Forever quarreling is dear to your heart, and wars and battles; and if you are very strong indeed, that is a god’s gift. Homer, The Iliad This is the largest and dumbest project I’ve ever done. These rankings will change as soon as Week 1 is over, and possibly before. Injuries will happen. Teams will surprise.…
Our Heisman field begins with everyone listed on this ESPN post, which has updated odds up to a few days back. Everyone on this list is a contender for the 2017 Heisman Trophy in one way or another, and it’s pretty comprehensive to the point that a winner not already listed would be extremely surprising.…
College football season is one of the best sporting seasons in the world, but it certainly comes with it woes. For example, Rutgers playing Michigan woes. These stats are NSFW. No team (internally, at least) expects to come out and put on a laughing-stock performance like that one on Saturdays, but it’s inevitably going to…
A major part of the college football viewing experience is the announcing crew. A bad announcing crew can at least partially ruin a great game, while a great crew can help keep viewers interested in a blowout or a 14-10 type game. Bad games in the hands of bad crews are the absolute worst. Below,…
Tennessee’s hot streak on the class of 2018 recruiting trail continued on Thursday evening as 4-star cornerback Jaycee Horn of Alpharetta, Ga. committed to the Vols over Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia among other schools. https://twitter.com/jayceehorn_10/status/900860586896084993 The son of Joe Horn, former NFL Pro Bowl wide receiver, Horn is ranked as the consensus No. 25…
When the college football season hasn’t started yet, the best thing you can do is build unsustainable excitement for events far off in the future. Such is the purpose of this post. On my personal blog, I wrote a similar post to this one for the 2016 season back in July of last year. Things…
Football season and fight night. Here we go… Hawaii +2 @ UMass (-105) Hawaii started as a one-point favorite on this game, but the odds have switched in favor of Massachusetts. Most of that comes from a concern about Hawaii’s 5,014-mile trip to Amherst. These two teams coincidentally ended last season against each other. So…
Pac-12 North by Will Warren Hello! Football is BACK! Guess who else is back? One of the College Football Playoff entrants. An infamous brand with a new head coach and potential hype and a lot of speed. The craziest, strangest, most fun head coach in the entire nation…and his crazy, strange, fun team. The most consistent West Coast…
by Nathan Odom and Will Warren With Bob Stoops retiring after 18 years at the helm of Oklahoma, you might think teams like Oklahoma State and Texas will push to end the Sooners’ 16-game conference winning streak and claim the Big 12 throne. You’re right to think so highly of Bob Stoops, but Oklahoma…
Photo: The USA Today *Trump voice* Nobody loves small business more than I do. Nobody wants the small businesses in our area to succeed more than me. This weekend’s boxing match provides sports bars the chance to pack in casual fans and keep them for the entirety of Saturday night. For 2015’s Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, the…