0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 5/2/2013
The worst-kept secret in college sports was officially revealed in Atlanta on Thursday. The SEC Network, a joint venture between the SEC and ESPN, will hit the airwaves in August 2014 and will have a plan to carry approximately 45 SEC games in year one, with three games every Saturday. The SEC Network is the […]
We're roughly four months away from the start of the 2013 college football season, but that hasn't stopped the bookmakers from pandering to degenerates. Offshore book 5dimes has already started rolling out point spreads for the first week of the season. A few observations based on the early numbers: *Alabama is a huge favorite over […]
One of the more controversial issues to arise in college football in the last decade or so has been some programs' use of aggressive roster management. A less polite name for the practice would be oversigning, a strategy that involves signing players in the spring in excess of the 85-scholarship limit and then pushing others […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 4/30/2013
Normally, having your dad named to an assistant coach’s position on your high school football team qualifies as #ThatAwkwardMoment that no teenager wants any part of. Then again, there is nothing normal about Blaise Taylor’s father. No, no, Blaise Taylor’s father is none other than college football’s pre-eminent towel-waver and chest-bumper Trooper Taylor, the former […]
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(Photo Courtesy: UNLV Athletics) It’s no secret that small school FBS football programs are sometimes forced to go to extreme lengths, and to extremely strange places to find recruits. Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State may be able to select a few, hand-picked players to offer scholarships to every winter, but coaches in the Mountain West, […]
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Wisconsin and LSU are reportedly in discussions to schedule each other for the 2015 season in a neutral site game. The Badgers would like to host the game at Green Bay's historic Lambeau Field while LSU wants to play the game in the ripe recruiting grounds of Texas, either at a sort of home away […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 4/29/2013
The votes have been tabulated and the College Football Playoff officially has a new logo… Ok fans, pencils down! And the winner of the @Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
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Have you ever wondered what it is like to play quarterback in college football? We may not ever get a chance to see a true first-person point of view any time too soon in a real game, but Florida Atlantic gave us a new view during their spring game recently. Florida Atlantic placed a Go-Pro […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Get ready for the Summer of Bros. Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel are planning on hanging out this summer, according to a recent conversation on Twitter. That's right, bro. Two of the SEC's top quarterbacks, one a two-time BCS champion and the other last season's Heisman Trophy winner, will be […]
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(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) With the success of Notre Dame’s game in Dublin last season and previous discussions by the Pac-12 to hold games in Asia, college football is a sport that seems set to global. That is of course, if it hasn’t already. And apparently it’s an idea that has been at the […]
As players paraded up to the stage at this week's NFL draft, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell rattled off the same schools that fans have grown accustomed to hearing every year – Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, Notre Dame and the like. These power programs bring in the best talent from the high school ranks ever year, so […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 4/26/2013
Earlier today staff writers Kevin McGuire and Andy Coppens held the first official Google+ hangout for Crystal Ball Run. During the course of an hour they discussed a number of college football related topics from the college football playoff news to the ACC grant of rights announcement and the first round of the NFL Draft […]
