The Voice of College Football Fans
(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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
