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Sports Central August 30, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Preview: Big 10 and Pac-10 Predictions for the top ten college football teams of this season and more. |
Sports Central August 18, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Preview: ACC and Sun Belt The ACC? It's Florida State's conference. The Sun Belt Conference? No one outside the Sun Belt even knows it exists. Still, North Texas is the best team in the conference. |
Sports Central August 27, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Preview: Mountain West and C-USA The Mountain West Conference and Conference-USA are studies in the strength of mid-major conferences. But Mountain West was the only mid-major that didn't lose a team to another conference in last year's shake-up, while C-USA is undertaking a huge facelift come next year. |
Sports Central July 23, 2004 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern's Big East Preview The Big East is at a crossroads. Teams that one might expect to rise to the top have big questions to answer, and several of the bottom-feeders return a lot of talent. |
Sports Central August 24, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Preview: Big 12 and WAC The Western Athletic Conference is one of those college football conferences that, once upon a time, carried some amount of respect. |
Sports Central December 8, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Forecasting the Bowls Twenty-eight college-football bowl games; twenty-eight fearless predictions. |
Sports Central December 15, 2011 Kevin Beane |
The Best and Worst College Incumbents Here are the best coaches that have not been tabbed -- yet -- to a move to a more illustrious program. |
Sports Central August 29, 2007 Jonathan Lowe |
Tough Pills to Swallow (Part II) Predictions for 10 college football teams, including USC and Iowa State. |
Sports Illustrated March 28, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Inside College Football With the Rose Bowl within their reach, the upstart Illini put themselves in a must-win situation |
Sports Central August 21, 2004 David Martin |
College Football Preview: The SEC The SEC is one of the strongest conferences around, and so a type of parity has overtaken it. In the East, Georgia. In the West, Auburn. |
Sports Central August 7, 2004 Adam Russell |
Computers Decide Who's No. 1 Again As real as a video game may seem, it's still not real people playing football. But can it be used to predict how the upcoming college season will end up? |
Sports Illustrated January 4, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
My Final Top 25 I listened to Miami's logic for so long that the Hurricanes convinced me -- on the field is where it counts. On the field, Washington beat Miami, so the Huskies are my No. 2 team. Oregon State, which lost by only a field goal at Washington, finished up better than Florida State... |
Sports Central December 12, 2012 Joshua Duffy |
2012 College Football Bowl Pool Guide College football is stupid. Not the sport itself, but how it runs its post-season. Even when we get our long-awaited playoff, it's still going to be stupid. |
Sports Central December 12, 2008 Brad Oremland |
How John Swofford Killed the BCS Another column whining about how college football needs to reform its Division I postseason -- and offering a proposal that has no chance of becoming reality. |
Sports Central October 12, 2009 Jay Huerbin |
In the Big East, Big Problems -- For Now About two years ago, the unranked and 4-7 Pittsburgh Panthers headed into a cold Mountaineer Field to face then-No. 2 West Virginia. |
Sports Central December 20, 2010 Adam Russell |
A Case For Bowl Contraction Well, here we are with another bowl season upon us, the supposed "postseason" of college football. But I'm not as interested in this bowl season as I have been in the past. |
Sports Central August 11, 2005 Avery Smith |
2005 College Football Preview: Big East The Big East Conference has gone through many changes, and has lost some of its luster. But it will still feature competitive and talented teams -- especially these top five. |
Sports Central September 21, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Dealing and Reeling So who is the emerging team in college football that could do damage on a national level? |
Sports Illustrated December 18, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Bowl Predictions Picking a winner in the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta or Rose bowl is no big deal. But who will emerge victorious in the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl, the MicronPC.com Bowl or the Humanitarian Bowl? Tune in below to find out... |
Sports Central December 14, 2007 Matt Thomas |
Ten Bowlfuls of Entertainment The only thing standing between the collective college faithful and that January 7th BCS Championship Game are the 30-something "other" bowls that get played between now and then. |
Sports Central October 24, 2006 Todd Beckstead |
Is Rutgers For Real? Rutgers improved its record to 7-0 with its win last Saturday against Pitt, equaling the total number of wins from last year's 7-5 team and improving from a 1-11 mark only four short years ago. |
Sports Central December 23, 2009 Kyle Jahner |
Deck the Halls (and the BCS): Bowl Predictions The 11 most interesting bowl games of the season -- because 11 is a nice even number. |
Sports Central September 2, 2015 Jonathan Lowe |
2015 CFB Preview: Question Quantity When a new college football season comes calling, fans are looking for answers. |
Sports Central September 27, 2004 William Geoghegan |
Opportunity Knocks for West Virginia It looks like West Virginia is the team to beat in the Big East. And they might be the team to beat on the national scene. They truly have their destiny in their own hands. |
