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BLOGPOLL TOP 25: I Coulda Been a Pretender
The billing for the week that was centered on the exposure of a handful of supposed contenders, who turned out instead, in a variety of variously ugly losses, to be pretenders. What has surprised national observers is that K-State was not among them. Now they're waiting to see if we stub our toe...
Big 12 Balkanization: Where Do We Go From Here?
The bell doth toll for the Big 12, a fractured, dysfunctional conference that probably outlived its valid life span three years ago. Assuming that's the case, where does K-State land in the new world order? Based on the following assumptions, I present my analysis after the jump. Assumption 1:...
2011 Georgia Tech Football: The Middle Tennessee "Preview"
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets take to the road for the first time in 2011 and for the only time in September. Middle Tennessee, though a member of the Sun Belt, is no slouch and the final stretch meltdown against Purdue remains fresh in their minds. Tech looks to match last year's 42-14 victory...
2011 College Football Conference Championship Predictions
We are close enough to college football season to smell it, so it is high time I got around to offering a few preseason predictions. I will begin by forecasting this year’s conference champions, but be forewarned; I did a lousy job of this last season, so there is little reason for you to believe I...
2010 College Football Preseason Predictions Revisited, Redux
Ere we get to the build-up to the 2011 college football season, we must first close out the 2010 campaign. This I began doing yesterday, when I revisited and reviewed my general preseason predictions from last summer, and I now continue that exercise by looking back at my specific conference...
Lot of College Football Changes Comin'; NCAA Best be Payin' Them Some Mind
On Tuesday, Year2 wrote this: So by any sensible measure, ULM doesn't belong on the top level of football. Not only has it been nowhere close to contending on a national level, it have seldom been competitive in the nation's worst conference (the Sun Belt). It's probably time to make a change. The...
More Bad News for the WAC
Earlier this week the Terry Ford show on the radio in Boise mentioned that Western Athletic Conference commissioner Karl Benson was in Ruston, Louisiana talking with Louisiana Tech officials after rumors were starting to float that they might be leaving the WAC. Stories around the country are...
Don't Bet On It!: 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Predictions (Part I)
My predictions for championship Saturday fared badly indeed; I correctly called the SEC Championship Game to improve my league ledger for the season to 53-13, but my 1-3 record in the weekend’s remaining games stranded me at 37-25 in non-conference outings. The reality to which that should alert...
KICKING THE TIRES: The University of Nebraska
Kansas State Wildcats (4-0 | 1-0) VS. #7 Nebraska Cornhuskers (4-0) The Day of ReckoningBill Snyder Family Stadium — Manhattan, Kan.Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 — 6:45 PM CST ESPN We come to it at last — the great battle of our time. Everything is on the line: The North Division....
Georgia Bulldogs 55, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns 7: It's a Start . . .
I can’t speak for the rest of you, but the King boys arrived in Sanford Stadium yesterday prepared to be disappointed. The pessimist in me was prepared for there to be growing pains with a redshirt freshman quarterback playing in his first collegiate game and a newly-installed defensive scheme the...
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