from the conference alignments to how the schedules are made up to determining a playoff system. |
Sports Illustrated
November 15, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
A new spin on Rivalry Week Previous Rivalry Weeks have featured as many games that meant so much. This week, however, feels different. Perhaps it's because our attention isn't turned to the usual places... |
Sports Central
December 8, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Where the BCS is Truly Flawed Three fundamental flaws with the BCS this season. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2008
Andrew Jones |
Ranking College Football Conferences There are too few games in the college football season for a subjective ranking system to matter all too much. |
Sports Central
June 8, 2010
Jean Neuberger |
Expansion Talk Sweeping the Nation What happens over the next few months could definitely change the landscape of college football. |
Sports Central
August 16, 2007
Jonathan Lowe |
Tough Pills to Swallow (Part I) From top teams to bowl scenarios, the toughest schedules for the upcoming college football season. Part One features mostly the smaller brothers of the Division I-A family. |
Sports Central
January 12, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Another Nebulous Finish Last year, there seemed to be no champion. This year, there are arguably three. Maybe four. But since the BCS pretends it can do the impossible, we are left with the same empty feeling in the pit of the stomach at the end. |
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
June 9, 2011
Jean Neuberger |
First and 10: 10 Burning Thoughts Ten thoughts that are racing to the top of my head as we're now less than 100 days until college football kicks off? |
Sports Central
November 29, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
A Chance to Give Thanks Bright spots in each college football division. |
Sports Central
December 14, 2007
Matt Thomas |
Ten Bowlfuls of Entertainment The only thing standing between the collective college faithful and that January 7th BCS Championship Game are the 30-something "other" bowls that get played between now and then. |
Sports Central
September 29, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Anatomy of Upsets This past week was a banner week for upsets in college football. We saw not one, not two, but three 1-AA (my boycott of the term "FCS" continues apace) teams beat 1-A (ditto "FBS") sides. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Longhorns Brown-Nosing Again Enjoy watching Texas relentlessly pile it on to any over-matched opponents in 2009. And enjoy listening to Mack Brown whine about what the Longhorns did in their wins when it is their losses that keep them out of Pasadena. |
Sports Central
December 16, 2003
Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Solution to the BCS is a Playoff Tournament Despite recent efforts to reform it, the process for deciding the national champion in college football, the most noteworthy and public of all college sports, is still far from perfected. |
Sports Central
February 10, 2011
Kevin Beane |
2011 College Football Week 1 Preview The Super Bowl is over, but here's a college football preview to give football fans something happy to think about for the next half year. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2008
Brian Cox |
Stating the Obvious: Campus Wrapup USC is still good, Michigan is not as good, and the mid-majors conferences are letting the big boys in the Big Six know that life on Saturdays might not let them slide. Here's the rundown on what we know. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2015
Jonathan Lowe |
Desperate Times As the pressure of the college football season ramps up, that desperation will only grow stronger ... and we'll be there to see how it plays out. |
Sports Central
December 23, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Deck the Halls (and the BCS): Bowl Predictions The 11 most interesting bowl games of the season -- because 11 is a nice even number. |
Sports Central
December 1, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Changing Conference "Championship" Games As usual, college football's quest for a champion is a train wreck. |
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. |
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 9, 2009
Andrew Jones |
Is College Football Unfixable? There are many things we can't change about college football, but there are two things that can be changed that will quite easily make the game better. |
Sports Central
March 8, 2012
Adam Russell |
Confusing Geographical Lines When I was a kid, I excelled at U.S. geography, partially because I knew my college football conferences like the back of my hand. And they all made sense. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2012
Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Football Preview As I do every year in this space, I look ahead and present my preview of the next college football season, which happens to be the earliest such preview known to man. |
Sports Central
December 7, 2015
Jonathan Lowe |
The Substandard Bowl I feel like I'm a voice dying in the wind against the growing investment known as the "College Bowl Game." |
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 Central
November 22, 2010
Andrew Jones |
The Bane of Auto-Bids This year has been quite an anomaly in college football. TCU and Boise State have been making noise for a few years and everybody seems to keep hoping that they'll finally make the coveted step into the National Championship Game. |
Sports Illustrated
November 13, 2000
B.J. Schecter |
The Hot List: Nov. 13 I can't say enough about Oklahoma. The Sooners grabbed my attention by convincingly defeating Big 12 powers Nebraska and Kansas State earlier this season. But their performance on Saturday was even more telling... |
Sports Illustrated
January 4, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
My Final Top 25 I listened to Miami's logic for so long that the Hurricanes convinced me -- on the field is where it counts. On the field, Washington beat Miami, so the Huskies are my No. 2 team. Oregon State, which lost by only a field goal at Washington, finished up better than Florida State... |
Sports Illustrated
October 25, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
"Playoff" unfolds over next fortnight You want a playoff? The next two weeks are a playoff. They are a playoff for the Heisman and they are elimination rounds for the BCS... |
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 Central
November 28, 2007
Rich Lyons |
BCS, Heisman Races Coming Into Focus Just when you thought it couldn't get any more crazy, it did. |
Sports Illustrated
October 20, 2000
Austin Murphy |
Big 12 battle Oklahoma anticipating showdown with Nebraska... |
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. |
