Tag: 2016 season

  • College Football: One Major & Illegal Upset, Favorites Struggle, Rankings to Shuffle

    College Football: One Major & Illegal Upset, Favorites Struggle, Rankings to Shuffle

    Week 2 of the college football season was supposed to simple: Only two real threats of upsetting ranked teams, and plenty of easy games for the rest. Teams like Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan made it look easy. Others, like Georgia and Clemson struggled with some very weak opponents, which could hurt them in the rankings. Others, like TCU and especially Oklahoma State, fell into the upset trap, which will probably move them from the polls, at least for one week.

  • College Football: Week 2 Standings & Scores

    College Football: Week 2 Standings & Scores

    Two ranked teams lost in week 2: Oklahoma State at home to Central Michigan on a huge official’s mistake, and TCH, losing in double overtime to Arkansas. The rest? Clemson and Georgia had a rough time against very weak opponents, but overall, it was a predictable weekend of scores, as Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan and Florida State blew out the competition.

  • Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, the Most Exciting Player in College Football This Season

    It’s probably going to be difficult for Louisville to enter the top 10 in a week filled with mostly easy games for the ranked teams, but Lamar Jackson, the Cardinals quarterback involved in five more touchdown plays in their win over Syracuse, taking his tally up to 13 this season, is surely positioning himself as the favorite to win the Heisman trophy.

  • College Football: The Battle At Bristol, Arkansas vs TCU & Week 2 Preview

    Week 2 of the college football season offers very little in terms of upset potential big, ranked clashes, without a single game of two ranked teams. However, finally getting to see The Battle at Bristol between Virginia Tech and Tennessee happen is something to look forward to, while Arkansas coming to spoil the season for TCU is probably the other game to look forward to if you’re looking for parity.

  • 2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Rankings

    2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Rankings

    The week 1 AP Top 25 offers little change in top 5, with Alabama and Clemson retaining their 1-2 spots, while Florida State, Ohio State and Michigan make minor advancements instead of Oklahoma and LSU, having huge falls after their losses. Houston rose to number 6 thanks to beating the Sooners, while Washington, Georgia and Wisconsin join Stanford to complete the top 10, while Florida were the only team that won and still dropped from the rankings.

  • Notre Dame vs Texas: Tyrone Swoopes, The Dive & Making History

    Notre Dame vs Texas: Tyrone Swoopes, The Dive & Making History

    It’s only week 1, but there’s a good chance that the 50-47 double overtime win by Texas over Notre Dame, clinched with a Tyrone Swoopes into the end zone, is going to end up as the craziest and possibly the best college football game of the 2016 season.

  • 2016 College Football Season: Upsets, Blowouts & Rankings Effect

    2016 College Football Season: Upsets, Blowouts & Rankings Effect

    An interesting (and too spread out) opening weekend to the 2016 season in college football, with LSU stunned by unranked Wisconsin, Houston doing the game to Oklahoma, while USC suffered one of the worst losses in school history, by making the mistake and agreeing to meet Alabama on neutral ground. Obviously, rankings are going to shift due to some of these results, although it is just week 1.

  • College Football: Week 1 Scores & Standings

    The 2016 season began before this Saturday, but the main course was finally served, and included four ranked teams (Oklahoma, LSU, Texas A&M, USC) losing their season opener, Alabama crushing in a demonstration of what a number one team should be, and both Ohio State & Michigan breezing at home against week opposition. Clemson had to sweat to get their win, but even with an Auburn team having a rough time, their visit was never going to be easy.

  • 2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Friday Night Scores

    The foray into the 2016 college football season continued in friday night, as Stanford enjoyed another stellar performance from Christian McCaffrey to put away a pesky Kansas State team, Baylor had no problem dispatching of Northwestern State at home with Seth Russell doing a great job, and Michigan State struggled against FCS side Furman, not showing too much promise for the upcoming season.

  • 2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Thursday Night Scores

    Two ranked teams played on the Thursday that officially kicked off the 2016 college football season: Tennessee, struggling at home against Appalachian State, and Louisville, having no problem crushing Charlotte, as Lamar Jackson put on a show for the Cardinals, involved in 8 touchdown plays.