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West Virginia says it’s leaving the Big East for the Big 12 on July 1, but until the Mountaineers’ second-half resurgence Saturday it appeared as though they had already left. One week after WVU’s most lopsided loss in more than a decade to Syracuse, the Mountaineers seemed to lack motivation in the first half against […]
Play-by-play announcer Wyatt Thompson, a native Kansan, serves as the anchor of the Kansas State Sports Network and returns for his eighth season behind the mike as “Voice of the Wildcats.” K-State’s director of sportscasting, Thompson also serves as host of the Bill Snyder and Frank Martin Shows on television and joins Snyder and Martin […]
Following last week’s stunning loss to the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the Oklahoma Sooners’ title hopes appear to be on life support. We caught up with Travis Haney of the Oklahoman for his thoughts on the state of the Sooners heading into Saturday’s showdown with the undefeated Kansas State Wildcats. 1. Coming off of a […]
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As I joked here at Crystal Ball Run yesterday, Friday night’s TCU-BYU affair provided none of the pregame excitement, hoopla or intrigue that it did just two years ago. In 2009 each team entered the game in the Top 20, each would finish with at least 11 wins, and both were piloted by a guy […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/28/2011
Few men have done more, and been a part of a larger number of big moments in Michigan State football history than Jim Miller. A former State quarterback, he spent 11 years in the NFL, and is now back in East Lansing as a color commentator for Spartans football. In this edition of Five Burning […]
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Our staff has submitted their Week 9 picks, and there has never been more disagreement! Which writers like Tennessee over South Carolina to shake-up the SEC East race? Who expects Illinois to lay a smack-down at Penn State? Which brave sole has Lane Kiffin and the USC Trojans pulling an upset for the second week […]
As the game of college football has evolved over the past 15 years, it has clearly become an “adapt or become extinct” type of game. Steve Spurrier’s “fun and gun” of the 1990s at Florida has become “not so fun to watch” in his stint at South Carolina. Ralph Friedgen’s innovative and balanced offensive attack […]
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The shotgun wedding between West Virginia and the Big XII appears to be back on. At least according to one, quick, two paragraph report from one of college football’s top insiders. The news came via Brett McMurphy’s, “McMurphy’s Law,” blog on CBSSports.com this morning, and read: West Virginia has been invited to join the Big […]
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Case Keenum got off to a slow start but once he got in a groove he and the No. 17 Houston Cougars were nearly unstoppable. Keenum set the Football Bowl Subdivision record for career touchdown passes after throwing for a career high nine touchdowns and 534 yards in Houston’s 73-34 win against Rice in Conference USA play […]
Sitting squarely in the nexus of the latest round of realignment is the Big East. It’s both the object of desire for conference raiders from the Big 12 and ACC, as well as an apparent raider in its own right of mid-major leagues. We tapped Mark Ennis of Big East Coast Bias, the blogging bible […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/27/2011
With the University of Miami set to play a crucial ACC game on Thursday night, Crystal Ball Run tracked down
