College Football Playoff? No.

 ”Chris” has left a particularly inflammatory comment on my post “How to Fix College Football” wherein he rants about the wrongs of the bowl system and raves about my psychotic, dumb, “bass ackwardness.” For those of you who are wondering, including you, Chris, this is as close as you can come to getting banned without [...]

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EA Sports NCAA Football

(Originally published on Unabashed) This is a great series of games, of which I have owned almost (if not) every version that’s been released. But there always seems to be something getting in the way of my full enjoyment of the games, so I thought I might write a bit about what’s wrong with them [...]

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Upsets and the Intangibles of Predicting the National Champion

I’ve been watching commentators of college football jumping on the OSU bandwagon for weeks. Virtually everyone was predicting OSU to win, often for no better reason than that LSU was favored. Yes, they were picking OSU because LSU was favored. But by predicting OSU to win, in one way, they made OSU the favorite, thereby [...]

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How to Fix College Football

Talk radio is rife with talk of unfairness and the want of a playoff. As for the unfairness, I say bull. No other team deserved to be in the championship game than the two that were there. There might have been equals, but none more deserving. And as for the playoff: It ain’t gonna happen, [...]

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Lee Corso

The old man, who laughably refers to himself as “coach,” is has more personality than, say, Jim Donnan, which I guess is why he’s kept his job on Gameday as long as he has. But as for predictions, there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to Sunshine Scooter: If he give you [...]

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Roger Clemens

In a seventeen minute phone conversation, Brian MacNamee asks Clemens 21 times “What do you want me to do?” Clemens never answered the question. Why didn’t he say, “I want you to tell the truth!” Scream it out, for cripe’s sake. Which just opens speculation as to why he didn’t–or wouldn’t.
Because the answer might have [...]

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