Auburn (2-0) at Kansas State (2-0) Sept. 18, 7:30, ESPN Here’s The Deal: Call this one of the most interesting test cases possible to see if the Gus Malzahn Auburn offense can be stopped, or at least slowed down. It’s a Thursday night game, which always seems to bring an inherent quirkiness to any big college football showdown, and […]
Clemson (1-1) at Florida State (2-0) Sept. 20, 8:00, ABC Here’s The Deal: Just when it looked like the usual Clemson-Florida State buzz wouldn’t rise to last year’s level, Jameis Winston goes out and gets suspended first for the first half and now for the entire game – of Saturday’s big showdown. Another in a growing line of […]
WHO’S HOT Summa Cum Laude UTEP RB Aaron Jones Jones can’t remain a well-kept secret in El Paso much longer. He’s just too explosive. The sophomore has yet to be held below 140 yards on the ground this season, and leads the country in total yards rushing. He’s also averaging 7.8 yards a carry to go along […]
Just because Florida and Georgia Tech hung on this weekend doesn’t mean their respective head coaches improved their job security. In fact, Will Muschamp and Paul Johnson, respectively, continue to live on borrowed time… E-mail Rich Cirminiello Follow me … @RichCirminiello Just because Florida and Georgia Tech hung on this weekend doesn’t mean their respective head coaches improved […]
The ten most important things to happen in the history of our great planet – at least this weekend. How will Week 3 of your college football season be remembered in the history books? And so it is written … 1. The Big 12 stepped up to the plate It’s not really fair to judge a conference […]
Sept. 13 East Carolina 28, at Virginia Tech 21 And You Care Because … East Carolina got up to a 21-0 first quarter lead, but needed a one-yard Shane Carden run with 16 seconds to play to pull off the win. Carden threw three touchdown passes to three different receivers to cap off three long drives for the […]
Sept. 13 West Virginia 40, at Maryland 37 And You Care Because … Josh Lambert nailed a 47-yard field goal to give West Virginia the win in a wild shootout. Clint Trickett threw for 511 yards and four touchdowns with scoring plays to Mario Alford from 43 and 36 yards out, but Maryland came back from down 28-6 […]
Sept. 13 at Bowling Green 45, Indiana 42 And You Care Because … In a fantastic back-and-forth shootout, James Knapke found Roger Lewis for a two-yard touchdown pass with just nine seconds to play to give Bowling Green the wild win. Indiana took a 14-3 lead in the second quarter on a 22-yard touchdown catch from J-Shun Harris, […]
Sept. 13 at Bowling Green 45, Indiana 42 And You Care Because … In a fantastic back-and-forth shootout, James Knapke found Roger Lewis for a two-yard touchdown pass with just nine seconds to play to give Bowling Green the wild win. Indiana took a 14-3 lead in the second quarter on a 22-yard touchdown catch from J-Shun Harris, […]
Sept. 13 Northern Illinois 48, at UNLV 34 And You Care Because … Drew Hare threw three touchdown passes on the day and ran for a score, and Cameron Stingily ran for the first of his two scores as Northern Illinois rolled out to a 31-12 lead midway through the third quarter. UNLV wouldn’t go away as Devante […]
Sept. 13 at South Carolina 38, Georgia 35 And You Care Because … Bulldog kicker Marshall Morgan missed field goals from 26 and 28 yards out – with the latter coming with over four minutes to play with Georgia down three – and South Carolina was able to convert a 4th-and-inches – but barely – for the tight […]
Northern Illinois (2-0) at UNLV (1-1) Sept. 13, 7:00 pm, CampusInsiders.com Here’s The Deal: They’re doing it again. The Northern Illinois Huskies just keep on rolling, blowing away Presbyterian to start the season and then pulling off a shocker – okay, slight shocker – to beat Northwestern to make it 25 straight regular season wins since losing the […]
Houston (1-1) at BYU (2-0) Sept. 11, 8:00, ESPN Here’s The Deal: Just two weeks into the new season, the ground floor of a possible special season is down in Provo. BYU returns home with a couple of road victories and a No. 25 ranking in the AP poll. Last week’s 41-7 blitz of Texas in Austin was […]
Tennessee (2-0) at Oklahoma (2-0) Sept. 13, 8:00, ABC Here’s The Deal: This is just the third meeting between the two historically giant programs and it’s the first time in the regular season, with Tennessee winning the 1939 Orange Bowl 17-0 and Oklahoma winning the 1968 Orange 26-24. For the modern era and to this season, this represents […]
Georgia (1-0) at South Carolina (1-1) Sept. 13, 3:30, CBS Here’s The Deal: It’s a long, long college football season, and there are always several strange twists and turns, but in one way or another, the SEC East title will be influenced in a big way in a potential make-or-break game. Let’s just call it – if South Carolina […]