Last weekend brought perhaps the biggest upset of the season, with South Carolina dealing a big blow to SEC East favorite Georgia, one of the first losses this year for a true College Football Playoff contender. We’ll see if College Football Week 8 can deliver more of those moments. On paper, there aren’t a ton […]
Read MoreESPN Ranks College Football’s 10 Hardest Remaining Schedules
As the college football season continues to roll on, it’s time to look ahead at the hardest schedules remaining in the country. There are several big programs toward the top of that list. Since nearly the first two months of the season are over, this time of the year is where contenders and pretenders emerge. […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2019 College Football Staff Picks: Week 7
After a Group of Five game between Appalachian State and UL Lafayette opened things on Wednesday night, we’re getting into the swing of things in the Power Five leagues as College Football Week 7 continues tonight. We have some intriguing ACC and Pac-12 action, before a fun Saturday of games. Tonight, Syracuse travels to NC […]
Read MoreESPN Ranks College Football’s 10 Hardest Remaining Schedules
With six weeks of college football in the books, we’re almost at the halfway point of the 2019 season. In the Power Five conferences, 12 teams remain undefeated while several more are well-positioned for a run at the College Football Playoff. As we head into the second half of the college football season, ESPN has […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2019 College Football Staff Picks: Week 6
College Football Week 6 kicks off tonight with a pair of Group of Five games between Georgia Southern and South Alabama, and then Temple and East Carolina. On Friday night, things heat up a bit. No. 18 UCF makes the trip up to Cincinnati in what will be a crucial game for deciding the ACC […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2019 College Football Staff Picks: Week 5
We’re getting into the heart of conference play here in College Football Week 5. That means plenty of big Power Five matchups. Last week brought some pretty significant upsets. Only one of our staff members had Utah falling to USC in Los Angeles, and Appalachian State knocking off North Carolina. All of us missed TCU’s […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2019 College Football Staff Picks: Week 3
College Football Week 2 didn’t bring a ton of drama, though the highly-anticipated game between LSU and Texas in Austin was a treat. The Tigers pulled out the win, as five of our nine staff members predicted entering the weekend. There were some games that tripped us up, big time. UCLA continues to free fall, […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2019 College Football Staff Picks: Week 2
We’re all very glad to have college football back in our lives. While Week 1 didn’t bring the craziness that many weeks of this sport do, we did have some big upsets. Oregon was the only Top 25 team to go down, and it did to another ranked squad in Auburn. The Tigers and Ducks […]
Read MorePaul Finebaum Already Knows What Major Conference Is Missing The Playoff
All it took was one week of college football for complete madness to unfold. Week 1 of the season featured a few upsets and nail-biting finishes. The biggest game of the weekend was between Auburn and Oregon. It was a close matchup that came down to the final drive for the SEC powerhouse, as Bo […]
Read MoreThere Are 8 College Football Games On Tonight – Here’s The Schedule
Week 1 of the 2019 college football season officially kicked off on Thursday night with a few ranked programs in action. Despite a few early upset bids, most of the favorites escaped with wins – and a few dominated from the opening whistle. Clemson, Texas A&M and Utah all improved to 1-0 with impressive wins […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2019 College Football Staff Picks: Week 1
Week 1 of the College Football season is finally here. After a pair of games opened things up last weekend, we finally have our full slate of games. Last Saturday, a pair of match-ups opened up the 2019 season. Florida and Miami played the first game of the year, a rare Week Zero game between […]
Read MoreAnalyst Names College Football’s 5 Worst Teams For 2019
Hope springs eternal around the country as college football season is about to open. Fans can dream about big things for their favorite programs. Well, most fans can at least. Like every other year, there are going to be some really bad college football teams in 2019. In a piece for Sporting News, longtime handicapper […]
Read MoreESPN Computer Predicts The Worst Team In Every Major Conference
Due to the abundance of talent in each of the ‘Power Five’ conferences, there are always a few programs struggling to get through their tough schedule. This upcoming season shouldn’t be any different, and ESPN’s Football Power Index already has predictions for which teams will struggle in 2019. As a reminder, the FPI is meant […]
Read MoreHow ESPN’s FPI Projects The Pac-12 Standings Will Look At Season’s End
We’re roughly one month away from the start of college football, and that means it’s that time of the year where preseason predictions are coming out. Earlier this week, ESPN released the latest version of its Football Power Index for this fall. Here’s a reminder of what the FPI represents, per ESPN: The Football Power […]
Read MoreSportsbook Releases Win Totals For Almost Every College Football Team
As sports betting starts to become legal throughout the country, expect to see more about sportsbooks like FanDuel. The online book is among those available to bettors in New Jersey right now. On Wednesday, it published win totals available for futures bets for just about every FBS program in the country. One of the 130 […]
Read MoreNebraska Starter Caleb Lightbourn Announces Pac-12 Transfer
In his first two years at Nebraska, punter Caleb Lightbourn was a solid starter who averaged 40 yards per punt. But after losing his starting job in 2018, Lightbourn has decided to transfer – and he’s already found a new home. Taking to Twitter on Thursday, Lightbourn announced that he would be taking “the next […]
Read More2020 College Football Hall Of Fame Nominees Announced
On Monday, the National Football Foundation announced the candidates for the 2020 College Football Hall of Fame class. In total, 76 players and five coaches have been nominated. The vote should be pretty competitive. Last year, 13 players made it through and were inducted in the 2019 class. To be nominated, players must have been […]
Read MoreGame Times, Channels Released For 46 Pac-12 Football Contests
College football season is set to kick off on Saturday, August 24 and Thursday, all five conferences released game times and television channels for the first few weeks of action. Let’s take a look at what the Pac-12 revealed. The first game of the coming season will feature Arizona at Hawaii on August 24. The […]
Read MoreInjury Update For Oregon QB Justin Herbert
It hasn’t been a good few minutes for college football’s best quarterbacks. Moments after undefeated UCF’s McKenzie Milton went down with an extremely gruesome leg injury, Oregon’s Justin Herbert has been knocked out of tonight’s Civil War game. Oregon is up 28-3 early in the second half against rival Oregon State. In the first half, […]
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 MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 12
It is the second-to-last week of the college football season, which means a less-than-excellent set of games. The main culprit for College Football Week 12 is the SEC, from which most members have tune-ups for next week’s rivalry clashes. That means we have a bunch of SEC vs. FCS and Group of Five games, and […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 11
After a rough Week 9, The Spun staff got mostly back on track with our picks for Week 10. Now, we’re on to College Football Week 11. Things kick off tonight in the Power Five, with No. 14 NC State hosting in-state rival Wake Forest. Tomorrow night, red hot Syracuse team hosts struggling Louisville, and […]
Read MoreThe Spun’s 2018 College Football Staff Picks: Week 10
Last weekend’s college football action was not great for the teams in the back-end of the Top 25. A number of previously-ranked teams lost, leading to a major shake-up in the polls. There is also a new ranking, from which the public Top 25 numbers are now based on. The first College Football Playoff rankings […]
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 […]
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