Could another Thursday night road game by USC’s undoing? In a year in which the Pac-12 is thought to have two major powers and a bunch of rebuilding teams, finding true “Danger Games” in the conference isn’t easy. With that in mind, here are five games that look a little more upset-likely than expected. 5. […]
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Award watch list week continues with the release of the Rimington Trophy (best center) and Mackey Award (best tight end) watch lists. We took a stab at predicting who will win the individual honors and Michael Felder took a look at how the role of the tight ends has increased at Bleacher Report. The […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 7/10/2012
Auburn’s Philip Lutzenkirchen is among the favorites for the 2012 Mackey Award. Another day, two more watch lists to review. On the heels of the release of watch lists for two high-profile awards, the Maxwell Award (top college football player) and Bednarik Award (best defensive player), the preseason watch lists for two under the radar […]
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It’s Pac-12 Preview Week and up on the docket of the Crystal Ball Run court today is the case of Rich Rodriguez, the newest head coach of the Arizona Wildcats. This will be his 3rd stop in FBS football as a head coach after a successful stint at West Virginia and a disastrous one at the […]
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Yesterday was the first official watch list day for college football fans. The Maxwell Football Club got it all started with the initial release of the watch lists for the Maxwell Award and Bednarik Award. Can LSU’s Tyrann Mathieu become the first defensive back to win consecutive Bednarik Awards for the first time in the […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 7/9/2012
We’re officially entering the final countdown (cue Europe now) to the start of the college football season as over the next two weeks the National College Football Awards Association will unveil the watch lists for the various awards up for grabs. Today, they kicked things off with the two biggest awards, the Maxwell (outstanding collegiate […]
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It’s Pac-12 Week here at Crystal Ball Run, and now time to look at the five biggest questions the players, coaches and teams in this league will face entering the 2012 season. Let’s start by asking… Which of the new Pac-12 Coaches has the best shot at early success?: Of every major conference in college […]
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We are back to dedicating a full week of coverage to a single conference this week. This week we hit the west coast and dive deep in to the Pac-12 conference. To get things started, we take a look at some of the conference history to see if we can find any similar themes heading in to the […]
How about we forego the formalities of 10 random thoughts this week? I spent all weekend poring over the college football season win totals released by Cantor Gaming last week. Here are my 10 favorite plays – in order of liking-ness, no less: 1. Arkansas under 8.5 (+140) I thought the Razorbacks were overvalued pre-Bobby […]
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Urban Meyer was criticized for being too lenient at times at Florida. But he’s not messing around in his first season at Ohio State. Meyer dismissed Storm Klein on Saturday, after the senior linebacker was charged with domestic violence and assault. Klein pleaded not guilty Saturday morning, but Meyer decided not wait to see how […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 7/7/2012
The bowl open market is officially open and conferences are already cashing in. The SEC and Big 12 got an early jump with their Champions Bowl agreement, and the Big Ten and Pac 12 have extended their deal with the Rose Bowl and the ESPN hype machine. Not to be left too far behind, the […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 7/6/2012
It’s my party & I’ll bring who I want? The name Robert Nkemdiche should be a familiar one to most college football fans, he’s the nations No. 1 recruit according to most people that rank those sorts of things. He’s also either a genius or a complete extortion artist according to most after some comments […]
