0 comments by Tom Perry on 5/21/2012
About this time every year I start to contemplate what my perfect fall would look like. It involves an endless supply of cash, one of those John Madden-type buses and two or three of my closest friends. What will ensue? Well, I hope the greatest four months ever. See, we’re going to be on the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Welcome to this week’s “Case of the Mondays” where we at Crystal Ball Run take a look at the good, bad and the ugly in the college football world and beyond. This week, we start with… 1. The dumbest storyline that isn’t really a storyline to hit college football in years: When it was announced […]
Florida St. has apparently hit the eject button on the Atlantic Coast Conference, a move that would almost certainly scatter the league’s top football programs. According to a report from Ingram Smith citing two unnamed, highly connected FSU sources, the Seminoles’ withdrawal frm the ACC and application to the Big 12 is “inevitable.” The ‘Noles […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 5/18/2012
The Big Ten and Pac 12 have long been on a stance that preserving the Rose Bowl is of the utmost importance. The SEC and Big 12 decided to create their own. Sort of. The two conferences announced today that they have agreed to send their respective conference champions to a bowl game to face […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
So, tell us where you’ve heard this before: USC just landed the commitment of a top-flight, stud running back in the class of 2013. If you answered, “Hey stupid, you already told us that Tuesday,” well, you’d be partially correct. That’s because after getting a verbal commitment from Ty Isaac, the top running back in […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
(Editor’s Note:
Diehards know his blog Smart Football as an invaluable resource on football strategy. Now you can find all of Chris Brown’s greatest hits and more in his new book The Essential Smart Football. (It’s currently the best-selling football book on Amazon.com.) In advance of the book’s release next week, Chris talked with CBR about what […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 5/17/2012
Stop us if you have heard this before, but Nate Montana has transferred to a new football program, his seventh different program dating back to his high school playing days. We know that being the son of a legend in the same sport is certainly no easy task. They can’t all be Ken Griffey Jr. […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
I don’t think we’re breaking any news here at Crystal Ball Run by saying that the sport of college football appears to be on a collision course with a four-team playoff in 2014. Sure, there are plenty of details to figure out between now and then; how we pick the four teams; where the games […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Incredibly, we are down to just 107 days until the kickoff of the college football season, when Tennessee will play NC State on Friday, August 31 in the 2012 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Classic. But if you think it’s too early to look ahead through this August, straight past 2013 into 2014, well my friends, you’re sadly […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 5/16/2012
With finals done nationwide, and a few weeks between the end of the spring and the start of summer school, it’s a relatively quiet time for college football news. But on the recruiting trail, things continue to remain white hot, as the top rising seniors are making their college decisions in a fast and furious […]
Florida St. is pondering a possible move from the ACC to the Big 12. FSU beat reporter Coley Harvey chats with CBR’s Allen Kenney in a podcast about where things stand with the Seminoles. Allen and Coley cover: Who’s in charge in Tallahassee? How serious are the talks between FSU and the Big 12? What’s […]
