With the regular season two-thirds complete, we have a good feel as to which teams are for real and which ones are pretenders. In a number of cases, new assistants and coordinators are making their mark behind the scenes, helping propel their teams up the polls and conference standings. It’s time for these guys […]
Big East looking west for survival
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The Big East is expected to extend invitations to as many as six schools over the course of the next week. For real this time. We think. No, seriously, we mean it! On Tuesday the Big East presidents and athletic directors from all members not named West Virginia, Syracuse or Pittsburgh (and TCU for what […]
Bloguin Heisman Poll Week Nine
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If you thought last week was crazy with the finish to Wisconsin and Michigan State, this week was just as wild. Oklahoma State and Brandon Weedon curb stomped the Heisman campaign of RG3, Georgia Tech shocked Clemson, Georgia got the monkey of it’s back in Jacksonville, South Caroina survived it’s first full game without Marcus […]
LSU-Alabama: By The Numbers
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 11/1/2011
Some are calling it the “Matchup of the Century.” Others, “Saban Bowl V.” And still some, “The Game That May End the World As We Know It.” Whatever your preference, Saturday night, in Tuscaloosa is not only the biggest regular season game in years, but maybe in decades. Rarely has a game featured this much […]
College Football’s Best Trick-Or-Treaters
As is the case every year, CBR headquarters saw its fair share of trick-or-treaters from the college football world stop by last night. We picked out a few of our favorites. Nick Saban: An Enema The Nicktator doesn’t really do “fun,” which makes coming up with a Halloween costume a tall order. His friends – […]
LSU-Alabama: Key Storylines
It’s Crystal Ball Run’s first year in existence. There’s a one-versus-two match-up in the regular season. That happens about as often as Les Miles strings together a coherent sentence. (Seriously, check out
Are You A Pretender Or Contender?
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/31/2011
With the playoffs just around the corner and all the cupcake games out of the way, now is the time we find out which teams are for real and which teams are just playing around. This past weekend was gut-check time for eight FCS opponents, as they went head to head with not just playoff […]
Not Good, Not Bad, Just Ugly: The Week 9 Edition
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Every Monday you can stop by 100 different websites to check in on the top college football performers of the weekend. But only at Crystal Ball Run to we skip over the good (not to mention the bad), and go straight to the ugly. Regie Eller does exactly that, with this edition of “Not Good, […]
CBR Official BCS Bowl Projections: Penn State Smelling Roses
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 Nos. […]
Oklahoma State 59, Baylor 24: Cowboys Top Bears’ One-Man Show
Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III could only do so much. Drive after drive, the Baylor Bears (4-3, 1-3 Big 12) could not close, leading to a 59-24 defeat at the hands of the Oklahoma State Cowboys (8-0, 5-0 Big 12). When your quarterback is responsible for 452 total yards and leads your team to 622 […]
Oklahoma 58, Kansas St. 17: Sooners Don’t Believe In Wildcats Magic
Midway through the second quarter Saturday, the Kansas State Wildcats had just taken a 17-14 lead over the Oklahoma Sooners in very Kansas State fashion. A bad interception by Landry Jones had given KSU favorable field position, setting up a drive that eventually led to shifty quarterback Collin Klein powering the ball into the end […]
South Carolina 14, Tennessee 3: Gamecocks Survive Life Without Lattimore
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South Carolina came into Saturday night’s game against Tennessee with a 6-1 record, a three-game win streak and control of its own destiny in the SEC East. The Gamecocks were taking on a team that had lost three straight games and four out of five. Why did it seem like the ‘Cocks were ripe for […]
