If you harbored any hopes that revered Wisconsin football coach Barry Alvarez would pull a Bill Snyder and return to the Badgers’ sidelines, you can forget it. Plenty of college football diehards were likely pulling for the architect of UW’s rise to prominence to get the coaching itch again after his stint filling in for […]

NationalChamps.net has released its annual “Early Bird” December forecast of the upcoming year’s preseason top 25. Near the top, the list includes many of the usual suspects such as Alabama, LSU, Oregon. (Note that the objective of the Early Bird forecast is to give an idea of how the pollsters will vote in the preseason, […]

Central Florida Golden Knights vs. Ball State Cardinals Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Tropicana Field (St. Petersburg, Fla.) Line: UCF -7 Chances are that you haven’t seen either of these teams play this season. Who could blame you? A couple weeks from now, though, you’ll be dying for something like UCF-Ball St. to pop up […]

Hey, remember the last time Cal went to the Rose Bowl? Ya me neither and that was part of the issue for Jeff Tedford, despite his 82 wins in 11 seasons. The Golden Bears program has never been this amazingly awesome program, at least in the modern era, and despite the fact that Tedford won […]

MAC-tion is about to get a youthful injection as reports have Western Michigan naming Buccaneers assistant and former Northern Illinois wide receiver P.J. Fleck as their head coach. Are you ready to feel either really old or really unaccomplished in your life? If not then look away, avert your eyes, because Fleck is the first […]

With another week until bowl season really gets underway, admittedly, it’s been a bit of a slow start to the college football news week at Crystal Ball Run. Thankfully though, former Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen gave us something to talk about on this quiet Monday afternoon, by proving two age-old theories: 1. Idiocy does […]

  BYU vs. San Diego State Aztecs Dec. 20, 8:00pm (ET), ESPN Qualcomm Stadium (San Diego, CA) Line: BYU -2 1/2 What's old is new again as long time WAC and Mountain West rivals clash in a first ever bowl matchup between these two teams. The Aztecs may have a bit of a home field […]

It was not all that long ago when Matt Ryan and Boston College were ranked second in the BCS standings, thinking about playing in a BCS Championship game. It is amazing to recall that Boston College was a top ten football program just a few seasons ago. That is how far this program has fallen […]

After falling into a 21-0 hole to start the 2012 Gildan New Mexico Bowl, the Arizona Wildcats looked like they would have been just about anywhere other than Albuquerque Saturday morning. It’s not clear if the defense ever showed up. Somehow, though, Arizona still managed to come away with a 49-48 win over Nevada in […]

  The Western Athletic Conference recently crowned what appears to be its last champion in football, as Utah State won the conference title this season. Soon, college football fans may be saying goodbye to another football conference, and this time, it is basketball that is driving the decision. The Big East was actually founded in […]

Bobby Petrino's exit from the college football world earlier this calendar year was never expected to be a permanent one. It was only a matter of time before Petrino returned to coaching college football. It was just a matter of time before Petrino found a program needing a head coach, whether to create a spark […]