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Stadium Tour: Everything You Need To Know About Sun Life Stadium

Joshua Guiher is a college football fan whose goal is to visit all 120 FBS football stadiums. He will be writing a weekly column for Crystal Ball Run, highlighting a different stadium he has visited each week. Josh’s first piece on Michie Stadium can be read here, and over the course of the last two […]

Jimbo Fisher Looking To Make Statement For ACC

Here we are in the third week of the season and the much anticipated match-up between Oklahoma and Florida State is already upon us. After getting drilled last year in Norman by a score of 47-14, the Seminoles are hoping that a second year under Jimbo Fisher coupled with the game being in Tallahassee will […]

Breaking Down Tonight’s Key LSU-Mississippi State Showdown

It’s only the third week of the college football season, but with that, it’s hard to imagine that we’ll see a better Thursday night game than the one we have on tap for this evening. That’s right, at 8:00 p.m. EST, a pair of ranked teams hit the field, when No. 3 LSU travels to […]

Miami Assistants Accused Of Delivering Recruits To Nevin Shapiro

When Yahoo Sports crippling, tell-all report on Nevin Shapiro and the Miami football program first came out a few weeks ago, the whole narrative was so action-packed and so overwhelming that it was hard to put it all into a proper context. There was so much information, so many potential major violations, that it was […]

Five Burning Questions: Marshall Thundering Herd

With all of the crazy finishes and great games last week, one victory went unnoticed by many. When Marshall upset Southern Miss 26-20 in Huntington, the Herd took a big step toward winning the East Division of Conference USA. There’s still a long ways to go for Marshall, but the program seems to be going […]

Podcast: Talking Sooners and ‘Noles

In a bit of a role reversal perhaps, staff writer Kevin McGuire takes on the role of host to ask managing editor Allen Kenney about this weekend’s big game between Oklahoma and Florida State. We’re also joined by Adam Tolliver from the new website, Unconquered Noles, for a Florida State perspective.         […]

Bloguin Heisman Poll Week 2

Week two of the College Football Season is over and it was highlighted by a couple of great games in South Carolina/Georgia and Michigan/Notre Dame. Last week we debuted the 2011 version of the Bloguin Heisman Poll at College Football Zealots. This week we have made the move over to Crystal Ball Run for the […]

Revisiting Realignment As The Big XII Implodes

The moment we all feared finally arrived yesterday, as commissioner Mike Slive essentially made Texas A&M’s entrance into the SEC fait accompli. Everyone has been banking on A&M heading east, so the news itself doesn’t change too much in the realignment drama. However, we have acquired some new information since the last time we tried […]

The Drive: How Mississippi State Came Up Short

Last week, we talked about the keys to the Mississippi State-Auburn game. Sunday, we dropped some “instant analysis” on the game, as the Tigers walked away with a W and Mississippi State’s SEC West woes continued. Today, we’ll take a look at that final drive and how the Bulldogs turned success into failure or, more […]

Meeting of the Minds: Did Bobby Bowden make the right call?

Today’s Meeting of the Minds takes a look at the recent news that Bobby Bowden hid his cancer treatment from the Florida State program. Was it a respectful decision or was it something that should have been handled differently. Here is what the staff at Crystal Ball Run had to say. Read our thoughts and […]

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