Penn State Basketball: Coaching Candidates
After Penn State Men’s Basketball Coach Ed DeChellis took the head coaching position at Navy, the athletic department was forced to begin the search for his replacement. Multiple names emerged as possible candidates for the position, including former college and professional basketball coach Larry Brown, but as the week has progressed, the list has been […]
Podcast: BCS and National Championship Preview
Title: BCS and National Championship Preview A full, in-depth look at the scenarios that can affect the National Championship picture in college football. I’ll clarify the chaos that exists in the BCS and college football right now.
College Football Week 10 Preview
Saturday will be one of the most intense, important, and influential days of this year’s college football season. Two top 10 matchups, multiple other ranked matchups, and a milestone-seeking game for Joe Paterno and Penn State highlights the weekend. The biggest matchup of the weekend will take place at Baton Rouge this weekend. Alabama will […]
Utah to Join the Pac 10
BREAKING NEWS: Today, Utah officially accepted a bid to become the 12th member of the Pac 10 Conference, joining Colorado as the two teams who have joined the Pac 10 this offseason. Utah was offered a spot in the conference after Big XII powers Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State unanimously decided […]
College Football Conference Update
Yesterday, the big 5 from the Big XII (Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State) declared that they would all remain with the Big XII and not pursue other conference affiliations. This declaration leaves the Big XII with 10 teams, the Big Ten with 12 teams, and the Pac 10 with 11 teams. Expansion seems […]
Dominoes Falling in College Football Conferences: Big XII on the Short End
Today, two big shifts occurred in college football. The supposed apocalypse of the college football conference landscape appears to be happening. Now the only question is who will be left out of the party, and where teams will land at the end of the roulette. Colorado officially accepted a bid to become a member of […]
Big Ten Expansion…and More?
The most pressing issue cascading through the college football landscape is that of conference expansion. Leading the charge for expansion is the Big 10 Conference, whose last expansion occurred in 1989 when Penn State accepted an invitation to join the conference. The Nittany Lions gave up their then independent status in football, and left the Atlantic […]
The Fiesta Bowl
I am going to tell this one like it is. The BCS tried to save itself by putting Boise State and TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. Of the 10 teams in the BCS bowl games, Boise and TCU were the only teams that were from non-BCS conferences. Such teams have had mixed results in the […]
The Mountain West?
The Mountain West has 5 teams playing in bowl games this season: Wyoming, BYU, Utah, Air Force, and TCU. The Mountain West has been the conference that many people think is simply the best mid-major conference, but not competitive on the national scale. TCU’s undefeated record has been called out by many college football fans […]