Various college football conspiracy theorists should have a field day with the Associated Press selecting Stanford utility-man Christian McCaffrey as its 2015 National Player of the Year. Since the award’s inauguration in 1998, 14 of its 18 recipients also won that year’s Heisman Trophy. The general consensus between Heisman and AP voters for the last […]
It’s OK, Steve Harvey. It’s easy to understand how a broadcaster could announce the wrong winner during a live event. But imagine, if you will, a college football world wherein the most spectacular finishes got the Steve Harvey treatment. On second thought, why imagine when I can give you just that! “Fourth-and-five, the national championship […]
The second-ever College Football Playoff came together as perfectly as could be imagined, and yet, din for an 8-team Playoff is loud. Spinal Tap loud. When it comes to major media outlets and personalities pushing for Playoff expansion, it goes to 11. USA Today alone published two columns on an 8-team Playoff in the same […]
Saturday, one of either Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey or Deshaun Watson will join the most illustrious and exclusive club of college football as Heisman Trophy winners. For the runners-up, supports may well argue their inclusion on another roster comprised of some of the sport’s all-time greats: that of notable Heisman snubs. Each of this year’s […]
Stanford head coach David Shaw ended his Pac-12 Championship postgame press conference Saturday in unusual fashion. “I have a question for you guys,” he said to the gathered media. “Has anybody ever seen a game where two different players rush for a touchdown, throw for a touchdown and receive a touchdown?” Before Kevin Hogan and […]
Conference championship weekend marks the last hurrah of the college football regular season. Cue the music. What a wild, fun ride it’s been from the last weekend of August, when Montana and North Dakota State officially kicked off the 2015 season, to this point in December. Coincidentally, Montana plays North Dakota State again in Saturday’s […]
“It’s USC vs. The Farm again.” Moments after beating one rival, UCLA, USC linebacker Su’a Cravens turned attention to another rival, Stanford. USC-Stanford may not have the history of USC-Notre Dame, or the animosity of USC-UCLA or Stanford-Cal, but the Trojans vs. Cardinal series has fast become one of the Pac-12’s most intriguing. And this […]
Heading into Championship Week, the Heisman Trophy pack has a clear top five — and one pace-setter ahead of them all. Alabama running back Derrick Henry’s spectacle against rival Auburn put the junior in pole position with just one week to go. Henry’s one-man show Saturday was reminiscent of the ubiquitous martial-arts movie scenes, wherein […]
So, this is it: the one before The One. Tuesday’s is the last time the College Football Playoff committee plays pretend with the rankings before issuing the actual final four and bowl pairings. Heading into Championship Week, at least one of the four spots is spoken for. The ACC, Big Ten and SEC Championship Games […]
College football’s is the shortest of all major sports seasons. It was less than three months ago that the first Saturday Six-Pack of 2015 toasted the beginning of a new campaign. Less than three months. Neither the NBA nor MLB have reached the All-Star Break by this juncture in their season. College basketball has yet […]
I’ll cop to being among those who worried about the College Football Playoff damaging the regular season. Two years into the system, I feel rather foolish. Now, I still have reservations about the slippery expansion slope and will gladly cite the FCS Playoffs growth from 16 to 20 to 24 teams in the last six […]
Allow me to level with you, dear CFB Huddle reader: Getting the Heisman forecast to 10 players at this point is a struggle. Early returns from Week 12 suggest an outlook as concrete as it’s been all season. Were the Heisman ceremony tomorrow, I surmise we’d see five invitees: Derrick Henry, Deshaun Watson, Dalvin Cook, […]
Stanford head coach David Shaw may have summarized Playoff hysteria best, saying “media…sit and stew and look for somebody to blame.” With the Pac-12 perhaps eliminated from a spot in the tournament, the conference’s 9-game league schedule became an immediate and easy target for blame despite evidence to the contrary. Internal groundswell against the Pac-12 […]
Every outcome in college football is a referendum on a bigger picture topic, and the biggest picture of all is the College Football Playoff. Thus when Stanford and Utah lost to Pac-12 opponents Saturday, complicating the conference’s hope of sending a representative to the College Football Playoff, an overarching referendum had to be made. But […]
November performances define Heisman Trophy candidacies. Front-runners like Alabama running back Derrick Henry and Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson are hitting their stride at just the right time, both to pace their teams’ title aspirations and bolster their case for college football’s most prestigious, individual award. Derrick Henry now has a rush TD in 15 straight […]