0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/16/2012
Of all the truly surprising things in college football this season, maybe the most surprising is this: Notre Dame might actually not disappoint us this year. While it’s a little early to say the Irish are “back,” they are 3-0, and after beating No. 10 ranked Michigan State Saturday, have their signature win of the […]
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College football fans from the North, East, Midwest and Pacific Coast, welcome to your personal version of hell: After three weeks of the season, we’re headed for another Alabama-LSU BCS Title Game. Ok, so that’s a major exaggeration. However, the college football landscape was shaken up in a big way Saturday night, when one of […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/15/2012
Of every team in serious running for the 2012 BCS National Championship, it’s hard to argue that any had more question marks entering Saturday than the Florida State Seminoles. Understand, it wasn’t that we as college football fans weren’t buying” the Seminoles as an elite team, as much as we just wanted to see […]
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1JX-C4pHU Entering Saturday it was hard to argue that any team needed a win as badly as the Auburn Tigers. At 0-2, and with SEC play starting up next week against LSU, there was margin for error on Saturday against those pesky Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks. Yup, that Louisiana-Monroe team, the same one that beat Arkansas last […]
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If the Heisman Trophy were awarded after two games, it’s hard to argue that Ohio State’s Braxton Miller should probably be the winner. Entering the Buckeyes Saturday showdown with Cal, the sophomore quarterback had already thrown for three touchdowns and rushed for five more. And, well, Miller is up to his old tricks again today, […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/12/2012
In the preseason, the Pac-12 looked more like USC, Oregon and 10 squads competing to be the tallest midget. In the first two weeks of the season, though, the conference has acquitted itself quite nicely. Most would agree that the Ducks and Trojans still constitute the class of the conference. But based on what you've […]
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While it doesn’t necessarily impact what we do here at Crystal Ball Run, a long-held rumor was confirmed this morning by ESPN.com’s Brett McMurphy: Notre Dame is headed to the ACC!!! Well, not in football, per se, where they’ll remain independent. But in all other sports… Notre Dame is headed for Tobacco Road!! Can you […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/10/2012
For college football fans, this truly is the most wonderful time of the year. Now two weeks into the season, we are long past the conjecture and prognostication of the summer, and now have two games of tangible evidence to tell us everything we need to know about teams, players and coaches that’ll make up […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/9/2012
It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t necessarily ugly. And it definitely wasn’t old-man football. But whatever it was, the Georgia Bulldogs made a statement Saturday night, going on the road and getting a 41-20 victory at Missouri, ruining the Tigers SEC welcome party in the process. Now for those of you who aren’t familiar, that “old-man […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/8/2012
If there’s a single word that needs to be given to the Florida Gators after their 20-17 win against Texas A&M Saturday, it’s “credit.” For a team that got little of it in the off-season, and even less after an ugly opening weekend win against Bowling Green, the Gators deserve a whole lot of it […]
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Over the last year, there were times where I thought that even if Hollywood wanted to make a movie about the downfall of the Penn State football program, there’s no way they could ever could. Following the story day-to-day, week-to-week and month-to-month, at times the truth seemed stranger than fiction, and it seemed impossible for […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/7/2012
With the second weekend of college football set to kick off, here's our staff's Week 2 picks! North Carolina State at Connecticut, Saturday, Noon, ESPN3 Tom Perry’s Take: The Wolfpack are looking to rebound from a bad loss to Tennessee in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game, and going on the road to Connecticut is not going […]
