My AP top-25 football ballot: Alabama and K State on top, Oregon jumps Notre...
Highlights … * Lots of ballot smoke, little ballot fire. No. 1 (on my ballot) Alabama trailed, but won. No. 3 Notre Dame trailed, but won. No. 5 Florida trailed, but won. No. 4 Oregon almost trailed,...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Kansas State is No. 1, followed by Oregon and...
* Couldn’t help but notice that the four teams involved in the marquee Nov. 3 games had trouble getting started this week: Alabama fell behind A&M 20-0; LSU didn’t take control against Mississippi...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Notre Dame is No. 1, followed by Alabama (as...
I have a flight to catch and am running behind due to unreal traffic between Eugene and Portland on Saturday night. (What should have been a two-hour drive instead took four.) Here are ballot...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Notre Dame remains No. 1, Oregon moves to No. 2
Highlights … * Oregon took over the No. 2 position from Alabama on the strength of its win at No. 15 (my ballot) Oregon State. The Crimson Tide’s 49-0 victory over an Auburn team that’s winless in the...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Notre Dame remains No. 1, Alabama climbs
Highlights from the final ballot of the regular season. Next one is due the night of the National Championship Game. And please note: USA Today usually releases the coaches’ final ballost on the Monday...
View ArticleUSA Today/Coaches top-25 ballots: Oh, the homerism!
Welcome to one of my favorite posts of the year, an examination of the hypocrisy and blatant homerism in the Coaches top-25 poll. You know, the poll that makes up one-third of the formula that...
View ArticleCollege football: Bowl picks (Alabama wins; Notre Dame covers)
Officially, the bowl season lasts a little more than three weeks, from Dec. 15 through Jan. 7. That timeframe is a tad misleading, however, because two games are played five days earlier than all...
View ArticleMy final AP top-25 football ballot: Alabama’s No. 1, followed by Oregon and...
Submitted the following ballot Monday night after Alabama thumped Notre Dame in the National Championship Game … * Spent no time filling out the top line with Bama and slotted Oregon into the No. 2...
View ArticleBCS football: Winners and losers from the bowl season
The biggest winner from the 2012-13 bowl season: Hope … Hope for lasting and significant change in major college football hiring practices. We went 14 years without an African-American head coach...
View ArticleMy ridiculously early college football top-25 for 2013: Alabama’s No. 1,...
Will be updated, if necessary, following NFL Draft deadline … and again after spring practice … and again in August. Also considered (in no particular order): Miami, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon State,...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 preseason ballot: Alabama is No. 1
Submitted my ballot to the AP office earlier today, and it’s posted below with comments on each team. I’ll update with AP rankings (for comparative purposes) when the preseason poll is published Aug....
View ArticleCollege football 2013: Games to Watch
* Second in my series of articles previewing the season … With hundreds of college football games on television this season, it’s impossible to watch ‘em all and difficult to know which qualify as...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Alabama is No. 1; Clemson, LSU climb
A synopsis of what you will read in this space this week, next week and every week through Dec. 8. My preseason ballot was a projection of where I believe the teams will finish. Now that the season is...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Oregon, UCLA rise; LSU falls
* Highlights … * No change at the top: Alabama remained No. 1, followed by Clemson. But there was significant shuffling below the top two. * LSU was moved out of the No. 3 position after TCU lost to...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Tweaks near the top and bottom; Alabama remains...
Highlights … * Not many changes this week due to the lack of meaningful results: There was only one game matching AP top-25 teams: Stanford’s win over No. 23 (with an asterisk) Arizona State....
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Alabama remains No. 1, Oregon climbs, Missouri...
* Highlights from the ballot … More substantive results this week than all previous weeks combined — at least, that’s how it feels — with three games matching ranked teams and seven ranked teams...
View ArticleMy AP top-25 football ballot: Florida State, Auburn climb; Oregon falls;...
Highlights … * There were major changes this week as a result of the carnage in the SEC and nationally: Nine teams in the AP top-25 poll lost. * After much thought, I kept Alabama in the top spot. The...
View ArticleMy final AP top-25 football ballot: Alabama’s No. 1, followed by Oregon and...
Submitted the following ballot Monday night after Alabama thumped Notre Dame in the National Championship Game … * Spent no time filling out the top line with Bama and slotted Oregon into the No. 2...
View ArticleBCS football: Winners and losers from the bowl season
The biggest winner from the 2012-13 bowl season: Hope … Hope for lasting and significant change in major college football hiring practices. We went 14 years without an African-American head coach...
View ArticleMy ridiculously early college football top-25 for 2013: Alabama’s No. 1,...
Will be updated, if necessary, following NFL Draft deadline … and again after spring practice … and again in August. Also considered (in no particular order): Miami, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon State,...
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