(Photo Courtesy: Twitter) Of all the things that have made Nebraska football, well, Nebraska football through the years, one is the school’s famed walk-on program. A tradition which was started decades ago has placed countless players onto the Cornhuskers depth chart through the years, not to mention sent 29 straight guys to the National Football […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the entire week reviewing the Sun Belt, it's time for the Crystal Ball Run staff to make their conference championship picks! Allen Kenney's Take: Same story, different conference. Conference expansion continues to dilute leagues like the Sun Belt, which makes these projections a real bear. I think the […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the last few days looking over the teams that will comprise the Sun Belt in 2013, it’s safe to say that the league won’t be stealing the NBA’s “Where Amazing Happens” slogan any time soon. The conference as a whole has a bit of “Island of Misfit Football […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) College football may be a place notorious for its control freak coaches, but imagine a world where in addition to making all the big decisions, a head coach had to literally make every single decision in regards to his program. Doesn’t sound so fun, does it? Only for University of […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) Who knew appearing in a BCS title game would cause all this drama? That drama of course surrounds the University of Notre Dame, which has seen all the good vibes of the 2012 season washed away by what could only be described as an off-season from hell since the calendar […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the past five days previewing Conference USA, it's time for our staff to pick the 2013 conference champion, player and coach of the year. Enjoy! Allen Kenney's Take: If the other mid-major conferences that we've covered have been surprisingly deep, Conference USA is, well… the opposite. Realignment has […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) While picking All-Conference teams in the American, MAC and Mountain West was an overwhelming task simply because of the sheer returning talent, in Conference USA it was kind of the opposite; with so much departing talent- not to mention all the departing teams- it was actually kind of hard. As […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) On Saturday, the college football world was shocked by the news that Notre Dame starting quarterback Everett Golson had been suspended from the school’s football program effective immediately. On Sunday, the same college football world got some clarification on a few details of Golson’s suspension, and what they both in […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the last week breaking down the in's and out's of the Mountain West, it's time for the Crystal Ball Run staff to make their conference championship, Player of the Year and Coach of the Year picks! Allen Kenney's Take: All this time spent studying the Mountain West in […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) Looking for a definition of #ThatAwkwardMoment on this Friday morning heading into a holiday weekend? We may have found it at that bastion of football- and moral- excellence known as the University of Notre Dame. That’s because while Brian Kelly was leading the Irish to an 8-5 record during the […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Images) While the Mountain West doesn’t have a true National Championship contender like the American (Louisville) or a catchy nickname like #MACtion, make no mistake, there will be plenty of quality football played when this conference’s teams take the field in 2013. Along with three clubs which finished the 2012 season […]