With our focus on the titanic LSU-Alabama game Saturday night, what better way to discuss No. 1 versus No. 2 than by having one of the best college football writers in America answer “Five Burning Questions” about the much anticipated showdown. Our latest guest at CBR is Bruce Feldman of CBS Sports. His summer move […]

Don’t call it a comeback. No seriously, don’t. It sucks when you hit a gambling cold streak. But when you finally get off it, it’s like the first time you wake up drunk from the night before in college. You feel a little weak still, but you’re alive. God dammit, you’re alive. Last week: 4-2 […]

This is me last week: A stunning 0-5.  Even the Arkansas State/Temple parlay went down. Overall record: 9-13-1… how embarrassing. Big thanks to Va Tech, and Nebraska to laying absolute eggs. I’m speechless. But don’t worry, I didn’t only lose all those games. You gotta see this other bet I lost… With like six minutes […]

While debate over the nation’s top conference used to be a hot topic, nobody argues its identity anymore.  The SEC is on top right now, and it’s not even close.  The league boasts a perfect 7-0 in BCS Championship Games, including the last five in a row.   With the conference supremacy discussion settled for […]

It’s Friday, so it must be time for the CBR crew to pick the twelve biggest games of the college football weekend in our Dirty Dozen.  With conference play in full swing, there are several interesting storylines, and several huge matchups of Top 25 teams.  As a reminder for how this works every week, one […]

On Wednesday morning, well-respected NFL insider Mike Freeman floated a nugget he’s been hearing around the league over the last few years: Les Miles has been in serious discussion as an NFL head coach. While concerns in the past centered around Miles’ general “goofiness,” as Freeman phrased it, the fact that he continues to win […]

After his team’s all-time abominable passing performance last weekend, Ohio State head coach Luke Fickell had to make a change at quarterback.  Thursday, Fickell named highly touted true freshman Braxton Miller as his starter for Ohio State’s upcoming game against Colorado.  There was really no other choice after senior starter Joe Bauserman went 2/14 in […]

I had every intention of sitting down and penning a thoughtful, detailed perspective on Jim Delany fiddling while college football burns.  While the ACC, SEC, and Pac 12 were all appearing to make moves to expand to 16 teams and reach SuperConference status… the Big Ten was sitting on the sidelines.  Think about the madness […]

That’s an actual headline from the New York Times on August 12, 1906. It was that year that college football underwent significant rule changes. The game was shortened to 60 minutes instead of 70. Teams now had to gain ten yards in three downs to maintain possession instead of five. Six men were mandated to […]

Every week, Derek J. Rocco of ThePensBlog.com stops by to give his college football gambling picks. So let’s recap the picks last week before moving on to the Week 3 bets: Wins: Michigan Alabama Auburn Loss: Minnesota Last Week: 3-1Season Record: 6-4 What we learned: In my first column, I said that rule #7 was to […]