Early Analysis: Florida State vs. Miami

No. 14 Florida State at Miami 8:00 p.m. ABC Line: Florida State -20 Rivals Miami and Florida State will pick up their series this weekend in Miami in what could be a potential ACC Championship Game preview. The Hurricanes sit on top of the ACC's Coastal Division at 3-1 in ACC play. Florida State enters […]

Morning Playbook – No debate here, Sun Belt Tuesdays are fun

If you took time to be a good American Tuesday night to watch the Presidential debates, you may have missed a fun game in the Sun Belt Conference. That's right, the Tuesday Night Battle of the Belts debuted last night and it packed a punch when it comes to late game drama. North Texas 30, […]

Early Analysis: BYU vs. Notre Dame

  BYU at No. 5 Notre Dame Saturday, 3:30 PM, NBC Line: Notre Dame -14 The Notre Dame machine looks to continue its march towards a January BCS bowl game and a (given the right circumstances) a shot at the BCS title against a BYU squad that is looking to advance to five wins on […]

Early Analysis: LSU vs. Texas A&M

No. 6 LSU at No. 18 Texas A&M Saturday, 12:00 p.m. ESPN Line: LSU -4 There might not be a better matchup of great offense vs. great defense this entire college football season than what we’ll get Saturday, when the LSU Tigers travel to College Station to take on the Texas A&M Aggies. The Tigers […]

LSU football: Did Honey Badger, other players commit NCAA violations?

Despite a big win Saturday against South Carolina, many still perceive LSU’s 2012 football season as a bit of a disappointment so far. The Tigers entered the year as a National Championship favorite, but with one loss already under their belts, it’s safe to assume that the Tigers have to win out to play themselves […]

Early Analysis: Alabama vs. Tennessee

No. 1 Alabama vs. Tennessee Saturday, 7pm ESPN Line: Alabama -20 1/2 Throw the records out, it's Alabama vs. Tennessee. These schools plain don't like each other and come Saturday night in Neyland Stadium things are bound to be as intense as they've ever been. On paper this game should be a no brainer victory […]

Morning Playbook – NCAA pulls championships from New Jersey

On Monday the state of New Jersey it could begin offering licenses for sports betting on January 9 with the assumption a federal lawsuit filed by various professional sports leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) and the NCAA does not stand in the way. Perhaps trying to pressure the state to cave on the concept of […]

Tyrone Willingham still in the coaching game, sort of

Notre Dame is off to their best start in South Bend since 2002 when Tyrone Willingham was the head coach. The Fighting Irish are now set up nicely to make a little BCS run if things continue to go their way but all of this success had us wondering just whatever happened to Willingham? Soon […]

The Monday Morning Look Ahead: Nick Saban has a message for the fourth estate

Here are some of the key stories that we'll be monitoring this week at CBR headquarters. What did "The Media" do to draw Nick Saban’s scorn this week? First, the hacks weren’t giving Alabama’s opponents the credit that they deserve. Last week, Slick Nick took all those parasites to task for their poor “predictability.” I […]

SEC owns first edition of BCS standings

If you’ve grown weary of hearing about the dominance of the Southeastern Conference, you might want to tune out for the next few weeks of BCS conversation. The SEC placed four teams in the top seven of the first edition of the rankings, which were released Sunday night. That included the top two in Alabama […]

BCS Bowl Predictions: Week 7 Edition

So what did we learn in Week 7 as we get set to look at this week's BCS Bowl projections? Well West Virginia’s lack of defense finally caught up with them, LSU gave South Carolina a lesson about coming into Death Valley at night cocky and who saw the current leader of the Big XII […]

Notre Dame 20, Stanford 13: Tommy Rees to the rescue

Touchdown, Jesus? At long last, the Luck of the Irish favored the Fighting Irish. On a rain-soaked afternoon in South Bend, Ind., Notre Dame’s vaunted defense stood pat on fourth-and-goal, denying Stanford’s Stepfan Taylor an overtime touchdown, keeping the Irish perfect amid a cloud of controversy. All told, the Irish overcame three turnovers and a […]

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