The Crystal Ball: Week Thirteen

             Thanksgiving weekend generally features some of the college football season's marquee games, and this year is no exception. The Crystal Ball has been working overtime lately, but still graciously agreed to pump out five winners for us. LSU at Arkansas (Friday, Nov. 23) The nationwide consensus before the season […]

Holding Court: Is SEC Still King?

It's been a few weeks on vacation for our judge, but we're back to the courtroom of college football here at CBR and our judge is seated with gavel in hand ready to render another case closed on the college football docket. One of the greatest things about college football and it's fans is the […]

Redshirt freshman Marcus Mariota named Oregon starting quarterback

In the hunt for the next great quarterback at Oregon, all signs entering the fall seemed to point toward Bryan Bennett. The third-year sophomore played in nine games last season backing up Darron Thomas, and in his one start, led the Ducks to a 45-2 road win at Colorado. Not too shabby a debut, huh? […]

Samuel L. Jackson makes a surprise appearance at Georgia practice on Thursday

Through the years, it hasn’t been all that uncommon to see celebrities pop up on the sidelines of major college football games and practices. Will Ferrell and Snoop Dogg were regulars at USC during the Pete Carroll era. Matthew McConaughey, his dimples and Lance Armstrong have been known to Hook ‘Em Horns on the Texas […]

Everett Golson named Notre Dame’s starting quarterback

  Brian Kelly will take his chances with the quarterback who can make plays. The Notre Dame coach will name sophomore Everett Golson as his quarterback when the Fighting Irish line up against Navy in Dublin on September 1st. Keith Arnold of NBCSports.com broke the news early Thursday, and Brian Hamilton of the Chicago Tribune […]

Tennessee wide receiver Da’Rick Rogers suspended indefinitely

Since arriving at Tennessee three years ago, Da’Rick Rogers has been equal parts exciting playmaker on the field, and frustrating headache off of it. And on Thursday morning, the “frustrating headache” part arose again, as the school announced that the dynamic wide receiver has been suspended indefinitely from the team. No details were announced as […]

Ex-PSU President Speaks to ABC News, Assails Freeh Report

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Last night on the ABC News program Nightline Former Penn State President Graham Spanier broke his silence about the issues surrounding the Jerry Sandusky Child Sex Abuse scandal that happened while he was President of the University. He revealed that he was a victim of child sex abuse himself and that […]

Podcast: Bold new flavors of the Big East

Long derided as the weak sister of major college football, the Big East is actually generating a little buzz with the hire of new commissioner John Aresco. Who else could fill us in on all the moving and shaking better than Mark Ennis, head of Big East Coast Bias and de facto conference spokesman? Mark […]

What does this generation know about college football?

All across the country new co-eds are putting together futons, sneaking beer… err, soda into their dorm fridges, and getting ready for classes to start or are already underway (depending on the school). That means a whole new generation of student sections, student section traditions, and future football fanatics are being molded at universities and […]

Texas names Ash starter, but that’s not the story

I guess we should credit 247's Texas affiliate Hookem.com with "breaking" the news that David Ash will take the first snap for the Longhorns on Sept. 1 versus Wyoming. Under journalism’s rules of the road, it probably does qualify as a scoop. Yet, no one who has followed UT closely since last December has assumed […]

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