Archive for the ‘Thoughts and Ramblings’ Category
A COUCH POTATO’S GUIDE TO THE BOWL GAMES – The college bowl season has become a vexing time for the discerning couch potato. Well over half the 119 eligible FBS teams, including one with a losing record, are in the 35 bowls, and neither team has a winning record in four of those games. ...
Dec 17th, 2011
THE BCS DEBATE BEGINS — STANFORD BEHIND ALABAMA – Now the BCS debates begin in earnest, complete with regional biases, different ranking interpretations, convoluted tie-breaker rules and a variety of expletives directed at the system. The issue is fueled by the fact that unbeaten Stanford remained at No. 4 in the BCS standings, behind Alabama, ...
HEISMAN RACE HAS NOT EVEN STARTED – The Heisman Trophy competition should start any day now, but we’re still awaiting the green flag. The qualifying times are in, and Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck has the pole position. But that matters little at this point. Three things matter: No. 1: Team Ranking — The player’s team ...
FOOTBALL NOTES: PROMISING SCENARIOS TURN UGLY – Promising scenarios can turn ugly in a hurry in college football, prompting fans to turn away and cringe. — The gruesome replay of LaMichael James dislocating his right elbow on Thursday against Cal had to make orthopedists and Oregon head coach Chip Kelly wince. James had rushed for ...
FOOTBALL NOTES: THE DECISION THAT MADE WISCONSIN FAMOUS – Let’s throw out a few names to show how dramatically one or two off-field decisions can affect college football. –Tom O’Brien – The North Carolina State head coach, who spent nine years in the Marines, took Russell Wilson’s scholarship away last spring, when Wilson decided to ...
BAYLOR QB’S AMAZING NUMBERS — It’s too early to discuss Heisman possibilities, but Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III leads our list of intriguing numbers for the week with two double-take statistics. He has completed 85.6 percent of his passes this season – impressive but a mere afterthought compared with Griffin’s other stat of note: He ...
WAS THAT TULSA GAME REAL EARLY OR REAL LATE? — The weather in Tulsa on Saturday, Sept. 17, allowed Oklahoma State and Tulsa to set two unofficial and paradoxical records simultaneously – the latest start for a college football game and the earliest start for a college football game. Because of lightning and wind, ...
WASHINGTON STATE: STAR FOR A WEEKEND — Guess who’s leading the nation in scoring as of Sept. 12. Hint it’s a West Coast team, but it’s not Oregon or Stanford or Boise State. It is, in fact, Washington State, known for much of the past three seasons as perhaps the worst team in Pac-10 history ...
CALIFORNIA 2011 SPRING FOOTBALL RECAP — IT APPEARS MAYNARD IS BEARS’ QUARTERBACK – The quarterback position was the focus of Cal’s spring practice from Day One, and by the end of the Golden Bears’ modified scrimmage on the final day April 30, it had become apparent that junior Zach Maynard will be the Cal quarterback ...
NCAA TITLE GAME NUMBERS WILL MAKE YOU CRINGE – People often judge a book by its ending, in which case the NCAA Tournament would not become a best-seller. Let’s take a look at the numbers that made Monday’s title game — won by Connecticut over Butler 53-41 — such a disappointing piece of entertainment. 9 ...