Nine Lives, One Down: The Cats Remain Undefeated — But for How Much Longer?
So I disguised myself and came back and studied you. You were easy game. You had an old and lofty reputation for honesty, and naturally you were proud of it — it was your treasure of treasures, the...
View ArticleTitus’s 20 Sweet 16 and Elite Eight Observations: Sympathy for Notre Dame and...
1. It takes a special type of insanity to gamble on the NCAA tournament. If gambling were legal, a certain boss of a certain sports and pop culture website might ask his college basketball writer for...
View ArticleIrish Eyes, Unsmiling: Everett Golson’s Roller-Coaster Notre Dame Career...
When news broke on Thursday that quarterback Everett Golson plans to transfer from Notre Dame to spend his final season of college eligibility elsewhere, the first order of business was trying to...
View ArticleCollege Football Offseason Controversy Power Rankings: Crop Tops, Satellite...
Because college football features a cruelly protracted offseason, fans require a heavy dose of off-field drama to survive the lean months between January and September. Whether that drama is authentic...
View ArticleImpact Transfers: Eight Old Faces in New Places Who Could Make a Difference...
College football’s transfer market is booming, and unless you want to embarrassingly misidentify Malik Zaire as Everett Golson in front of your judgmental friends, you need to familiarize yourself with...
View ArticleYou Are a Hater Just for Reading This Headline: The Curious State of Notre...
“Everybody has great offseasons, right?” asked Brian Kelly at his first preseason press conference a couple of weeks ago. “Who doesn’t have a great offseason?” He’s right, of course; August is peak...
View ArticleReverse Engineering a Champion: Five Traits That the Last 10 College Football...
Last weekend brought the release of the preseason Associated Press poll, the last and most official of the deluge of August college football rankings,8 and the one that best reflects the national...
View Article2015 College Football Weekly Watchability Rankings
Perhaps the noblest cause of our time is the movement to eliminate fall weddings, which inevitably occur on Saturdays and thus prevent attendees from watching college football. While this righteous...
View Article2015 College Football Predictions: Our Playoff, Champion, and Heisman Picks,...
Congratulations, cherished readers: You did it! You survived the seeming eternity of the college football offseason, and now here you stand, mere hours away from the return of Actual Football. Playoff...
View ArticleCollege Football Week 1 Wrap: Chosen Rosen Soars for UCLA, Alabama Finds an...
Don’t worry, cherished readers: Matt Hinton, your trusty weekly wrapper, will be back in full force next Monday to take you through everything you need to know about the main events. This weekend,...
View ArticleNotre Dame Credit Check: When Will It Be Safe to Trust the Fighting Irish?
Notre Dame: Either you love the Fighting Irish, hate them, or feel a curious ambivalence toward them not represented by the prevailing love/hate binary. But regardless, can you trust them? After...
View ArticleCollege Football Week 2 Wrap: It’s Always the Quiet Ones
Just as Week 1 of the 2015 season generated more entertainment value than its schedule seemed prepared to produce, so, too, did Week 2 underpromise and overdeliver. Man, did this weekend have some...
View ArticleWho’s That Guy? Notre Dame’s New QB (and Savior) DeShone Kizer!
Who’s That Guy is an ongoing Grantland series and an orientation tool to use in the vast sports landscape. And, hey, college football is part of that landscape! Who is he? DeShone Kizer, Notre Dame’s...
View ArticleThe Pac-12 and the Smartest Way to Pay College Athletes
The debate over paying college athletes has always had too many dead ends to ever really get anywhere. How do you do it? Who pays the salaries? Which players get paid, and how much? Is there some kind...
View ArticleCollege Football Week 3 Wrap: 10 Takeaways From the Weekend That Was
First, a formal apology for the recommendation that you skip the early games this past weekend in favor of human contact, errands, and the marquee games later in the day. If this suggestion caused...
View ArticleEverett Golson Status Report: Are the Noles Getting What They Need From Their...
Before we talk about Everett Golson’s 2015 performance, let’s quickly go back to Florida State’s media day in August. Head coach Jimbo Fisher hadn’t named the winner of the quarterback competition...
View ArticleCollege Football Week 5 Preview: Welcome to October
The great news is, if you’re reading this, you made it through the dregs of that dreadful September slate and into the best month of the college football season. The bad news is, your life doesn’t...
View ArticleDefenders of the Valley: How Clemson’s D Is Carrying the Tigers
The way cupcake-laden September schedules are assembled, most contenders have logged only one or two relevant games to date, and with a couple of notable exceptions — it’s probably safe to assume that...
View ArticleCollege Football Week 6 Preview: Give In to Your Anger
Statistically speaking, by this point in the season, it’s likely at least one weekend has gone terribly, terribly wrong for your college football team. Close to 85 percent of FBS programs have already...
View ArticleThe Grass Gambit: Remember When Notre Dame Tried to Slow Reggie Bush 10 Years...
A decade ago, it was futile to ask any human being to stop Reggie Bush. Charlie Weis knew this. The first-year Notre Dame coach had led the unheralded 2005 Fighting Irish to a surprising 4-1 start,...
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