0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/22/2011
One of the more bizarre side processes of all this conference realignment is that you just never know what will pop up on any given day. One week ago it seemed as though Pittsburgh and Syracuse were happy, healthy members of the Big East. Now they’re packing their bags for the ACC. In the Midwest, […]
So, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it would appear that Dan Beebe’s reign as head of the Big 12 will come to an end Thursday. Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com is reporting that Beebe will receive his walking papers Thursday. College football consultant extraordinaire Chuck Neinas will be brought in as Beebster’s replacement on […]
0 comments by Michael Felder on 9/21/2011
Given the weekends antics I was unable to get to The Drive that I wanted to but one thing that has stuck with me as we got into the week, amidst all the conference expansion drama, has been a couple of truly boneheaded special teams plays I saw on Saturday. Before we get into them […]
Allen Kenney and Aaron Torres look back at all the big games from the third weekend of the 2011 college football season, including Oklahoma’s big win over Florida State, Ohio State’s dreadful performance against Miami and Florida re-emerges. Aaron and Allen also look ahead to some of the biggest games of the upcoming weekend, including […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
I had every intention of sitting down and penning a thoughtful, detailed perspective on Jim Delany fiddling while college football burns. While the ACC, SEC, and Pac 12 were all appearing to make moves to expand to 16 teams and reach SuperConference status… the Big Ten was sitting on the sidelines. Think about the madness […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Penn State’s Joe Paterno once envisioned a super conference in the east and urged other programs to get on board with this idea. It turned out that schools such as Pittsburgh, Temple, Syracuse, West Virginia and Boston College liked his idea and rolled with it without Paterno to form the Big East. Many Penn State […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Week three of the College Football Season is in the books and the week was highlighted by a great game between Oklahoma and FSU. Last week was week two of our Bloguin Heisman Poll as it made its debut here on Crystal Ball Run. The season is moving quickly and we realize it’s a little […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/20/2011
It appears as though finally, mercifully, the massive college football realignment chatter that has plagued the airwaves for months is finally starting to piece itself together. No more conjecture, opinion and off the record comments. Just teams switching up conferences the way Derek Jeter does girlfriends. We are seemingly on our way to some sort […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
With the LSU Tigers facing another big weekend test against West Virginia this Saturday, we decided to welcome Kris Brauner of the excellent LSU website SaturdayNightSlant.com for another round of Five Burning Questions. This week Kris discusses the change in opinion on Les Miles, college football’s deepest defense, and when LSU fans can start thinking […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
It’s all about survival. If the remnants of the Big East and Big XII are going to survive, it appears likely the two BCS Conferences will need to merge—and then hope it can retain a spot at the BIG BOY table. The new look Big East/Big 12 might have enough juice to retain some privileges. […]
This week’s edition of Meeting of the Minds asks the CBR brain trust what the objective of the BCS should be. Allen Kenney: Every week when writers/coaches/bloggers submit their ballots for the various top 25 polls, we see the same trend play out. Generally, it appears that what a team has actually done on the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/19/2011
Lost in the shuffle of the Mark Richt hot-seat chatter of the last few weeks, is that there is another coach down in SEC country whose seat is just as smoldering as the maligned Georgia coach’s. That would be the man he’s facing this weekend, the Reverend Houston Nutt at Ole Miss. And understand this: […]
