Archive for 'Big 12'
Classic Game Withdrawal
Resending our note to college presidents from a year ago
College Presidents,
With all but a few games between this season and the bowls, it is time to preview the morsels available for the college football fan to satisfy his/her hunger before the New Year’s Day Games. The best team in the land according to all [...]
Kansas - Missouri battle for 2nd slot
In August, no one was writing about the two Big 12 teams that would be battling it out for a slot in the National Championship Game. If anyone had, they certainly would not have been writing about two teams out of the Big-12 North and Kansas would not have been either of them.
But here we [...]
Will the best 2 teams please stand up?
Texas Tech derails sooner National Championship plans and helps the Big East and Big-Ten in the process. Graham Harrel’s seventy-two pass attempts and 420 yards were too much for an OU team without NCAA passing efficiency leader Sam Bradford. In the process the Red Raiders threw a wrench into the Big 12 Conference Championship [...]
Big 12 in drivers seat
With 3 teams vying for one of the two slots in New Orleans to decide the NCAA National Football Champion, the Big-12 conference is in an ideal position. It is surprising considering where they conference ranked going into the season, but we all now know the pre-season polls are for the birds, especially of the [...]
BCS Big-12 Update
With Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri sitting at 4, 5 and 6 in the BCS, the Big-12 is looking stronger across the board than it has in quite some time. In fact, if these teams can max out (Missouri and Kansas square off with the winner facing Oklahoma in the Big-12 Title Game) then the [...]
Upset Weekend 2007
With 6 of the top 13 teams being upset, this weekend will go down as the underdog weekend of the year. Starting Friday night as Souther Florida took care of West Virginia the Big 12 North took care of the Big 12 South as Colorado and Kansas State take down Oklahoma and Texas. [...]
Game of the week
Oh what a difference a week makes. We could be looking at two games featuring undefeated top 10 teams this week, but Colorado, Kansas State and Auburn took three of these four teams down last week. With all three looking for redemption the stakes are possibly even higher for all. We will pick the SEC [...]
Week 1 Roundup
Twenty-two of the Sportscrossfile.com Top 25 take care of business. Appalachia State carried the 1AA title into Ann Arbor, and stunned Michigan allowing critics to suggest the Big Ten would have trouble competing in that division. Our hats are off to the football players and coaches of Appalachian State University.
Clemson welcomed Florida State [...]
Oklahoma to win the Big 12
While the South continues to dominate the North in Big 12 football, Oklahoma outlast Texas for the right to whip Missouri for the conference title.
BCS At Large Bids
In the second year of the five BCS game format, the six conference winners will be joined by six at-large additions. This will include Florida, Texas, Wisconsin and California.
Coaches agree USC the best
The latest coaches poll have Pete Carroll’s USC Trojans in the number 1 spot with the LSU Tigers second. They added Ohio State in place of Louisville and shuffled a few others with their top ten looking this way.
1 Southern California
2 LSU
3 Florida
4 Texas
5 Michigan
6 West Virginia
7 Wisconsin [...]
The AP poll is out lead by USC
The pre-season AP poll and every other poll we have seen picks the USC Trojans as the number one team in the country. The rest of the top 10 are:
2 LSU
3 West Virginia
4 Texas
5 Michigan
6 Florida
7 Wisconsin
8 Oklahoma
9 Virginia Tech
10 Louisville