0 comments by Tom Perry on 11/6/2011
About a year after a public flirtation with the Big Ten, Missouri will officially join the SEC on July 1, 2012, the conference office announced Sunday. The announcement came as no surprise, as Missouri and the SEC have been in discussions for weeks. The release said the SEC member presidents and chancellors had voted unanimously […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
Maybe West Virginia should reconsider that lawsuit against the Big East after all. Dana Holgorsen’s team could really use another year or two in the minor leagues before getting called up to the Big 12. Saturday afternoon’s 38-35 upset loss at home to Louisville almost assuredly ends WVU’s hopes of a Big East championship this […]
0 comments by Reginald Eller
First half done, and for me this has been the defensive clinic of the century. At the half – LSU and Alabama are tied at three. While many complain about the offense, or lack thereof, this – my friends – is how football should be played. Two great teams. Two great coaching staffs. Trading shot after shot, a chess match. […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 11/5/2011
One of the oldest sayings about the sport of football is that the beauty lies in “the game, within the game.” As it pertains to Oklahoma’s 41-25 win against Texas A&M Saturday, the phrase needs to be tweaked just a bit. In this case, the real nuance is the “story, within the story.” The story […]
I took a week off because I wanted to pretend I was a Wisconsin fan. This is as generic as it gets, but gambling on college football is so similar to dating a girl. I’ll use Wisconsin as my quick example…well actually I’m not going to. I am not that generic. But think about it. […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
Apparently, West Virginia was a bit presumptuous. The Big East and its embattled commissioner John Marinatto aren’t in a negotiating mood. Instead, they are in a litigious mood. On Friday, the conference decided to pursue its own legal action against WVU. The Big East filed a suit in the Superior Court for the State of […]
0 comments by Michael Felder on 11/4/2011
The Showdown of the Century. Armageddon in Alabama. A De Facto National Championship Game. The Game of the Year. A Heavyweight Fight. Yes, folks, we’re here on the eve of the game we’ve all been not so patiently waiting for: Louisiana State University traveling to take on the University of Alabama. The Bayou Bengals versus […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Nick Saban and Les Miles. Both are regarded as premiere football coaches. Saban the former LSU head coach, versus the current, Miles. Jim Hawthorne- who has now been the “Voice of the Tigers” for 30 years- knows full well (and better than most) what type of coaches Saban and Miles are. He took the time […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Hey, guess what? As crazy as this sounds (and I promise, it’s going to sound crazy) there are other football games being played this weekend besides LSU-Alabama. I told you… CRAZY!! And in our regular Friday feature here at Crystal Ball Run, our staff breaks them all down. From coast-to-coast, conference-to-conference, here is our staff, […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
For those of you who are regular readers of Crystal Ball Run, you know that every Friday afternoon, our staff makes their picks on the biggest games of the week, in a segment we like to call “The Dirty Dozen.” But with this weekend’s mega-showdown between LSU and Alabama, we decided to break the preview […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
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0 comments by Kevin McGuire
The Crystal Ball Run upset alert is back after a bye week in week nine and we have three games to keep in mind this weekend. Ready? Here we go! http://youtube.com/watch?v= b_jEZ58_ehM[/youtube]
