CBR Uni Madness – South Region Round 1

Earlier this week, we announced CBR’s Uni Madness, our 32 team tournament to determine who has the best look in college football.  Yesterday, #1 Penn State, #3 Florida, #4 Auburn, and #7 Louisville were winners, with Louisville upsetting Ohio State in our first huge shock of the tournament.  Today voting moves to first round matchups in the […]

The sound of settling in the Big 12

Wanna know how to piss off hipsters? Make a Death Cab for Cutie allusion in a college football article. Wanna know how to really piss off hipsters? Act like they care about Death Cab for Cutie. And by now, I’m sure you’re really pissed off that I haven’t cut to the chase about what Death […]

CBR Uni Madness – East Region Round 1

Earlier this week, we announced CBR’s Uni Madness, our 32 team tournament to determine who has the best look in college football.  Yesterday’s winners were #1 Michigan, #2 Notre Dame, #3 Florida State, and #5 BYU in the Midwest region.  Today voting moves to first round matchups in the East region.  Polls will stay open […]

Spring Practice Primer: North Carolina Tar Heels

2011 was a year of oddities for the Heels as they said goodbye to Butch Davis just eight days before training camp then struggled both on and off the field under interim head coach Everett Withers. This spring the Heels get a fresh start under new head coach Larry Fedora and the high energy man […]

North Carolina receives sanctions, avoids hammer from the NCAA

It’s been almost two years since the bottom fell out of the North Carolina football program, when allegations of improprieties first hit the airwaves in the fall of 2010. It took nearly 18 months and a whole lot of worrying, but the NCAA did release their findings on Monday afternoon. And frankly, things could’ve been […]

CBR Uni Madness – Midwest Region Round 1

Earlier today, we revealed the entire field for CBR’s Uni Madness, our 32 team tournament to determine who has the best look in college football.  Today we begin voting with first round matchups in the Midwest region.  Polls will stay open until the following day when a new round will take place.  This week sees […]

Spring practice primer: Missouri Tigers

Camp Opens: March 6 Spring Game: April 14 On Sunday, November 6, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive officially welcomed the Missouri Tigers to the SEC. It was a monumental, program-changing day for the University, but it did not come without generating animosity and hurt feelings from around the rest of the Big 12. However, with exit […]

Crystal Ball Run’s Uni Madness Bracket!

With March Madness officially beginning this week and nearly every sports blog doing some sort of bracket-style tournament, the CBR staff just had to get in on the action.  Sure, we could have done a tournament to crown an on-field champion, but what would be the fun in that?  Pssshh… save that for the FCS, […]

Case of the Mondays: Big Dance edition

Ten points to ponder as you ignore for the duration of this article that this is a college football blog… 1. From November to February, the sport of college basketball may be in shambles, but there’s still no beating March Madness. In the next couple weeks, you’re going to hear crotchety dudes like myself throw […]

Spring practice primer: Pittsburgh Panthers

Camp Opens: March 15Spring Game: April 14 Another year, another head coach. Unlike their Pennsylvania rivals from State College, Pittsburgh has become all too familiar with finding a new head coach in the off-season over the last few years. This time though, hopefully, they got it right with former Wisconsin assistant Paul Chryst. On the […]

Spring Practice Primer: Alabama Crimson Tide

Camp Opens: March 9Spring Game: April 14 Fresh off its second BCS National Championship in three seasons, Alabama will use the spring to try to refocus the players on the ultimate goal – back-to-back titles. Alabama lost some key components off of last year’s 12-1 team that went on to take down LSU in the […]

Temple joins the Big East, but does Philadelphia care?

The Temple Owls will be rejoining the conference that once turned a cold shoulder to their hapless football program, but oh how the times have changed. The Big East and Temple are getting back together under a new set of circumstances. Now the hope is that this news will somehow generate some buzz for the […]

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