If you’re a regular reader of Crystal Ball Run, you know that in the past, we’ve had our fun with the Ole Miss football program. Well, really, I take that back. More so, we’ve had our fun with the bumbling, stumbling fool that masqueraded as their ex-head coach, Houston Nut. Really, to say that Houston […]

As we head into this weekend, we know the question that everyone is asking themselves. We know that everybody wants to know if it can happen again. Is it even possible for something that rare to happen that many times in a row? We are only one round of football and 48 hours away from […]

This college football season will be remembered for the rematch in the national title game and the dismay towards the BCS, but it was really so much more. On the first Friday night of the season Robert Griffin III captured the awe and imagination of every college football fan as he led the Baylor Bears […]

We are now guaranteed a new national champion in Division II this year as we head into the semifinals. Our first semifinal offers a battle between two Cinderellas who were never supposed to get this far. The second brings two of the top teams all year long together in what should be an epic showdown. […]

Hello everybody! Hope everyone is enjoying their first week without major college football since August. Take a breath, relax and smile, because we’ve all been through quite a bit in the last 14 weeks. (And please, for the love of God, if you haven’t seen your family since before Labor Day- like our entire staff […]

UNC has named Larry Fedora its next head football coach. In July of this year, we laid out our thoughts on the situation at UNC and named a few names for who we thought might be solid replacements for Butch Davis. Larry Fedora was not on our list. Fedora will take over a UNC program […]

Wisconsin’s Bret Bielema probably enjoyed that great Big Ten Championship game for about 24 hours. The reality probably hit that his big and bullying Badgers would have to face Oregon’s flashy and athletic Oregon in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 2. But that makes for a great matchup, especially if you like scoring. The Rose […]

Stanford and Oklahoma State can play the “what if” game all they want, but both programs will have to settle on playing in the Fiesta Bowl. The winner may actually stake a claim to No. 2 in the nation. But the Cardinal’s loss to Oregon and the Cowboys’ loss to Iowa State cost both teams […]

As hard as it might be to remember now, it wasn’t all that long ago that the relationship between Lane Kiffin and USC seemed to be a bit fractured. It was just four months ago that college football’s most controversial coach was coming off an 8-5 first season in Troy, and after narrow wins over […]