It’s easy to predict an SEC team will play for the BCS Championship Game in 2013. If you stick in the SEC West and go with Alabama, LSU, Arkansas or even Auburn, you won’t get many arguments. Other easy picks are Oklahoma or West Virginia out of the Big 12, and Louisville out of the […]

Was Michigan playing at 100% when they played Appalachian State in 2007? Here is a story to keep an eye on, just in case it is true. One former Michigan football player allegedly admitted that about half of the team was stoned in 2007 for the season opener against Appalachian State. The unknown player was quoted […]

Arkansas has some pretty big games on their schedule this season, including Alabama and LSU at home. With such high profile games will come plenty of media attention, so you can imagine why Athletics Director Jeff Long wants to make sure he does whatever it takes to ensure the Arkansas community is portrayed in a […]

The Associated Press preseason top 25 was released over the weekend, placing the USC Trojans in the pole position for the national championship race, just ahead of defending BCS champion Alabama and runner-up LSU. This year's poll reignites a conversation that seems to take place every August, which is just how much emphasis should we […]

Last week, Crystal Ball Run debuted a new segment called “The Monday Morning Look Ahead.” The concept of The Look Ahead is simple, and so too is the execution: While every other college football website spends Monday mornings reflecting back on the previous weekend, we’re already looking ahead and tipping you off on the biggest […]

Some pundits are touting South Carolina's 2012 squad as possibly the best team in school history. That remains to be seen, but there's no doubt that the SEC East is wide open, and the Gamecocks have as good of a shot as anyone at winning the division. We asked our friends with South Carolina-centric site […]

Since Crystal Ball Run first wrote about Notre Dame’s new “Shamrock Series” uniforms earlier this week (set to debut in October against Miami), most fans have seemed… … Hmm, how do we say this nicely?… … Well, they seem a bit, umm, “underwhelmed” by the Irish’s new jersey choice. Ok, so “underwhelmed” might not be […]

It’s the day college football fans have been waiting for. No, we’re not the first kickoff of the season, but instead the release of the first AP Poll of the 2012 campaign! Gentlemen, let the asinine and ill-informed arguments begin! That’s right, a few weeks after the “coaches” released their poll, the Associated Press released […]

  On Thursday, a story popped up that seemed so crazy, so far-fetched, so entirely out of left field that most fans thought it couldn’t possibly be true. The story? It was about an Alabama fan named Zack Smartt, who spent $1,700… to get this tattoo inked on his back. Yes, that really happened. And […]

Tough luck, Jeff. We’ve reached the back half of August, which means college football teams have less than two weeks to get their shit together. For a handful of high-profile programs, that means answering questions about the quarterback position. Namely, picking one to ride out with, slackers. Here’s a quick update on the state of […]