The Voice of College Football Fans
(Image courtesy: Big M Casino) I come to you with bad news. The boat is gone. We bought it two weeks ago and tried to buy another. Instead, we sank it with an awful week. The picks went 4-6 last week, but I know I can do better. I will do better. The picks are [...]
(image courtesy: Sports Illustrated) If you've been following CFB Country every week, you know that every Sunday morning I give out my JP Top 10, the ten best resumes in college football to that point. Every week I hear from a half-dozen of you guys who don't understand the difference between the best resume and the best team. [...]
This wasn’t like all the other times. Almost all the other times a top-five team has come into Lane Stadium, yes, they’ve won. All the other times Virginia Tech has taken on a defending national champion, it ended as a cruel reminder of what the Hokies' program is – or more importantly, what is isn’t. [...]
This summer I sat alone across the table from Justin Fuente at a hotel ballroom in Charlotte, me the Hokie fan and him, the Hokies’ future, eating lunch. We spent a half-hour talking football, family, fishing and food. Somewhere along the way I asked him about Clemson. I won’t get into everything he told me, [...]
We're back baby! Four weeks into college football and it's the latest edition of the JP Top 25. A friendly reminder that these are not the rankings of who I think the best 25 teams are in college football, but more of a ranking of resumes. Wherever your team falls in this ranking, that's what [...]
Can we exhale yet? As usual, a ho-hum weekend of college football on paper turned upside-down in a hurry on Saturday. Shocking upsets, heart-stopping near-upsets, stunning blowouts, Kentucky doing something stupid…what more could you ask for? We’re now four weeks into the season and only one team hasn’t shown any sign of weakness. Other than [...]
In college football, they say you make the most improvement from week 1 to week 2. I am living proof that is not the case. I dropped the ball this weekend. I admit it, I own up to it, and I make no excuse for it. You see, for the past four years I’ve been [...]
