The Big 12 finally released its long-awaited 2012 schedule on Tuesday. Michael Felder already covered some of the more interesting dates on the league’s schedule, but we went ahead and ranked the top 10 games in the Big 12 in 2012 to help you plan your fall accordingly. 10. (tie) TCU at Kansas – Sept. […]
0 comments by Michael Felder on 2/14/2012
Valentine’s Day is about love, old and new and as the Big East love West Virginia had was finally extinguished, the Mountaineers are now free to cuddle up with their new love; the Big XII. This is a pretty big day in Big Twelve country which has traded College Station, Texas and Columbia, Missouri for […]
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For the past week, Crystal Ball Run has been giving you all the big off-season storylines in the major college football conferences. Included were: the SEC, Big XII, Big Ten, ACC and the Big East. Tomorrow, we’ll wrap up with all the non-AQ schools. But today? It’s time to talk Pac-12. With a slew of […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 2/13/2012
Today it was announced that sixteen FBS universities from Conference USA and the Mountain West Conference would be combining to create the next great Superconference… or whatever their mid-market equivalent may be. The new conference is looking to expand to 18-24 universities, include a football championship game and semifinals, and stretch across the entire United […]
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One of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite shows on TV, came to start Season 3 of How I Met Your Mother. In it, Ted and Robin had just broken up, and after spending a summer apart, Robin returned back to New York, with a new boyfriend in hand, Mr. Enrique Iglesias. When […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
The BCS’ least-respected conference is about to take an even bigger hit with the loss of West Virginia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. However, the Big East is trying to survive as a football conference. Commissioner John Marinatto has added seven new football programs, including Boise State, Houston and UCF. So you can imagine the offseason and […]
Ten things rattling around in my brain. What better way to start your week off right, right? 1. I often read comments from college football coaches and am stunned by just how self-absorbed they really are. And, yes, I do realize that I shouldn’t be anymore. But take James Franklin, for instance, widely considered one […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
It was billed as the Game of the Century, an idiom that seems to surface every time we have a regular season game between the top two teams in the country. Top-ranked LSU traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to face SEC West rival Alabama in the first weekend of November. National title hopes would continue for one […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 2/10/2012
Was there a team more fun to watch in 2011 than Baylor? Scratch that. Was there a player more fun to watch in 2011 than Robert Griffin III? You can debate that later if you so desire, but we here at Crystal Ball Run had a blast watching Griffin and Baylor throughout the 2011 season, […]
0 comments by Michael Felder
Oh, the ACC. The league got their its ever multi-BCS bid season but it would leave the conference unfulfilled in the grand scheme of things. The exuberance of getting both Clemson and Virginia Tech invited to the big boy party was fleeting as both teams went out and lost in painful fashion. Virginia Tech played […]
We here at Crystal Ball Run don’t exactly fancy ourselves college football “experts” so much as “addicts.” We certainly won’t pretend to tell you that we all understand the dark arts of NFL scouting. Instead, we’ve enlisted our buddy Eric Galko of Optimum Scouting to answer “Five Burning Questions” about the silly season leading up […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 2/9/2012
Ho-hum, another year in the Big Ten. What can we possibly write about? Well, for starters there are the tired and often recycled stories about how Ohio State can’t beat SEC teams, Michigan can’t play defense and how Joe Paterno is going for another milestone win. Oh, wait… what’s that? Oh my…. No, the Big […]
