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Game Balls: Happy Canada Day
Another happy Friday to you all, a pleasant July, and a merry Canada Day to our neighbors up north. Much like America’s own Independence Day, Canada Day celebrates the nation’s gradual departure from the British Empire with the ratification of the 1867 Constitution Act. See, before England craved isolationism, it sought to unify the world […]
Bovada Heisman Odds: Latvia’s Chief Export
Bovada released updated Heisman odds Thursday. These will not impact the illustrious CFB Huddle Heisman Top 10 projection, but they might save the struggling Latvian economy. Despite what some sports media outlets are likely to tell you about these Heisman odds, which have LSU running back Leonard Fournette at a 9/2 favorite, they are not […]
Remembering Who’s Now, The Summer of ESPN Discontent
Who's Now: two words that send a chill up the spine of many a sports fan. Summertime brings with it a lull in the sports calendar, but the 24/7 sports #content machine does not relent with the conclusion of the NBA Finals. As the flagship of the sports media fleet, ESPN has attempted various gimmicks […]
Joker Phillips vs Lane Kiffin: Who Meme’d Better?
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer dipped into his SEC connections Wednesday, hiring former Kentucky head coach and Florida assistant Joker Phillips, via the good folks at Eleven Warriors. Former Kentucky head coach Joker Phillips joins Urban Meyer's staff at Ohio State in support role. https://t.co/4ztigLrdTa — Eleven Warriors (@11W) June 30, 2016 Meyer continues […]
What If Wednesday: Could Florida Have Won The SEC With Jeff Driskel?
NFL.com’s Around The League blog recently posited the question: “Is Jeff Driskel making a run at the 49ers starting gig?” Say what you will of the San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback situation, but Driskel inserting himself into the conversation as a professional starter speaks to the remarkable turnaround of a career written off not long ago. […]
Nick Bowers Dunk Is My Motivation
Penn State tight end Nick Bowers, I hereby declare that you are the third person to whom I dedicate my next dunk — which will also be my first in many, many years. I recently set a goal to regain the ability to dunk a basketball, which I could do as a 17-year-old. Thanks to […]
Heisman Top 10: Big Ten Heisman Contenders in 2016
The 2016 season marks the 10-year anniversary of the last Big Ten Heisman recipient. Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith won the 2006 edition of the award in a landslide, beating out Arkansas running back Darren McFadden 2,540 votes to 878. It stood as the Big Ten’s biggest rout of the SEC all the way until […]
Can A Wave of Success Carry Coastal Carolina into FBS Unknown?
Good times are rolling for Coastal Carolina athletics. Chanticleer baseball has long been high quality, but stuck in Joe Flacco territory — no one would call it elite. That’s changed over a few weeks this summer, with Coastal Carolina advancing to the first College World Series in program history, and Saturday, beating TCU for a […]
Oregon Football No Longer Strikes Fear
Almost as integral to Oregon football’s success of the last decade as its hyper-speed offense or multifaceted defense is fear. Specifically, few programs invoked fear in opponents quite as effectively before a game even kicked off, winning the mental battle before the physical contest on field. From 2009 through 2014, the bright yellow in Oregon’s […]
Brandon Harris Dubs LSU “Best Team;” Pressure on Tigers?
Per Ross Dellenger of The Advocate, LSU quarterback Brandon Harris upped the ante on lofty preseason expectations awaiting the Tigers in 2016. Brandon Harris on doubters: "I feel like I have the best arm in college football, the best team in college football" pic.twitter.com/QzniCB2lZL — Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) June 24, 2016 Harris’ assertion that LSU […]
Game Balls: An Ode to Preseason Magazines
‘Tis the season for preseason magazines. Digital dissemination of news has largely rendered print publications obsolete. I was somewhat late to make the switch, but in the last few years, ever new book I’ve purchased was through Kindle, and my subscriptions to both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times are digital. College football […]
Talking About OJ Simpson and Football
The OJ Simpson murder trial gained renewed attention in 2016 with ESPN’s gripping documentary, OJ: Made in America, and the FX docudrama The People vs. OJ Simpson. The FX series embodied the absurdity of the media circus surrounding the case, in particular the trial itself, which functioned as a precursor to the reality TV craze […]
Game Balls: Haters Will Say Minnesota Faked Kicks
Haters will say CFB Huddle’s Game Balls concept is a weak facsimile of other weekly rundown column elsewhere. Thanks to the Minnesota Golden Gophers, I’ve learned to brush it off. Enjoy the best of the week in college football. Haters Will Say These Kicks Are Faked Forget Dude Perfect: University of Minnesota specialists turned the […]
An Unlikely National Championship Contender in 2016?
CampusInsider.com’s Pete Fiutak spotlighted an intriguing national championship contender Thursday. Wait until the conclusion of the video for a very quick but meaningful assessment. Just how bold an evaluation is Fiutak’s of Fordham as national championship material? Consider the conference in which the Rams play, the Patriot League, only began awarding scholarships in 2013 — […]