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Sports Central September 15, 2011 Kevin Beane |
College Football Odds and Ends Hooray! At last, football is back! Maybe it's because of the near-strike in the NFL, or because I attended a game at a historical venue (more on that later), but I find myself appreciating it all the more this season. |
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 11, 2010 Kevin Beane |
College Football Week 1 Preview A look at the matchups kicking off the start of the college football season. |
Sports Central August 28, 2013 Jean Neuberger |
Let the Games Begin: Week 1 This year's college football season (aka the last dying gasp of the BCS) is already shaping up to be an epic one. |
Sports Central November 22, 2011 Joshua Duffy |
NCAA Men's Hoops About to Get Crazy Ask a diehard NBA fan what the true tragedy of the NBA lockout is, and they'll tell you it comes at the worst possible time. |
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 October 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Midterm Report There are three teams that, as expected, are very good if not great. |
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 Central August 11, 2011 Kevin Beane |
The Greatest Weekend in Sports I love Labor Day weekend so much simply because that's where the greatest glut of sports, important sports, is being played. Let me count the ways. |
Sports Central September 10, 2007 Adam Russell |
Wild and Wacky Week 2 What a crazy weekend it was in college football: huge upsets, massive blowouts, and squeakers -- and those were just the Top 25 games! |
Sports Central October 6, 2010 Jonathan Lowe |
Get Even? No, Just Get Mad Coming into the halfway point of the regular season, many teams with high expectations have been "Maddening" to their fan bases. On the flip side, several programs have seen an uptick, showing signs of "Mad Genius." So, in each of the power conferences, who's tiptoeing through the Mad Scale? |
Sports Central December 20, 2012 Kevin Beane |
2013 College Football Week 1 Preview This year, the preview's earlier than ever! I'd also say we have a better slate of games upcoming in the first week of 2013 past. |
Sports Central September 28, 2009 Jean Neuberger |
Week 4: Five Things We Learned As another weekend of college football has ended, let's take a look at a few things we've learned from last week's action. |
Sports Central November 21, 2007 Adam Russell |
BCS Still a Muddy Mess It is possible that only one of the top five teams in the BCS standings could end up in the National Championship Game -- Ohio State. |
Sports Central January 14, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Bowl Season Recap Renaming college bowl games after the fact. |
Sports Central September 13, 2007 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Quick Hitches A brief look at sports topics includes predictions for Saturday's college football games and the Rugby World cup. |
Sports Central August 28, 2014 Jean Neuberger |
Final College Football Preseason Thoughts As we're less than 48 hours away from kickoff into this college football season, there are some last-second hopes that I have for this season. |
Sports Central December 23, 2013 Corrie Trouw |
The Dominoes of December When USC fired head coach Lane Kiffin in September, it initiated a series of coaching changes across the country. Here's how and why the dominoes fell from Los Angeles to Jonesboro and everywhere in between. |
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 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 February 24, 2011 Kevin Beane |
The Greatest College Sports Upsets I'm a connoisseur of upsets. If it's not one of my favorite teams playing, I almost always root for the underdog. |
Sports Central September 7, 2010 Jean Neuberger |
Thoughts After Week 1 College football never ceases to disappoint when it comes to drama. The anticipation for this season certainly lived up to expectations in a wild first weekend and already, we've learned quite a bit from what has unfolded. |
Sports Central November 18, 2010 Kevin Beane |
College Basketball Odds and Ends I'm just enthusiastic about life, and this is yet another one of those favorite-time-of-the-year periods: when college football and college basketball converge. |
Sports Central November 1, 2010 Paul Foeller |
Unparalleled Parity There is as much parity in college football this year as there has been in a very long time. Eleven of the top 25 teams weren't ranked when the season started, including five of the top 15. |
Sports Central May 7, 2009 Kevin Beane |
Big Ten Expansion Musings Here's a look at who the most viable candidates for Big Ten expansion would be. |
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 September 4, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Week 1 Shakedown A recap of the first week of college football games looks at upsets and rankings. |
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 February 13, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Checking Out the Menu A look at the most important non-conference matchups awaiting college football fans during the first four weekends. |
Sports Central November 22, 2007 Kevin Beane |
A New Dawn For Ohio State and Russia Ohio State will indeed be playing in the National Championship Game. Also, in soccer, Russia has an excellent chance to get beyond the group stage of a major competition. |
Sports Central October 9, 2007 Jean Neuberger |
Top 10 Thoughts of the Weekend A look at college football teams and this weekend's upcoming match-ups. |
Sports Central October 13, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Week 1 College Basketball Preview As the college football season gets into full swing, we will soon have yet another "favorite sports time of the year" for this writer. |
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 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 January 7, 2008 Adam Russell |
Are Two "Best" Teams in BCS Title Game? A proposed playoff system for college football. |
Sports Central May 27, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
Top 10 Intriguing Non-Conference Games Labor Day will be here soon, and with it will come these college football gems. |
Sports Central April 13, 2006 Kevin Beane |
Four Months and 18 Days Four months and 18 days is how long we have to wait for college football to arrive. And here are the best 10 games (non-conference or otherwise, in no particular order) that will kick off week one. |
Sports Central January 16, 2013 Greg Suttich |
March Madness Starts in January As we near the end of another NFL football season, we start to feel the blues. But then March comes and the event called March Madness gets us back on our couches cheering and fist-bumping over our favorite team while keeping our brackets and a pen within arms reach. |
Sports Central November 28, 2005 Jonathan Lowe |
Early Tourneys Over the BCS? March Madness has the BCS beat, hands-down. But there seems to be more potential for excitement and hope as sneakers squeak for the first time in months. |
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 October 12, 2006 Kevin Beane |
Awakening in Waco A look at underdogs and other college football picks for the upcoming weekend. |
Sports Central December 6, 2007 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern Mailbag by Proxy Answering letters to the editor of a college football publication. |
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 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 October 1, 2005 Alan Rubenstein |
College Basketball's Measure of Success The key to long-term success, it seems, is to have a big-name coach who can recruit nationally and build a big-name program. |
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 September 28, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
Why Saturday Always Delivers Over the course of a college football season, it seems like there's always one or two Saturdays that make many observers say, "Well, there's not any big games this weekend." |
AskMen.com Brandon Lang |
Football: Weekly Picks Picks for this week's big NFL and college games: Vikings vs. Falcons... Raiders vs. Lions... Missouri vs. Mississippi... Washington vs. Boise State... |
Sports Central September 5, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Ranking the Week 1 Upsets What an orgy of upsets Week 1 of college football was! Not only did a slew of D1-A teams fall to D1-AA teams, but a couple of them were multiple-possession wins, which is practically unheard of in these already-rare circumstances. |
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. |