College Football
Conference Realignment – Yes, It’s Here Again
It was exactly 11 months ago today that Texas and Oklahoma accepted invitations to join the SEC no later than 2025. That triggered movement downstream that saw the Big 12 add four schools previously among the Group of Five, followed by some more shuffling among the...
Sports Tonight: College Football Talk – Looking At The Big Ten East
On the latest episode of Sports Tonight, Jim Johnson and Mike Lowe look at the Big Ten East. You can listen to the show here. You can discuss the show here.
Sports Tonight: College Football Talk
On this episode of Sports Tonight, Jim Johnson and Mike Lowe talk College Football. Mike gives his preseason Top 5 and then we cherry pick a few other teams from the Top 25 to discuss. You can listen to the show here. You can discuss the show here.
Sports Tonight: College Football Talk
On this episode of Sports Tonight, Mike Lowe and Jim Johnson speak in depth about the origins of the new NIL rules, or lack of such, and the impact on the programs and coaches. They also talked about the new ruling not requiring leagues to split into divisions to have...
College Football 2022 – Post-Spring (and too early) Top 25
It's never too early for a Top 25...even though it's too early to get this anywhere close to accurate. But here goes anyway... 1. Alabama - 2021 was viewed as a “rebuilding” season after the Crimson Tide lost 10 players to the NFL Draft (including a record 6 in the...
Fixing College Football – Part 1, Ch 2: The Postseason
This post picks up where we left off in Chapter One with the history of the college football postseason. In 1992 most of the power conferences and major bowls came together and decided that they would coordinate to try and get a #1 vs #2 matchup every year. The group...
Fixing College Football – Part 1, Ch 1: The Postseason
This is the first in a series discussing college football's quirks and oddities, what makes it great, where it comes up short, and how it can be improved (realistically). The first part takes a look at the obvious, college football's oft-disappointing postseason....
College Football 2021 – A Season For the Ages
I don’t think I’m overstating things when I say that the 2021 College Football season was one of the most entertaining, interesting and unpredictable seasons that we’ve seen in nearly a generation. Yes, in the very end we did have a predictable matchup for the title....