0 comments by Jonathan Biles on 6/15/2013
Who knows what evil lurks in this perturbed man's heart? (Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) The Texas A&M athletic director has stepped over the line and poked the elephant that lurks in the Aggies' Southern midst, Alabama. In an earlier, simpler time, a gaffe or inflammatory remark – even a Gordon Gee-level "zinger" – might […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 6/14/2013
FSU got back to it's ACC Thorn in 2012, can it stay there in 2013? (Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports/Bob Donnan) It all comes down to this folks…. The moment you've been patiently waiting all week for – time for us to pick how we see this season play out in the ACC. We've talked […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
If all goes to plan this week, our Google Hangout will be touching on the ACC to continue our preview week theme. We will also touch on some of the other stories this week to catch our eye.
Tajh Boyd heads up CBR's 2013 Preseason All-ACC Team. (Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) "ACC" generally conjures up associations with the hardwood, not the gridiron. Yet, while the conference as a whole may not have as many skins on the wall as the other AQ leagues, the ACC does have big-time talents roaming the field […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
This Oklahoma t-shirt is probably not work-appropriate either. Every work place environment has a certain dress code. If you work in an office you may be expected to wear a buttoned-shirt and tie with khakis or good work pants. Or maybe you work in retail and have a shirt handed to you so you and […]
CLICK HERE to download. A contentious offseason appears to have settled down in ACC country as the conference prepares for its first season with 14 teams. ACC blogger
0 comments by Dave Singleton on 6/13/2013
Like many of the leagues that the staff here at Crystal Ball Run has been previewing the last few weeks, the Atlantic Coast Conference has seen a shuffling of its membership that is actually not supposed to end until next year. After this season, Maryland shuffles off to the Big Ten. Notre Dame is […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
It's ACC week here at Crystal Ball Run and that should mean a lot of happy talk of all the awesomeness this league has to offer and a lot of what if's and what will's – but then there's this: some idiot/idiots decided it would be wise to vandalize the famed Howard's Rock at Clemson […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 6/12/2013
It's that time of year again when we find out the team ratings for the newest release in the EA Sports NCAA Football franchise. NCAA 14 is due out July 9 but the team ratings were revealed yesterday at E3 (/ht Tradition Sports). Let's start at the top with this foolishness. Alabama has 99s across […]
0 comments by The Comeback
As the calendar turns to October and the weather begins to feel more like fall, the college football season is getting real interesting. It’s now when the conference slates take on a whole new meaning. Let’s dive into the heart of the season and get to as many games as possible as we continue our […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
See, there was a reason for the question mark at the end of our headline earlier this week when talking about one of the nation's top 2013 linebackers, Matthew Thomas, and his rumored move to USC. That's because earlier today Thomas released a statement stating his intention to stay a member of the Seminoles football […]
With Tuesday’s release of the latest round of the NCAA’s annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) rankings, college football fans engaged in their yearly right of getting all hot and bothered for a day about how players are educated. As you would expect, the APR is a ham-handed way of measuring athletes’ academic performance. The story […]
