0 comments by Michael Felder on 9/7/2011
Notre Dame has high expectations in year two of Brian Kelly and the Irish have a roster talented enough to achieve the goals that have been set internally and placed upon them from the outside. However, the boys in South Bend opened the year with a head scratching loss to Skip Holtz’s Bulls and no […]
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No matter where your allegiances lie, there truly wasn’t a whole lot to take out of Monday night’s Miami-Maryland matchup. The weather was lousy, Miami was without many of their starters, and given the hideousness of Maryland’s uniforms, it was hard to focus on anything actually related to football. Of the few things that seemed […]
(Editor’s note: To say the heat is on Georgia Bulldogs coach Mark Richt in the wake of a season-opening loss to the Boise State Broncos would be an understatement. We asked the guys from Coaches By The Numbers to assess Richt’s coaching chops for us to see if the criticism is warranted.) Before the final […]
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Texas A&M will be the SEC’s 13th member, just as soon as Baylor agrees to it. Or so it seems. The big announcement confirming that the SEC presidents had voted unanimously* to accept Texas A&M’s application for membership to their conference was made on Wednesday, as suspected, but with a caveat. The Big 12 rescinded […]
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Brian Kelly wasn’t stark raving mad about Notre Dame’s terrible home performance against South Florida, no, he was just reacting to a preview of Maryland’s new “pride” uniforms. When the Terrapins took the field on Monday night, their new look became the talk of the sports world and fashion conossieurs everywhere. Were they the worst […]
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Update: As we projected, it appears as though Baylor will in fact throw their bodies in front of A&M to the SEC, and refuse to waive their right to sue. From the
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/6/2011
This was supposed to be the year. The year that the echoes were awakened. The year that Notre Dame made the jump back into our national college football consciousness. And the year the Irish began a string of BCS bowl appearances that made USC’s run in the mid-2000’s look like child’s play. The talent was […]
The latest news coming out of the Lone Star State on the realignment front, courtesy of University of Texas media henchman ace realignment scribe Chip Brown, has the state legislature supposedly pressuring UT to slow down the latest round of conference shuffling and the Longhorns mulling a chance to move to, wait for it, the […]
In this week’s edition of MOTM, the CBR crew assembles their collective wisdom to diagnose the maladies afflicting the UCLA Bruins. Allen Kenney: UCLA is located smack dab in the middle of the second-largest city in the United States and, arguably, the country’s most fertile recruiting base. It has a fairly strong academic reputation and […]
The opening weekend of the 2011 college football season had all the twists and turn we’ve come to expect from the best sports on the planet. In the first ever episode of The Crystal Ball Run Podcast, Allen Kenney and Aaron Torres discuss all the action on the field. Aaron and Allen break down: Les […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/4/2011
We are still figuring out exactly how we are going to handle the Sunday recap segment here at Crystal Ball Run. But as we bat around ideas for next week and beyond, here are 10 of my personal takeaways from Week 1 of the college football season: 1. LSU: Let’s start with the most obvious […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/3/2011
Forget that boring Wisconsin-UNLV game. Ignore Syracuse’s petty overtime win over Wake. And for the love of God, let’s all try and pretend Kentucky-Western Kentucky never happened. Nope folks, college football- the real college football that we know and love, the one with the cheerleaders, and Lee Corso riding motorcyles, and wild upsets- got underway […]
