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Conference USA Game Picks
Week 9 Conference USA action kicks off tonight as [9] Rice heads across town to take on the #17 [1] Houston Cougars. Saturday's matchup between [3] SMU and [4]Tulsa could hold great significance in the C-USA West race, and the high flying Golden Eagles of #25 [2] Southern Miss will head into El...
Realignment Evening Update: Conference Consolidation Might Include Not-So-Superconferences
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS The OU board of regents had a meeting today and authorized president David Boren to take action on realignment. That's the same action Texas A&M's board took with its president Bowen Loftin prior to it joining the SEC. Boren says he's has conversations with the Pac-12 that were...
The 2010-2011 Bowl Schedule- Is 35 Too Many?
The WWL released the 2010-2011 bowl schedule today and we are staring down the barrel of 35 games over the course of 24 days. Over at Barking Carnival srr50 already pointed out how this is another example of the WWL ruling the universe. All true. As for the 35 games themselves the issue is a...
2010 NFL Draft: Part I- Conference Talent Levels
In the time that has passed since the NFL Draft I have been sitting here plugging numbers into spreadsheets and trying to extrapolate some usable information out of it all. I would have liked to get this on the street sooner but the spare time took a hit this week as I was otherwise occupied...
OFD 2009 Preseason Preview- CUSA
Conference USA will be the best Non-BCS conference in 2009. There are a handful of dangerous teams in the league this year that will push each other in conference play as well as some BCS conference foes in non-conference games. CUSA EastSouthern Miss- The Golden Eagles are my most likely BCS...
2009 Talent Analysis Part V- The Conferences #7 The Non-BCS Conferences
Some good football gets played in the Non-BCS Conferences and they are home to a handful of fringe type "spoiler" teams. I enjoy keeping an eye on these conferences and they do play some games during the season that are hidden gems. Not to mention having a good working knowledge of the upper level...
At Least We're not...
UAB. This school is pathetic even by Conference USA standards, whether it is their lack of attendance for nearly all its sports, being more classless than Memphis fans, or taking advantage of 15 year old prodigies UAB fails at nearly all aspects.The newest addition to a list of UAB embarrassments...
Hey Kool-Aid ... OH YEAH!
Between Jevan Snead, Houston Nutt, the 2008 Liberty Bowl, Derek Pegues, Jerrell Powe, andsome greased-up, slimmed-down Norm Chow wanna-be that Southern Miss hired, the optimism about football in Mississippi is reaching just absurd levels.Let's call it the Kool-Aid quotient. Last weekend, my cousin...
Some give and take from the Courier-Journal Cardinal fan blog
After a bit of a snarky push-back by me of a recent post by Tom Heiser at the Louisville Courier-Journal fan blog the other day, he wrote me a nice email very complimentary of A Sea of Blue and issued a polite rebuttal to to my comments in defense of this post by Chris Diggs at the C-J Wildcats...
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