It’s a funny thing about bowl season: Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you realize you’ve actually seen nothing at all. College football fans were given a refresher in exactly that on Wednesday night, in Louisville’s shocking 33-24 Sugar Bowl win over Florida. The sad thing for Florida fans is that this game […]

In Monday afternoon’s 21-7 Sun Bowl loss to Georgia Tech, the USC Trojans not only put up one of the truly pathetic efforts of the entire bowl season, but also concluded one of the most disappointing years in recent college football history. After all, it’s not often you see a team ranked No. 1 in […]

Regardless of whose analysis you listened to in the lead-up to this year’s Rose Bowl, it all pretty much sounded the same: Stanford was going to beat Wisconsin and beat them big. Well, things didn’t go quite as planned when the two teams did hit the field Tuesday, but the Cardinal did get the win, […]

Outback Bowl Jan. 1, 1:00 p.m. ESPN Line: South Carolina -5 ½ Through the years, the Masters golf tournament has taken on the cheesy moniker of “A Tradition Unlike Any Other,” except when you really think about it, it’s college football that has the most unique tradition in sports. Every year, a group of bubbly, […]

Art Briles was asked a peculiar question following Baylor's Holiday Bowl win on Thursday night, when one reporter wanted to know what his interest level was in the Texas head coaching job…You know, assuming it came open in the off-season. Now to Briles’ credit, the Baylor coach handled the situation about as well as anyone […]

No. 14 Clemson Tigers vs. No. 8 LSU Tigers Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Line: LSU -6 Ask any college football fan and they’ll tell you that while the Chick-Fil-A Bowl might not have the cache of some of the “bigger” games this postseason, few will be as entertaining as the matchup between Clemson and […]

Arizona State vs. Navy Dec. 29, 4:00 p.m. ESPN2 AT&T Park (San Francisco) Line: Arizona State -13 ½ Over the years, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl has garnered a bit of a reputation as… hmm, how do I put this nicely?…  a bowl game nobody wants anything to do with. Sorry Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl […]

When evaluating off-season coaching hires, it’s always important to be sure and differentiate between the fundamental questions of “Whether the last guy should’ve been fired” versus “Can the new guy succeed?” One essentially has nothing to do with the other.   That’s certainly the case at Colorado, where most of the off-season fireworks around the […]

    As the old saying goes: It’s good to be a Heisman Trophy winner.   Ok, so maybe that isn’t an old saying at all. But in terms of the Heisman’s newest fraternity member, Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, that certainly appears to be the case.    Since Manziel took home the award less than […]