0 comments by Michael Felder on 10/4/2011
Previously on “The Drive” we’ve discussed individual moments in team’s failures including my own North Carolina Tar Heels’ last five plays in their fruitless effort to tie the game at Georgia Tech and the Mississippi State Bulldogs coming up just short of taking Auburn to overtime. This week though, we’re expanding “The Drive” from just […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 10/3/2011
Let’s start with the bare essentials of the story out of Columbus Monday afternoon. Ohio State Athletics Director Gene Smith addressed the media to discuss and explain the latest developments in the NCAA investigation taking place in Columbus. The suspended players that we all know now were originally slated to return this weekend when Ohio […]
Crystal Ball Run Managing Editors Allen Kenney and Aaron Torres take a look back at the action from the fifth week of the 2011 college football season and preview some of the big games coming up on Saturday. Aaron and Allen discuss: Alabama’s impressive win over Florida. Wisconsin’s rude welcoming of Nebraska to the Big […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Penn State’s Joe Paterno only looks to be sleeping through this season. Photo: Kevin McGuire Stop me if you have heard this before. Joe Paterno is hurting the Penn State program more than he is helping it at this point. For those of you who may not be familiar with my background or line of […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
What a wild weekend it was in the Football Championship Subdivision. This weekend saw nine ranked teams lose, with only three of those losses coming against fellow ranked foes. Three teams in the Top 10 fell, and seven in the Top 20, which should make for quite the shakeup come this week’s rankings. Last year’s […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Following up Saturday’s win over Mississippi State, it seemed like the Georgia Bulldogs had turned a corner. The win was their third victory in a row, the Dawgs were 2-1 in conference, and with injuries and instability with divisional favorites Florida and South Carolina, it seemed like for all intents and purposes, the door had […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
For three weeks I’ve been talking about how this is the week we learn the Clemson is a pretender. Now, three weeks later, I’m here to say Clemson is for real. The eighth-ranked Tigers (5-0) faced their first big road test of the season at Virginia Tech Saturday and passed with flying colors. In fact, […]
The formula of super-sized defense and a physical running game is a common one in the history of college football powerhouses. In that sense, we’ll look back one day at the career of Alabama’s Little Napoleon, Nick Saban, as the current era’s most successful practitioner of the grind-it-out game. Watching Saban’s teams at LSU and […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Since I started blogging right around this time two years ago, I’ve made more jokes at the expense of Stephen Garcia than just about anyone. As a general rule I don’t like making fun of college kids, but in the case of Garcia, it was just too easy. Garcia had the hair. And the beard. […]
0 comments by Michael Felder on 9/30/2011
Wisconsin hosts Nebraska in this week’s match up of Top 10 teams. Two opponents meeting for the first time 1974. Old school Big Ten versus the newest addition to the now twelve team league. Bret Bielema matching up against Bo Pelini. The Leaders taking on the Legends. A game that many folks, myself included, believe […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
It’s Friday, so it must be time for the CBR crew to pick the twelve biggest games of the college football weekend in our Dirty Dozen. With conference play in full swing, there are several interesting storylines, and several huge matchups of Top 25 teams. As a reminder for how this works every week, one […]
Last week’s recap: Wins – LSU, Oregon Loss – Florida State Push – Nevada Over of 62 Overall record: 9-8-1 What we learned: Temple is a cover machine. Never thought I would write that sentence in my lifetime. This season the Owls are 3-0 against the spread. (In their first game of the season, they […]
