0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/19/2011
So, is everyone sick of realignment talk yet? Well no need to worry, as there are some good old-fashioned NCAA violations just popped up for us to discuss instead! All joking aside, the University of South Carolina was sent a pretty lengthy Notice of Allegations today, and quite frankly, things aren’t looking very good. The […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Last Monday, Crystal Ball Run premiered a new column, where we evaluated the point spreads of the major Week 3 college football games. Understand that it wasn’t a gambling column, so much as a way to look at these games and break them down from a different angle than we otherwise might have. Well, with […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/18/2011
Ever since Texas A&M announced back in early August that they were contemplating a move to the SEC, the college athletics world has been holding their breath, and waiting for the seismic shift that would blow up things as we knew it. Many thought it would happen when Mike Slive made his move to get […]
Millions shelled out 60 bucks Saturday night to watch Floyd Mayweather remind them what a joke boxing has become. If it was carnage they were looking for, they could have saved some cash and just watched the Florida State Seminoles and Oklahoma Sooners slug it out for 60 minutes in college football’s version of a […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
West Virginia may be 3-0 and fresh off its first road victory of the season, but the Mountaineers have yet to put together a complete game. That was never more evident than in Saturday’s 37-31 victory over Maryland at Byrd Stadium. If this trend continues, No. 18 WVU will not make it to 4-0 as […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
That’s an actual headline from the New York Times on August 12, 1906. It was that year that college football underwent significant rule changes. The game was shortened to 60 minutes instead of 70. Teams now had to gain ten yards in three downs to maintain possession instead of five. Six men were mandated to […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Well, I guess it was bound to happen at some point. After 17 straight wins, most of them in a come from behind, never say die, wild fashion, the Auburn Tigers actually lost a football game on Saturday. The surprise? It wasn’t to a tough SEC foe, not at Tiger Stadium or the Swamp, in […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/17/2011
With back-to-back, down-to-the-wire, nail-biting finishes the last two Friday nights, last night was in comparison, umm, a little tame. Ok, who am I kidding, it was downright lame. Other than Kellen Moore doing Kellen Moore things against an underrated Toledo defense, Boise’s victory coupled with Iowa State’s narrow win over UConn wasn’t exactly the brand […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 9/16/2011
Every week, Derek J. Rocco of ThePensBlog.com stops by to give his college football gambling picks. So let’s recap the picks last week before moving on to the Week 3 bets: Wins: Michigan Alabama Auburn Loss: Minnesota Last Week: 3-1Season Record: 6-4 What we learned: In my first column, I said that rule #7 was to […]
0 comments by Michael Felder
Two weeks in a row we’ve talked defensive line; starting with the LSU big boys against the Oregon blocking scheme followed by Auburn’s glaring need to defeat blocks and make a play. This week we’re off the line and we’re also out of the SEC. The biggest game of the weekend draws this guy’s eyes […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
It’s another Friday, and you know what that means here at Crystal Ball Run: It’s time to make our picks on the 12 biggest games of the weekend! As always, we’ve given each of our staff writers two games to give you a quick preview of, with everyone else chiming in on their winners. And […]
In less than a year circulating the Interwebs, Beyond The Bets has quickly become one of the best sports gambling sites around. The blog delivers handicapping analysis with wit and flair that is rare for the genre. Crystal Ball Run finally convinced Beyond The Bets to answer “Five Burning Questions,” and the results didn’t disappoint. […]
