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Sports Illustrated
February 21, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Making a match OU's addition offers a peek into the scheduling machinations of a college football national champion...   |
Sports Illustrated
September 11, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Steppin' Out In a rare out-of-town nonconference test, Kansas State started a run at a BCS berth... |
Sports Central
October 21, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Perfection Possibilities Teams are lining up to see if they can make it to the end of the NCAA football season unscathed. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2012
Andrew Jones |
What Alabama's Loss Means For BCS College football fans were worried a choice between Kansas State and Oregon for the right to battle Alabama for the national championship would be close to impossible to make and then the unthinkable happened: Alabama lost. |
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
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
August 14, 2013
Andrew Jones |
An Anti-Conference Approach The past few years have seen a plague of movement in college football conferences to the point where the names don't even make any sense anymore. |
Sports Illustrated
July 3, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Early tests loom for several teams Gearing up for the college football season. |
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 Illustrated
December 1, 2000
Tim Layden |
More than a game Stoops-Snyder matchup becomes personal... |
Sports Central
August 15, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
Are Ya Tough Enough? (Part 1) Here are 10 college football teams that will hit the ground running -- into a brick wall! |
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
October 19, 2015
Ross Lancaster |
An Ode to the Head Ball Coach It was sometime around the mid-1990s when I first watched a game on TV featuring Steve Spurrier as one of the head coaches. |
Sports Central
November 23, 2007
Jonathan Lowe |
Bordering Greatness Kansas vs. Missouri is the game of the year in the Midwest, and possibly of the college football season. |
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
August 28, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
State of the Imperfect, But Glorious, Union I'm happier that college football is arriving next week than Donte Stallworth on sentencing day. |
Sports Central
January 5, 2004
Brian Cook |
Spartans' Lofty Expectations Have Them NIT-Bound Why did Michigan State men's college basketball coach Tom Izzo saddle his team with a Bataan Death March of a schedule? For the same reason AP pollsters ranked the Spartans third in the preseason: both horribly overrated Izzo himself. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Chaos on Campuses After the most turbulent week of college football in recent memory, you have to wonder if pollsters and experts were just picking schools out of a hat. |
Sports Central
January 11, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Five For the Future With just 232 days until college football season starts, here are some of the more interesting games on the horizon. |
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 Illustrated
October 20, 2000
Austin Murphy |
Big 12 battle Oklahoma anticipating showdown with Nebraska... |
Sports Illustrated
October 30, 2001
Ivan Maisel |
Burning Questions Who is the best-kept secret in the Big 12?... Will Eli Manning be elected governor of Mississippi?... How could Colorado decide the Pac-10 race?... |
Sports Central
September 21, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Dealing and Reeling So who is the emerging team in college football that could do damage on a national level? |
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 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
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
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 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 Central
November 16, 2015
Ross Lancaster |
In Defense of Larger Conferences Conference title games on the first Saturday of December have become an inescapable part of a college football season's drama. Now, of the 10 conferences that play FBS football, only the Big 12 and Sun Belt don't have a conference title game. |
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
October 6, 2000
Austin Murphy |
Rebuffed Longhorns don't like Colorado's motivational tactics... |
Sports Central
October 28, 2004
Kevin Beane |
Battle of the Undefeateds Two weeks ago, there were 14 undefeated teams in college football. Now there are half that. But it shouldn't be too much to ask for two or three teams to finish undefeated. Here are there chances? |
Sports Central
November 5, 2012
Jonathan Lowe |
Valid Excuses When everything settles down on December 2nd, we'll have our championship matchup for this year. Assuming the Ducks, Wildcats, and Irish all win out, it should be fun to find out which team gets the chance to validate more than just their fans' parking at the area hotels in Miami. |
Sports Central
October 9, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
Poll Im-Position Just as baseball has moved past the gospel of scouts and into a world ruled by advanced metrics, so too should our evaluation of college football teams. |
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 Central
July 14, 2009
Jean Neuberger |
SC's Play This Team, Not That Team Better, more interesting options for the college football fan. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Rose Bowl The sweet-smelling Rose Bowl will host this year's BCS National Championship Game -- and differing strength of schedules makes the task less, or more, arduous for the premier teams to get there. |
Sports Central
October 10, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
Collision Course October is a time of sorting in college football. Teams have largely ceased to play non-conference opposition for the balance of the season, and have now moved into the meat of the season, conference play, whereby seasons will largely be judged. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2014
Corrie Trouw |
An Exhaustive Taxonomy of Non-Conference Scheduling One of the truly great and unique parts of college football is that teams choose whom they play for a quarter or third of their schedules. |
Sports Central
October 27, 2014
Jonathan Lowe |
The Month-Long Journey We enter the month of November, when, in the world of college football, hearts are broken and dreams are dashed. For those with hope, it's a long time coming ... and a long ways yet to go. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2006
Jonathan Lowe |
Are Ya Tough Enough? (Part 2) The big boys of college football and this seasons schedules. |
Sports Central
November 16, 2011
Andrew Jones |
College Basketball 2011-12 Buy or Sell The college basketball season is now underway and there is a lot of speculation floating around about if certain teams are for real and if early losses or close calls are just flukes. |
Sports Central
November 16, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Ducking a Kansas Comet So how many losses will the teams in the BCS title game in New Orleans have? |
Sports Central
September 17, 2014
Jean Neuberger |
Outside Looking In If Michigan State, Ohio State, or even Wisconsin were to run the rest of their table and head into the bowl season with just one loss on their resume, they'd still need a lot of help to get into the playoff. |
Sports Central
May 19, 2011
Kevin Beane |
Early-Season College Hoops Matchups It takes until pretty close to the season for all the Division 1 schools to say, "okay, here is our schedule" to where it can be reliably released to the media. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2010
Corrie Trouw |
Long-Gone-Horns? At the risk of causing mass casket-rollovers in South Bend, Indiana, Texas is what Notre Dame once was, a brand far bigger than any conference. |
Sports Illustrated
September 27, 2000
Ivan Maisel |
Downhill from here for Gamecocks South Carolina is the story this week. The Gamecocks are 4-0. Lou Holtz still has it. He can still coach ... watch out, top 25, here they come! Let us pause for a moment in all our breathless excitement and understand one thing: The Gamecocks peaked last week... |
Sports Central
October 23, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
College Football Midterm Report There are three teams that, as expected, are very good if not great. |
Sports Central
March 11, 2009
Seth Doria |
The NCAA Bubble Shuffle With so many conference championships going on this week, it's easy to lose focus on the few games that hold the most meaning. But there are other games that serve as critical dominos in the dance before The Dance - call it the bubble shuffle. |
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. |
