The Voice of College Football Fans
For two decades, college football fans spent most of their waking hours on message boards and Twitter crying about the BCS. It was really productive. Still, the BCS was pretty much universally accepted as the worst postseason format in all of sports. Teams from all over the country play wildly different schedules, are then rated [...]
Who was it who said the night is darkest just before the dawn? Whoever it was is a freaking genius, and they must have been talking about my college football gambling picks. On last week’s podcast, I may or may not have handed out Washington State -14.5 as the lock of the week at Cal [...]
After taking a week off from the JP Top 25 to give you the CFB Playoff Tiers of Hope, I’m back this week to offer up the 25 best resumes in college football. This is not a power ranking. This is not an order of the best teams in college football. This is about [...]
Hey, college football did that thing again! That thing where it's supposed to be all boring, lots of blowouts, no real chaos and then BANG! There's chaos. How bad was this weekend supposed to be? I mean, College Gameday went to JMU. Nothing was supposed to happen. Which is of course, why everything happened all [...]
The college football season is hitting the dog days right about now. September was full of titanic match-ups, great individual performances, and Baylor. This week there isn't a single ranked-vs-ranked matchup on the schedule. Guess I'll do my laundry or something. Most teams have played at least five or six games to this point, so [...]
Operation: Big 12 Anarchy Is Under Way I’ve been saying this for weeks, and it’s even more obvious now: there is no great team in the Big 12. There are plenty of good teams, but no one stands out above the rest. Oklahoma’s win at Ohio State is a distant memory now after a narrow [...]
There isn’t a more foolish thing to bet on in American sports than the Heisman Trophy (okay, maybe Little League baseball). The odds are almost always complete crap, and the winner almost always comes out of nowhere. seven of the last nine Heisman winners were not among the top 10 favorites to win the award [...]
