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‘Tis The Season: Two High-Profile Quarterbacks Elect To Transfer

‘Tis the season! No, not that season. Instead, ‘tis the season of high-profile college football transfers. With the regular season now officially complete, many players are looking to get out of dodge and get to a new location by the start of spring ball, and because of it transfers are coming fast and furious. Included, […]

Five Tips On Traveling To A Bowl Game

So your favorite team made a bowl game- because well just about every team that should be playing at the FBS level makes a bowl game these days- and you want to go. Good, because you should go and enjoy yourself. Since I’ve been to quite a few bowl games, and will be going to […]

2011 Ballsies: Best Non-Bowl-Eligible Team Not On Probation Or Self-Imposing Penalties

(Editor’s note: All week, Crystal Ball Run will be handing out its inaugural Ballsy Awards, recognizing the “best” – in a number of senses – from the 2011 college football season.) With the latest round of postseason invites handed out, college football players across the country are gearing up to spend their holiday break in […]

2011-12 College Football Bowl Schedule, Match-Ups and TV Listings

Here we go. 35 bowl games, 70 college football teams, and of course all the Tostitos. This season the BCS national championship will be played in New Orleans in the Superdome. This season the Superdome will host three bowl games, starting with the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, continuing with the Allstate Sugar Bowl and […]

Orange Bowl 2012: Previewing Clemson vs. West Virginia

West Virginia may have backed into the Big East’s BCS Bowl berth, but Clemson wasn’t supposed to be the opponent. Instead, the 15th-ranked Tigers (10-3) defeated Virginia Tech for the second time this season. But this time it was in the ACC Championship and Dabo Swinney’s team earned the spot in the Orange Bowl on […]

Meeting Of The Minds: Who’s Number Two?

We’re closing in on finding out who will be playing LSU in the BCS title game. The CBR staff weighs in on who should be No. 2. Aaron Torres: They say that Helen of Troy was the ‘Face that Launched A Thousand Ships,’ and well, I can’t help but think that Oklahoma-Oklahoma State is the […]

Wisconsin 42, Michigan State 39: Thank You Gus Johnson

Who says Big Ten football is boring? Damn, that was one hell of an offensive performance in Indianapolis in a rematch of Michigan State and Wisconsin. To top it off, we got to listen to Gus Johnson call the game. Seriously, he makes every play sound like life or death. While many of the other […]

Clemson 38, Virginia Tech 10: The Drought Ends for Clemson

January 1st, 1982: A date etched into the brains, hearts and souls of all Clemson fans, everywhere. No matter your age, you know the date. If you were around, you remember where you were. If you were not, you have heard the stories. That was the date, THE date, Clemson defeated Nebraska to win its […]

Cincinnati 35, Connecticut 27: Bearcats Win Share of Big East

We know 7-5 Louisville won’t represent the Big East in a BCS bowl, but Cincinnati’s 35-27 victory over UConn did give us a three-way tie for the conference championship. Now West Virginia (9-3, 5-2) and Cincinnati (9-3, 5-2) will have to see which one is ranked higher in Sunday’s BCS Rankings. The Mountaineers are the […]

Southern Mississippi 49, Houston 28: Bye BCS (And Coach Sumlin?)

If the CBS-Houston report that Houston head coach Kevin Sumlin will be named as the new Texas A&M head coach in the next 24 hours, his team’s performance Saturday probably wouldn’t be quite the exit that he had envisioned. The Cougars fell 49-28 to the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles in the Conference USA championship game. […]

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