0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 11/29/2012
No. 23 Louisville at No. 25 Rutgers Thursday, 7:30pm EST on ESPN Line: Rutgers -3 Well, the BCS could become massively screwed up or we could see the Big East champion actually make it to the Orange Bowl, the choice comes down to what happens tonight between Louisville and Rutgers. If you are in favor […]
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No. 12 Nebraska vs. Wisconsin (Big Ten Championship Game) Saturday, 8:17 PM EST – FOX Line: Nebraska – 2.5 For Nebraska to Win: Shutting down Wisconsin’s run game is vital. While Montee Ball was held to under 100 yards in these teams’ first meeting, he scored three touchdowns. Nebraska’s without arguably their best interior defensive […]
Last week CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyel wrote with his patented abrasiveness that the reputation of college football’s marquee conference, the SEC, is nothing more than a “Ponzi scheme… built upon layers of air” this season. In short, Doyel contended that the league has manipulated the BCS system this year by gorging on cupcakes outside its […]
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Week twelve threw wrench into the Heisman race but week thirteen remained stable among the front runners. Manti Te'o and the Fighting Irish remained undefeated. Johnny Football and the Aggies put Missouri out of their misery. Braxton Miller and Ohio State beat rival Michigan to finish the season undefeated. The only major contender who didn't […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 11/28/2012
Les Miles is known to most as the "Mad Hatter" of college football and once again he earned that moniker as he parlayed talk of him moving to rival Arkansas into another contract extension and more money to stay as the head coach at LSU – a school where he's 85-20 and has won one […]
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On Wednesday, ACC presidents and chancellors voted to add Louisville as their 14th football school, replacing Maryland which left last week for the Big Ten. The news was first reported by ESPN.com. Here is part of the report: Louisville will join the Atlantic Coast Conference, becoming the sixth former Big East school to leave for […]
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They call the college football coaching carousel the “crazy season,” and they call it that with good reason: From the time the first coach is fired, straight up until the last one is hired, college football basically turns into one big high school cafeteria. Rumors all of a sudden become fact, innuendo becomes iron clad, […]
With the coaching carousel spinning furiously, CBR managing editor Allen Kenney reaches out to Scott Roussel of FootballScoop.com for a podcast with the lowdown on all of the latest moves and news on a few names being tossed around for big jobs. Dave Bartoo of CFBMatrix.com also joins Allen to give his stats-based take on […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 11/27/2012
The coaching carousel finally has a permanent hire on board as it's being reported that Mark Stoops will become Kentucky's head coach, replacing the fired Joker Phillips. Stoops is currently the defensive coordinator at Florida State and is still on campus as of this writing. However, according to
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We all know the coaching carousel can stop at just about any point, but if you didn't know that information by now then the dismissal of Ellis Johnson after just one season as the head coach of Southern Miss should tell you all you need to know. This coaching silly season simply got sillier with […]
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Man, rushing the field after beating your arch rivals and becoming bowl eligible just isn't fun anymore. At least if you are in the SEC that is. Ole Miss found that out the hard way as they were fined $5,000 dollars for violating the SEC's sportsmanship policy. Yes, apparently fans aren't allowed to rush the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 11/26/2012
It’s no secret that for years, the ACC simply hasn’t been able to keep up on the field with conferences like the SEC, Big XII and Pac-12. And apparently now, they can’t keep up at the box office either. That became painfully obvious on Monday morning, when CBS Sports’ Eye on College Football pointed out […]
