Tag: NCAA

  • College Basketball Current Scandal Explained Perfectly With ‘The Wire’ Meme

    College Basketball Current Scandal Explained Perfectly With ‘The Wire’ Meme

    The hottest cauldron in sports right now is the College Basketball scandal, as published documents of the FBI investigation into the corruption of the sport, highlighted by wrongdoings involving the biggest names in Division 1. Memes often capture the zeitgeist pretty well, and this ‘The Wire’ meme does it pretty well.

  • College Football Week 3 Rankings

    College Football Week 3 Rankings

    Three newcomers to the top 25, as Nebraska, San Diego State and Utah replace Iowa, Notre Dame and Oregon. Alabama maintain the top spot while Ohio State rise to number 2 and Louisville take over number 3. The rest of the top 7 remains unchanged, while Miami moving up 10 spots to number 15 is the biggest rise of the week. Both Oklahoma and Florida State dropped 11 spots.

  • College Football Rankings: Week 2

    College Football Rankings: Week 2

    The latest rankings keep the teams of the top 5 in college football, with a changed order. Clemson have dropped three places to number 5, Alabama maintain their number one position, while Florida State, Ohio State and Michigan each move up one spot. The only new team to the top 10 is Louisville, while Georgia fall out of it despite not losing.

  • 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.

  • 10 Oldest Head Coaches in College Football

    10 Oldest Head Coaches in College Football

    Among the 10 oldest active coaches in college football, two are over 70, and seven of them are working for power 5 conference programs. All of the coaches in the group are 61 or older at the time of this post being written. Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati: 61 Born on September 18, 1954, Tuberville will turn […]

  • 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.

  • College Basketball Scores

    College Basketball Scores

    This weekend in Men’s Basketball was mostly about the Big 12 – SEC challenge with Oklahoma, the number one team in the country, holding off LSU in the Buddy Hield vs Ben Simmons matchup. Other high ranking teams that won were Kansas over Kentucky, North Carolina easily against Boston College and Texas A&M in the showdown with Iowa State.

  • Greatest College Basketball Teams All-Time Leading Scorers

    Greatest College Basketball Teams All-Time Leading Scorers

    It’s rare to see great college basketball players staying four or even three years at their schools these days. But who knows, maybe the scoring records at North Carolina, Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and other big-time schools will be broken one day.