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College Football – Day 1 Bowl Game Scores
The 2014-2015 Bowl Season began with five games: The New Orleans Bowl won by Louisiana-Lafayette (as usual), the New Mexico Bowl in which Utah State team picked up the trophy, the Las Vegas Bowl with a ranked Utah team destroying Colorado State, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl crowning Air Force as its champion and the Camellia bowl in Alabama, won by Bowling Green.
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Navy Over Army – Still Important & Incredibly One Sided
The days of glory and national prominence are gone in College Football are gone for Army and Navy, but when the two programs clash in a weekend reserved for them alone it’s still very special. It’s also still the same result, as the Midshipmen won for the 13th consecutive time, coming away with the 17-10 victory in a battle of rushing the ball.
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Central Michigan Players Celebrating Their Invite to the Bahamas Bowl
If there’s an opportunity to escape the cold winter of Mount Pleasant, Michigan and go to the Caribbean for a few days, why not celebrate it? Central Michigan football players sure did when they found out they’ll be playing their bowl game in the Bahamas.
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Heisman Trophy – Marcus Mariota Will Beat Amari Cooper & Melvin Gordon for the Award
It takes something very special for a Heisman winner to be something other than a quarterback. Marcus Mariota was great enough this season for Oregon to win the award, which is what’s going to happen when the winner is announced, leaving the other two finalists, Amari Cooper of Alabama and Melvin Gordon from Wisconsin, slightly disappointed.
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College Football Playoff – Final Committee Rankings
The final rankings posted by the College Football Playoff committee put Alabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State (ranked by that order) in the playoff and a chance to win the national championship, with the Rose Bowl hosting the semifinal between the Ducks and the Seminoles, while the Sugar Bowl will be the venue for the meeting between the Crimson Tide and the Buckeyes.
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Alabama Over Missouri – The Right SEC Champions & Playoff Team
The number one team in the country, Alabama, came away with another SEC title, beating Missouri 42-13 to make sure that no last minute surprises happen, with the strongest conference sending its champion into the playoff instead of an undeserving member.
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Florida State Over Georgia Tech – ACC Champions But Not Worthy of the Playoff
No matter what Florida State do, they’re not a team that played well enough to make the playoff, even after winning the ACC championship game with a 37-35 win over Georgia Tech. But they’re undefeated in a power five conference, not to mention the defending national champion, and so they’ll make it into the top 4 selected by the committee.
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Big 12 – Baylor & TCU Won’t Get Into the College Football Playoff
By being a 10-team conference without a championship game, the Big 12 doomed both Baylor and TCU, the co-champions with one loss each, to do some cheap politicking in an attempt to convince the committee each one deserves to be in the college football playoff, but it’s not going to work, and it shouldn’t.
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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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College Football – Playoff Decision Becomes Clear & Simple
The results of championship week in the 2014 college football season made it very clear who should be ranked in the top 4 by the committee and be placed in the first ever college football playoff: Alabama, Oregon and Florida State are in without any argument, while Ohio State deserves the final spot for winning the Big Ten championship game, leaving TCU and Baylor out, despite their co-hold on the Big 12 title.