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Ranking the Big East coaching jobs

All of us at Crystal Ball Run are doing our best to make the offseason as bearable as possible, which is never easy, for college football fans. So .we’ve taken on the task of ranking coaching jobs within the major conferences. Here is what we think about the: SEC Big 12 And now it’s time […]

Bobby Petrino in hospital after an early morning motorcyle accident

Here’s something scary you don’t hear every day: Apparently Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino was hospitalized early Monday morning, after getting into a motorcycle accident. No, this isn’t a bad April Fools Joke, but instead, a very scary reality. Details are limited, but Arkansas360.com has confirmed that it was in fact Petrino who was […]

LSU gets a commitment from Karl Malone Jr. Yes, the son of that guy

It’s become a spring rite of passage: Take the best high school players, let them travel around to various college campuses, hit up a few junior days, spring games, and maybe a camp or two, and the college commitments start flowing like curse words out Will Muschamp’s mouth. As much as we enjoy the drama […]

The SEC’s spread offense experiment

As the Southeastern Conference has turned the college football world into its personal playground in the course of the last six years, fans, analysts and the like have come to accept that while SEC-style football may lack the pyrotechnics of offensive-minded conferences such as the Big 12, it is brutally effective. The league lives – […]

CBR Uni Madness – The Final: Nebraska vs LSU

We’ve reached the final stage of our month long Uni Madness tournament!  In the Final Four, there were still two more upsets remaining in a tourney that has been filled with them since the beginning.  Ohio State, USC, Alabama, and Texas all went out at early stages and our last two #1 seeds both fell […]

Ranking the Big 12 coaching jobs: It’s Bevo’s World

Yesterday, my colleague Aaron Torres took a stab at ranking the coaching jobs in the SEC, a conference where glistening football facilities and NFL-caliber recruits flow like wine. Or maybe bourbon. Try putting together a similar list for the Big 12. Whereas differentiating between SEC gigs is an exercise in “wow,” the Big 12 is […]

Spring Practice Primer: Ohio State Buckeyes

Camp Opens: March 28Spring Game: April 21 Despite going just 6-7 last year, it’s still all rainbows and butterflies in Columbus, as the great Urban Meyer gets set to open his first spring camp as head coach at Ohio State. After a year away from the sport, the 47-year-old Meyer is back, and brings with […]

Turns out Rick Neuheisel has his own “Tractor Story”

The great part of being a blogger/writer/reporter is that you simply never know what kind of fun information you’re going to come across on a daily basis. How one innocuous sentence, in one meaningless article, will take you to a place that you never imagined going. It’s a sick and twisted world we live in, […]

Report: Danny O’Brien to follow in Russell Wilson’s footsteps

Danny O’Brien spent Monday afternoon in State College, Pennsylvania to take in Penn State‘s first spring football practice. Photos of him in a Penn State sweatshirt and windbreaker caused a frenzy among the Nittany faithful. Now, it appears, all of that commotion was for nothing. Danny O’Brien is “poised” to join the Wisconsin Badgers, according […]

Ranking the SEC Coaching Jobs

Since football season ended, here at Crystal Ball Run we’ve done our darndest to keep you entertained with fun, interesting and engaging debates on college football’s biggest issues. We’ve looked at the biggest off-season questions in each conference, as well as what games to watch out for this coming fall, coaching hirings and firings, and […]

Spring Practice Primer: Virginia Tech Hokies

Camp Opens: March 28Spring Game: April 21 At this point, just about the only thing to expect from the Virginia Tech Hokies football program is, well, the expected. It doesn’t matter who they’ve lost on offense or defense, what the schedule looks like, or what other programs are rising or falling in the ACC, the […]

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