Ten things rattling around in my brain. What better way to start your week off right, right? 1. I often read comments from college football coaches and am stunned by just how self-absorbed they really are. And, yes, I do realize that I shouldn’t be anymore. But take James Franklin, for instance, widely considered one […]
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It was billed as the Game of the Century, an idiom that seems to surface every time we have a regular season game between the top two teams in the country. Top-ranked LSU traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to face SEC West rival Alabama in the first weekend of November. National title hopes would continue for one […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 2/10/2012
Was there a team more fun to watch in 2011 than Baylor? Scratch that. Was there a player more fun to watch in 2011 than Robert Griffin III? You can debate that later if you so desire, but we here at Crystal Ball Run had a blast watching Griffin and Baylor throughout the 2011 season, […]
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Oh, the ACC. The league got their its ever multi-BCS bid season but it would leave the conference unfulfilled in the grand scheme of things. The exuberance of getting both Clemson and Virginia Tech invited to the big boy party was fleeting as both teams went out and lost in painful fashion. Virginia Tech played […]
We here at Crystal Ball Run don’t exactly fancy ourselves college football “experts” so much as “addicts.” We certainly won’t pretend to tell you that we all understand the dark arts of NFL scouting. Instead, we’ve enlisted our buddy Eric Galko of Optimum Scouting to answer “Five Burning Questions” about the silly season leading up […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 2/9/2012
Ho-hum, another year in the Big Ten. What can we possibly write about? Well, for starters there are the tired and often recycled stories about how Ohio State can’t beat SEC teams, Michigan can’t play defense and how Joe Paterno is going for another milestone win. Oh, wait… what’s that? Oh my…. No, the Big […]
On Tuesday, we gave you the lowdown on what to watch in the off-season in the SEC. We’re switching gears to the Big 12 today, where Texas is looking to get back on top and West Virginia and TCU are preparing for life in an upper-tier league. 10. To expand or not to expand? We […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 2/8/2012
Safe to say, it’s been an interesting few months for Arizona State head football coach Todd Graham. When we last heard from Graham it was in mid-December, mid-day, when he was midway through weaseling his way out of coaching Pittsburgh, to take the same position in Tempe. As you may also remember, Graham made even […]
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There were a number of good bowl games played in the 2011-12 season. We have already touched on two of them in our look back at ten of the best games from this past college football season. Few games matched the hype the way the Rose Bowl, the Granddaddy of Them All, did when it […]
There’s a saying in economics that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, as the overall economy expands, its participants benefit as well. Businesses invest more, hiring increases, wages go up, people buy more stuff, etc. In the world of college athletics, the tide is starting to rise. More and more money is […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 2/7/2012
Folks, the off-season is upon us, meaning that college football news is just…about…set…to slow down to a trickle. The champion has been crowned, Signing Day has come and gone, and we are still another few weeks away from Spring Ball kicking off. These are dire times to be a college football fan. Thankfully at Crystal […]
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Dennis Dodd over at CBS Sports reported yesterday that not only is the four-year scholarship back on the table for division one schools but NCAA President Mark Emmert is pushing for the support of the venture. The measure was voted down in 2011 as 82 schools contested the push for the four-year scholarship and the […]
