0 comments by Dave Singleton on 5/9/2013
It’s a fact of life in any conference: You’re going to have to travel at some point. Now, some leagues have teams that don’t travel much at all save for the conference away games. Those teams are big enough that they don’t have to hit the road, or are very selective about the non-conference tilts […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton
The American Athletic Conference exists in a sort of a netherworld. A mashup of the remaining football members of the old Big East Conference plus newcomers from the last iteration of Conference USA, the American is a conference born out of this age of intercollegiate athletics: the age where dollars trumped old alliances. In fact, […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 1/22/2013
The Oregon Ducks only had one game in 2012 where they scored less than 35 points. Unfortunately, it was that game, a 17-14 overtime loss to Stanford, that kept the Ducks from playing for the BCS Championship. 2013 will be a time of transition for the Oregon Ducks, as former head coach Chip Kelly has […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 1/6/2013
No. 25 Kent State Golden Flashes vs. Arkansas Red Wolves January 6, 9:00 PM, ESPN Ladd-Peebles Stadium (Mobile, Alabama) Line: Arkansas State -3 On the night before Alabama plays Notre Dame down on South Beach, the penultimate game of the 2012 football season will be played featuring two non-automatic qualifiers in the state of […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 1/2/2013
When the matchup for the Discover Orange Bowl was announced, one of the lines of thought was that Northern Illinois did not deserve to be in the game against Florida State. Northern Illinois struggled at times with the bigger Florida State Seminoles on both sides of the ball in a sloppy 31-10 victory in […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 12/20/2012
Washington vs. No. 19 Boise State Saturday, December 22, 3:30 PM EST, ESPN Sam Boyd Stadium (Las Vegas, NV) Line: Boise State -5.5 Las Vegas is one of America’s playgrounds, and while this game technically takes place in Las Vegas, it is as far from the glitz and glamour of Mandalay Bay and the Hard […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 12/15/2012
The Western Athletic Conference recently crowned what appears to be its last champion in football, as Utah State won the conference title this season. Soon, college football fans may be saying goodbye to another football conference, and this time, it is basketball that is driving the decision. The Big East was actually founded in […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 11/30/2012
No. 16 UCLA vs. No. 8 Stanford Friday, 8:00 PM EST, FOX Line: Stanford -8.5 Here’s to hoping that Friday evening’s second act in the play that is Stanford vs. UCLA is much better than the first act was last Saturday night. Stanford mauled the Bruins 35-17 in the Rose Bowl. UCLA wants to […]
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No. 21 Northern Illinois vs. No. 17 Kent State Friday, 7:00 PM EST, ESPN 2 Line: Northern Illinois -6 If someone had offered you a bet that the Mid-American Conference championship game would have national significance, you would have probably taken the other side of that bet. You also would have lost this year, […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 11/25/2012
Stanford needed this afternoon’s game in the Rose Bowl to fully punch their ticket to the Pac-12 Championship Game once Oregon came out victorious in the Civil War. UCLA had already advanced to the game, but still could’ve decided who their opponent would have been. Stanford took the choice away from the Bruins, as […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 11/21/2012
No. 5 Oregon at No. 15 Oregon State Saturday, 3:00 PM, Pac-12 Networks Line: Oregon -9.5 The stakes have lowered significantly for this year's edition of the "Civil War," but a reward for Oregon is still there if they win this game. The Ducks, even after losing to Stanford last week, can still make it […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 11/20/2012
No. 8 Stanford at No. 17 UCLA Saturday, 6:30 PM, FOX Line: Stanford -2 UCLA, in the first season under Jim L. Mora, have defended their Pac-12 South title. Unlike last season's team that was coached by the now fired Rick Neuheisel, this team has earned their way into the game and have a chance […]
