Basketball Prospectus’s ever-wise John Perrotto does a good job getting the pulse of college basketball.
Perrotto doesn’t like Minnesota as much as everybody else does, and Rick Pitino doesn’t like Louisville.
“I haven’t liked this team since the first day of practice” Pitino said.
No, you can’t have any context. But you can read more about the Cardinals’ [...]
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 [...]
The Sporting News looks at the pros and cons for Colt McCoy, Tim Tebow, and Sam Bradford.
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 [...]
Yahoo! Sports’ Matt Hinton considers the options:
Greg Robinson’s ouster at Syracuse leaves a void in the nation’s coaching ranks: most obvious hatchet job. Robinson took over a proud program and ran it instantly into the worst four-year ship wreck in its history, an unmitigated disaster in every way, at every turn, that never hinted at [...]
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 [...]
Ohio State quarterback and team captain Todd Boeckman went from National Champion to bench-rider in a single season, losing his starting spot to freshman Terelle Pryor. But don’t worry Terrelle, he ain’t mad atcha.
Read the story here.
SEC Notebook: The Fulmer Watch
By Ray Glier
His nickname this week is “Must Win Phil.” If Tennessee cannot beat Mississippi State at home on Saturday, how much longer can Volunteers Coach Phil Fulmer survive?
There are already empty seats at games in Neyland Stadium and the caretakers of the program have noticed. Mike Hamilton, the Tennessee athletic [...]
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — BYU can stop worrying about reaching the BCS. TCU made sure of that in an ironic twist of revenge.
Andy Dalton threw for two touchdowns, receiver Jeremy Kerley became a running threat and TCU beat the ninth-ranked Cougars 32-7 on Thursday night, snapping their 16-game winning streak that [...]
