MATT HAYES RUMORS & GOSSIP
Conference Call: What's in store for next season?
Matt Hayes' final Conference Call for the 2009 season comes with one caveat: Don't put too much into bowl games. At least, most bowl games.
Some teams wanted to be there; others didn't. It's playing with motivation or playing out the string. The final conference rankings, therefore, are big-picture from the entire season—with an eye toward the 2010 season...
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January 25, 2010
Discuss
Hayes' Week 12 picks: Ohio State dominance over Michigan will continue
Sporting News' Matt Hayes picks the 10 best games of the weekend and throws in his upset pick of the week as a bonus.
Ohio State 27, Michigan 14: This will be another Buckeyes-Wolverines game in the mold of yesteryear: Neither team can throw the ball, and one team plays better defense.
Iowa 20, Minnesota 10: Iowa has gone from the national championship conversation to Capital...
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November 20, 2009
Hayes' hot seat: Coaches facing the firing squad
Sporting News' Matt Hayes looks at five under fire for Week 8:
We begin this week with the foundation of the hot seat: coaches feeling the heat. It's a brutally unfair business with huge rewards (multimillion dollar salaries) and unreal expectations (win or walk). Halfway through this season, there are five clear candidates staring at the inevitable with little wiggle...
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October 20, 2009
Hayes' Week 3 picks: Texas gets revenge
Sporting News' Matt Hayes picks the best 10 games of weekend and throws in his upset pick of the week as a bonus.
1. Virginia Tech 30, Nebraska 20. Huskers are better defensively and gaining confidence offensively, but can't do enough to overcome Tech's running game and special teams.
2. BYU 38, FSU 16. Never thought I'd ever say this: since when is beating Florida...
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September 17, 2009
Red meat Monday: PSU's non-con schedule
Penn State's non-conference schedule is bad this year. So bad that it's pretty much taken over the message boards and bar stools. Two MAC teams, the worst team in the Big East, and an FCS (I-AA) team will earn Penn State all the ridicule it gets. As we've heard analysts and media types call Penn State's non-conference schedule one of the worst, if not the worst, we...
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June 29, 2009
50 Best of the Non-BCS: Number 50
Everyone seems to be ranking something this preseason. Not only have ESPN’s dream team of bloggers been counting down the top players by conference all spring, but now Rivals.com is naming their Top 100 players in college football. To top it all off, The Sporting News‘ Matt Hayes recently released his picks for the Top [...]
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June 03, 2009
Mike Leach Wants His Parking Space Back
?From the vaults of the ?stuff you saw online that was too good not to share with the rest of the world? department, I submit to you the following, courtesy of Matt Hayes from The Sporting News.
If you knew nothing about Leach and his boss, Texas Tech AD Gerald Myers, you?d conclude that ...
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February 11, 2009
THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HOT 40
