Northwestern 21, Minnesota 13: Jerry Kill suffers seizure following defeat

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There are moments during a season when the result of a football game take a back seat to more important issues. In the case of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, who dropped their second straight game Saturday, concerns for head coach Jerry Kill took precedent over any worries about on-field performance. Kill, 51, was taken to […]

Oklahoma 63, Texas 21: Sooners dominate Red River Shootout

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OUch. Oklahoma lowered the boom and Belldozed Texas in one of the more lopsided editions of the Red River Shootout. The Sooners' 63-21 victory was an emphatic mandate on toughness and pride in what is – or had been – one of college football's most attractive rivalry games. Blake Bell, alias the Belldozer, scored four […]

Disappointments, the lot of ya

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The hype was legitimate in 2011: Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin were both worthy of the Heisman. Alabama and LSU were both worthy of the national championship game. By season’s end nobody wanted a piece of Southern California, while the Fiesta Bowl, pitting Luck’s Stanford versus Brandon Weeden’s Oklahoma State, might have been the BCS […]

Dirty Dozen: The Crystal Ball Run Week 7 Staff Picks

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Here are the Crystal Ball Run, Week 5 staff picks! No. 5 Kansas State at No. 25 Iowa State: Saturday 12:00pm FX Andy Coppens’ Take: It's been a few years since Farmeggedon has mattered, in fact it's been over half a decade since this game decided the Big 12 North representative believe it or not. […]

For Entertainment Purposes Only: Week 7

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Back to sea level after going 3-2 last week. Feels like kissing your sister. West Virginia at Texas Tech (+4.5) Wow, does this line look bizarre? Tech apparently got exposed by Oklahoma last week, while West Virginia is averaging something like 97 points per game. Au contraire! Oklahoma's woodshedding of the Red Raiders last week […]

Podcast: Prediction time with Paul Myerberg

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Paul Myerberg, the former brain trust behind the excellent blog Pre Snap Read now with USA Today, joins CBR managing editor Allen Kenney for a podcast to look ahead to the second half of the 2012 college football season and share a few predictions. Paul and Allen touch on: *What’s in store for West Virginia. […]

Meeting of the Minds: Gene Chizik

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In 2010 Gene Chizik's Tigers captured Auburn's first national championship in something like 62 years. (Had Auburn ever won a national championship before? I don't even know.) A mere two years later, the heat on Chizik's seat is starting to rise in inverse proportion to his team's winning percentage – the Tigers' record fell to […]

College football world mourns loss of Beano Cook

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"You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century.  But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?" – Beano Cook, 1992 The college football world lost a true legend when it comes to the history and passion of the game. Few loved […]

Upset Alert, Week 7 – Two teams to watch

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The upset alert is back with a quick take on a couple of teams to keep an eye on this weekend. Who are they? Let's find out! http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBgQ2fw5toM?rel=0   Kevin McGuire is the national college football writer for Examiner.com and host of the No 2-Minute Warning podcast. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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