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jones Top Ten 2010 Bowl Preview Spectacular
My fellow Texas fans: Please set aside your animosity and neurosis for a brief moment and revel in all that is good about the holiday spirit and the bowl season to come. For there is still football to be played. If that is not enough, Andy Williams will join us for a song later, plus Shields and...
Texas vs Navy Basketball Post-Mortem
Victors! Take that, UCLA Iowa State Baylor K State Navy. Yes, Texas won a game. 83-52. FEELS NIIIICE. Gary Johnson and Jordan Hamilton both finished with double doubles, going 26-10 and 17-10. Hamilton switched numbers from 23 to 3 in a salute to his preferred stroke and promptly drained his...
GameWatch Week 10
One of the coolest things about living in California, aside from paying taxes that makes Belgians wince, is the fact that college football is in full swing as I breakfast: usually a fiber-rich muesli bought fair trade from Andean Indiginos. After my exfoliating regimen, making a lease payment on...
Big East Expansion: Conference Votes To Increase Exit Fees If Navy Or Air Force Join
According to a report from Brett McMurphy, the conference members voted to increase the league exit fee from $5 million to $10 million, contingent on either Navy or Air Force joining the conference. The vote was unanimous. It is expected that the increased financial commitment from the current...
Big East Expansion: Conference Was Close To Adding Navy & Air Force
Just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder, or more depressing for that matter, Brett McMurphy just dropped this bomb regarding Big East expansion. According to industry sources, the Big East was in the final stages of adding Navy as a football-only member of the conference. Here is is...
Notre Dame Football: A 2010 Retrospective
The first year of the Brian Kelly era at Notre Dame certainly didn’t lack for drama, that’s for sure. There was a lot of drama surrounding the 2009 team and the future of Charlie Weis, but that team limped to the finish in depressing fashion and didn’t have to deal with the roller coaster ride of...
The Poinsettia Bowl: There Will Be Mud
The matchup in the Poinsettia Bowl tonight sounded interesting from the beginning. Now that game day has arrived there is an added level of intrigue. The kind of intrigue that young boys dream of and mothers and washing machines fear. Mud. Lots and lots of mud. I have spent the better part of my...
No. 1 vs. No. 2: College Football’s Magic History
On January 10, 2011 Auburn will face Oregon for the national championship, pitting No. 1 versus No. 2 for the 45th time in the history of college football. With the advent of the Bowl Championship Series, pitting the top two teams (according to the AP Poll) against each other has become almost an...
The OFD 2010 Bowl Preview Part I- Here We Go
I’m baaaaaack. After a month long adventure in the Southern California desert I am back in the friendly confines of OFD headquarters just in the nick of time for Bowl Season. A whopping 35 games will be played between 18 December and 10 January and you can bet that we will discuss every single...
Is Notre Dame Biting Off More Than They Can Chew with Their Upcoming Schedules?
If you’ve read some of my articles in the past you’ll know that I am a champion of Notre Dame’s continuously strong schedules. When I hear people say that Notre Dame has a weak schedule, I think it’s one of the more ridiculous remarks in sports. It’s like hearing someone say, "Oregon doesn’t have...
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