0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 10/16/2012
On Monday the state of New Jersey it could begin offering licenses for sports betting on January 9 with the assumption a federal lawsuit filed by various professional sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) and the NCAA does not stand in the way. Perhaps trying to pressure the state to cave on the concept of […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 10/15/2012
Notre Dame is off to their best start in South Bend since 2002 when Tyrone Willingham was the head coach. The Fighting Irish are now set up nicely to make a little BCS run if things continue to go their way but all of this success had us wondering just whatever happened to Willingham? Soon […]
Here are some of the key stories that we'll be monitoring this week at CBR headquarters. What did "The Media" do to draw Nick Saban’s scorn this week? First, the hacks weren’t giving Alabama’s opponents the credit that they deserve. Last week, Slick Nick took all those parasites to task for their poor “predictability.” I […]
If you’ve grown weary of hearing about the dominance of the Southeastern Conference, you might want to tune out for the next few weeks of BCS conversation. The SEC placed four teams in the top seven of the first edition of the rankings, which were released Sunday night. That included the top two in Alabama […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/14/2012
So what did we learn in Week 7 as we get set to look at this week's BCS Bowl projections? Well West Virginia’s lack of defense finally caught up with them, LSU gave South Carolina a lesson about coming into Death Valley at night cocky and who saw the current leader of the Big XII […]
Touchdown, Jesus? At long last, the Luck of the Irish favored the Fighting Irish. On a rain-soaked afternoon in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame’s vaunted defense stood pat on fourth-and-goal, denying Stanford’s Stepfan Taylor an overtime touchdown, keeping the Irish perfect amid a cloud of controversy. All told, the Irish overcame three turnovers and a […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
With LSU’s 23-21 victory over South Carolina Saturday, we were once again taught college football’s most important lesson: The college football regular season is the best playoff we have in all of sports. A week after many- including this website– tabbed the Gamecocks as a National Championship contender, they are now just the latest team […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 10/13/2012
There are moments during a season when the result of a football game take a back seat to more important issues. In the case of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, who dropped their second straight game Saturday, concerns for head coach Jerry Kill took precedent over any worries about on-field performance. Kill, 51, was taken to […]
OUch. Oklahoma lowered the boom and Belldozed Texas in one of the more lopsided editions of the Red River Shootout. The Sooners' 63-21 victory was an emphatic mandate on toughness and pride in what is – or had been – one of college football's most attractive rivalry games. Blake Bell, alias the Belldozer, scored four […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Ames, Iowa has become the Bermuda Triangle of logic and reason thanks to Paul Rhodes. Then-No. 2 Oklahoma State had their national championship dreams shattered in Jack Trice Stadium last year. Texas and Texas Tech saw their rankings take a hit at the hands of the Cyclones in the past. Bill Snyder was well aware […]
The hype was legitimate in 2011: Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin were both worthy of the Heisman. Alabama and LSU were both worthy of the national championship game. By season’s end nobody wanted a piece of Southern California, while the Fiesta Bowl, pitting Luck’s Stanford versus Brandon Weeden’s Oklahoma State, might have been the BCS […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Here are the Crystal Ball Run, Week 5 staff picks! No. 5 Kansas State at No. 25 Iowa State: Saturday 12:00pm FX Andy Coppens’ Take: It's been a few years since Farmeggedon has mattered, in fact it's been over half a decade since this game decided the Big 12 North representative believe it or not. […]
