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Obiora @ July 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
- With a new college football season coming, I can just hear the griping about to start - the polls are biased against this team, the voters don’t know anything, the polls favor that team, we need a playoff, we need a playoff, we need a playoff. Like most folks, I too would favor […]
josh_weisman @ May 12, 2008 # 3 Comments
Editor’s Note: Josh will offer college football thoughts all year round, challenging Obiora’s DeepSlant college football monopoly. He fires the first shot as he counters Obiora’s Spring Elite 8 with his own rankings.
Coming from a Big Ten school other than Ohio State (Go Blue!) I HATE seeing OSU in the #1 position. I […]
Obiora @ May 9, 2008 # One Comment
Spring practices have come and gone so it’s time for another (still) ridiculously early college football Elite Eight list. In response to the BCS conferences shutting down a Plus-One format (read: 4-team playoff), I’m changing the format for this list a little bit. The top 4 teams in this list will make be those […]
Obiora @ May 5, 2008 # One Comment
A occasional column on the state of American college sports on this 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Chris Lofton played an entire season with cancer. Right, CANCER. He went through surgery, radiation therapy and still played the game. Along the way, he led Tennessee to a #1 ranking and a Sweet Sixteen berth. […]
SK @ May 2, 2008 # One Comment
College football sucks.
I’m definitely not the first to complain about this, and I’m not going to be the last. But in no other sport is the national champion decided by a polls and a computer, rather than on the field. It’s ridiculous and it needs to stop. The athletes put their sweat and hard work […]
Obiora @ March 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Amid the Madness of March, one of the top headlines in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was the college commitment of Terrelle Pryor, the do-everything football player from Jeannette High School. One of the most ballyhooed prep stars in recent memory, Pryor’s saga was long, winding and somewhat annoying.
I’m all for a recruit taking his time to […]
Obiora @ March 1, 2008 # One Comment
As my fellow homer SK explained so eloquently, the one thing a true fan can’t stand is the bandwagon-jumper. Lord knows that large numbers of sports jag-offs (that’s a real word here in Western PA) will never jump on my alma mater’s bandwagon and I wouldn’t have it any other way. In the spirit of […]
Obiora @ February 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday, I posted a story previewing the weekend’s big college basketball games. I decided not to make predictions - the last reason of which is that I am not overly fond of making predictions. But had I done so, I would’ve gone 3-2.
Here’s how I would’ve predicted the games:
Indiana over Michigan State, 68-62. Pitt over […]
Obiora @ February 12, 2008 # 2 Comments
In honor of the masses’ perceived wishes for a college football playoff (a sentiment not entirely shared by your humble narrator), I won’t be doing Top 25 lists. Here we present a super deluxe early post-signing day/NFL declaration Elite Eight, a projection of which teams would make an 8-team playoff. I’m taking the existing BCS […]
Obiora @ February 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Don’t let all the Super Tuesday primary headlines fool you. February 6th - National Signing Day is one of the most anticipated days on the collegiate calendar. The masses quiver as they read the write-ups on some 17-18yr old who faxed a Letter of Intent to their favorite team. There are no Red or Blue […]