In the latest conference realignment turn, Missouri has now put itself on the market. How will this affect the major players still in flux? Here’s a look: Missouri Mizzou’s administration still has the option to re-commit to the Big 12, but no one seems to think that’s realistic. Could the Tigers use their newfound singlehood […]
Connor Shaw Named Starter At South Carolina; Stephen Garcia Benched
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 10/4/2011
For anyone who is a regular reader here at Crystal Ball Run, you know that of everything that happened last weekend, the one thing I couldn’t help but take away was the sad state of Stephen Garcia’s playing career. It was a mix of disappointment, surprise, anger and resentment, with my feelings fluctuating from “I […]
Rick Neuheisel And The Warren G. Harding Effect
“…when Franchione bolted in 2000 to coach Alabama, TCU barely considered Patterson. He and his second wife were separated, and he hardly projected the smooth leader-of-men look so beloved of chancellors and players’ moms.” The above passage is from S.L. Price’s recent Sports Illustrated article on Gary Patterson. If you have ever read Malcolm Gladwell’s […]
The Drive: A Look At Nebraska’s 1st Half
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Previously on “The Drive” we’ve discussed individual moments in team’s failures including my own North Carolina Tar Heels’ last five plays in their fruitless effort to tie the game at Georgia Tech and the Mississippi State Bulldogs coming up just short of taking Auburn to overtime. This week though, we’re expanding “The Drive” from just […]
Ohio State AD Gene Smith Accepts Responsibility, Then Blames Players
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 10/3/2011
Let’s start with the bare essentials of the story out of Columbus Monday afternoon. Ohio State Athletics Director Gene Smith addressed the media to discuss and explain the latest developments in the NCAA investigation taking place in Columbus. The suspended players that we all know now were originally slated to return this weekend when Ohio […]
Podcast: In Which We Talk Entirely Too Much About Stephen Garcia
Crystal Ball Run Managing Editors Allen Kenney and Aaron Torres take a look back at the action from the fifth week of the 2011 college football season and preview some of the big games coming up on Saturday. Aaron and Allen discuss: Alabama’s impressive win over Florida. Wisconsin’s rude welcoming of Nebraska to the Big […]
Penn State Has An 84-Year-Old Problem
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Penn State’s Joe Paterno only looks to be sleeping through this season. Photo: Kevin McGuire Stop me if you have heard this before. Joe Paterno is hurting the Penn State program more than he is helping it at this point. For those of you who may not be familiar with my background or line of […]
The Week 5 Small School Recap
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What a wild weekend it was in the Football Championship Subdivision. This weekend saw nine ranked teams lose, with only three of those losses coming against fellow ranked foes. Three teams in the Top 10 fell, and seven in the Top 20, which should make for quite the shakeup come this week’s rankings. Last year’s […]
Star Georgia Linebacker Arrested And Suspended. Has It Shifted The SEC East Race?
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Following up Saturday’s win over Mississippi State, it seemed like the Georgia Bulldogs had turned a corner. The win was their third victory in a row, the Dawgs were 2-1 in conference, and with injuries and instability with divisional favorites Florida and South Carolina, it seemed like for all intents and purposes, the door had […]
Clemson 23, Virginia Tech 3: Breaking From the ACC Script
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For three weeks I’ve been talking about how this is the week we learn the Clemson is a pretender. Now, three weeks later, I’m here to say Clemson is for real. The eighth-ranked Tigers (5-0) faced their first big road test of the season at Virginia Tech Saturday and passed with flying colors. In fact, […]
Alabama 38, Florida 10: Bama Beefcakes Put Gators In Sleeper
The formula of super-sized defense and a physical running game is a common one in the history of college football powerhouses. In that sense, we’ll look back one day at the career of Alabama’s Little Napoleon, Nick Saban, as the current era’s most successful practitioner of the grind-it-out game. Watching Saban’s teams at LSU and […]
The Sorry State Of Stephen Garcia
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Since I started blogging right around this time two years ago, I’ve made more jokes at the expense of Stephen Garcia than just about anyone. As a general rule I don’t like making fun of college kids, but in the case of Garcia, it was just too easy. Garcia had the hair. And the beard. […]
