Timing is right if ACC wants to go to Europe

(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 […]

Study suggests recruits with NFL dreams are doing it wrong

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 […]

Google+ Hangout, talking college football playoff, NFL Draft and more

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 […]

Justifying my love of the NFL Draft

I struggle to explain my fascination with the NFL Draft, but I never miss it. My dad and I used to pick the first round and compare when it was over. More often than not, I did better. When I was in college, my roommates were not big football fans, but they knew the TV […]

Meeting of the Minds: Who should be on the playoff selection committee?

Beano Cook would've been a shoe-in for the selection committee – RIP. OK, so we know what the new college football playoff is going to be called. (Do we have to capitalize that from now on?) We know what its logo might look like. We know where it will be held. We know who's going […]

Controversy already for new College Football Playoff?

Yesterday the less than inspired news of the new college football playoff name… you know, "College Football Playoff" was announced and then it was followed by a website launch and the introduction of a fan vote for the logo of the new College Football Playoff. While there wasn't much controversy in playing it safe with […]

Come hang out with us this Friday

We have kicked around the idea for a while now but this Friday we invite you to take part in our first official Google+ hang out. We'll talk about some of this week's top college football stories such as the latest on the College Football Playoff, spring practice and coaches sharing Photoshops and more. If […]

Cowboys Stadium will host first College Football Playoff championship

Perhaps as expected, college football's first championship game under the College Football Playoff will be played in Cowboys Stadium. Brett McMurphy of ESPN.com reports via Twitter the home of the Dallas Cowboys, the Cotton Bowl and a handful of other top college football match-ups and sporting events will provide the stage for the first championship […]

Florida Gators and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

One of the more interesting off-season developments has been the Photoshop fun being had in SEC territory. Florida's Brent Pease added another classic to the collection this spring by including some Gators watching in awe as Harry Potter soars by on his Nimbus broomstick in pursuit of a golden snitch.   Florida Qb's have the […]

Notes on a Spring Game: Notre Dame

Rumblin', bumblin', stumblin'. (Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) Only a few months removed from its crushing loss in the BCS Championship game to Alabama, Notre Dame finds itself in unfamiliar territory: In the national conversation. For the Irish, this is a significant development, and a situation that has only occurred two or three times in […]

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