0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/27/2012
It’s the third week of the Monday Morning Look Ahead, and with it, we are proud to announce that for the first time… we actually have college football games to discuss! That’s right, after eight long months, college football is back in just a few days, with South Carolina and Vanderbilt kicking off a slew […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/24/2012
In the hunt for the next great quarterback at Oregon, all signs entering the fall seemed to point toward Bryan Bennett. The third-year sophomore played in nine games last season backing up Darron Thomas, and in his one start, led the Ducks to a 45-2 road win at Colorado. Not too shabby a debut, huh? […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/23/2012
Through the years, it hasn’t been all that uncommon to see celebrities pop up on the sidelines of major college football games and practices. Will Ferrell and Snoop Dogg were regulars at USC during the Pete Carroll era. Matthew McConaughey, his dimples and Lance Armstrong have been known to Hook ‘Em Horns on the Texas […]
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Brian Kelly will take his chances with the quarterback who can make plays. The Notre Dame coach will name sophomore Everett Golson as his quarterback when the Fighting Irish line up against Navy in Dublin on September 1st. Keith Arnold of NBCSports.com broke the news early Thursday, and Brian Hamilton of the Chicago Tribune […]
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Since arriving at Tennessee three years ago, Da’Rick Rogers has been equal parts exciting playmaker on the field, and frustrating headache off of it. And on Thursday morning, the “frustrating headache” part arose again, as the school announced that the dynamic wide receiver has been suspended indefinitely from the team. No details were announced as […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/21/2012
Entering the 2012 college football season, expectations aren’t particularly high for the Northwestern football team. Coming off a 6-7 season, and playing in a brutal Big Ten division that features Michigan State, Michigan and Nebraska, things won’t be easy for the Wildcats in 2012. But if Northwestern were to exceed expectations, well, it may […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/20/2012
Last week, Crystal Ball Run debuted a new segment called “The Monday Morning Look Ahead.” The concept of The Look Ahead is simple, and so too is the execution: While every other college football website spends Monday mornings reflecting back on the previous weekend, we’re already looking ahead and tipping you off on the biggest […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/19/2012
Since Crystal Ball Run first wrote about Notre Dame’s new “Shamrock Series” uniforms earlier this week (set to debut in October against Miami), most fans have seemed… … Hmm, how do we say this nicely?… … Well, they seem a bit, umm, “underwhelmed” by the Irish’s new jersey choice. Ok, so “underwhelmed” might not be […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/18/2012
It’s the day college football fans have been waiting for. No, we’re not the first kickoff of the season, but instead the release of the first AP Poll of the 2012 campaign! Gentlemen, let the asinine and ill-informed arguments begin! That’s right, a few weeks after the “coaches” released their poll, the Associated Press released […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/17/2012
On Thursday, a story popped up that seemed so crazy, so far-fetched, so entirely out of left field that most fans thought it couldn’t possibly be true. The story? It was about an Alabama fan named Zack Smartt, who spent $1,700… to get this tattoo inked on his back. Yes, that really happened. And […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/16/2012
http://youtube.com/watch?v=enMhCfQfeTw As a general rule, we don’t get too much into the dynamics of college football uniform choice here at Crystal Ball Run. Sure, we’ll post our occasional commentary, but at the end of the day, the decisions made by Nike, Adidas, Under Armour and other companies aren’t ultimately about what we think; they’re […]
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They say “everything’s bigger in Texas” but when it comes to a love of the local college football team, the biggest, and most passionate group of college football fans reside in Alabama. Alabama fan, Auburn fan, whatever. If you grow up in the Yellowhammer State, chances are you not only care about your football team, […]
