Archive for 'Big Ten'
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Penn State will win Big 10
Attempting to shake off the “most overated conference” label, the Big 10 bangs away at each other and Division 1 AA schools in 2007 only to find Ohio State and Michigan falling behind Wisconsin, Penn State and Iowa as Penn State wins the conference title. A visit to New Orleans to play for the [...]
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. [...]
Wisconsin on a Mission
Wisconsin claims to be on a mission as they upend Michigan for a record 16th straight win and maintain leadership atop the Big Ten conference. At 20-1 they have tied their best season start ever and have their eyes set on bigger goals.
“In the grand scheme of things it really means nothing,” Brian Butch [...]
NCAA Football Championship - Florida Over Ohio State Big
After Ohio State returned the opening kickoff (sans a holding call) for a touchdown, the Florida Gators’ defense took control holding the usually high powered Buckeye offense to one additional touchdown. Meanwhile, the Florida offense scored on 6 of 7 first half possessions and put up 41 on the Big Ten’s top ranked defense.