0 comments by Tom Perry on 9/20/2011
It’s all about survival. If the remnants of the Big East and Big XII are going to survive, it appears likely the two BCS Conferences will need to merge—and then hope it can retain a spot at the BIG BOY table. The new look Big East/Big 12 might have enough juice to retain some privileges. […]
This week’s edition of Meeting of the Minds asks the CBR brain trust what the objective of the BCS should be. Allen Kenney: Every week when writers/coaches/bloggers submit their ballots for the various top 25 polls, we see the same trend play out. Generally, it appears that what a team has actually done on the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/19/2011
Lost in the shuffle of the Mark Richt hot-seat chatter of the last few weeks, is that there is another coach down in SEC country whose seat is just as smoldering as the maligned Georgia coach’s. That would be the man he’s facing this weekend, the Reverend Houston Nutt at Ole Miss. And understand this: […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
So, is everyone sick of realignment talk yet? Well no need to worry, as there are some good old-fashioned NCAA violations just popped up for us to discuss instead! All joking aside, the University of South Carolina was sent a pretty lengthy Notice of Allegations today, and quite frankly, things aren’t looking very good. The […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Last Monday, Crystal Ball Run premiered a new column, where we evaluated the point spreads of the major Week 3 college football games. Understand that it wasn’t a gambling column, so much as a way to look at these games and break them down from a different angle than we otherwise might have. Well, with […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/18/2011
Ever since Texas A&M announced back in early August that they were contemplating a move to the SEC, the college athletics world has been holding their breath, and waiting for the seismic shift that would blow up things as we knew it. Many thought it would happen when Mike Slive made his move to get […]
Millions shelled out 60 bucks Saturday night to watch Floyd Mayweather remind them what a joke boxing has become. If it was carnage they were looking for, they could have saved some cash and just watched the Florida State Seminoles and Oklahoma Sooners slug it out for 60 minutes in college football’s version of a […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
West Virginia may be 3-0 and fresh off its first road victory of the season, but the Mountaineers have yet to put together a complete game. That was never more evident than in Saturday’s 37-31 victory over Maryland at Byrd Stadium. If this trend continues, No. 18 WVU will not make it to 4-0 as […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder
That’s an actual headline from the New York Times on August 12, 1906. It was that year that college football underwent significant rule changes. The game was shortened to 60 minutes instead of 70. Teams now had to gain ten yards in three downs to maintain possession instead of five. Six men were mandated to […]
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Well, I guess it was bound to happen at some point. After 17 straight wins, most of them in a come from behind, never say die, wild fashion, the Auburn Tigers actually lost a football game on Saturday. The surprise? It wasn’t to a tough SEC foe, not at Tiger Stadium or the Swamp, in […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/17/2011
With back-to-back, down-to-the-wire, nail-biting finishes the last two Friday nights, last night was in comparison, umm, a little tame. Ok, who am I kidding, it was downright lame. Other than Kellen Moore doing Kellen Moore things against an underrated Toledo defense, Boise’s victory coupled with Iowa State’s narrow win over UConn wasn’t exactly the brand […]
0 comments by Matt Yoder on 9/16/2011
Every week, Derek J. Rocco of ThePensBlog.com stops by to give his college football gambling picks. So let’s recap the picks last week before moving on to the Week 3 bets: Wins: Michigan Alabama Auburn Loss: Minnesota Last Week: 3-1Season Record: 6-4 What we learned: In my first column, I said that rule #7 was to […]
