Pac-12 Preview Week: Five big questions on the 2012 season

It’s Pac-12 Week here at Crystal Ball Run, and now time to look at the five biggest questions the players, coaches and teams in this league will face entering the 2012 season. Let’s start by asking… Which of the new Pac-12 Coaches has the best shot at early success?: Of every major conference in college […]

Pac-12 Preview Week: A look back at seasons past

We are back to dedicating a full week of coverage to a single conference this week. This week we hit the west coast and dive deep in to the Pac-12 conference. To get things started, we take a look at some of the conference history to see if we can find any similar themes heading in to the […]

Case of the Mondays: Top 10 season win total bets

How about we forego the formalities of 10 random thoughts this week? I spent all weekend poring over the college football season win totals released by Cantor Gaming last week. Here are my 10 favorite plays – in order of liking-ness, no less: 1. Arkansas under 8.5 (+140) I thought the Razorbacks were overvalued pre-Bobby […]

Urban Meyer dismisses linebacker Storm Klein

Urban Meyer was criticized for being too lenient at times at Florida. But he’s not messing around in his first season at Ohio State. Meyer dismissed Storm Klein on Saturday, after the senior linebacker was charged with domestic violence and assault. Klein pleaded not guilty Saturday morning, but Meyer decided not wait to see how […]

Meeting of the Minds: Are Package Recruiting Deals Unseemly?

It’s my party & I’ll bring who I want? The name Robert Nkemdiche should be a familiar one to most college football fans, he’s the nations No. 1 recruit according to most people that rank those sorts of things. He’s also either a genius or a complete extortion artist according to most after some comments […]

College football win totals released in Vegas

Vegas has spoken. Cantor Gaming became the first Nevada sportsbook to post college football season win totals Friday. Five teams are set at 10.5: LSU, Alabama, Southern Cal, Oregon and Florida State. UNLV had the lowest, with the Rebels projected with just 2.5 wins. Duke and Ole Miss were set at 3.5, and Kentucky at […]

The Crystal Ball: Week Five

After summoning the spirits last week to find out what will happen in week four of the 2012 season, my colleague David Purdum shipped the crystal ball to me for ths week. He even packed it in dry ice so that when I opened the package to take it out, it looked all mystical and […]

Did top recruit Robert Nkemdiche just pull a fast one on Clemson?

Well, say this about the nation’s No. 1 high school football recruit, Robert Nkemdiche: The boy knows how the recruiting game is played. That’s because on early Friday morning, the Clemson commit shared some very, VERY interesting comments with Atlanta Journal-Constitution recruiting writer Michael Carvell telling him: “I am waiting on Clemson to offer Ryan; […]

Morning Playbook – Gamecocks QB not happy with Under Armour

It is not too often that an athlete will mouth off about the apparrel he is given to wear, but we will get to that later. First, some official business to address… Former Georgia running back Isaiah Crowell has successfully landed at FCS Alabama State. There he will be eligible to play immediately this season, […]

College football playoff: Should Vegas decide who gets in?

Vegas doesn’t know as much as you think it does. Oddsmakers don’t have access to top-secret inside information, and some of them can’t even tell you who Oklahoma State’s quarterback is this season. That goes for so-called wise guys, too. They’re numbers guys, plain and simple. So the notion that the sports betting market is […]

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