Forget that boring Wisconsin-UNLV game. Ignore Syracuse’s petty overtime win over Wake. And for the love of God, let’s all try and pretend Kentucky-Western Kentucky never happened. Nope folks, college football- the real college football that we know and love, the one with the cheerleaders, and Lee Corso riding motorcyles, and wild upsets- got underway […]

For those of you concerned with how Jim Tressel would hold up in his first fall without football in decades, your fears have been relieved. Instead of sitting around, spending his days aimlessly checking his e-mail, Tressel will in fact be involved with the game that has defined him since he was a quarterback for […]

Just when you thought things were cooling down at Ohio State, someone had to go ahead and do something stupid. At least that’s the report out of Columbus, where three more players will be suspended for Saturday’s opener against Akron. This on top of a “core four” that will miss the first five games of […]

Huge news broke this morning in the world of college football journalism, when it was announced that CBS had hired former ESPN senior college football writer Bruce Feldman to their staff. From CBS: CBS today announced that veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Feldman has joined CBS to cover the sport of […]

It is 9:45 on a crisp autumn Saturday night. You’re sitting at a computer wondering the following: Is San Jose State bad enough to get beat by 56? Can Hawaii put up 60? And where the hell did it all go wrong? At some point, you’ll place a frivolous bet and you might not even […]

Over the last month, the boys at Crystal Ball Run have debated just about everything in the college football world to this point…except who they think will the National Championship. Today, they do just that, as our six staff writers have three different National Champions among them, six different BCS National Championship Game participants, and […]

Since our inception here at Crystal Ball Run, we’ve covered just about every aspect we can think of in the world of college football. Our staff has voted on our Top 10 teams, the Top 10 games of this upcoming weekend, debated various topics and even gave individual, conference by conference previews. But one thing […]

For years, the mantra of non-AQ college football programs was simple: “Make the big boys notice us.” Well, consider it done. In the last few years alone, Utah (no longer a non-AQ) beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, TCU beat Wisconsin in the “Granddaddy of them All,” and Boise has beaten Virginia Tech, Oregon and […]