The moment we all feared finally arrived yesterday, as commissioner Mike Slive essentially made Texas A&M’s entrance into the SEC fait accompli. Everyone has been banking on A&M heading east, so the news itself doesn’t change too much in the realignment drama. However, we have acquired some new information since the last time we tried […]
The Drive: How Mississippi State Came Up Short
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Last week, we talked about the keys to the Mississippi State-Auburn game. Sunday, we dropped some “instant analysis” on the game, as the Tigers walked away with a W and Mississippi State’s SEC West woes continued. Today, we’ll take a look at that final drive and how the Bulldogs turned success into failure or, more […]
Meeting of the Minds: Did Bobby Bowden make the right call?
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Today’s Meeting of the Minds takes a look at the recent news that Bobby Bowden hid his cancer treatment from the Florida State program. Was it a respectful decision or was it something that should have been handled differently. Here is what the staff at Crystal Ball Run had to say. Read our thoughts and […]
Bobby Bowden Wants You To Get Your Prostate Checked
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With Florida State taking on Oklahoma this weekend in one of the most anticipated match-ups of the season we should have known that it would be a matter of time before our old friend Bobby Bowden made an appearance on television this week. What we did not quite expect to see was the iconic coach […]
Texas A&M Is Officially An SEC Member
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 9/12/2011
The worst kept secret in college sports became official on Monday evening. After months of backroom deals, secret meetings and legal maneuvering, Texas A&M was finally, officially announced as the Southeastern Conference’s 13th member, effective for the 2012-2013 conference season. Congratulations Aggies fans, you got what you wished! And college football’s off the field news […]
Garrett Gilbert Benched As Texas’ Starter. Is His Career As A Longhorn Over?
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The move that Texas fans have been waiting to see for months has officially happened. No, it has nothing to do with the Pac-12 vs. Independent, but instead with former five-star superstar Garrett Gilbert being moved permanently to the Texas bench. That’s right, as after a disappointing sophomore season, and slow start to the 2011 […]
College Football Betting: Evaluating The Week 3 Lines
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Point spreads. To some, “point spreads” is a dirty little term that elicits all kinds of negative thoughts. Thoughts of smoky casinos and overcrowded sports books, not to mention down on their luck losers, handing over the last dime of their daughter’s college fund, all because daddy couldn’t lay off Ron Zook and the points […]
Podcast: Unluck of the Irish
Allen Kenney and Michael Felder team up to cover all the big games from the second weekend of the 2011 college football season, including a wild finish to Notre Dame-Michigan, Georgia-South Carolina and Mississippi State-Auburn. Michael and Allen also look ahead to some of the biggest games of the upcoming weekend, including Oklahoma-Florida State.
Meeting of the Minds: Who’s Living off Reputation?
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In today’s Meeting of the Minds (MOTM), the Crystal Ball posse gathers to look at programs who have a proud tradition, but haven’t lived up to it in recent years. So what they’re doing is living off their reputation and not their production. Let’s see who that may be. Tom Perry: There was a time […]
Instant Analysis: Mississippi State-Auburn
0 comments by Michael Felder on 9/11/2011
In a game that ended with Chris Relf laying just a few inches short of the endzone, the Mississippi State Bulldogs’ demons of the SEC West became real again. It has been two full seasons since the gang from Starkville has beaten an SEC West team from outside of the Mississippi border and they will […]
Instant Analysis: Texas-BYU
For Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns, the beginning of Saturday’s night game against the BYU Cougars probably gave them flashbacks to the nightmare that was their entire 2010 season. They woke up in the second half to find out that they weren’t sitting naked in a classroom taking a Russian literature exam that they […]
Instant Analysis: Notre Dame-Michigan
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Remember last year when Denard Robinson topped everyone’s Heisman Trophy list through the first four or five games? The game that really caught everyone’s attention was Michigan’s 28-24 win at Notre Dame. Robinson threw for 244 yards and a touchdown, while adding another 258 yards and two scores on the ground. Shoelace is back! Robinson’s […]
