Soccer may be the world’s biggest sport right now, but the American love for OUR “football” is spreading overseas at a rate many Americans aren’t aware of. There isn’t quite a global presence of football yet to the point where NFL teams are scouting outside of the US, but that day may not be too […]

The seemingly annual off-season transgressions at Georgia continued Friday, when leading returning rusher Isaiah Crowell was arrested on weapons charges, including two felonies. Crowell, the nation’s No. 1-rated running back coming out of high school, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possessing a weapon in a school zone and an altered identification number on […]

There is no question that the big story this week has been the new four-team playoff model that will be used to determine college football’s national champion starting in the 2014 season. With revenue splitting a concern to many, we learned some more details yesterday. Most notably, the playoff revenue-split subcommittee features the conference commissioners […]

  What do you want from me? Welcome to the Randy Edsall era, a time when Maryland has just as much of a chance at winning the ACC as Duke. The Terrapins and Blue Devils are each 125-to-1 longshots to win the ACC title and 30-to-1 to win their respective divisions at the popular online […]

Normally the Maize ‘N Blue announcing it’s non-conference schedule isn’t exactly nationally relevant news, however what came out on Wednesday is an ambitious slate of games in 2014-2016 and with Tuesday’s playoff announcement it is a big deal. However, it also served as the announcement that one of college football’s best rivalries – Michigan vs. […]

Now that the college football playoff has been approved, and widely criticized already, the talk has shifted back to the familiar argument of “pay for play.” Associated Press columnist Tim Dahlberg believes pay for play should be a part of the four-team playoff, and he is certainly not alone in this belief. Our contributor Michael Felder […]

It’s ACC Week here at Crystal Ball Run and so far we’ve talked about some history and answered some burning questions facing the conference. But it’s time to step things up a notch or two as we put our jury to the task of figuring out one of the more intriguing teams in the conference, […]