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On TwitterMike Leach is still winning, but can he ever win big?
I’m still not sure if anyone truly takes Leach seriously, at least not the way they take other coaches seriously.
College football pick-six: Ohio State's an enigma, Bama's on a well-timed break, and Georgia-Florida is great again
Cliched Storyline of the Week Before we delve into the hierarchy of the undefeated and once-defeated teams that remain, let us begin in Columbus, where there is little doubt now that something inscrutably weird is happening.
Nick Bosa and the ongoing disruption of college football
At the end of the 1968 season, the men who ran the nation’s athletic programs decided they had a problem. Athletes, particularly football players, were being disruptive and defying the established order.
College football pick-six: Chaos reigns, Alabama is a slight favorite over everyone, and Nebraska eats bugs
A weekly journey through the vast landscape of college football, along with a few brief asides. Cliched storyline of the week: Every year, a midseason, upset-laden Saturday in college football crashes ashore without warning and appears to tear the existing infrastructure asunder.
Jim Harbaugh is not on the hot seat, but he is at a crossroads
At some point as our public discourse about sports drifted from the talk radio airwaves onto the click-driven badlands of the internet, prognosticating the impending downfall of college football coaches became a cottage industry.
College football pick-six: Alabama is a foregone conclusion, but let us remain hopeful
A weekly journey through the vast landscape of college football, along with a few brief asides.
What would it mean if Texas is finally back, folks?
Imagine sautéing potatoes in butter, then adding sausage, then packing them around some kind of “loaf” manufactured from semisoft cheese, then deep-frying the whole thing, then serving it in the skins of the very potatoes you just saturated, topped with more cheese, more bacon, and a sour-cream sauce intended to ensure cardiac arrest.
College football pick-six: James Franklin is not elite, ND may be elite and UK is...something?
A weekly journey through the vast landscape of college football, along with a few brief asides. Cliched storyline of the week Let’s just get this out of
Has Penn State finally caught up with Ohio State?
A little more than 700 days ago, the balance of power in the eastern half of the Big Ten was readily apparent. Saturday morning, Oct. 22, 2016: Ohio State was ranked second in the country, Michigan was ranked third and virtually everyone else was irrelevant.
College football pick-six: Bama stays Bama, the top four stays fluid and Rutgers stays bad
A weekly journey through the vast landscape of college football, along with a few brief asides. Cliched storyline of the week Here’s a little secret for you: The beauty of college football is in its inherent flaws.
The Oregon-Stanford winner could be the Pac-12's last hope
Before the college football season began, the head of the Pac-12’s eponymous and long-struggling television network made a curious proclamation: It would focus more of its energy on football.
College football pick-six: Overreactions, premature speculations and WTFs
Overreaction of the week Now that roughly 7 percent of the college football season is complete, let us address the proverbial woolly mammoth in the room:
College football pick-six: Week 1
Cliched storyline of the week Technically, the college football season has already begun, though perhaps you did not pay close attention because the highlight
Urban Meyer still has a job, but he's lost nearly everything else
There’s a photo of Urban Meyer that became a meme a few years ago and cycled back into the news the past few weeks when a Mississippi lawyer apparently trolled a crew of Urban Truthers protesting his innocence in the Zack Smith investigation by sending them a disc of vaguely edible substances known as a Papa John’s Pizza.
Nine college football players who will blow your mind this season
It is the time of year when you will no doubt be bombarded with lists of the best players in college football, and many of these lists will look very much the same.
20 jarringly specific and (perhaps not entirely serious) predictions about the 2018 college football season
1. After being asked, on a particularly intemperate mid-August day, about the state of the Alabama quarterback battle between Tua Tagovailoa and Jalen Hurts, Nick Saban brandishes a Coca-Cola bottle and declares it to be his starter in the season-opener against Louisville.
Here are your new college football archetypes for 2018
A new college football season is nearly upon us, and perhaps you are still mourning the loss of your superstar of choice to some faraway National Football League franchise that will never quite comprehend his brilliance the way you did.
Six QB quandaries that could affect the College Football Playoff (plus Alabama)
What follows is a list of compelling quarterback battles in college football heading into the 2018 season, because who doesn’t enjoy a good controversy?
