Utah State’s blowout of Boise State threw much of the Group of Five picture into flux, but not for at the top. The American Athletic Conference has consistently looked like the cream of the Group of Five crop, and Week 7 only furthered that perception. Memphis’ 37-24 defeat of Ole Miss scored the entire Group […]
Week 6 is college football’s last on the incline of the curve. After this Saturday, it’s all downhill on the race to the postseason. The legendary Beano Cook once quipped on the ESPN college football podcast that each season felt like Casablanca: You start it, and next thing you know, you’re at the airport. In […]
A wild Week 5 that claimed several from the ranks of the unbeaten also brings massive fluctuation to the Heisman Top 10. C.J. Prosise? Out after rushing for just 50 yards in Notre Dame’s 24-22 loss at Clemson. Paul Perkins? UCLA’s bell-to-bell home loss to Arizona State slowed his meteoric rise on the national stage. Chad […]
What a wildly, wonderfully bizarre Saturday Week 4 produced. For those who doubt just how profoundly one week can change the college football, look no further than Oregon. The Ducks kickoff Four Downs for Week 4. First Down: Utah Lays Waste to The Duck Dynasty If Alabama’s one-score loss to Ole Miss in Week 3 […]
Outstanding Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds is on the precipice of setting several (more) college football records in 2015. That’s one reason I tabbed him a Heisman Trophy sleeper. Another is perfectly captured in Gene Wang’s profile of Keenan Reynolds for the Washington Post. Wang highlights the various records Reynolds has already set, as well as […]
Earlier this month, I published the preseason edition of CFB Huddle’s weekly Heisman Top 10. This ranking is a projection of the Heisman voting landscape based on prominence and media buzz. For me personally, there are a number of players whose credentials warrant more discussion for college football’s most prestigious, individual honor. Likewise, there are […]
The College Football Playoff introduced a new competition-within-the-competition last season, with the best of the Group of 5 jockeying for the automatic berth into one of the New Year’s bowl games. The inaugural Group of 5 race went right down to the wire, and the 2015 installment promises more potential for fireworks. Click the page […]
A variety of publications offer their preseason All-American teams this time of year. Each has its own leanings, evident in their individual selections, but it seems that, universally, the Group of Five is neglected. Consider Colorado State’s Rashard Higgins. He led the nation in almost every receiving category a season ago, yet fails to scratch […]
Ohio State and head coach Urban Meyer proved their collective mettle in the 2014 season, winning the first College Football Playoff. However, the Buckeyes’ road to North Texas was very nearly derailed in Week 1 by Ken Niumatalolo’s Navy Midshipmen. Navy led the eventual national champions 14-13 before a second-half Buckeye rally that left Meyer […]
Power Five conference programs, especially brand-name programs, don’t often play road games against Group of Five opponents. So the Miami Hurricanes taking to the road in Week 2 to face Florida Atlantic is generating significant buzz for the Conference-USA program. “I feel very confident that we will have one of the best crowds in school […]
A variety of outlets are filling the 12 remaining weeks before college football season begins with countdowns of the best games, whether nonconference, intra-league or across divisions. Well, I feel pretty confident writing that in the sea of college football listicles, the following — spotlighting the best Group of Five nonconference games in the coming […]
Too many college football rivalries were sacrificed to the gods of television revenue, vis-a-vis conference realignment. From the Backyard Brawl to Oklahoma-Nebraska, the staff at The Student Section breaks down dormant rivalries that need a reboot. Of all the realignment-killed rivalries, the Backyard Brawl’s demise is especially asinine. West Virginia shirking a decades-old, bitter rivalry […]
There’s a reason certain programs like Navy are dedicated to the triple-option: the scheme’s nuances can overcome certain talent deficiencies. The Midshipmen have ridden their version of the triple-option to consistent winning seasons, with the occasional upset of a Notre Dame or other high-level opponent sprinkled in. Last year, Navy took eventual champion Ohio State […]
A veritable smorgasbord of spring games awaits on April 18, the most active Saturday of football since December, and until September. A bevy of sub-plots starring quarterbacks begin to unfold for the college football-watching nation to overanalyze for the remaining offseason. Among Saturday’s most intriguing quarterback story headlines include competitions, like the murky 5-player race […]
Welcome to another edition of CFBHuddle.com’s Friday Q&A, the weekly column that lazily tasks you, the reader, with generating my content for me allows you, the reader, to sound off. With the NCAA Tournament in its second weekend, it’s only fitting that one of this week’s Qs take on the most prominent figure of the […]
