ESPN’s new documentary Roll Tide/War Eagle captures the insanity, er, passion of the Iron Bowl, one of college football’s greatest rivalries. Good flick and all, but that game has been around forever. Bor-ing. Let’s talk about the next generation of college football’s mean girls. How about these candidates to become some of college football’s new […]
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The “Game of the Year of the Century” came and went with mixed reviews but one thing was for sure, fans watched. The game gave CBS it’s best rating for college football since 1989 as LSU topped the Crimson Tide by a score of 9 to 6. Heisman Candidate Trent Richardson accounted for more than […]
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Joe Paterno’s weekly press conference with the media was cancelled a little more than half an hour before it was to begin by Penn State president Graham Spanier. Over 100 media members from the local beat reporters who always participate in the weekly conferences to national media flying in to cover the Penn State scandal linked to […]
With the recent announcement that Houston Nutt will be resigning from Ole Miss at the end of the season, we thought it would be useful to update an earlier piece we wrote on Nutt and expand our list of recommended coaches to be the next head coach at Ole Miss. The only thing worse than […]
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(Editor’s Note: This article was written on Sunday, before the Regional Rankings were announced on Monday night. Keep that in mind as you look read this piece.) As we head into the final weekend of the Division II regular season, everything is on the line as teams begin to scramble for the final few playoff […]
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By now you’ve probably all heard the news that sent shockwaves through Mississippi this morning. As first reported by about 200 other media outlets… and then confirmed by Crystal Ball Run, Houston Nutt resigned today as the head football coach of the Ole Miss Rebels. The announcement came at a 3:00 p.m. press conference in […]
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Update: The 3:00 p.m. press conference has begun, and it’s official: Houston Nutt is out as head coach at Ole Miss. In addition, Athletics Director Pete Boone has also announced his resignation, no later than December 31, 2012. Boone explained his decision saying that when he hired Nutt in the winter of 2007, it would […]
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Penn State is at the center of the college, and entire, sporting world right now and unfortunately for the Nittany Lion faithful it is not because they are preparing for a big game against Nebraska this weekend. As much as it may be an afterthought right now in light of recent headlines out of State […]
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We will once again go through the motions of making the selections as if the season ended today, using the BCS rankings as a tiebreaker to determine conference champions. The highest-ranked team in each conference will be selected as the conference champion. Step 1: BCS Championship Game The first thing that happens is that […]
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Week in and week out, you find “the good” in college football anywhere: the great performances, the Heisman breakouts and everything in between. Every week, I bring you not the good, and not even the bad; I bring you the ugly. On to the ugly of Week 10. Kansas State-Oklahoma State: No Defense Required When […]
(Editor’s note: Here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of our LSU-Alabama recap. For the final installment, we look at the impact of the loss on Alabama’s ranking.) How far should Alabama fall in the polls? Allen Kenney: I wouldn’t drop Alabama too far. The Tide have beaten some good teams […]
(Editor’s note: Check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of CBR’s LSU-Alabama recap series. In Part 4, the CBR staff discusses who the game’s most valuable player was.) Who was your MVP? Aaron Torres: I’d probably say Jordan Jefferson. That’s no disrespect to Drew Alleman, no disrespect to Brad Wing, and certainly no […]
