Since football season ended, here at Crystal Ball Run we’ve done our darndest to keep you entertained with fun, interesting and engaging debates on college football’s biggest issues. We’ve looked at the biggest off-season questions in each conference, as well as what games to watch out for this coming fall, coaching hirings and firings, and […]

Camp Opens: March 28Spring Game: April 21 At this point, just about the only thing to expect from the Virginia Tech Hokies football program is, well, the expected. It doesn’t matter who they’ve lost on offense or defense, what the schedule looks like, or what other programs are rising or falling in the ACC, the […]

College football’s best coach, is now also its highest paid coach. That’s right, your boy Nick Saban broke the bank ya’ll! On Monday, the three-time National Championship coach signed a two-year extension that will keep him at the school through the end of the 2019 season. For a coach who’ll be 61 in October, it […]

It’s no secret that the good folks living in SEC country care more about their football team than you do yours. At best, we’d call people in the SEC “fanatical” and at worst “maniacal” but there’s no doubt that in places like Tuscaloosa, Knoxville, Athens and Auburn, football isn’t a Saturday diversion, but instead a […]

First Practice: March26Spring Game: April 21 Entering spring 2012, there are few hot seats in college football hotter than Derek Dooley’s at Tennessee. A once proud program has hit on hard times, winning just 11 games over the last two years, and sadly for Vols fans, things hardly improved this off-season. From player discontent, to […]

For the most part here at Crystal Ball Run, we like to take a look at college football in a lighter way. Yes, we take what we do seriously, but college football is also supposed to be fun, and because of it, we try to present our content that way. After all, if we can’t […]

There’s an old saying that goes “losing breeds apathy” and never has there been a better example of that than the end of the Mike Stoops era at Arizona. A program that regularly put butts in seats during Stoops’ best days, Arizona Stadium became a ghost town by the time he was done in Tucson. […]

Camp Opens: March 14Spring Game: April 21 Simply put, the 2011 season was the one that Bobby Petrino had been building for since he arrived in Fayetteville. His team returned most of its defense, and a handful of explosive offensive playmakers to compliment new quarterback Tyler Wilson. But before the season could even begin, the […]