0 comments by Aaron Torres on 11/1/2011
Some are calling it the “Matchup of the Century.” Others, “Saban Bowl V.” And still some, “The Game That May End the World As We Know It.” Whatever your preference, Saturday night, in Tuscaloosa is not only the biggest regular season game in years, but maybe in decades. Rarely has a game featured this much […]
As is the case every year, CBR headquarters saw its fair share of trick-or-treaters from the college football world stop by last night. We picked out a few of our favorites. Nick Saban: An Enema The Nicktator doesn’t really do “fun,” which makes coming up with a Halloween costume a tall order. His friends – […]
It’s Crystal Ball Run’s first year in existence. There’s a one-versus-two match-up in the regular season. That happens about as often as Les Miles strings together a coherent sentence. (Seriously, check out
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/31/2011
With the playoffs just around the corner and all the cupcake games out of the way, now is the time we find out which teams are for real and which teams are just playing around. This past weekend was gut-check time for eight FCS opponents, as they went head to head with not just playoff […]
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Every Monday you can stop by 100 different websites to check in on the top college football performers of the weekend. But only at Crystal Ball Run to we skip over the good (not to mention the bad), and go straight to the ugly. Regie Eller does exactly that, with this edition of “Not Good, […]
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. The highest-ranked team in each conference will be selected as the conference champion. Step 1: BCS Championship Game The first thing that happens is that Nos. […]
Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III could only do so much. Drive after drive, the Baylor Bears (4-3, 1-3 Big 12) could not close, leading to a 59-24 defeat at the hands of the Oklahoma State Cowboys (8-0, 5-0 Big 12). When your quarterback is responsible for 452 total yards and leads your team to 622 […]
Midway through the second quarter Saturday, the Kansas State Wildcats had just taken a 17-14 lead over the Oklahoma Sooners in very Kansas State fashion. A bad interception by Landry Jones had given KSU favorable field position, setting up a drive that eventually led to shifty quarterback Collin Klein powering the ball into the end […]
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South Carolina came into Saturday night’s game against Tennessee with a 6-1 record, a three-game win streak and control of its own destiny in the SEC East. The Gamecocks were taking on a team that had lost three straight games and four out of five. Why did it seem like the ‘Cocks were ripe for […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
I don’t think many people felt Clemson was an elite program this season, but I’d say there were some who felt the Tigers could actually go undefeated. Well, Georgia Tech took care of any lingering doubts last night in a dominating 31-17 victory in Atlanta. Instead of playing like a team that was trying to […]
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It seemed all too familiar for Buckeye fans. A late lead at home under the lights, slipping away to a ranked team Ohio State had outplayed almost the whole way. In 2005, Ohio State was on the fringe of field goal range looking to cash in to push their margin over future national champion Texas […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
It takes a little guts to overcome you archrival and a team you have seen victory against just twice in the last 10 years, three times in the last 21. For Georgia, that is what was at stake, aside from the traditional momentum in its turnaround to fight back into the SEC East race. The […]
