0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/19/2011
Lost in the shuffle of the Mark Richt hot-seat chatter of the last few weeks, is that there is another coach down in SEC country whose seat is just as smoldering as the maligned Georgia coach’s. That would be the man he’s facing this weekend, the Reverend Houston Nutt at Ole Miss. And understand this: […]
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So, is everyone sick of realignment talk yet? Well no need to worry, as there are some good old-fashioned NCAA violations just popped up for us to discuss instead! All joking aside, the University of South Carolina was sent a pretty lengthy Notice of Allegations today, and quite frankly, things aren’t looking very good. The […]
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Last Monday, Crystal Ball Run premiered a new column, where we evaluated the point spreads of the major Week 3 college football games. Understand that it wasn’t a gambling column, so much as a way to look at these games and break them down from a different angle than we otherwise might have. Well, with […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/18/2011
Ever since Texas A&M announced back in early August that they were contemplating a move to the SEC, the college athletics world has been holding their breath, and waiting for the seismic shift that would blow up things as we knew it. Many thought it would happen when Mike Slive made his move to get […]
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Well, I guess it was bound to happen at some point. After 17 straight wins, most of them in a come from behind, never say die, wild fashion, the Auburn Tigers actually lost a football game on Saturday. The surprise? It wasn’t to a tough SEC foe, not at Tiger Stadium or the Swamp, in […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/17/2011
With back-to-back, down-to-the-wire, nail-biting finishes the last two Friday nights, last night was in comparison, umm, a little tame. Ok, who am I kidding, it was downright lame. Other than Kellen Moore doing Kellen Moore things against an underrated Toledo defense, Boise’s victory coupled with Iowa State’s narrow win over UConn wasn’t exactly the brand […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/16/2011
It’s another Friday, and you know what that means here at Crystal Ball Run: It’s time to make our picks on the 12 biggest games of the weekend! As always, we’ve given each of our staff writers two games to give you a quick preview of, with everyone else chiming in on their winners. And […]
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Joshua Guiher is a college football fan whose goal is to visit all 120 FBS football stadiums. He will be writing a weekly column for Crystal Ball Run, highlighting a different stadium he has visited each week. Josh’s first piece on Michie Stadium can be read here, and over the course of the last two […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/15/2011
It’s only the third week of the college football season, but with that, it’s hard to imagine that we’ll see a better Thursday night game than the one we have on tap for this evening. That’s right, at 8:00 p.m. EST, a pair of ranked teams hit the field, when No. 3 LSU travels to […]
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When Yahoo Sports crippling, tell-all report on Nevin Shapiro and the Miami football program first came out a few weeks ago, the whole narrative was so action-packed and so overwhelming that it was hard to put it all into a proper context. There was so much information, so many potential major violations, that it was […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/12/2011
The worst kept secret in college sports became official on Monday evening. After months of backroom deals, secret meetings and legal maneuvering, Texas A&M was finally, officially announced as the Southeastern Conference’s 13th member, effective for the 2012-2013 conference season. Congratulations Aggies fans, you got what you wished! And college football’s off the field news […]
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The move that Texas fans have been waiting to see for months has officially happened. No, it has nothing to do with the Pac-12 vs. Independent, but instead with former five-star superstar Garrett Gilbert being moved permanently to the Texas bench. That’s right, as after a disappointing sophomore season, and slow start to the 2011 […]
