Archive for 'Big East'
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 [...]
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 [...]
The hex of number 2
As top 10 teams continue to fall the number 2 spot seems to be the most likely culprit. USF fell to Rutgers last Thursday night and the Hoakies cannot fail to see the similarities as they host Boston College this week on none other than Thursday nite. In this week’s game of 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. [...]
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 [...]
West Virginia outruns Rutgers and Louisville
The Mountaineers rack up the ground yardage in route to the Big East title. Still looking for recognition as a major football conference, the Mountaineers will barely miss an opportunity to play for The National Championship.
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
Florida wins recruiting championship
Holding off a late surge by USC and overcoming two last minute changes to Florida State and Miami, the University of Florida adds the National Football Recruiting Championship to their NCAA Football and Basketball titles. This is according to Rivals.com’s recruiting report.
The SEC took 7 of the top 10 spots in this year’s ranking. [...]
A December to Remember (coulda, shoulda, woulda)
Now that we have another week to wait before the NCAA Football title game, the full weight of what could have been hits deep in the belly of the college football fans.
Let’s go way out on a limb and put together a fourteen team playoff in order to use the games played during the bowl [...]
Louisville Tops Wake Forest
The Cardinals give it away twice and get it back three times in an ugly brawl in Miami. Scoring the last 14 points of the fourth quarter, Louisville came from a 13-10 deficit to capture the Orange Bowl crown.  In a game full of miscues, Wake Forest simply made too many mistakes to win [...]
Florida Gets Their Shot!
The computers call it a draw and the people polls put the Gators above the Wolverines. Whether they voted for the Gators or for Ohio State not needing to beat Michigan twice, Florida now gets the shot to show if the SEC tough schedule can produce another national title. The pollsters save the BCS some [...]