Sports Central January 29, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Lesson Learned From Bowl Season What December and January taught us about college football. |
Sports Illustrated November 22, 2002 Tim Layden |
Just win, baby College football's new mantra is in full bloom this season |
Sports Illustrated August 30, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Kicking off another season Hope everyone is well. I can't really stay long. I'm still down in the swamps of Jersey, waiting for Penn State to show up. |
Sports Central December 27, 2010 Andrew Jones |
BCS Bowl Game Predications In a year where the BCS got it right (or as right as is possible) at the top, I am still looking forward to the Rose Bowl more than any other game, including the national championship. |
Sports Central December 16, 2003 Jeff Zaginailoff |
The Solution to the BCS is a Playoff Tournament Despite recent efforts to reform it, the process for deciding the national champion in college football, the most noteworthy and public of all college sports, is still far from perfected. |
Sports Central November 28, 2007 Rich Lyons |
BCS, Heisman Races Coming Into Focus Just when you thought it couldn't get any more crazy, it did. |
Sports Illustrated January 4, 2001 Tim Layden |
Musings on a completed season The BCS worked. Technically. Truth is, Oklahoma bailed out the computers and commissioners who devised the three-year-old Bowl Championship Series. Miami should have been in the Orange Bowl, not Florida State. And even then, Washington would have complained... |
Sports Central September 1, 2005 Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern's Big 10 Preview Here's how I see the Big 10 shaping up: Ohio State will go undefeated and win the Big 10. |
Sports Central September 24, 2014 Corrie Trouw |
An Exhaustive Taxonomy of Non-Conference Scheduling One of the truly great and unique parts of college football is that teams choose whom they play for a quarter or third of their schedules. |
Sports Illustrated October 25, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
"Playoff" unfolds over next fortnight You want a playoff? The next two weeks are a playoff. They are a playoff for the Heisman and they are elimination rounds for the BCS... |
Sports Central December 7, 2010 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 13 Power Rankings The New England Patriots are rewarded for "masterful gameplan and execution," and claim the number one spot this week. |
Sports Central February 11, 2006 Sara Normand |
Ohio Bobcats Might Be Back Again The Ohio Bobcats need to start shooting the ball well again. |
Sports Central September 4, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
College Football Week 1 Shakedown A recap of the first week of college football games looks at upsets and rankings. |
Sports Illustrated November 8, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
Fearless Predictions College football fans, you are not alone. There is something just as convoluted and mind-boggling as the BCS. And the electoral college has existed for more than two centuries. So for one week, we will forget about the game's problems and embrace college football for what it is -- a game... |
Sports Central September 4, 2012 Greg Suttich |
2012 NFL Preview The National Football League is unique in that every year there are several surprises. Teams that finish at the bottom of the division one year somehow make it to the top the next. |
Sports Illustrated October 18, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
No satisfying fans these days Lot of whiners out there. A lot. Oklahoma is 6-0 and its fans are whining. Nobody notices us. Nobody likes Josh Heupel. I guess that No. 3 ranking happened by osmosis. South Carolina is 6-1 and its fans are whining. Nobody notices us... |
Sports Central December 4, 2007 Seth Doria |
In the Box: NFL Week 13 An analysis of last week's NFL games, plus building an unbeatable team from scratch. |
Sports Central December 24, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
A College Football Christmas Wish List First, let the Boise State Broncos win a game in Hawaii... |
Sports Illustrated December 20, 2000 Austin Murphy |
Bowled over I had no idea, when I took over this beat, that federal law forbids one from covering college football without posting one's bowl predictions... |
Sports Central August 12, 2004 Kevin Beane |
The Slant Pattern Big 10 and Pac-10 Preview Sure, Michigan and Ohio State get all the love, but the Big 10 has seen eight of 11 teams crowned conference champs or co-champs since Penn State joined the league in 1993. |
Sports Illustrated March 21, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Some advice as spring practice begins College football. |
Sports Central November 27, 2007 Seth Doria |
In the Box: NFL Week 12 A look at last week's NFL games and their impact on playoff chances and fantasy leagues. |
Sports Central July 7, 2011 Jean Neuberger |
Spotlights and Hot Seats: Predictions It's time to take a look at some college football teams whose coaches are under the gun to win this season, as well as some teams who are entering new eras as they say goodbye to their former conferences. |
Sports Central December 2, 2014 Brad Oremland |
NFL Week 13 Power Rankings Is the AFC North really the best division in football? There are no bad teams in that division, but also no great ones. |
Sports Illustrated November 20, 2000 B.J. Schecter |
The Hot List Many college football teams have already stated their cases, while a few others have one or two more games in which to lobby the pollsters and computers... |
Sports Central December 3, 2007 Joe Boesch |
Not So Fighting Irish in '07 One has to look at one person for Notre dame's disappointing season -- Charlie Weis. |