0 comments by Tom Perry on 11/15/2011
I’m all for a good Heisman campaign—whether is happens in the preseason or just weeks before the voting. Who could forget Eric Berry’s rap videos, Byron Leftwich’s bobblehead or Joey Harrington’s huge billboard in New York City? Well, this doesn’t quite live up to those crazy standards, but the folks at Oklahoma State aren’t about […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
As scandal has continued to unfold at Penn State over the last 10 days or so, one of the enduring questions that many have wanted to know is this: Given all the controversy surrounding the Nittany Lions program, should Penn State pass up the opportunity to play in a bowl game? But as prominent college […]
0 comments by Reginald Eller
TCU, perennially, is among the top ranked teams in the country. This year – after losses to Baylor and SMU – it appeared that TCU had taken a step back. Now fast forward to their thrilling win over Boise State, in Boise, and perception has changed. I asked Five Burning Questions of the TCU Play-by-Play […]
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Since news broke just under two weeks ago of accusations made against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse, Crystal Ball Run has repeatedly harped that this will continue to be an ever-evolving story. That story took on a new evolution Monday night, when for the Sandusky spoke publicly for the first […]
Now that Joe Paterno’s legendary career is over, let’s look at JoePa by the numbers: Years Win % Conf. Win % 10-Win Seasons Losing Seasons National Champs. Bowl Games 46 74.64% 64.19% 21 6 2 38 Let’s look at these numbers in a little more detail by decade: Years Win % Conf. Win % 10-Win […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 11/14/2011
Cover the sport of college football long enough, and one constant always seems to be coaches worrying about distractions. They worry about the media being a distraction. They worry about girlfriends becoming a distraction. They worry about fellow students becoming one too. But a video game? We’d never heard that one before… at least until […]
0 comments by Reginald Eller
Last week I took a look at the Doak Walker Award Semifinalists and where they stood, in my eyes. Following the weekend of games, a few things have changed including a major injury to one semifinalist. Here are the basics on the award, including who I believe the favorites are: THE AWARD: On Thursday, December […]
0 comments by Reginald Eller
Welcome back and if you are back for this column you already know the warning. You will not find any good, not even really bad. What you will find is a weekly expose into the UGLY of College Football. Week 11 had plenty. Tulane: It seems like Houston puts a team on THE UGLY […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Well here we are, the entire season has built up to these playoffs. For seniors every game could be their last one. For coaches this is their shot to make a statement about their team and their ability. For lower seeded teams this is a chance to show the selection committee that they made a […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
We will once again go through the motions of making the selections as if the season ended today, using the BCS Rankings as a tiebreaker to determine conference champions. Up to this point, we have simply been going with the top ranked team in each conference as the champion. But we’re now far enough along in […]
The pool of Heisman Trophy candidates at this point in the season is full of familiar names: Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, Oregon running back LaMichael James, Alabama running back Trent Richardson. However, if you’re looking for the one player who means the most to his team, what about Kansas St. QB Collin Klein? Klein continued […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
Stanford had so much to play for Saturday night. A win would have given the Cardinal a reasonable path to the BCS Championship, and a defining victory for Andrew Luck’s Heisman campaign. But what we got was an inspired performance from Oregon, and that may be what the Ducks needed to convince some that they […]
