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Sports Central December 11, 2006 Zach Jones |
So Much For a BCS Rematch... Coaches unwilling to endorse a double-jeopardy rematch between Michigan and Ohio State took Florida's 38-28 victory over Dec. 2 as the perfect excuse to drop the Wolverines in the polls. |
Sports Central November 19, 2012 Corrie Trouw |
The Sense of Stability It's difficult to write an honest account of Chizik's time at Auburn without weighing for both sides. |
Sports Central November 25, 2003 David Martin |
Why ESPN Hates the BCS I have two problems with the way college football is covered by national media types. First of all, most of them, e.g., ESPN, have a pro-playoff agenda. The second problem is that once they see a team they love, like the Oklahoma Sooners, they declare the de facto title winner. |
Sports Central October 4, 2010 Jean Neuberger |
The BCS Projections ... For Now As we've entered the second month of the college football season, the BCS picture still looks fairly clouded. |
Sports Central December 9, 2009 Andrew Jones |
Is College Football Unfixable? There are many things we can't change about college football, but there are two things that can be changed that will quite easily make the game better. |
Sports Central October 19, 2015 Ross Lancaster |
An Ode to the Head Ball Coach It was sometime around the mid-1990s when I first watched a game on TV featuring Steve Spurrier as one of the head coaches. |
Sports Central January 1, 2007 Ross Lancaster |
Crimson Tide Once Proud, Now Forgettable? Despite having three non-winning season in four years, Alabama football is still one of the most tradition-rich programs in the country. |
Sports Central October 21, 2013 Andrew Jones |
Perfection Possibilities Teams are lining up to see if they can make it to the end of the NCAA football season unscathed. |
Sports Central November 3, 2008 Corrie Trouw |
Ballot Bias It's election season again, college football voters, so take a few minutes and think about what each candidate has done to deserve your vote. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2001 Ivan Maisel |
Postponements help many teams N'western, Florida St., Washington are among the winners helped by the cancellations of college football games... |
Sports Central August 11, 2014 Corrie Trouw |
CFB 2014: Giving Away the Ending We see the unusual every year; that's why we love college football. |
Sports Central December 8, 2014 Ross Lancaster |
College Football's Selection Committee Got it Right The four-team playoff is the one that makes the most sense for college football. |
Sports Central November 26, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
The Case for Florida After Notre Dame's 22-13 win against USC effectively clinched its spot in Miami on Jan. 7, the Fighting Irish will almost surely play the winner of next Saturday's SEC Championship Game between Georgia and Florida for the BCS crown. |
Sports Central November 14, 2012 Andrew Jones |
What Alabama's Loss Means For BCS College football fans were worried a choice between Kansas State and Oregon for the right to battle Alabama for the national championship would be close to impossible to make and then the unthinkable happened: Alabama lost. |
Sports Central December 14, 2010 Kyle Jahner |
Fans Will Enjoy BCS Slate While Wishing For BCS Demise The best two teams in college football, both unblemished, will play each other for the national title in a game that would never have happened before the BCS. |
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 August 1, 2013 Adam Russell |
Highlights of College Football's Opening Weekend With the college football season set to kick off in a little more than a month, many fans and nearly every preseason publication likes to peruse through the schedule to see what the most intriguing, compelling, or critical matchups might be. |
Sports Central January 14, 2015 Jean Neuberger |
The 2014 Season: Five Things We Learned Ohio State proved a lot of doubters wrong, myself included. |
Sports Central December 30, 2013 Adam Russell |
SEC's Run in the BCS Will End With FSU It seems only fitting that the one school that played in the first three BCS-era championship games -- winning one -- would close this chapter of college football history with a national title. Florida State appears to be a team destined to win it all. |
Sports Central October 27, 2014 Jonathan Lowe |
The Month-Long Journey We enter the month of November, when, in the world of college football, hearts are broken and dreams are dashed. For those with hope, it's a long time coming ... and a long ways yet to go. |
Sports Central January 17, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Hold on a SEC It seems like next year is set up perfectly to give the SEC its seventh straight championship -- three of the teams (Alabama, Arkansas, and LSU) likely to make the preseason top five will come from the same division within the SEC. |
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 October 22, 2012 Corrie Trouw |
Philosophical Differences With a full month of action to make the college football season's most dramatic decisions, I have made up my mind on how 2012's final act should be written. |
Sports Illustrated November 22, 2002 Tim Layden |
Just win, baby College football's new mantra is in full bloom this season |
Sports Central December 5, 2011 Corrie Trouw |
LSU/Alabama II: The BCS Lump of Coal This season's BCS championship offers us an early January sale on LSU/Alabama whether we want it or not. |
Sports Central October 12, 2005 Avery Smith |
