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Watching Our ACC Brothers: Previewing The Discover Orange Bowl (Virginia Tech vs. Stanford)
One of the biggest surprises this bowl season has been the success of the ACC. After the #ACCpocalypse earlier this year and constant jokes about the conference's poor play, it is good to see a 3-1 start. Obviously today's slate of games are extremely important (Clemson vs. USF, Miami vs. Notre...
Rivals.com: UTEP-BYU is Worst Bowl Game
Rivals.com has compiled its ranking of the 35 collegiate bowls for the 2010-2011 season. The New Mexico Bowl, where UTEP will square off against BYU, has been tabbed the worst bowl of all. In a way, it should be understandable. Both teams are 6-6, and neither has a win that's really worth...
Guide to Nebraska for Big 10 Fans
After Nebraska announced it would join the Big 10 following the 2010-11 school year, an Internet love-fest ensued between the Cornhuskers and partisans of almost every Big 10 program (see generally, here). It was the kind of spectacle that, were it to occur in public, would have caused those...
The problem with measuring net athletic revenue
The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education just released its Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-2009 season. (On the Banks has extensively covered the OPE data in past posts). This week Brett McMurphy (who I generally enjoy, going back to his days covering USF) has posted...
If We Have to Give One BCS Conference the Boot...
In all of the recent talk about the Pac 10 expanding and the Big 10 expanding, it seem as if the talk of the Mountain West potentially getting an automatic BCS bid has gotten lost in the shuffle. Before all of the talk of the expansion of current BCS conferences, some people seemed to think the...
Monday Night Dawg Bites: Who Dat Say Saints Make Him Wanna Puke? Edition
The Monday following Super Bowl Sunday is like an aluminum bat to the face, and trebly so if the team you (nominally) supported the day before lost. Granted, there is no outcome of any NFL game I could find truly fortunate or unfortunate---it’s the NFL; it’s basically just a waste of six or eight...
What Would A College Football Playoff Look Like?
Last week, the ACC Commissioner and BCS Coordinator, John Swofford, testified before the House Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee. So, it would seem, the powers that be appear to be applying a bit more pressure on the BCS to change their ways soon. There are many problems with...
A Jog Around the Blogosphere: Newspapers, Bobby Bowden, and Rick Neuheisel
Every now and again, circumstances call for me to pause long enough to take a look at the blogosphere and give you a brief ("brief" being a relative term where I am concerned) snapshot of what I see . . . you know, like Ferris Bueller at 40. ("Ferris Bueller at 40," by the way, would be a much...
Is The BCS A Monopoly?
If you listened to Mark Schurtleff, the Utah Attorney General, it is. Yes, the Utah Attorney General is involved now and he is considering filing a lawsuit. An antitrust lawsuit. Good article by ESPN.com there. But is is possible for him to win this case? The first question should be, what does...
The "SEC Speed" Myth Debunked
I love college football. It's quite possibly my favorite sporting event. But there is one thing that irks me more than anything else - the fact that the phrase "SEC speed" is a phrase that still gets thrown around in a serious fashion. One would assume that all the other conferences may want to...
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