0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/25/2012
No. 8 Stanford at Washington Thursday, 9:00 p.m. EST, ESPN Line: Stanford -7 So Stanford fans, we hope you had fun. Because just two weeks after pulling off the biggest upset of the season (not to mention biggest win of David Shaw’s short tenure at your school) and getting a week off to celebrate, it’s […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/24/2012
It’s safe to say that through four weeks of college football, we as fans have seen some truly spectacular plays. From Ohio State’s opening touchdown of the 2012 campaign to Kiehl Frazier’s Hail Mary pass against UL-Monroe, it’s been an action packed September so far, with only more great football to come. But as great […]
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Well college football fans, we’ve got some bad news for you: We are sad to report that as the calendar turns to the last week of September on this particular Monday, virtually every team in college football has now finished a third of their season. It sounds crazy, only somehow it’s true. But with the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/23/2012
There were plenty of storylines to come out of the best college football Saturday of 2012 so far, but as the clock turned to midnight on this particular Saturday, there was one which stood out above them all: Florida State is back. Not just as a Top 10 team. Not just as a perennial ACC […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/22/2012
Ask most USC fans, and they’ll tell you that the No. 1 reason Matt Barkley didn’t get an invite to New York last season for the Heisman Trophy ceremony was simply his team was on probation. After all, how could the upstanding voters of such a prestigious award as the Heisman, reward a player whose […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/21/2012
Notre Dame, Florida State and LSU, oh my! Here are the Week 4 Crystal Ball Run staff picks! Virginia at No. 17 TCU: Saturday, 12 p.m. ESPN Kevin McGuire’s Take: TCU comes in to this weekend's game against Virginia as a heavy favorite, and it is easy to see why. Virginia's offense has been struggling […]
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In the sport of college football, unfortunately, too often we hear about the “numbers crunch.” How scholarships can come and go, and be taken away by a head coach at the drop of the hat. Sometimes it's to make way for a better player, sometimes it’s because a college coach has decided a high school […]
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There is no nice way to put it: Unless you have a fetish for solid defensive football and offensive ineptitude otherwise, the first 57 minutes or so of Thursday night’s showdown between BYU and Boise were a little bit boring. Ok, a “little bit” boring is a bit of an understatement. The first 57 minutes […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/19/2012
SEC fans like to think of their league as a mini-NFL. Apparently, that extends to the commissioner's office, as the conference brass have taken it upon themselves to begin issuing suspensions for what are deemed over-the-line hits. Last week, Ole Miss defensive back Trae Elston was suspended for the Rebels' game against Texas as […]
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It’s hard to imagine any college football coach being on the hot seat just two years after winning a National Championship, except down on the Plains, Gene Chizik’s seat only seems to be growing warmer every single Saturday his team takes the field. His 0-2 start got the critics howling, and an overtime escape […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/18/2012
No. 10 Clemson at No. 4 Florida State Saturday, 8:00 p.m. ABC Line: Florida State -14 When the conference schedules came out this spring, it was clear that from Day 1, Hour 1, Minute 1, the unofficial ACC regular season championship game (or at least, the unofficial ACC Atlantic championship game anyway) would come Saturday […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/17/2012
No. 18 Michigan at No. 11 Notre Dame Saturday, 8:00 p.m. NBC Line: Notre Dame -6 (It's never too early to look ahead to next weekend's game, so with it, we here at Crystal Ball Run are breaking out a new feature called "Early Analysis. That's right, in the build-up to Saturday we'll be giving […]
