During the 2017 and 2018 college football seasons, UCF had a 25-game run of undefeated play that spanned two different head coaches and two quarterbacks before coming to an end with a loss to LSU in the Fiesta Bowl. An undefeated season is rare, let alone nearly a two-season run without a loss, but which […]
Clemson won the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, its second national title in three years, but the ACC only had one other team ranked in the final AP Top 25 Poll, so the conference offers an interesting profile for how it stacked up with the rest of the conferences nationally last season. The Big […]
The 2018 college football season ended how many believed it would when it started in August and that’s with Clemson and Alabama sharing the field in the national championship game. The top two teams in the preseason AP Top 25 poll – No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson – earned the same seeds, respectively, […]
And then there were three. When the sun rose on Saturday, Nevada was one of four remaining undefeated teams in college basketball with a 14-0 record after knocking off Utah State in its Mountain West opener. But the Wolf Pack’s undefeated record ended in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Lobos handed Nevada an 85-58 loss. Here’s […]
Before this season, College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock said the CFP Management Committee was “quite happy with the four-team playoff.” That is certainly not the case anymore. Stadium contacted all 11 members of the College Football Playoff Management Committee – the 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director. They were asked individually […]
The latest college basketball AP Top 25 poll was released Monday and the most notable changes in the poll were defending national champion Villanova falling out of the rankings after two losses last week and recent No. 1 team Gonzaga falling to No. 8 after a two-game skid of its own. AP POLL ALERT: Kansas, […]
Who: Ohio (8-4) vs. San Diego State (7-5) What: Frisco Bowl When: 8 p.m. ET, Wednesday, December 19 Where: Toyota Stadium, Frisco, Texas Spread: Ohio -2.5 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN For the ninth consecutive season, San Diego State has qualified for a bowl game but the Aztecs are making their first-ever appearance in the Frisco […]
The first five FBS bowls of the season were on Saturday as Fresno State capped off its first 12-win season in program history, Tulane overpowered in-state foe Louisiana and Utah State’s offense lit up the scoreboard. Here are the plays that decided the outcomes of Saturday’s bowl games. Las Vegas Bowl: No. 21 Fresno […]
Here are my favorite bets for the first week of this bowl season, which runs from December 15th through the 22nd. Las Vegas Bowl: No. 21 Fresno State (-5) over Arizona State The highlight of the opening day of bowl season is Fresno State playing Arizona State in Las Vegas. Fresno State last played in […]
College basketball hasn’t crowned a first-time national champion in over a decade. Florida was the last first-time men’s basketball national champion in 2006. (Coincidentally, the Gators were also the last first-time national champion in college football — 1996 — and college baseball — 2017.) Since Florida won back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007, there have been […]
Who: Utah State (10-2) vs. North Texas (9-3) What: New Mexico Bowl When: 2 p.m. ET on Saturday, December 15 Where: Dreamstyle Stadium, Albuquerque, New Mexico Spread: Utah State -7.5 How to watch: ESPN, WatchESPN Two of the best Group of Five teams in the country will meet in the New Mexico Bowl, and a victory […]
Depending on how you define the “top tier” of college basketball teams, there could be more depth at the top level of the sport than we’ve seen in the last 15 years. The AP Top 25 poll isn’t a perfect measure of the strength of teams, especially when comparing this year’s upper echelon to those […]
December isn’t even a week old, but there’s at least a nine percent chance that one of the 11 remaining undefeated college basketball teams goes undefeated this regular season, according to the predictive metrics of kenpom.com. Kansas, Virginia, Gonzaga, Michigan and Nevada headline the group of unbeaten teams. Each team is ranked in the top […]
Who: No. 21 Fresno State (11-2) vs. Arizona State (7-5) What: Las Vegas Bowl When: 2:30 p.m. ET, Saturday, December 15 Where: Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, Nevada Opening line: Fresno State -5.5 The Mountain West champion Fresno State Bulldogs have the opportunity for their first-ever 12-win season when they face Arizona State in the Las […]
On a sports day dominated by college football’s conference championship games, two of the nation’s top five college basketball teams picked up true road wins over potential NCAA tournament teams. Top-ranked Gonzaga won its first road game of the season at Creighton 103-92 and No. 5 Nevada defeated USC 73-61, which affirmed the pair of […]
