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College Football – Playoff, Rankings & Championship Consequences in Week 13
Before there’s rivalry week, comes a set up week. For teams like Alabama, Oregon and Mississippi State, it’s just another easy weekend before the more tricky part up ahead. Florida State find themselves in a slightly more difficult situation, one that could end their undefeated season and their chances of making the college football playoff.
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Cardinals vs Seahawks – Separating Pretenders From Contenders
The Arizona Cardinals have the best record in the NFL, and might be delivering the final blow to any kind of resistance as they visit the Seattle Seahawks in week 12 of the 2014 NFL season. However, with the kind of finish that’s lined up for them, it’s still a bit early to call the NFC West and home field advantage a done deal.
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Cowboys vs Giants – All That’s Left is Ruining the Season for Your Rivals
The Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants have very different things in mind heading up to their second division clash of the season: The Cowboys want to take over the number one spot in the NFC East, while the Giants can only try and ruin the playoff hunt for their big rivals.
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Creighton Over Oklahoma – The First Real Ranked Upset of the Season
The Bluejays aren’t getting the love they did in the polls last season, but beating them at home is still incredibly difficult. Creighton pulled off the first big upset over a ranked team this season by beating Oklahoma (number 18) 65-63 in the loud and very difficult to play in CenturyLink Center.
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Michigan Wolverines – Brady Hoke Will be Fired; Who Comes Next?
At the end of this season, regardless of the record and the bowl game they go to (if they actually make it), Michigan will fire Brady Hoke. Who replaces him? A lot of familiar names, like Jim Harbaugh and Les Miles, are being thrown out there. Most of them don’t make much sense.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Forgets Jeremy Lin is With Him
Not the best of games to be gentle from Jeremy Lin, playing against his former team, but that didn’t stop the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Kobe Bryant and eased by the fact that Dwight Howard wasn’t playing, from beating the Houston Rockets 98-92 and picking up their first back-to-back win sequence of the season. […]
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Bucks Over Nets – Brandon Knight Makes it More Complicated Than it Should Be
The Milwaukee Bucks are doing what they’re not supposed to do, which is win a lot of games, beating the Brooklyn Nets 122-118 on the road in a triple overtime game that had Brandon Knight having an unbelievable layup miss that almost cost his team the game, but also a clutch three pointer that kept them alive in the second overtime.
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Raptors Over Grizzlies – Best in the East Beating the Best in the West
The game began with tears from Vince Cater due to a warm welcome from Toronto Raptors fans and ended in the same way, as the Memphis Grizzlies lost for only the second time this season, falling 92-96 on the road while five players were ruled out from the game due to a stomach virus.
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Will Muschamp Shouldn’t be a Head Coach Next Season
It’s not going to be a happy ending for Will Muschamp at Florida, regardless of the results in his remaining games at head coach. He’s already thinking about the future and coaching next season. The only capacity that it will happen in will be if he’s willing to go back to being a defensive coordinator.
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College Football – Is an Eight Team Playoff the Next Step?
We still haven’t seen what a four-team College Football Playoff looks like, and already some are calling for an expansion – making it an eight team playoff, although it’s hard to believe that will erase any of the arguments about ‘deserving’ and eligibility we have now.