Kentucky (5-1) at LSU (5-2) Oct. 18, 7:30, SEC Network Here’s The Deal: How real is this Kentucky team and how mediocre is LSU? You want crazy? For all the gushing and excitement over Ole Miss and Mississippi State, there but for the grace of one play in Florida, your 2014 Kentucky Wildcats would be 6-0 right now […]
Tennessee (3-3) at Ole Miss (6-0) Oct. 18, 7:00, ESPN Here’s The Deal: Tennessee might be looking at its near future. Under Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss came up with a few tremendous recruiting classes, and now it’s arguably the No. 1 team in college football and has everything set up almost perfectly to crank out a run to […]
Missouri (4-2) at Florida (3-2) Oct. 18, 7:00, ESPN2 Here’s The Deal: Effectively an elimination game for Missouri, the Tigers were flattened and shocked by Georgia last week in a game that wasn’t even remotely close from the start of the 34-0 obliteration. The Bulldogs came out with a purpose, Mizzou didn’t seem prepared, and now there’s no […]
Louisiana-Lafayette (2-3) at Texas State (3-2) Oct. 14, 8:00, ESPN2 Here’s The Deal: The Sun Belt title is up for grabs with each team still unbeaten in the early stages of conference play, however, the loser will be in trouble with Arkansas State and Georgia Southern still to deal with. Louisiana-Lafayette struggled way too much with a mediocre […]
WHO’S HOT Summa Cum Laude UCF LB Terrance Plummer Fast, aggressive and instinctive—Plummer embodies what it means to be a UCF defender. The senior linebacker thrived in front of a national audience Thursday night. His Knights needing a lift against visiting BYU, he racked up a career-high 17 tackles, 4.5 stops for loss, a forced fumble, a […]
The real College Football Playoff committee won’t come up with its first set of rankings until late October. Each member of the Campus Insiders Playoff Committee have submitted his or her own set of rankings based on how good the teams are, and they’ll keep cranking them out throughout the year. The one difference between this […]
The ten most important things to happen in the history of our great planet – at least this weekend. How will Week 7 of your college football season be remembered in the history books? And so it is written …1. It’s the SEC West, and you’re not You’re seeing something at an all-timer of a level. The […]
E-mail Rich Cirminiello Follow me … @RichCirminiello Just because you don’t like the rules doesn’t mean you ought to be free to break them without consequences. I hate driving 55 when there are no other vehicles in sight, but I also don’t expect law enforcement leniency if I get flagged for doing 80. Todd Gurley knew better, yet […]
Oct. 9 at UCF 31, BYU 24 OT And You Care Because … William Stanback ran for a four-yard score in overtime to give UCF the lead, and BYU couldn’t answer with its fourth down throw into the end zone misfiring. In a game of runs, UCF got up 10-0 in the first helped by a five-yard run […]
Oct. 11 at Notre Dame 50, North Carolina 43 And You Care Because … Both teams kept turning the ball over and committing penalties, but Notre Dame was able to overcome its problems with three Everett Golson touchdown passes and a terrific day from Tarean Folston, who ran for two fourth quarter touchdowns in the comeback victory. North […]
Oct. 11 Michigan State 45, at Purdue 31 And You Care Because … Michigan State got up 21-3 on a 39-yard Tony Lippett touchdown catch and two-yard runs from Nick Hill and Josiah Price, but Purdue would fight back. Akeem Hunt ran for a three-yard score, and Austin Appleby found B.J. Knauf for a nine-yard touchdown to pull […]
Oct. 11 at Baylor 61, TCU 58 And You Care Because … In one of the craziest games in the history of the Big 12, and the highest scoring game ever between two AP top ten teams, TCU appeared to be on its way to a blowout with a 49-yard interception return for a touchdown from Marcus Mallet […]
Oct. 11 at UTSA 16, FIU 13 And You Care Because … In a wild finish, Down 13-10, UTSA tied is on Sean Ianno’s second field goal of the game with 1:54 to play. FIU fumbled the ball away, and Ianno came through again, hitting a 39-yard field goal with less than a minute to go. FIU had […]
Oct. 11 at Notre Dame 50, North Carolina 43 And You Care Because … Both teams kept turning the ball over and committing penalties, but Notre Dame was able to overcome its problems with three Everett Golson touchdown passes and a terrific day from Tarean Folston, who ran for two fourth quarter touchdowns in the comeback victory. North […]
Oct. 11 Western Michigan 42, at Ball State 38 And You Care Because … Down ten late, Western Michigan rallied with a 54-yard touchdown run from Jarvion Franklin and a 12-yard scoring grab from Daniel Braverman for the lead. It was Franklin’s third touchdown run of the second half, but Ball State held the lead until the final […]