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The most common idea for a future College Football format is 4 16-team superconferences. However, I'm not a huge fan of simply taking the current major conferences and just eliminating one (most people kill the big 12), and there are currently 64 teams in the major conferences, which doesn't leave a spot to add Notre... Continue Reading →
Rivalry week has come and gone, and while the major conferences worry about what the playoff implications are with Washington beating Washington State and Ohio State beating Michigan and breaking records along the way, along with trying to figure out how to recap a 7-overtime game that tied the most overtimes in FBS history and... Continue Reading →
Finally, it's here. Week 13. Rivalry week. The last week for teams to earn a spot in their conference championship game. One last week for wild upsets and for teams to try to earn bowl eligibility. Last week saw some teams with resume boosting wins, while others saw their hopes for the season pushed further... Continue Reading →
25 years ago, 8 out of 28 managers in the MLB were former catchers. The youngest active manager in 1994? Buck Showalter, still managing in 2018. Just thought that was fun. Going into 2019, there are 29 teams with managers named, while the Orioles are still searching, there are at least 9 managers who were... Continue Reading →
Last week saw a few major games between teams vying for places among the top of the group of 5 conferences, the biggest probably being the Friday night game between Fresno State and Boise State. Between that game, Troy winning at Georgia Southern, Cincinnati taking down USF, and some upsets, we have some adjustments to... Continue Reading →
In the week 11 rankings for the 2018 college football season, the AP Poll had UCF ranked #11, Utah State was #14, Fresno State was #16 and Cincinnati was #25. The AP Poll also had small conference teams UAB, San Diego State, Army, Buffalo, Boise State and Houston in others receiving votes. There is no... Continue Reading →
Everyone seems to think the future of college football will have 4 so-called superconferences with 16 teams each that will be essentially what the Power 5 are now. To which I say, why? If the playoff is expanding to 8 teams, why would we need to restrict how many major conferences there are? Everyone seems... Continue Reading →
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