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College Football Realignment – Notre Dame is Making Everyone Angry, or Simply Jealous
The trendy thing to do right now for College Football head coaches is complain about Notre Dame not being part of a conference and playing one game less than the rest.
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Bo Ryan to Coach Wisconsin Basketball One, Probably Final, Season
After two Final Four appearances back to back, including losing in one national championship game, Bo Ryan is staying at Wisconsin for one more season to coach the Badgers, although it’s probably going to be his goodbye from Madison and College Basketball in general.
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Wisconsin Badgers – Big Ten Champions, Not Something That Happens A Lot
With a 68-61 win over Michigan State, Wisconsin clinch the Big Ten regular season title or at least part of it, something that hasn’t happened in seven years with Frank Kaminsky leading the way, maybe in his best performance of the season.
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Wisconsin Badgers – Jim Harbaugh Can’t Help the Michigan Basketball Team
For now, until football season begins, Jim Harbaugh is enjoying the love from the fan base. But even he can’t help Michigan be a better basketball team, as they lost 69-64 at home in overtime to Wisconsin, led by the fantastic Frank Kaminsky. Kaminsky scored 22 points to go with 9 rebounds in his usual […]
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College Football Playoff – Maps of Teams Recruiting Grounds
The College Football Playoff brings four teams that come from different conferences, and also recruit in very different ways. Ohio State and Florida State rely on talent much closer to home. Alabama do very well everywhere, while Oregon have to mostly go out of state to get their best player.
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Michigan Wolverines – First NJIT, Now Eastern Michigan
It’s not only the Michigan football program that’s having trouble. Their men’s basketball team has just lost two consecutive home games to the likes of Eastern Michigan and NJIT. This puts them at 6-3 since the beginning of the season, and makes one wonder if there isn’t a serious problem with Michigan athletic programs in general.
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Ohio State Over Wisconsin – Big Ten Champions & Deserving Playoff Team
Despite the predictions of doom in the week leading up to the game, Ohio State crushed it out of the ball park, beating Wisconsin 59-0 with Cardale Jones, a third-stringer, starting at quarterback and doing a perfect job of leading the Buckeyes to win the Big Ten Championship game and doing enough to make it into the playoff.
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Nebraska Cornhuskers – Mike Riley of Oregon State is Their New Head Coach
In a very surprising move, Nebraska went ahead very discreetly and hired Mike Riley of Oregon State to be their next head coach, hoping he’ll be the one to take them back to the level of contending for conference championships and making the college football playoff, something Bo Pelini failed to do.
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Nebraska Cornhuskers – They’ll Never be Elite Again
The sad reality about Nebraska firing Bo Pelini can be split in two: Most schools would kill for having a three of four loss season each year, and that no matter who comes in for him, the odds of doing a lot better aren’t very good.