Camp Open(ed): March 17 (yeah, we’re late on this one)Spring Game:  April 14 Is Michigan football back? Following an 11-win season capped with a BCS bowl victory it would be easy to say so. But until Michigan makes an appearance in a Big Ten championship game it might be wise to hold off on […]

Camp Opens: March 26Spring Game: April 21 The dawn of a new era is underway in State College, Pennsylvania. Following a tumultuous and tragic ending to the 2011 season there is no doubt that getting back to business under a new regime is something everyone at Penn State is ready to get rolling with. While […]

Camp Opens: March 15Spring Game: April 14 Another year, another head coach. Unlike their Pennsylvania rivals from State College, Pittsburgh has become all too familiar with finding a new head coach in the off-season over the last few years. This time though, hopefully, they got it right with former Wisconsin assistant Paul Chryst. On the […]

Months after the fallout of an alarming and disturbing sex abuse scandal tore the fabric of trust and everything that was right at Penn State, head coach Bill O’Brien dedicated himsefl to an unenviable task, to put it nicely. “Penn State is toxic,” CBSSports.com’s Brett McMurphy wrote when discussing Penn State’s bowl future toward the […]

Camp Opens: March 10Spring Game: April 14 Nebraska is getting ready for year two in the Big Ten, and hoping to get over the four-loss hump. With a strong running game and special teams, as usual, the question will be whether or not they can win with their quarterback and up-and-down defense. With one of […]

It probably is not much of a secret just how much we here at Crystal Ball Run have come to like now former Baylor and Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Robert Griffin III. Following an incredible showing at the NFL Scouting Combine this weekend we learned that RG3 will grace the cover of this year’s installment […]

They say in public relations and media classes in school that if you want to release some negative news the best time to release it is Friday afternoon. That may not be quite the case it once was with the Internet and social networking, but that’s exactly what Oregon did Friday night. The University of […]

Time to wrap up the week with one more look at one of the best games of the 2011 season. To do so we head out to the state of California, where one BCS contender stayed alive and another program showed they were up to the task to take on the best of the best. […]

It wasn’t a Game of the Century, but Michigan State and Wisconsin met one night in October and put together one of the more memorable performances of the fall. Before we continue with a look back at the Baylor’s big win, and in case you have missed any of the previous segments, here are the […]