As the coaching carousel continues to spin – sometimes wildly – day after day, we are left, for now, with 10 FBS openings for head coaches. If you are behind or just need to catch up, you might be there by the time you are finished reading. Chances are greater, though, that by the time […]

UCLA reportedly has hired an ex-NFL head coach to lead its football program. Big whoop. Has a program with so many apparent built-in advantages ever come off more radioactive than UCLA has during this latest coaching search? (OK, besides UCLA’s last coaching searches?) The Bruins went through public flirtations with Chris Petersen, Al Golden, Kevin […]

It’s hard to believe, but we are now down to just eight teams left in the hunt for college football’s FCS National Championship. Here’s everything you need to know heading into this weekend’s games, which thankfully, will all be on one of ESPN’s family of networks. Let’s get to the previews!   Sam Houston State […]

I sat for a few minutes yesterday and pinched myself. I just wanted to confirm that the University of Memphis did indeed make a positive move related to its football program. Memphis began playing college football in 1912 under the pseudonym West Tennessee State Normal School. Its first game versus Memphis University School perfectly foreshadowed a […]

You oftentimes hear positions in college football described as “tough jobs.” Whether the meaning of that phrase is interpreted as “tough places to succeed”  or “tough places to win championships at,” the word “tough” is usually confused with a larger notion of a job which is loaded with abundant “pressure.” Pressure-filled jobs like Alabama, Michigan […]

If you’re still bitching about the rematch in the BCS National Championship…well it’s time to move on and accept it. We’re getting No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama on Jan. 9 in New Orleans. Does that mean another defensive battle? Or did the two coaches learn something from the first meeting in Tuscaloosa that […]

Our season long journey of the Bloguin Heisman Poll has come down to one last vote. For 13 weeks we have debated and voted on who will win the prestigious trophy. Andrew Luck has been #1 on the overall ballot for 8 of the 13 weeks, RG3 has been #1 for 3 of the 13 […]

College football’s finest were honored Thursday night in Orlando during The Home Depot College Football Awards Show on ESPNU. There were some obvious choices and perhaps a surprise or two. Here is a run down of all the winners from the annual awards show. Maxwell Award – Andrew Luck, StanfordCollege Player of the Year Luck […]

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 100 times: The college football coaching carousel is the equivalent of a daytime soap opera for men in their 20’s and 30’s. Come the last weekend of November, names, faces and jobs changes faster than those in Derek Jeter’s blackberry when he’s looking for a booty call. […]

If you’re a regular reader of Crystal Ball Run, you know that in the past, we’ve had our fun with the Ole Miss football program. Well, really, I take that back. More so, we’ve had our fun with the bumbling, stumbling fool that masqueraded as their ex-head coach, Houston Nut. Really, to say that Houston […]

As we head into this weekend, we know the question that everyone is asking themselves. We know that everybody wants to know if it can happen again. Is it even possible for something that rare to happen that many times in a row? We are only one round of football and 48 hours away from […]

This college football season will be remembered for the rematch in the national title game and the dismay towards the BCS, but it was really so much more. On the first Friday night of the season Robert Griffin III captured the awe and imagination of every college football fan as he led the Baylor Bears […]