0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 9/16/2013
Three weeks are in the books for the 2013 college football season and The American has had its ups and downs for three straight weeks. There hasn't been one week that was great or atrocious for the league. However, when it's been bad, it's been really bad so far. The American has now seen three […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 9/10/2013
Teddy Bridgewater and Louisville are off to a good start. Photo: USA Today Sports The 2013 college football season is only two weeks old and in the American Athletic Conference, it is not too early to ask if there are only two real contenders for the league title. After two weeks of play, only #7 […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 9/1/2013
The American Athletic Conference begun play as a conference in transition on Thursday evening. While the Big East had long been the butt of major college football's jokes (largely despite the lack of results to back it up), the American got off to a bad start in keeping its distance from the ACC in face-first […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 7/14/2013
Penn State will meet Central Florida in Ireland to kick off the 2014 college football season. Penn State and UCF will meet in Dublin in the Croke Park Classic on Aug. 30, 2014, both schools announced on Sunday. The game at 69,000 seat capacity Croke Park (pronounced Crow) will be televised on ESPN2 at 8:30 […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 7/11/2013
On Tuesday I received the National Football Foundation's press release heralding a record number of NCAA college football teams for the 2013 season. In total, there will be 12 new programs in college football with nine beginning NCAA play and three playing at the NAIA level. Is this type of growth sustainable or even desirable? […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 6/12/2013
It's that time of year again when we find out the team ratings for the newest release in the EA Sports NCAA Football franchise. NCAA 14 is due out July 9 but the team ratings were revealed yesterday at E3 (/ht Tradition Sports). Let's start at the top with this foolishness. Alabama has 99s across […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 4/30/2013
Wisconsin and LSU are reportedly in discussions to schedule each other for the 2015 season in a neutral site game. The Badgers would like to host the game at Green Bay's historic Lambeau Field while LSU wants to play the game in the ripe recruiting grounds of Texas, either at a sort of home away […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 4/18/2013
The countdown is on until the release of EA Sports' NCAA Football 14 on July 9. In the meantime, EA Sports has been teasing what's new about the gameplay and presentation in their annual college football series. As usual, there are cosmetic changes coming to the game which will turn you into a screaming […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 4/11/2013
Protesting the secrecy of the Heisman Trophy vote by resigning oneself from voting for the award could be an effective strategy if no one was willing to replace you as a voter. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Would more openness in the process of Heisman voting be by welcomed by fans? Of course. Is the […]
