College football bowl season is here! Most of your favorite teams won’t be in action for a few weeks, but on Saturday we kick things off with a few fun games. Tulane and Louisiana present a nice clash of style, Utah State’s elite Group of Five defense faces North Texas’ high-flying offense, and Mountain West […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 13
Rivalry week is here! College Football Week 13 brings many of the top rivalries in the sport. The Game between Ohio State and Michigan has long been one of the best rivalries in college football. On Saturday, the stakes are extremely high, with both fighting for potential College Football Playoff considerations. Elsewhere, the Iron Bowl […]
Read MoreCollege Football Insider Names 5 Head Coaches As Candidates For New Big Ten Vacancy
A day after reinstating him as head coach of Maryland football, D.J. Durkin was fired on Wednesday after the Terrapins’ practice. The decision came down after significant pressure, both outside from people like governor Larry Hogan, and within the program from parents and players on the roster. Maryland becomes the second team to fire its head […]
Read MoreUndefeated Team Drops First Game Of The Season
There are now just four undefeated teams in college football. The latest team to go down: the USF Bulls. South Florida was clinging on to its donut in the “L” column by the skin of its teeth. Earlier in the year, the team narrowly beat Illinois, one of the worst teams in the Big Ten. […]
Read MoreVideo: Player, Coach Have To Be Separated On The Sideline
USF football is undefeated, but the Bulls are currently in a tough one at Houston. The Cougars are hanging on to a 35-26 lead midway through the third quarter. Tensions are running high on the USF sideline. We saw it first hand between one Bulls player and a coach. Earlier in the game, linebacker Khalid […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 9
The headline game of last week wound up being Ohio State football’s trip to Purdue. Like in their trip to Iowa last week, the Buckeyes were shellacked by a feisty Big Ten West foe. Last season’s 55-24 loss wound up severely hurting Ohio State’s College Football Playoff chances. The team already had a more excusable […]
Read MoreUndefeated Team Is In Trouble Against One Of The Worst Programs In College Football
It hasn’t been a great day for some of the undefeated college football teams. Cincinnati and NC State have already gone down, and now USF football is in trouble. More disturbingly for Bulls fans, USF is in trouble against the UConn Huskies. USF has played itself up to No. 21 in the country at 6-0. […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 8
Every year, one week of the college football season wrecks absolute mayhem on the landscape of the sport. Week 7 was that week. Four Top 10 teams fell last Saturday, with a few other Top 25 clubs going down, or at least looking very shaky in near-losses. With that, it was a tough week for […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 7
Through six weeks of the college football season, a true upper class has emerged. Obviously, Alabama is the clear cut No. 1 team in the country. Some slight defensive concerns aside, the Crimson Tide have been a dominant force, with Tua Tagovailoa putting together one of the most prolific seasons for a quarterback in recent […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 3
College Football Week 3 is coming up soon. As has happened a few years in a row, big games are being cancelled or postponed due to hurricane season. The Carolinas are expected to be hit hard by Hurricane Florence. NC State-West Virginia, a prominent game featuring star quarterback Will Grier, has already been cancelled. ECU […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 2
The NFL starts up tonight with the league’s annual Thursday night kick-off game. We don’t need to wait much longer for the start of College Football Week 2, though. Friday night only has one game, but it features a ranked team. No. 16 TCU has a big road tune-up game ahead of next weekend’s highly […]
Read MoreHere’s What Happened To The Other Top QBs In Josh Rosen, Sam Darnold’s Class
Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen are both potential top five picks in tonight’s first round of the NFL Draft. Rosen entered his college career at UCLA as something of a phenom, while Darnold was also a blue-chip recruit. As a whole, though, the top class of 2015 quarterbacks didn’t all fare so well. Josh Rosen […]
Read MoreHere Is The Final College Football Imperialism Map For 2017 Season
