No. 15 Washington at No. 5 Stanford Saturday, 10:30 PM, ESPN Line: Stanford -7 A team’s fortunes can turn very quickly in college football. You just need that inciting incident that forces a change to occur. For Stanford football, it was a loss to a fairly mediocre Washington football team at CenturyLink Stadium in […]

What goes better with college football than a nice cold beer? Not much if you ask me and it appears that a couple of breweries local to Athens, Georgia and Knoxville, Tennessee agree. Athens brewery Terrapin Beer Company (recently named one of the top 25 craft brewers in the US) has collaborated with the Knoxville […]

Steve Sarkisian made a name for himself as a USC assistant. Is the guy to turn the Trojans around now? Photo: USA Today Sports Crystal Ball Run continues our look at some of the top candidates to be named the next head coach at USC. We already looked over Kevin Sumlin. Now we look at […]

Oregon is off to a hot start, but are they a true national title contender? Photo: USA Today Sports We’ve seen this movie before. In each of the past three seasons, Oregon has jumped out to a blazing start in September, beating mediocre opponents to a pulp with ease. Every year, we fall in love […]

  The first full weekend of Pac-12 play (Utah and UCLA being excluded because they are playing this Thursday) featured five games where the closest margin of victory was 18 points, two games where the winning team hung a double nickel on their opponents, and yet, it was all overshadowed by a boatrace in the […]

  No. 4 Ohio State at No. 16 Northwestern Saturday, 8:00 PM, ABC Line: Ohio State -7 The College Gameday traveling road show makes its way to Chicagoland for a Big Ten matchup between two top 20 teams. Northwestern has played larger games in their history, but this matchup would have to rank right up […]

Could sunny Southern California lure Kevin Sumlin from College Station? (Photo courtesy: USA Today Sports) With Lane Kiffin officially out at USC, CBR is looking at the candidates considered to be the Trojans' next head coach. First up is the man who has brought the Texas A&M Aggies back to prominence. USC Coach Candidate: Kevin […]

C.J. Brown and Maryland look for the program's first win at Florida State. Photo: USA Today Sports No. 25 Maryland at No. 8 Florida State Saturday, 12:00 p.m. ESPN Line: Florida State -15 At the beginning of the year it is unlikely anybody predicted this to be an ACC match-up of unbeatens, but here we […]

Vad Lee and Georgia Tech will have to hold on to the football to top Miami. Photo: USA Today Sports Georgia Tech at No. 14 Miami Saturday, 3:30 p.m. ESPNU Line: Miami -5 This game would have been more attractive had Georgia Tech not lost last weekend, but it still carries plenty of weight in […]

According to a press release from Navy's athletic department, the Department of Defense has put a halt to all intercollegiate athletics for the time being thanks to the government shutdown.  That means this weekends Air Force vs. Navy game as well as Army's game against Boston College could be in jeopardy. It has yet to […]

Alabama debuts at number one in the first Crystal Ball Run power rankings. Photo: USA Today Sports With the month of October officially here, the Crystal Ball Run staff is introducing a new weekly feature to the site with our official power rankings. Each week our staff will submit our top ten ballots and the […]