Supercoach: Bear Bryant

Because Real Men Wear Houndstooth, this is a link to the original “Supercoach” article from Time Magazine in 1980 which featured Bear Bryant, the “demigod of the autumn religion,” just two years before his death.
What fascinates Bryant about winning football games is not diagramming plays or deciding when to kick a field goal or gamble for [...]

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Reconstructing the Tide

Has Nick Saban lost this team? The better question might be “Did he ever have them in the first place?” It’s been rumored far and wide that some few of the players hadn’t bought into Saban or his system, and it’s entirely possible that those few scrubs–among them some of the senior leadership of the [...]

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The Crimson Tide: Building for the Future

Wow, the season’s over. Maybe not for you, but for Alabama fans it is. A more highly anticipated Crimson Tide season there may have never been, and now that it’s over, it seems all the frenzy was hardly worth it at all. Another loss to Auburn gives us a record of 6-6, losing the final [...]

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Georgia

Watched the Auburn-Georgia game Saturday night at Buffalo Wild Wings in Alabaster, AL, where there were a good many AU fans and a few Georgia fans. Georgia fans who forgot where they were at. It really doesn’t bother me that much, being an Alabama fan, but you’ve got to think of it this way: I [...]

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Don Shula, Proud and Pathetic

The Don is making news, most notably by announcing that if the Patriots go undefeated the mark should have an asterisk beside it. You know, because of their cheating (now referred to as spygate). Because the Don never cheated, or at least, was never caught cheating. These are the words of a bitter old man, [...]

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Colts Lose to Pats, Good News or Bad News?

So Peyton Manning and the Colts blow their lead in the 4th quarter to the indomitable Patriots–should anyone be worried? Not really, in my opinion. Sure, the dreams of an undefeated season are over for Colts fans, players and coaches, but if you’re looking at the big picture, losing to the Pats today might have been [...]

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The Super Conference College Football Top 25 Poll

IF the NCAA would adopt the Super Conference format, and IF these teams all were playing an SC schedule in 2007 AND still had the same record against that competition as they do now, this is what the SC poll would look like today:

Ohio State (10-0)
LSU (8-1)
Oregon (8-1)
Oklahoma (8-1)
West Virginia (8-1)
Michigan (8-2)
Texas (8-2)
USC (7-2)
Virginia Tech [...]

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College Football Saturday Recap

Overall success with my predictions this weekend: I was 5-1 overall and the only game I missed was the one I couldn’t pick any other way: Bama lost to LSU, despite being ahead by 7 with fewer than 3 minutes to go in the 4th qtr. Final score was 41-34, which was the very personification [...]

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Oh yeah, and there are some other games, too…

Oregon vs. Arizona St
Two teams with one loss between them in a game which could be the deciding factor in who plays for the National Championship. If the Buckeyes lose this weekend and Bama beats LSU, look for the winner of this game to vault to at least number two, if not past BC into #1, [...]

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IT IS ON

Welcome to one of the games which will decide who plays for the SEC west in the championship game: Bama vs. LSU. LSU the powerhouse, beaten only once all season by a team that’s now plummeting out of the rankings. LSU, still number 3 despite the loss, still considered by many to be better than the [...]

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