Breaking Bad‘s Jesse Pinkman and the actor who portrayed him, Aaron Paul, have something in common: They’re both all about the Blue. Go BSU!!!! — Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) September 5, 2015 The Smurf Turf is a lot better for you than Heisenberg’s creation, make no mistake — well, unless you’re a Boise State opponent. Former […]
‘Tis the season, my friends. The eager anticipation is almost at a conclusion with opening night of the 2015 FBS football season almost upon us. The 2015 campaign opened with a bang last Saturday, as Montana scored a touchdown in the final seconds to upend four-time defending national champion North Dakota State. The Championship Subdivision […]
Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen proposed an intriguing idea that extends five years of eligibility to players who exceed a certain grade point average. As he said to AL.com, the concept is pretty simple at its core: “Instead of punishing guys for doing bad, why not reward guys for doing good?” Dan Mullen’s pitch […]
Coming off a 2014 season in which the national championship game featured two members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference — Illinois State and four-time reigning champion North Dakota State — small wonder the preseason STATS FCS All-American is heavy on MVFC representation. Five 1st Team FCS All-American nominees hail from the Missouri Valley: Illinois […]
Folks erroneously set the countdown clock to college football at 100 days last week. For those whose calendars are set thusly, I have some strong #WellActually for you: the 2015 FCS season starts Aug. 29 when North Dakota State visits Montana for what should be a tremendous matchup of two of the nation’s best teams. […]
Questions Still Linger in SEC West After Spring Games David Brandt, Associated Press The SEC West has garnered a reputation as college football’s toughest division, and deservedly so: five of the last seven national champions came out of the SEC West, and all seven of its members finished the 2014 season above .500. But with […]
You’ve probably heard the labels “Basketball School” and “Football School” applied to various college athletic programs. However, on the eve of March Madness 2015, an examination of the 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament and the performance of each university’s football counterparts reveals that success in one can coincide with success in the other. Twenty-seven […]
It’s my privilege to welcome you to the first installment of my Super Sweet 16; and no, University Avenue has not purchased the distribution rights to that horrible, mid-2000s MTV monument to greed and teenage delusion. Though, it is worth noting, the intro of that atrocious show featured Louisville Cardinals fan Jennifer Lawrence. This particularly […]
Are you feeling melancholy wash over you with the arrival of a college football-free weekend? Well cheer up, because the FCS Playoffs are afoot, which means your Saturday schedule isn’t yet cleared. In fact, quarterfinals action kicks off tonight with the No. 1 overall seed. Represented among the final eight are every national championship-winning program […]
