College basketball season snuck up on the populace and starts Friday – which means it’s time for a Most Intriguing List. The Blue Devils begin the season No. 1 with a powerful blend of experience and the nation’s top freshman class – but how many of those freshmen will be available, and when? Preseason
Then would come a Southeastern Conference championship game that figures to be yet another bloodletting. Nick Saban and Alabama would likely still make the playoff even if they lose a game. Then would come an Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, likely against 7-2 Virginia Tech.
Each week of the season, I will be a one-man College Football Playoff selection committee, picking the four teams that should be in the bracket if Selection Sunday were today. The Crimson Tide (9-0) suffocated LSU in Tiger Stadium Saturday night, in the process snuffing out Leonard Fournette’s long-shot
1. Lane Kiffin has gotten a lot of attention and a lot of money as the offensive coordinator at Alabama. Alabama’s 10-0 victory at LSU on Saturday night underscored that fact. The Tide produced two scoring drives, two turnovers, one touchdown and multiple misfires.
The air is ridiculously warm for this time of year – fans are grilling and drinking outside Ball State’s Scheumann Stadium in shorts and T-shirts. “Kind of like Sunday at The Masters,” mused Western Michigan coach P.J. Fleck. This had to be the first time Tuesday night MACtion in Muncie was ever compared
Markelle Fultz is standing at midcourt in the University of Washington’s practice gym on a mid-October day, basketball in right hand and phone in left. With his phone aimed at the basket behind him, Fultz flings the basketball backward over his head. While a couple of onlookers go crazy, Fultz doesn
This was a great plot twist for a reality TV show, which is what these superfluous weekly rankings are. Start with the record: Huskies are undefeated, Aggies have one loss. Thus to have Texas A&M ahead of Washington, the committee had to place huge value on schedule strength.
Leading contenders to get in that way are Louisville, Texas A&M, Ohio State and Nebraska – or the Crimson Tide, Wolverines or Clemson, should they lose a game. Ohio State beats Michigan in epic showdown, and the Buckeyes go on to win the Big Ten. The Wolverines get in with one close loss, especially
Each week of the season, I will be a one-man College Football Playoff selection committee, picking the four teams that should be in the bracket if Selection Sunday were today. The Crimson Tide did the best thing to remain unbeaten: took the weekend off. Overall, Alabama’s dominance continues to make
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the Clemson Cockroaches. If nuclear winter ever descends upon us, the last beings left alive at the End of the World Party will be the Tigers. Dabo Swinney will bring the guts.
Mike Krzyzewski has stealth Twitter and Instagram accounts, and no he’s not telling you what their handles are. “But if you want to see me walking my dog, it’s really interesting,” the Duke coach deadpanned. Coach K actually uses the social-media accounts for recruiting purposes, monitoring the players
Every current unbeaten will play its next game on the road, which means the potential for College Football Playoff tumult is strong. The Seminoles (5-2) staged a remarkable comeback to beat Mississippi, blocked an extra point to hold off Miami and handled decent South Florida and Wake Forest teams.
The big playoff news from the weekend was Ohio State’s upset loss at Penn State, which boots the Buckeyes out of the bracket but not out of contention. If Ohio State wins out, it almost assuredly will be a playoff team – but in order to win out it will have to jump-start an offense that has been held
Alabama linebacker Mack Wilson was a heat-seeking missile on kickoff coverage, obliterating Texas A&M Aggies on consecutive first-half kick returns. “It was crazy,” teammate Jonathan Allen said. Here’s what else is crazy: Wilson was a five-star recruit out of Montgomery, Ala., and the freshman can
Jake Browning has the Huskies contending for a national title. That's also brought him something he can do without: attention.
Louisville coach Rick Pitino could face a suspension. After an investigation of the men’s basketball program spanning more than a year, the NCAA has delivered its Notice of Allegations to the University of Louisville and has charged the men’s basketball program with four Level One violations.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (engagement rings sold separately – and excellently – at Samford):
Each week of the season, I will be a one-man College Football Playoff selection committee, picking the four teams that should be in the bracket if Selection Sunday were today. The teams controlling their own destiny are two from the Southeastern Conference (Alabama and Texas A&M), three from the Big
The Wisconsin faithful left the way 19 previous fan bases had left after watching their team play the visiting Ohio State Buckeyes. The score was Ohio State 30, Wisconsin 23. This time, Ohio State was pushed to the limit.
There was vulgar dialogue, and not all of it came from a hot mic: Arkansas associate professor of agri-economics and agribusiness Lawton Nalley was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after the Razorbacks lost at home to Alabama. Nalley reportedly was heard yelling at coach Bret Bielema
Each week of the season, I will be a one-man College Football Playoff selection committee, picking the four teams that should be in the bracket if Selection Sunday were today. The Crimson Tide began a three-week gauntlet of challenging games by authoritatively dispatching Arkansas in Fayetteville, 49
1) Texas A&M finally did what everyone else on Tennessee’s schedule failed to do – the Aggies drove a stake through the VoLuckteers. After weeks of flirting with disaster, Tennessee finally consummated the relationship by committing seven turnovers – the final one a Josh Dobbs interception in double-overtime
Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” the former Baylor Title IX coordinator discussed why she resigned her post. “I never had the authority, resources or independence to do my job properly,” Patty Crawford told the network. The day before, ESPN reported that an investigator in the Baylor Title IX office
At roughly 7:05 p.m. ET Saturday, on the last play of a game in Tallahassee, Fla., a long-haired kicker made the longest field goal of his career to beat a longtime conference nemesis, then took off down the field trolling the home fans with their own trademark hand gesture. Now, Jackson is up to breathtaking