Brian Kelly wasn’t stark raving mad about Notre Dame’s terrible home performance against South Florida, no, he was just reacting to a preview of Maryland’s new “pride” uniforms.  When the Terrapins took the field on Monday night, their new look became the talk of the sports world and fashion conossieurs everywhere.  Were they the worst […]

Allow me to go back in time to last June.  I sat in Columbus Crew Stadium watching the inagural USA College Sevens rugby tournament.  The best rugby teams from around the country came together for this wide-open, entertaining competition that highlighted rugby sevens as a future Olympic sport.  As I watched several games throughout the […]

Finally… FINALLY we have actual games to talk about!!  No more Tressel.  No more tattoos.  No more Will Lyles.  No more Charles Robinson (sorry Chuck, love your stuff).  No more Nevin Shapiro.  No more excessive piles of shoes.  Finally, the autumn breeze is slowly coming upon us and a week of college football is here. […]

The Pac 12 takes the field for the first time this Fall as Utah and Colorado join the conference and the league splits into two divisions – Gates and Schwarzenegger.  Wait, you mean the Pac 12 didn’t give their conferences ridiculously laughable names?  You mean it’s just North and South?  Well, that’s disappointingly normal.  Oh […]

Throughout the week, we at Crystal Ball Run are debating and discussing the biggest stories in college pig in a segment we call the “Meeting of the Minds.”  You can check out yesterday’s roundtable discussion on the top challengers to Ohio State’s throne in the Big Ten here.  Today our discussion chain focuses on the […]

Indiana football has a culture of losing.  Nine bowl appearances in the entirety of their football history.  A whopping two Big Ten championships since 1896.  None since 1967.  In their rivalry game, Indiana has been thoroughly dominated by Purdue in the battle for the Old Oaken Bucket.  In fact, no coach since the first term […]

The 2006 Rose Bowl, #1 USC vs #2 Texas for the national championship of college football (said in my best Keith Jackson voice), had everything you could ever want as a college football fan.  It was simply the most anticipated, most meaningful, and greatest game of college football that has ever been played.  Out of […]

 (L to R the OSU QB candidates: Joe Bauserman, Kenny Guiton, Taylor Graham, and Braxton Miller.  Photo via Bucknuts) The calamities and chaos that have been self-inflicted on the Ohio State football program have been long documented and exhausted.  Jim Tressel is gone.  Terrelle Pryor is gone.  The “we may lose to the SEC but […]

After Michael Felder opened up the Crystal Ball Preseason Preseason Top 10 by disccussing the South Carolina Gamecocks this morning, it’s time to head to the Big XII, and discuss the Oklahoma State Cowboys. After taking home one-third of last year’s Big XII South title, can they win things outright this year? Or, with Dana […]