San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego, CA – December 23)
#11 TCU Horned Frogs (10-2) vs. #9 Boise State Broncos (12-0)
In my mind, this is easily the most intriguing matchup of the bowl season outside the national championship game itself. Don’t let those two losses for a non-BCS school fool you; TCU has [...]

If a college football coach votes in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did he really vote?
After the 2004 Texas-California BCS debacle (not to be confused with the various BCS travesties from other years), the powers-at-be determined that the final vote in the USA Today / Coaches Poll should be made [...]

Ah, December… The leaves have changed (at least if you live in area where the leaves do change, unlike myself in Los Angeles), the holiday season is upon us, and five major sports are in full swing.  So, for today, let’s take a capsule look at what’s going on.
NFL: Last week, I looked at the parity [...]

Parity, thy name is the NFL.  To be sure, at 10-1 each the Tennessee Titans and New York Giants are running away with the AFC and NFC, respectively, but after those two teams…  The next 17 teams all have records of either 8-3 (4), 7-4 (7) or 6-5 (6).  How close together are the majority [...]

All three AP-poll ranked ACC teams lost today.  At least the most overrated conference in college football can take solace in the fact that one of the two Coach’s Poll ranked teams, Boston College, did win.  Can’t wait to see how the ACC is treated when the new rankings are released tomorrow.
Congratulations to Utah for [...]

Another week, another Bowl Championship Series shake-up. Texas Tech’s huge upset victory over previous #1 Texas vaulted them into second and third in the AP and Coaches’ polls, respectively, and, more importantly, into second in the BCS rankings–in the process leap-frogging several other teams, including fellow unbeaten Penn State. Congratulations to Tech; the [...]