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the 2022 College Football Season
Michael Hanich - Jan 29, 2023

EDITORIAL: Football is a year-round sport that provides entertainment, and sometimes, heartbreak for many fans. Oftentimes, experts are called to provide their insight on college football for context. Nobody is perfect, but there are often really dumb takes that highly recognizable media personnel provide. With the 2022 college football season wrapped up, it is time […]


2022 Week 11 Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Nov 18, 2022

Believe it or not, there’s only two more weeks of the college football regular season. While teams are making their case to the selection committee for College Football Playoff and Bowl consideration, our Heisman contenders are doing the same with the voters.  It feels like the Heisman is about as open at this point in […]

2022 Final Heisman rankings
Jason Rhea - Nov 3, 2022

It’s Championship November in college football. While teams are making their case to the selection committee for College Football Playoff and Bowl consideration, our Heisman contenders are doing the same with the voters.  Even with a new member in this week’s top five, we’ve begun to settle into. We’ll dive into that and more as […]

2022 Week Eight Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Oct 27, 2022

We are one week away from the start of Championship November in college football. That also means things are heating up in the Heisman rankings. There is still an ebb and flow unlike what we normally see at this point in the season. This is evidenced by three first-time members in this week’s poll. We’ll […]

2022 Week Eight Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Oct 13, 2022

Injuries and bye weeks often cause interesting movements in the Heisman rankings. However, could we go three consecutive weeks where we have a top-five ranked player drop completely out of the rankings? Did Bryce Young have enough staying power to absorb another missed game? How much will the resurgence of Tennessee and Hendon Hooker come […]

2022 Final Heisman rankings
Jason Rhea - Oct 6, 2022

After a full month of the season, the Heisman trophy race is very much a wide-open one. However, as we begin to approach the halfway point in the season there’s still so much that can happen. Again, which seems like happens each week, we have seen a player in Will Anderson who was in the […]

2022 Championship Week Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Sep 29, 2022

At this time next week we will have closed out the first month of the college football season. However, there’s so much more to play and we continue to see some volatility. Again, we have seen a player in Caleb Williams who was in the top five at this point last week only to not […]

2022 Week Three Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Sep 22, 2022

We’re through three full weeks in the college football season and the Heisman race is starting to take major shape. However, there’s still some volatility with teams that are not perennial powers coming to the forefront. Who had Kansas being 3-0 and Jalon Daniels making our Heisman list on their bingo card? We’ll dive into […]

2022 Week Eight Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Sep 15, 2022

It was only the second week in the college football season, but the madness has impacted the Heisman race. Anthony Richardson went from zero votes, to number three in the rankings, back to zero votes in an upset loss to Kentucky. But, who could take advantage and take his place in the top five this […]

Week Two College Football Watch Guide
Jason Rhea - Sep 9, 2022

Week one is in the books and gave us everything we could have expected and more. Inexplicable coaching decisions, upsets, field goal kickers struggling, and injuries on celebrations. This week, we get back to a normal schedule on a Saturday that is headlined by Alabama traveling to Austin to take on Texas. Now, let’s get […]

2022 Week One Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Sep 8, 2022

The first week of the college football weekend is complete and in the books. With upsets being such a large part of the college game that impacts the Heisman race in a profound way. We have two new entrances in the top five this week. Could a huge upset vault a player from being unranked […]

Week One College Football
Jason Rhea - Sep 1, 2022

We’ve been given the appetizer with week 0, now we’re on to the main course. The biggest and the best weekend of the season is here as week one commences. Please feel free to use this as your sick days, as the couch should get plenty of attention with wall-to-wall action that begins this evening […]

2022 Week One Heisman Rankings
Jason Rhea - Aug 1, 2022

The longest offseason of any sport is getting closer to coming to an end. It’s August and that means the college football season is here. The beginning of the season brings a fresh start, new opportunities, and everyone with the feeling of having a chance to compete. That’s especially true with individual play so join […]

Impact of USC and UCLA moving
Mike Loveall - Jul 1, 2022

Another seismic shift has occurred in college football as we take a look at the impact of USC and UCLA moving to the Big Ten.

College Football’s Money Laundering

(EDITORIAL): NIL is dead for college football already. Long live the Collectives. Maybe in various forms of media coverage of the ever-changing college sports landscape, you may have been under the illusion that they are intrinsically tied together. NIL, or Name/Image/Likeness, was supposed to be the name of the game going forward. But just as […]

Classic College Football Movies
Ian O'Brien - Apr 20, 2022

There are many classic movies that cover any part of sports.  You have the non-fiction serious ones that have come out. Then, there are the funnier ones.  This list in no order shows the top three movies. These are the ones I find the most interesting that are part of college football. Classic 1. Rudy […]



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Texas Tech Spring Football
Andrew McCleary - Apr 20, 2022

Head coach Joey McGuire injected much-needed life and optimism into the Red Raider football program last season. This included some school-record victories on the field and its best recruiting class since 2011. In this business though, any coach is only as good as his next season. There is plenty of reason to believe this program […]

Nebraska running backs
Samuel Rowland - Apr 20, 2022

On Monday, the Nebraska Cornhuskers had their first Spring practice under new leadership. For head coach Matt Rhule, it still is a work in progress. This is due to his emphasis on  “establishing standards” for what he wants his team to look like in Spring practice. The Nebraska running backs are going to play a […]

Spring Ball No Complacency at Texas
Bill O'Connell - Apr 20, 2022

There’s no quarterback controversy on the Forty Acres.  Just ask the head coach. Steve Sarkisian is not concerned about the looming battle between Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning.  That might not be the real contest, anyway.  A fight for the starting spot is taking shape between Ewers and redshirt freshman Maalik Murphy.  Those were the […]

Brody Brecht Iowa
Nick Lemkau - Apr 20, 2022

On Friday, Iowa wide receiver Brody Brecht took to social media to announce his decision to step away from the football team. His announcement came following Iowa Baseball’s home victory over Western Michigan, in which he was the winning pitcher. The two-sport athlete has been in the Iowa football program since 2021 where he has […]

Kevin McGuffey - Apr 20, 2022

Huge Day For The Program Call it the “Will Levis” effect but Friday’s Kentucky football pro day was certainly different than previous years. Representatives from all 32 NFL teams, including several head coaches were on hand. In addition, more than 90 media members watched the festivities. If that wasn’t enough for the first time the […]

Kirby Smart added Clemson's Brandon Streeter and Texas A&M's Darrell Dickey as Georgia analysts for the 2023 season.
Craig McMichael - Apr 20, 2022

Kirby Smart made two big hires this week, bringing in Brandon Streeter and Darrell Dickey as offensive analysts. The former offensive coordinators bring strong resumes and coaching pedigrees. They fill important staff voids as Georgia seeks its third championship in three years. Here is a closer look at the two men Georgia brought in as analysts. […]

Wake Forest Defensive Secondary

With the many player changes at Wake Forest for 2023, one of the more significant changes is on the coaching staff. Head coach Dave Clawson went out and got more help for the defensive secondary during the off-season. It’s one of a number of indicators that the Wake Forest defensive secondary must improve if the […]

Greatest Big 12
Andrew McCleary - Apr 20, 2022

With just 16 teams remaining, only one team can claim the title of the greatest Big 12 champion ever. In case you missed it, here is how we reached this point. Is there any way a Cinderella run is possible for any of the lower-ranked seeds remaining? There is only one way to find out […]