Texas was so close this season! We would be in the hunt for the National Championship if we just won 7 more games. This close. In all seriousness, Auburn and Oregon deserve to have a shot at the national championship. And you know who else does? TCU. “Well then let’s just have a three-team playoff!” …
My rankings are below. Yesterday, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium–two professional baseball venues–played host to college football. The big story at Wrigley was that there wasn’t enough room around the east end zone, as you can see in the picture on the right. Big Ten conference officials were worried about player safety (and by “player …
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Many of us are heading west in the next few weeks for a big conference. I always look forward to this weekend, but I am doubly excited this year because the conference is in San Francisco. The City, or “The City and County of San Francisco, California” as us locals colloquially refer to it in …
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I texted a friend to come watch the Texas game on Saturday. His response: He might as well have said: “Texas is bad at football this season. Therefore I am no longer interested in them.” While some might call him a fairweather fan, I think this is actually rather efficient. Sometimes in sports we talk …
It’s November, so I feel like we’re close enough to start looking at prospective playoff matchups. The way I would seed playoffs goes like this: top 6 conference champions, then the next two highest-rated teams. If they are also conference champs, or if they’re championship game losers, or Notre Dame, or West Canaan, so be …
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UC Davis played University of South Alabama (USA) this past weekend. We lost on a last-second missed field goal. Did you know that this is only USA’s second football season? They just started playing last year, and they have not lost a game yet. USA have played all home games against community colleges and military …
There are 10 undefeated teams left, and one of them (LSU/Auburn) will lose this coming Saturday. Otherwise, the remaining 9 are from 6 different conferences. I hope we end the season with 6 undefeated teams and the BCS dies from shock.
While it is at the top of my rankings, LSU is not the best team in the country. If a couple of plays went the other way, they would be 3-3 right now. However, as my father-in-law says, if a frog could fly it wouldn’t bump its butt when it leaped. If doesn’t matter in …
Oklahoma has jumped to the top of my rankings due to their strength of schedule. Boise State is starting to drop because they are playing such weak teams. No it’s not their fault, but to be number one you have to play a great schedule and win. Teams like Oklahoma, LSU, and Alabama have done …
I don’t think LSU, USC, or Florida are three of the top 4 teams in the country. But, they have the best strength-of-schedules to date of any 3-0 teams. I think they’ll drop one each in the next three or four weeks.
Boise and Fresno still have the highest strength of schedule because they have each played a very good team and no bad ones. So they’re still on top. Obviously they are going to play more games this season, so just hold on–it will shake itself out. Also, strength of schedule for the better conferences will …
Tiger planned to tone down the outbursts in competition when he returned to golf this spring: He called winning golf tournaments “irrelevant.” He talked about finding his “inner peace.” He promised to be less excitable on the golf course, so forget those tantrums and fist pumps. Let the video below stand as proof that you …
Thank you to everyone who took the music survey over the last week. You listed 136 song entries and 121 unique songs. Here is a list of the 12 songs that were picked by more than one person: Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling Dave …
Okay, now that my heart has restarted after the Texas/Nebraska game, let’s talk about actual matchups for a playoff. First, let me tell you what I like and don’t like about these matchups: If you won your conference this year and you played reasonably well, you’re in. Conference champions are starred below in the rankings. …