Did ya hear? Nick Saban said a bad word! CFB Huddle’s rarely-heard-from guest columnist The SEC Bro broke down Steph Curry winning NBA MVP in the spring, and wrote the following: I guess he did play at Davidson, though, and they’re on Alabama’s schedule the week before the Iron Bowl. Coach Saban says that’ll be […]
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 […]
Anarchy! Chaos! Welcome to another week of college football, and welcome to another round of projections for the College Football Playoff ranking. Four of last week’s Top 10 lost in Week 11: No. 6 Baylor, No. 7 Stanford, No. 9 LSU and No. 10 Utah. Of the four, only Baylor lost to a ranked opponent. […]
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 […]
It’s rather ridiculous, the importance our society places on sports. I felt helpless as reports of the horrific terrorist attacks carried out Friday in Paris began to surface. I still do. I also couldn’t shake the feeling that spending Saturday watching and writing about college football as if it anything more than a frivolous endeavor […]
Earlier this week, as the first reports from the Mizzou student protest began trickling into the national consciousness, I decried the all-too-prevalent practice of hate-clicking. News as an industry is in dire straits, as Timothy Egan perfectly describes in Friday’s New York Times. The knee-jerk reactionary tone free from reporting, context or curiosity fosters the […]
College football 2015 is in its stretch run, with just three full weeks remaining. The College Football Playoff picture isn’t quite yet taking an actual shape. As last week’s upheaval proved, fluidity defines the current state, and one Saturday can throw everything we think we know into flux. Saturday’s lineup presents the possibility of more […]
The second College Football Playoff ranking drops today at 7 p.m. ET. It’s hardly March Madness Selection Sunday, but I’m still geeked. A few noteworthy teams I anticipate being left out of the top 10 are Michigan State, Utah and North Carolina, all of which sport losses to teams well outside of the Playoff conversation. […]
Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson was on the Heisman Trophy radar before Week 10, but was certainly not in the same air space as TCU’s Trevone Boykin or LSU’s Leonard Fournette. His ascension before the stretch run, however, emphasizes the importance of November over September and October when it comes to college football’s top individual award. […]
College basketball has March Madness; college football has November Nuttiness. And buddy, is it ever in full effect. The College Football Playoff and Heisman Trophy races were both thrown into flux on a chaotic first week of the college football campaign’s final full month. Welcome to Four Downs, and welcome to a month of pure […]
For every college football fan who hears nails running down a chalkboard every time a crowd breaks into an “S-E-C!” chant, or any conspiracy theorist who sees ranks as tools to prop up a certain conference, your frustration can be traced to one game. Alabama vs. LSU is the first matchup of the 2015 college […]
Did ya hear about this Jarrett Stidham? If you know anything about Baylor’s 31-24 win Thursday at Kansas State, you know the true freshman passed for 419 yards and three touchdowns in his first career start. Freshman Jarrett Stidham's 419 pass yards tonight (in his 1st career start) are the most by a Baylor QB […]
Week 10 features arguably the best, top-to-bottom slate of any one college football Saturday yet this season, with College Football Playoff preliminary Top 4 showdown Alabama-LSU headlining. Not that the nighttime tussle in Tuscaloosa needed any additional stakes. LSU controls its destiny in the SEC West, while Alabama has been surging since losing to Ole […]
Trevone Boykin’s play for TCU might drop your jaw, raise your eyebrows, quicken your heart-rate. If you’re West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen, all you can do is just give the quarterback props. For the first time in several weeks, LSU running back Leonard Fournette is not in command of the CFB Huddle Heisman Top […]
October attrition starts to whittle down college football’s contenders. The legitimate competitors for conference supremacy and individual honors are revealed as schedules start tightening up. Don’t be surprised when several of the CFB Huddle October Superlatives honorees are in contention for national awards by season’s end — and that includes the Heisman Trophy. Trevone Boykin […]