Bluebook Notes #5: Pasadena Projections A closer look at the ten teams with the best shot at heading to the Rose Bowl. |
Sports Central October 9, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
Poll Im-Position Just as baseball has moved past the gospel of scouts and into a world ruled by advanced metrics, so too should our evaluation of college football teams. |
Sports Illustrated December 11, 2001 Alexander Wolff & Austin Murphy |
Title Contention The BCS or a playoff? The debate's hotter than ever this year... |
Sports Central June 4, 2008 Ben Feller |
Tressel is Dangerfield of College Football Jim Tressel is an elite college football coach that doesn't get the respect he deserves. |
Sports Central November 4, 2011 Corrie Trouw |
A BCS Championship Prequel? Even with the college football season's much-anticipated blockbuster finally playing on Saturday, we should start thinking about a January release of LSU/Alabama II. |
Sports Central October 25, 2010 Ross Lancaster |
A Lovely Season on the Plains Gene Chizik, Cam Newton, and Gus Malzahn have come together to give tradition-rich Auburn a golden chance to win its first undisputed national championship. |
Salon.com November 23, 2002 Allen Barra |
Of bowls and polls College football's weird champion-choosing process has taken the arguments -- and the fun -- out of New Year's Day. |
Sports Central June 17, 2005 Avery Smith |
2005 College Football Preview: SEC There is no "week off" in the SEC and no team will come out of the season unscathed. However, there will be some squads that may end this year with enough momentum to get into a BCS bowl. Who will they be? |
Sports Central October 10, 2011 Ross Lancaster |
Collision Course October is a time of sorting in college football. Teams have largely ceased to play non-conference opposition for the balance of the season, and have now moved into the meat of the season, conference play, whereby seasons will largely be judged. |
AskMen.com Chris Weiss |
Kirk Herbstreit Interview 10 minutes with ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit. |
Sports Central January 6, 2004 David Shaw |
In Defense of the BCS Inevitable discussion over the last two days has centered on just who is the better team, USC or LSU, and why the BCS failed to supply the answer. The outrage, begun well before this year, would even lead one to believe that having co-champions is unheard of, even perverse. Not so. |
Salon.com November 23, 2002 King Kaufman |
Let's have an argument! It's good to have a real sport that's messy and silly and dumb, and Division I football's method of crowning a champion is all of that. |
Sports Illustrated October 10, 2002 Ivan Maisel |
Virginia Tech is the real deal My opinion of Virginia Tech began to change once I started spending time there. Frank Beamer is a very good coach with a very good staff. They seem to find players who arrive without an ego. |
Sports Central October 1, 2012 Adam Russell |
Is the Offensive Explosion an Omen? With all this offensive production on both sides of the field, could this be an omen of things to come in college football? |
Sports Central October 31, 2007 Matt Thomas |
The BCS is a Good Thing ... No, Really Nine tried and true reasons to believe in the Bowl Championship Series and its value to college football. |
Sports Central November 28, 2011 David Exum |
Alabama a Worthy Rematch For LSU By manhandling Auburn 42-14 in the Iron Bowl, Alabama stated its case why it deserves to play No. 1 LSU in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 9. |
Sports Central December 18, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
A Heart-Warming Column About the BCS College football's BCS isn't perfect.... Pedro Martinez brings "looniness" to the New York Mets... The Washington Nationals may not play in Washington after all... The NHL lockout debate has been fun lately... |
Sports Central July 12, 2012 Andrew Jones |
The BCS Four-Team Playoff: Really Better? Under the new agreement, the BCS Bowl Games (Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, and Rose) will take turns hosting the semifinals for the national championship with the winners of those two games meeting to determine a winner. |
Sports Central December 18, 2006 Adam Russell |
BCS: Is it Human or Machine? The BCS needs to make up its mind -- is it going to be a computer poll that is entirely objective based on stats, schedule, and record, or is it going to be steered by the human polls? |
Sports Central January 29, 2007 Kyle Jahner |
Lesson Learned From Bowl Season What December and January taught us about college football. |
Sports Central April 12, 2006 Michael Beshara |
In Defense of the BCS As enjoyable as college basketball's March Madness may be, college football's BCS provides the opportunity for both a more exciting and more just crowning of a national champion. |
Sports Central September 25, 2006 Corrie Trouw |
Teams Sacrificing Style, Winning Ugly As several aspiring national champions showed on Saturday, sometimes the substance of a win matters a little more than its style. |
Sports Central November 25, 2013 Jean Neuberger |
And Now it All Comes Down to Iron The Iron Bowl is as heated a rivalry as it gets in college football. |
Sports Central December 2, 2013 Adam Russell |
BCS Hopes Dashed, Saved on Two Plays The final week of the college football regular season saw decisions by two coaches that extended the national title hopes of one team and dashed the hopes of another. |
Sports Illustrated October 19, 2001 Tim Layden |
Converted OK, I finally get why college football needs a playoff... |