0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/5/2012
Yes, it may have taken four weeks longer than we expected. And no, the USC Trojans aren’t “there” yet. But for the first time in 2012, we finally saw glimpses of how good USC can be on Thursday night. In a 38-28 victory over Utah in Salt Lake City, the Trojans were the physical, fast, […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/4/2012
Miami at No. 9 Notre Dame Saturday, 7:30 p.m. NBC (at Soldier Field, Chicago) Line: Notre Dame -12.5 No, Saturday’s matchup between Miami and Notre Dame won’t be one of those great “Catholics vs. Convicts” matchups of the late 1980’s, but to the credit of these two teams, this game looks much better now than […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton
No. 23 Washington at No. 2 Oregon Saturday, 10:30 PM, ESPN Line: Oregon -24.5 Both of these teams currently give up 19.8 points per game. The major difference, and the reason for the over three touchdown line, is that Washington is scoring 23.3 points per game. Oregon is scoring 52.4 points per game. The […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
While TCU’s move to the Big XII has been a smooth transition on the field so far, off the field it’s been a completely different story. In February the university suffered an embarrassing internal drug probe that led to the arrests of 17 students, including six football players. And while he wasn’t one of the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
While Thursday night college football has become a bit of a quirky, fun novelty in the past, this Thursday, there’s nothing fun or quirky about USC’s trip to Utah. For the Trojans, a loss here would all but eliminate them from not only BCS title contention, but possibly Pac-12 championship contender status too. As for […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
So far this season we have already seen some truly fantastic and memorable individual performances, even outside of West Virginia's high-flying victory against Baylor in Morgantown. In honor of some of the great performances we have witnessed so far this season we wanted to take a look at ten of the best individual performances in […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
The ACC will skip any plans to move to a nine-game conference schedule when Pittsburgh and Syracuse join the conference in 2013, and will stick to a schedule of eight conference games per season. This, you can thank Notre Dame for. "The addition of Notre Dame gives us an opportunity to reinforce a number of […]
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0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/3/2012
Admittedly, our "Meeting of the Minds" pieces usually focus on some kind of on the field aspect of the sport of college football: Be it match-ups, coaching mishaps, and even the occasional suspension handed down by Mike Slive. But today, we're going to do something a bit different. For those who don't know, writer Jerrod […]
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No. 7 West Virginia at No. 9 Texas Saturday, 7:00 PM Fox Line: Texas -6.5 The Mountaineers and Longhorns clash in a top ten Big 12 matchup that will help to separate the conference’s elite from the upper-middle class. We know West Virginia can put points up in bunches and Texas is no slouch, but […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
No. 5 Georgia at No. 6 South Carolina Saturday, 7pm ESPN Line: South Carolina -2 Welcome to the SEC East Championship Game… Oh, wait Florida's in the mix? No matter what the Gators are doing the border battle between the "other" USC and Georgia sets up to be one of the biggest games of the […]
The SEC – who else? – takes center stage this weekend with two huge match-ups between undefeated teams. ESPN college football columnist Travis Haney joins CBR managing editor Allen Kenney for a podcast to preview the showdowns: LSU-Florida and Georgia-South Carolina. Travis and Allen hit on: *The Gator's strong start behind quarterback Jeff Driskel. *LSU's […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
Week five of the college football season is over and many will remember it as the week the defense forgot. Geno Smith came into the week as our Heisman front runner from last week and he had huge game against the Baylor Bears. With top contender Collin Klein on a bye last week, would our […]