Alabama captured the national championship on Monday, but a different powerhouse program finishes with the most “land” claimed on Reddit’s college football imperialism map. Redditor nbingham196 has updating this cool Risk-inspired college football imperialism map every week this season. Basically, when a team defeats another team, it takes over its “land,” as defined by the area closest to each […]
Read MoreThe Spun 2017 College Football Staff Picks: Bowl Season
College football bowl season is almost here! Here are our picks for every bowl game coming up over the next few weeks. Our regular season staff picks contest was about as close as it could get. After the conference championship week picks, Matt Hladik and I were tied, making the Army-Navy Game the tiebreaker for […]
Read MoreAnn Arbor Named Best College Town In Country
Michigan may have taken a step back on the college football gridiron this season, but UM students have plenty to be happy about on campus, according to a new study. WalletHub released a pretty exhaustive ranking of the best college towns in the United States, and Ann Arbor comes ahead on top. The site measured […]
Read More7 Coaches Who Could Take The Florida State Job
Jimbo Fisher has officially left Florida State for the Texas A&M job, leaving one of college football’s top programs open. Florida State is in uncharted territory with Fisher’s long-rumored departure to College Station coming to fruition. Fisher was named head coach-in-waiting after one year as offensive coordinator under Bobby Bowden, and has led the ‘Noles […]
Read MoreUSF QB Quinton Flowers Might Have Made A Lewd Gesture At UCF’s Crowd
USF quarterback Quinton Flowers is going to have to address this after the game. Another college football weekend, another college football quarterback making a lewd gesture on the field. At least we think that’s what happened here. USF quarterback Quinton Flowers, after an electrifying touchdown run against rival UCF, appeared to, well, make an interesting motion […]
Read MoreThe Spun 2017 College Football Staff Picks: Week 13
College Football Week 13 is upon us. Here are our staff picks for the biggest match-ups of this weekend’s Rivalry Week action. This is the last week with a full regular season slate, and it is a doozy. Matt Hladik continues to hold on to a one-game lead after being one of three staff members to go […]
Read MoreKirk Herbstreit Thinks USF Could Crash The College Football Playoff This Season
Is this the year a non-Power 5 team breaks into the College Football Playoff? In the first three seasons of the College Football Playoff, every Power 5 conference has been represented at least once. A non-Power 5 team has never cracked the field, but there are always a handful of teams every year that have […]
Read MoreUSF Mistakenly Leaves Behind Two Players At Airport
USF basketball accidentally left behind two of its players after they fell asleep waiting for a connecting flight. After losing to Tulsa on Thursday night, the USF basketball team headed back to Tampa on Friday morning. And while waiting for a connecting flight in Houston, guards Troy Holston and Geno Thorpe fell asleep. You already know […]
Read MoreGraphic Shows All The Way-Too-Early Preseason Top 25s
Check out this graphic that compiles every major sports publication’s preseason top 25 prediction into one handy chart. With the 2016 college football season is in the books, it’s time we turn our attention toward next season, and speculate as to which teams will be contending for a national championship. The official preseason top 25 […]
Read MoreHere Is The Full List Of Underclassmen Who Have Declared For The NFL Draft
NFL Draft: here is every underclassman who has declared so far. Many of the top juniors and redshirt sophomores in college football are making the jump to the pros after the 2016 season. Players have until Monday, January 16 to make their decisions. With Alabama and Clemson still playing this season, and others weighing their […]
Read MoreReport: There Are Discussions About A Potential Playoff For “Group Of Five” Schools
Officials from the Group of Five conferences—the AAC, Conference USA, MAC, Sun Belt, and Mountain West—are reportedly interested in starting their own playoff. We are only in the third year of the College Football Playoff at the FBS level, but so far it has only consisted of teams from the power conferences. The system isn’t […]
Read MoreQ&A With OddsShark’s Jon Campbell: Breaking Down Bowl Season Betting
With bowl season getting into full swing this week, we spoke to OddsShark gambling expert Jon Campbell about betting on the bowls and the College Football Playoff. (Note: this interview was conducted on Thursday, December 22.) The Spun: Washington is currently a 14.5 point underdog to Alabama in the Peach Bowl semifinal game. The Huskies have been […]
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