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NCAA Football on The Fan's Voice
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NCAAF - 1/15/2007 4:33:51 PM The final poll reflects the results of all bowl games including the BCS National Championship Game. I’ll admit that I made my picks in that game and the Rose Bowl to follow the way that I was rooting in those games, but I really did feel like Florida was going to beat Ohio State. If you listen to talk radio or read the sports page or internet sites like this one, you’ve heard over and over how Ohio State’s schedule was weaker than Florida’s. I said it in the article I wrote before the bowls started.
So I was right about Florida winning but I don’t know anyone who expected a blowout like we saw last Monday night. We saw the total destruction of one of college football’s true powers in that game and possibly the beginnings of a dynasty coming out of Gainesville, FL. I was very wrong about the Rose Bowl. I bashed the Big Ten but for some reason overlooked that and said the Wolverines would crush USC. Not a good pick there, but as I said before I was rooting for a split national title and this was the only way that scenario would come to fruition.
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NCAAF - 12/13/2006 10:57:26 AM We now turn our attention to the Bowl Season: “the most wonderful time of the year” as ESPN likes to name it. I know this is off the usual subject, but one thing I’d like to note is that when it comes to playoffs, we aren’t going to see them come all at once folks. We need to take baby steps towards that system and this year we are taking one of those baby steps by adding an extra bowl game on January 8th. Eventually, this extra game may turn into a “plus one” game which pits winners of two other bowls against each other. We’re not that far from what we all want, so don’t get too frustrated. There weren’t too many games to pick from this week so I may have had my worst week of picks of all season long. UCLA shocked USC and honestly I don’t feel too bad about that pick. I did pick Arkansas, Georgia Tech, and Hawaii – all losers. Sometimes you have to pick the upsets and Florida proved me wrong by showing that they should be considered for the national title. I did pick Louisville, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Cal but those winners were not hard picks to make.
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NCAAF - 11/29/2006 12:00:00 AM
It’s been a great season so far and we’re almost done now.
We now go from “Rivalry Week #2” to “Rivalry Week #3 / Conference Championship
Weekend”. The Big East and Pac-10 have recently started scheduling games during
the first week of December in lieu of a conference championship game. This
week, we’ll see rivalry games like USC vs. UCLA and Cal vs. Stanford.
Maybe more important than any single game this past
week was the fact that USC jumped Michigan
in the poll. Remember that the AP Poll no longer factors into the BCS
Standings, but also remember that the AP still crowns its own national
champion. We may not be rid of the split national champions yet, folks. I
correctly predicted that USC would easily beat Notre Dame but I thought the
pollsters would wait a week to move the Trojans ahead of the Wolverines. I
guess the victory was impressive enough for the voters to take the initiative
this week. None of this will matter if UCLA can pull the huge upset this week
in the Rose Bowl.
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NCAAF - 11/22/2006 12:00:00 AM As we move from “Rivalry Week #1” to “Rivalry Week #2”, one thing I want to point out is that college football so rarely disappoints. Whenever we have a huge game on tap over the last couple of years, it always lives up to the hype. Ohio State – Michigan delivered on its promise of becoming “The Game” this year. Who ever put money down on a final score of 42-39 must have some sort of clairvoyant power because that final score was so unexpected it made my jaw drop.
I didn’t expect that final score by any stretch, but a couple of my other predictions came true. First, Ohio State won the game and clinched a trip to Glendale to play for all the marbles. Second, Troy Smith clinched the Heisman Trophy. I know that second item is not official yet, but who really thinks that Brady Quinn or anyone else can catch Smith after that performance? The trip to New York City in a couple weeks and the production that is put on to celebrate the five finalists’ accomplishments is really just a formality at this point.
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NCAAF - 11/14/2006 12:00:00 AM It saddens me to say this, but we’re almost at the end of the season. We’re already entering “Rivalry Week #1” and maybe the biggest rivalry game of them all means more this time than ever. Before we get into Ohio State-Michigan, let’s discuss the week that was.
Each week I keep making the same point, but these two teams are forcing me to keep them in the storyline. Rutgers and Wake Forest are truly amazing stories. Rutgers is getting all of the national hype and deservedly so. The Scarlet Knights won the biggest game in their history last Thursday by taking down the undefeated Louisville Cardinals. Wake Forest beat down Florida State 30-0 in Tallahassee. Say what you will about the ‘Noles being down this year, but the 9-1 Demon Deacons are almost as impressive to me as the boys from Piscataway.
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UGA on TFV - 9/9/2006 11:09:13 PM I’m impressed! Anytime you hold Steve Spurrier scoreless, you have a lot to beat your chest about. It doesn’t matter if Spurrier was coaching Furman. He would bring his best game plan for Georgia. Instead, he brought a South Carolina team with some very good offensive players and walked away without a score. The game was definitely not the prettiest, but Georgia’s defense shined.
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NCAA Football news from around the web
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Scout.com - 8/20/2008 1:56:00 PM Chris Washington, the 6-2, 187-pounder from Layton (Utah) Northridge, who had one of the most impressive summers of any 2009 recruit in the west, earning the Defensive MVP at the B2G Camp over many highly-rated Californians, could be close to making his college decision...
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Scout.com - 8/20/2008 1:47:00 PM The preview of the top players in Tennessee continues as we move over to the defensive side of the football. Find out more about the top defensive players in the state and the schools recruiting them the hardest.
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ESPN - College Football - 8/20/2008 11:10:14 AM Visit the ESPN Widget Center.
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ESPN - College Football - 8/20/2008 10:52:01 AM Tennessee tight end Jeff Cottam will have surgery on his back Wednesday and is expected to miss six to eight weeks.
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ESPN - College Football - 8/20/2008 9:34:20 AM Bill Stewart was a big hit as West Virginia's interim coach. Now that he has the full-time job, things don't figure to be as easy.
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ESPN - College Football - 8/20/2008 9:06:53 AM Former Marshall football coach Bob Pruett has denied allegations he was involved in an academic scandal and a jobs program for athletes that drew NCAA violations in 2001.
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