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2013 BCS Bowl Predictions: Week 6 Edition

After a wild first weekend in October that saw No's. 3, 4 and 5 all get knocked off, our early 2013 BCS bowl predictions are starting to come into focus. Let’s have a look at which teams appear ready for the biggest of bowl spotlights and who’ll be playing for it all. Rose Bowl: Michigan […]

Florida 14, LSU 6: The smallest player comes up huge in the Gators win

It was billed as a battle between the defensive lines, and for the most part, LSU and Florida lived up to the pregame hype. The two teams combined to score just three first half points, and it took almost until the end of the third quarter before either team broke 100 yards of total offense. […]

Dirty Dozen: The Crystal Ball Run Week 6 Staff Picks

Here are the Crystal Ball Run Week 5 staff picks… No. 24 Northwestern at Penn State: Saturday, 12:00pm ESPN Andy Coppens Take: Call this week "Crossroads Week" if you will in the Big Ten as Northwestern enters the game against Penn State undefeated, but perhaps a bit untested. Their opponents so far this season are […]

Early Analysis: Miami vs. Notre Dame

Miami at No. 9 Notre Dame Saturday, 7:30 p.m. NBC (at Soldier Field, Chicago) Line: Notre Dame -12.5 No, Saturday’s matchup between Miami and Notre Dame won’t be one of those great “Catholics vs. Convicts” matchups of the late 1980’s, but to the credit of these two teams, this game looks much better now than […]

TCU starting quarterback Casey Pachall arrested

While TCU’s move to the Big XII has been a smooth transition on the field so far, off the field it’s been a completely different story. In February the university suffered an embarrassing internal drug probe that led to the arrests of 17 students, including six football players. And while he wasn’t one of the […]

USC-Utah: Five Keys to Thursday Night’s Game

While Thursday night college football has become a bit of a quirky, fun novelty in the past, this Thursday, there’s nothing fun or quirky about USC’s trip to Utah. For the Trojans, a loss here would all but eliminate them from not only BCS title contention, but possibly Pac-12 championship contender status too. As for […]

Meeting of the Minds: What’s your ultimate college football road trip?

Admittedly, our "Meeting of the Minds" pieces usually focus on some kind of on the field aspect of the sport of college football: Be it match-ups, coaching mishaps, and even the occasional suspension handed down by Mike Slive. But today, we're going to do something a bit different. For those who don't know, writer Jerrod […]

Early Analysis: West Virginia vs. Texas

No. 7 West Virginia at No. 9 Texas Saturday, 7:00 PM Fox Line: Texas -6.5 The Mountaineers and Longhorns clash in a top ten Big 12 matchup that will help to separate the conference’s elite from the upper-middle class. We know West Virginia can put points up in bunches and Texas is no slouch, but […]

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