It was billed as the Game of the Century, an idiom that seems to surface every time we have a regular season game between the top two teams in the country. Top-ranked LSU traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to face SEC West rival Alabama in the first weekend of November. National title hopes would continue for one […]

Was there a team more fun to watch in 2011 than Baylor? Scratch that. Was there a player more fun to watch in 2011 than Robert Griffin III? You can debate that later if you so desire, but we here at Crystal Ball Run had a blast watching Griffin and Baylor throughout the 2011 season, […]

Ho-hum, another year in the Big Ten. What can we possibly write about? Well, for starters there are the tired and often recycled stories about how Ohio State can’t beat SEC teams, Michigan can’t play defense and how Joe Paterno is going for another milestone win. Oh, wait… what’s that? Oh my….  No, the Big […]

There were a number of good bowl games played in the 2011-12 season. We have already touched on two of them in our look back at ten of the best games from this past college football season. Few games matched the hype the way the Rose Bowl, the Granddaddy of Them All, did when it […]

The football season is now, finally, officially in the books now that the Super Bowl has been played. Now comes the time when we can all begin looking forward to the 2012 football seasons in the college and professional ranks. But before we do, we’re taking a look at the best college football games of […]

After some time off to regroup from National Signing Day, we’re back to taking a look at the season that was in college football. We started at the beginning of the season with week one’s shootout between Baylor and TCU and an incredible rally for Michigan vs. Notre Dame. We fast forward to the end […]

We continue to take a look back at some of the grand moments from the 2011 college football season. When I asked for some opinions on the best games of the season there were a handful of games that seemed to be the most popular. Yesterday we took a look at the season opener between […]

The 2011 college football season may have been marred by some off-the-field issues from coast to coast, and you may not have been in favor of the way it all ended with a rematch in the BCS Championship Game, but there were quite a few games that will go down in the memory banks of […]

As we pay our respects to Joe Paterno we take this moment to look back on the storied football career of a man who loved, and perhaps needed, the game more than anything else in life. 10. It Begins With a Win Joe Paterno officially started his head coaching career in 1966 when Penn State […]

Time to pump the brakes on those Chip Kelly to the NFL stories folks. Just as clearly it looked as though Kelly would attempt to bring his up-tempo offensive mindset to the NFL and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, reports now say Kelly will remain in Eugene, Oregon and stay on board as Oregon’s head football […]

Earlier week it was the Casino Del Sol All-Star game and now on Saturday it will be not one, not two, but three games! This is a week I’ve been calling allstarpalooza because of all the news, reports, and tweets that have been flying. Just like with the Casino Del Sol game I will again […]