Since taking office as Pac-12 commissioner in the summer of 2010, Larry Scott has always been credited for thinking “big.” He was the originator of the idea of “super-conferences,” and nearly implemented them in both the summer of 2010 and fall of 2011. Even when that didn’t work out (once by his own choosing, once […]

There are few certainties in life. Death. Taxes. Funny giggles anytime Charlie Weis shows up on your TV screen. But for college fans, there was one additional certainty most all could agree on: Robert Griffin was the best player in college football during the 2011 season. And he proved it Saturday evening, winning the 77th […]

It’s hard to believe, but we are now down to just eight teams left in the hunt for college football’s FCS National Championship. Here’s everything you need to know heading into this weekend’s games, which thankfully, will all be on one of ESPN’s family of networks. Let’s get to the previews!   Sam Houston State […]

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 100 times: The college football coaching carousel is the equivalent of a daytime soap opera for men in their 20’s and 30’s. Come the last weekend of November, names, faces and jobs changes faster than those in Derek Jeter’s blackberry when he’s looking for a booty call. […]

If you’re a regular reader of Crystal Ball Run, you know that in the past, we’ve had our fun with the Ole Miss football program. Well, really, I take that back. More so, we’ve had our fun with the bumbling, stumbling fool that masqueraded as their ex-head coach, Houston Nut. Really, to say that Houston […]

As we head into this weekend, we know the question that everyone is asking themselves. We know that everybody wants to know if it can happen again. Is it even possible for something that rare to happen that many times in a row? We are only one round of football and 48 hours away from […]

Hello everybody! Hope everyone is enjoying their first week without major college football since August. Take a breath, relax and smile, because we’ve all been through quite a bit in the last 14 weeks. (And please, for the love of God, if you haven’t seen your family since before Labor Day- like our entire staff […]

UNC has named Larry Fedora its next head football coach. In July of this year, we laid out our thoughts on the situation at UNC and named a few names for who we thought might be solid replacements for Butch Davis. Larry Fedora was not on our list. Fedora will take over a UNC program […]

As hard as it might be to remember now, it wasn’t all that long ago that the relationship between Lane Kiffin and USC seemed to be a bit fractured. It was just four months ago that college football’s most controversial coach was coming off an 8-5 first season in Troy, and after narrow wins over […]

Sixteen teams, 13 games and we’ll have three National Champions. That’s what we are left with at the FCS, Division II and III levels, as last weekend concluded, the dust settled and we all realized how unfortunately close to the end we are. I have enjoyed writing these columns and hopefully you’ve enjoyed reading them. […]