This AP story detailing two improbable roads to a College Bowl game starts thusly:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Halfway through this season, Rutgers and North Carolina State looked nothing like teams bound for bowl games.
The Scarlet Knights of the Big East and the Wolfpack of the Atlantic Coast Conference survived terrible starts, then rode their rejuvenated quarterbacks to late-season rallies [...]
I’ll leave aside the glorious annual shit show that is the BCS, and focus on the young man who is sure to be its hero: Florida’s Tim Tebow–who despite already having a national championship, a Heisman Trophy, and a harem of Gainsville coeds under his belt, retains the enthusiasm for the game of football of [...]
Obama has made the first significant move of his transition: coming out in favor of an 8-team playoff system in college football. Below, Yahoo! Sports’ Matt Hinton endorses the move and makes his pitch to fill a cabinet-level position to enforce it.
[For a minority report, see George Vecsey of the New York Times]
An official announcement [...]
From FOX Sports’ Michael Rosenberg:
“We would like to think that No. 1 Alabama will win out, and No. 2 Texas Tech will win out, and we’ll have a perfectly happy 1 vs. 2 matchup for the national title, without an ounce of controversy.
We’d like to think that. But that’s unlikely to happen. Texas Tech would [...]
Who has a caps-lock key and a week-old draft post proclaiming USC the best NCAA football team of the last five years?
THIS GUY.
This draft post may or may not have claimed that there was as much difference between USC and No.2 Oklahoma as there was between Oklahoma and No. 25 Fresno State.
But USC is S.O.L. [...]
