College Football
The BIG Blog: Reviewing The 2017 Big Ten Football Season
It seems silly to regard a football season as a disappointment for a conference when they place three teams in the top nine of the final College Football Playoff Rankings and all three land spots in New Year’s Six Bowls. It seems silly that a conference that featured...
The BIG Blog: Ohio State Left Out Of The College Football Playoff
Even after watching Alabama lose to Auburn last week and seeing Ohio State beat both Michigan and Wisconsin, it seemed clear to me that Alabama was a better team. That’s even without counting the Buckeyes’ humiliating loss at Iowa.Should that matter? That’s the...
BSL Deified Dozen: Championship Week College Football Poll
And this will put a bow on the 2017 College Football season for your Deified Dozen. No doubt about who should fill spots 1-3 in the College Football Playoff: Clemson, Oklahoma and Georgia. Our voters liked Alabama over Ohio State for the 4th spot, just as the...
BSL Deified Dozen: Week 13 College Football Poll
Week 13 of College Football (a.k.a. Rivalry Week) did not disappoint. Plenty of great games and two big upsets in the Deified Dozen as the top two teams, Alabama and Miami, fall on the road. Clemson did take care of its business at South Carolina, and was rewarded...
Big Ten Championship: Ohio State vs. Wisconsin
Turns out last week was only a warm up for teams getting blown out-only two BIG games this week were decided by less than 31 points. Appropriately, they were the two most important ones. Ohio State came from behind after losing a net of six yards in the first quarter...
BSL Deified Dozen: Week 12 College Football Poll
Week 12 of the 2017 College Football season was probably the most "boring" to date in terms of needle-moving games, and that is reflected in the Deified Dozen poll. Only one team, Oklahoma State, dropped out after a loss to Kansas State and were replaced by fellow Big...
The BIG Blog: A Week of Big Ten Blowouts
Not much of significance happened in BIG football last week, so join me while I try to make it seem more interesting than it actually was so you keep reading.If you enjoy watching teams really get stomped on, well then this was your kind of week. Ohio State,...
BSL Deified Dozen: Week 11 College Football Poll
Week 11 of the 2017 College Football season saw three head-to-head matchups between Deified Dozen teams, so as expected there is a lot of shakeup within the poll. Miami replaces Notre Dame in the crucial Top 4 after a crushing defeat of the Irish. Oklahoma also...