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 […]
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Week 5 Saturday Six-Pack: Conference Play Heats Up
Conference season kicking into full gear across the nation means nothing but loaded Saturdays for the next nine weeks; well, at least until the week before Thanksgiving. Thanks, SEC. Week 5 ushers in October, the meat of the college football season, with some tasty offerings from early conference play. Four of the Power Five conferences […]
Week 3 Saturday Six-Pack: Ole Miss-Alabama Headlines
College football’s Week 3 slate is much sexier on paper than last Saturday’s offerings. Then again, Week 2 gave us Toledo upsetting Arkansas; FCS Jacksonville State taking Auburn to overtime; and another BYU Hail Mary finish. Hmm…maybe the moral of the story is don’t complain about a college football Saturday. Oh, who am I kidding? […]
Week 1 Saturday Six-Pack: Alabama-Wisconsin Headlines First College Football Saturday
Allow me to welcome you to the first college football Saturday with a confession: I kinda love summer and I’ll miss it now that autumn’s creeping in. In the many months between the end of college basketball season — I’m as much a hoops junkie as I am football — I get accustomed to spending […]
Week 1 Saturday Six-Pack: College Football Picks and Previews
Welcome to the first installment of The College Football Huddle’s season-long college football picks and previews column, the Saturday Six-Pack.