The Little Mermaid is the first thing that comes to my mind amid the Kansas State band director’s suspension, as announced Tuesday by the university. Some time in the ’90s, I can still vividly remember seeing a local TV news piece, spotlighting some morality organization, that had Disney in its sights over The Little Mermaid‘s […]
The Heisman candidacy of Kenny Trill was college football’s answer to a summertime chart-topper from a one-hit pop wonder. Former Texas A&M quarterback Kenny Hill could certainly write some new hits at TCU. He’ll spend 2015 out of the spotlight, playing understudy to another quarterback who successfully reinvented himself, Trevone Boykin. Until then, though, his […]
A popular narrative emanating from the Big 12 Conference’s exclusion from the inaugural College Football Playoff was that had the roles of Baylor and TCU been instead played by Oklahoma and Texas, things would have shaken out much differently. With Big 12 media days afoot Monday in Dallas, the conference is looking at yet another […]
The worm has turned in the Big 12. With its 48-14 blowout loss Saturday to Baylor—at home, no less—Oklahoma is completely eliminated from conference contention. That makes 2014 the fourth consecutive season in which neither Texas nor Oklahoma wins an outright Big 12 championship.
Sorry, Oklahoma. You’ve been voted off of College Football Playoff Island.
I love most any Oklahoma-Kansas State meetings in part because it’s an opportunity to talk about Star Wars. For those without nerd inclinations, apologies up front. When Oklahoma head Bob Stoops and K-State’s venerable sideline general Bill Snyder meet, there’s the obvious Student vs. Teacher angle that highlighted the original Star Wars. Darth Vader, Sith […]
A 20-14 Auburn win at Kansas State Thursday night could have gone much differently. What if Tyler Lockett had caught a first-half pass from Jake Waters in the end zone? What if kicker Jack Cantele had made his three missed field-goal attempts? What if, what if, what if.
I have long had a fascination with horror movies. As such, I am inherently terrified of cornfields. As many a horror movie has demonstrated, nothing good can come of wandering into one. And it makes sense when you think about it. Cornfields are often in isolated locations and function as living mazes. Get stuck in […]
Reddit CFB published one of those infograph maps, based on scientific* data, to determine college football’s most hated team in each of the 50 states.
Welcome to the brave, new world of college football. Talk of a playoff has persisted for as long as I’ve followed the sport, and the dream is realized in the 2014 season.
Social media’s unquestioned stars of the past few days are Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury and ABC quasi-reality-game-show hybrid The Bachelorette. College football Twitter was abuzz Saturday about the former’s Instagram photos, taken at the Preakness.
