The Voice of College Football Fans
(Image courtesy: USA Today Sports) I think it’s an official NCAA rule now that every college football team needs a hashtag. Some of them are motivational, like Alabama’s #OutworkYesterday. Others are just embarrassing, like Florida State’s #DoSomething. Is that not the least original slogan in history? I have to imagine Willie Taggart signed off on [...]
Well, that happened. Week 1 of college football is almost in the books. We still have LSU-Miami, Virginia Tech-Florida State, and thanks to a weather delay, Breakfast with the Zips at 10:30 AM Sunday when Akron and Nebraska will finally play. That was one of the least memorable opening weekends in years. I usually have [...]
(Image courtesy: Detroit Free-Press) We are so, so, so back baby. We’ve waited nine long months for a full weekend of college football, and now we’re so close I can taste it. Give me all of the Middle Tennessee-Vandy, and the SMU-North Texas, and the ODU-Liberty. I don’t care who’s on my screen as long [...]
Hey guys, it's Josh. Remember me? I'm the guy who used to write about college football all the time. It's been a few weeks, but I'm back. Sorry about that. There was such an uproar over my absence that college football fans literally protested in the streets of Knoxville. I mean, they weren't protesting about me, [...]
We're three weeks away from finding out which four teams are going to play in the College Football Playoff, and I can't remember a year where I had less idea who those four teams are going to actually be. There are only eight or nine teams left with an even remotely plausible path to football's [...]
The Playoff Committee is going to release its second set of rankings on Tuesday night. Expect a lot of shake-ups after all of the chaos from Week 10 that saw several championship contenders upended, and a couple new contenders emerge. A few weeks ago, I came up with a new way to rank the best [...]
The Playoff Committee finally released its first rankings of the season on Tuesday and in a surprising twist, there was virtually no controversy! Georgia over Alabama? Not too crazy! (And also irrelevant since they’d ultimately meet in the SEC Championship anyway). Oklahoma over Ohio State? A no-brainer given the Sooners win in Columbus. Undefeated Wisconsin [...]
