College Football Team News, Analysis, History, Schedule, Rumors
With UCLA’s season teetering on the edge of oblivion, they put on one of the best quarters they have had all season. The end result was a 44-20 win at home over Colorado. With the win, the Bruins are bowl eligible for the first time in the Chip Kelly era. A Poor Start UCLA was […] READ MORE
UCLA’s home stretch for the 2021 season starts this week. Nothing much is riding on it except the fate of potential post-season play, Chip Kelly’s first winning season at UCLA, the end of the line for the huge number of seniors on the team, and the fate of the coaching staff. Other than that, it’s […] READ MORE
With the handshake agreement between the Big Ten, Pac-12, and ACC, the three conferences have formed an Alliance. This Alliance serves to bring the three together for future NCAA voting items, scheduling agreements, and to strengthen the greater good of NCAA athletics. The scheduling component of the Alliance could bring some new opponents to the […] READ MORE
The Pac 12 schedule for the 2021 season was released Tuesday and two things were hard to avoid. USC and ASU get scheduling gifts and UCLA gets a hammer. USC And ASU Get Scheduling Gifts Sun Devils Await October Arizona State gets five home conference games. After the Sun Devils play at Utah on October […] READ MORE
Texas wins the Alamo Bowl, defeating Colorado to the score of 55-23. This was an electrifying game to watch that featured six quarterbacks that were given minutes. This victory was Texas’ 31st bowl victory and their fourth bowl win in the last four years. Colorado’s bowl loss is their fourth straight. The Buffaloes’ last bowl […] READ MORE
We’ve made it to the bowl season in this crazy 2020 college football year. The playoff and bowl matchups will come into focus. Can Clemson get back to the Nation Championship Game? Will Cincinnati and Texas A&M make a case for playoff expansion? Can Army win 10 games in a season for the second time […] READ MORE
The 2020 Alamo Bowl will feature the 20th ranked Texas Longhorns and the Colorado Buffalo. This will be the first time that the two teams have met this season. The game will take place on December 29th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:00 PM CST and will be televised […] READ MORE
UCLA is coming off a loss that looked eerily similar to many of its 17 losses over the last two seasons, and now enters a week of uncertainty. In UCLA’s week in limbo there is uncertainty as to the next opponent, and a huge amount of mistakes to fix at practice. UCLA’s Week In Limbo […] READ MORE
Maybe 2020 is not such an anomaly. Maybe it is not really an outlier. Some things are just the same as in 2019. Take UCLA football for instance. Defensive coordinator Jerry Azzianro’s defense is still inexplicably porous. Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson still has flashes of brilliance mixed in with an inability to take care of the […] READ MORE
It’s good to be back. That is pretty the sentiment of every college football coach who doubted for any period of time whether they would have a season this year. So, you will excuse UCLA’s Chip Kelly if he is not expressing dismay over not having a training camp. He has had to move the […] READ MORE
Tony has been with Last Word on Sports for six years covering college football around the country. A native of Southern California, now living in North Carolina, he has been working in broadcast, print and digital media for nearly 30 years. He is a member of the Football Writers Association of America, and is a voting panelist for the Outland Trophy, the Nagurski Award, and the Biletnikoff Award. He can also be found on twitter @tonybruin