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Week One College Football Roundup

3 September 2008 by Cruiser

The first 2 weeks of the college season are usually a snoozefest, and rest assured, that is intentional.  Big time programs like Ohio State, Oklahoma, and Florida intentionally schedule creampuff opponents from lesser conferences or divisions to act as revenue-creating home games that are little more than organized scrimmages.  There are/were, of course, exceptions such […]

2008 Notre Dame Preview

24 August 2008 by Cruiser

Last season was objectively the worst in the history of America’s most popular college football team.  The Notre Dame Fightin’ Irish set records for losses in a season, sacks allowed, and rushing yards per game (low).  While the special teams and defense were bad, the offense was even worse, ranking at or near last in Division […]

Phil Steele’s 2008 Predictions

2 July 2008 by Cruiser

As I told you last year, Phil Steele’s College Football Preview is the best preseason football magazine in America.  It also ranks as the most accurate magazine over the past 9 years.  Last year, it was not the most accurate partly because he ignored 17 5th-year seniors and a weak schedule and picked BC to finish last […]

2008 College Football Preview

23 June 2008 by Cruiser

I know, it’s VERY early.  But I’m moving to Charlottesville in about 3 weeks, so I’m making my college football predictions now.  The first college football games are in a mere 60 days.  
Real quick, a look at how I did in 2007.  First, 8 of my top 12 finished in the final top 12.  Second, I […]

We Suck, And We Can Prove It - We Rest Our Case!

20 June 2008 by The Borg

I’m laughing on the outside, but crying on the inside at this. Duke Football has officially proven - in a court of law - that it sucks:
A Franklin, Ky., Circuit Court judge sided with a devilishly clever argument and ruled in favor of Duke University yesterday in a breach of contract lawsuit […]

Who needs a conference?!?

19 June 2008 by Cruiser

NBC is extending Notre Dame’s exclusive television contract for five more years.

The contract, which was set to expire in 2010, is extended to 2015 and calls for 7 home games and 1 neutral site game per season aired on NBC.
Notre Dame football is the only team in American sports with an exclusive, national television contract […]

It’s all about TV…

16 May 2008 by Robert Vanasse

Much has been written here on SIMP about overall ambivalence among New England fans toward college sports in general and my alma mater specifically, and there’s no question that when you talk about sports in Boston there is a lot to overshadow any college team. (Although the Red Sox are trying to change that with […]

What DOES the NCAA do?

13 May 2008 by Cruiser

Forgive me if I seem a bit unimpressed by that organization in Indianapolis. 
-Troy Smith takes money from a booster, then leads his team to the National Title game and a Heisman Trophy.  No sanctions for Ohio State, arguably the biggest football program in America.
-Reggie Bush’s parents are given a HOUSE, rent-free, and Reggie Bush is […]

Amazingly, Someone in NJ does know the meaning of compromise. They also know the meaning of “No thanks”.

29 April 2008 by Christopher Confessore

“For self-importance on the grandest of delusional scales, there is no entity in sports quite like Notre Dame football, winner of three games last season, routinely whacked like a piñata in recent bowl games and not a national championship to its name in 20 years, or since the Gipper was about to hand off the […]

Irish nab another star from USC’s back yard

23 April 2008 by Cruiser

Cierre Wood, the nations top overall RB and #3 player overall, from Santa Clara, CA commited to the Irish over the weekend.
Pete “The Poodle” Caroll must be seething.  This is the third year in a row the Irish have beaten out USC for the best player in southern California:  Jimmy Clausen in 2006, Dayne Crist last […]


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