It was another Friday night game, so no one should be surprised the Mid-American Conference championship game delivered another crazy performance. Trailing 20-0 at halftime and by 13 points with less than nine minutes to play, Northern Illinois scored 16 points to pull out the win in Detroit. Not until Matthew Sims hit a 33-yard […]

As a resident of Ohio and not a Buckeye fan, it’s easy to get overloaded on Buckeye news. On Monday when Urban Meyer replaced Jim Tressel (or Luke Fickell) as the OSU coach, the news was fed to us at a gluttonous pace. My partner at Eye and Eer, Phil Shie, is the Ohio State […]

If that is truly the final Backyard Brawl, then West Virginia gave its fans a performance to remember. Tino Sunseri, well, gave Pittsburgh fans a shot to the gut. After leading 17-7 at halftime, West Virginia’s defense played like the 2010 version and held the Panthers to just a field goal and sacked Sunseri 10 […]

So the Big East may give us a 7-5 Louisville as its BCS representative. Here I thought an 8-4 Connecticut last year was embarrassing. Now it’s not official yet, but the Cardinals have finished the season with a 5-2 conference record and will end up in some sort of tie for the league crown. Who […]

Go ahead and try it. See if you can make any sense of the Big East race because I’m struggling with all of the what ifs. Who will represent the Big East in a BCS bowl may be decided this weekend as all eight teams are playing one another. On the surface the Backyard Brawl […]

If you aren’t looking (and probably most of our readers are not), Marshall could actually represent the East Division in the Conference USA Championship Game. Now the 5-6 Thundering Herd still need some help and a win over East Carolina, and a very unlikely loss by Southern Miss against 2-9 Memphis to pull of the […]

I’m all for a good Heisman campaign—whether is happens in the preseason or just weeks before the voting. Who could forget Eric Berry’s rap videos, Byron Leftwich’s bobblehead or Joey Harrington’s huge billboard in New York City? Well, this doesn’t quite live up to those crazy standards, but the folks at Oklahoma State aren’t about […]

Just when it looked like West Virginia was on life support, the Mountaineers stepped up Saturday and scrambled the Big East race. The Bearcats are still in control of their destiny, despite the 24-21 loss. Cincinnati’s final three conference games are all winnable games. But if the Big East has taught us anything this year…there […]

Oh Big East, how I’m going to miss your dysfunctional ways. With Pittsburgh, Syracuse and West Virginia all destined to leave at some point in the next two years, there’s a good chance I won’t watch you quite as much. But you certainly have been entertaining…even if not for the best of reasons. I’ve struggled […]

About a year after a public flirtation with the Big Ten, Missouri will officially join the SEC on July 1, 2012, the conference office announced Sunday. The announcement came as no surprise, as Missouri and the SEC have been in discussions for weeks. The release said the SEC member presidents and chancellors had voted unanimously […]

Maybe West Virginia should reconsider that lawsuit against the Big East after all. Dana Holgorsen’s team could really use another year or two in the minor leagues before getting called up to the Big 12. Saturday afternoon’s 38-35 upset loss at home to Louisville almost assuredly ends WVU’s hopes of a Big East championship this […]