Snakes In My Pants

This Friday night in Chattanooga, the Appalachian State Mountaineers will face the University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens in the NCAA FCS (formerly Div I-AA football championship.) This is the same Appalachian State that beat University of Michigan shocking the ranked Division I football world. As they finish the season against UD, they [...]

Sparta and Athens . . . The Capulets and the Montagues . . . Lincoln and Douglas . . . The Sox and Yanks
What is a rivalry?
One dictionary defines rivalry as, “a competitive or antagonistic state or condition.”  But in sports, a rivalry means so much more, especially to the fans.  Perhaps no sport thrives [...]

The #2 in America is 2-6 since October 1.  Let that sink in for a second. 
It happened again on Saturday night when the feel-good story of 2007 ended with Mizzou’s win over #2 Kansas in Arrowhead Stadium during the “Border War.” 
The talking heads will tell you this is the year of parity and point out [...]

11!
11 times this year a top-5 team lost to an unranked team.  The previous high for a season was 8, and there are still two weeks left.  The last two major upsets happened over the last 4 days as #2 Oregon and #3 Oklahoma went down to unranked teams, opening the door for teams like [...]

I have just finished my second viewing of the brand-new HBO documentary on the Michigan vs. Ohio State rivalry. It is fantastic and well worth a watch. If you have HBO, it’s playing a bunch of times between tomorrow though the end of November and into December. Great stuff about the 10 [...]

Mixed reports and speculation out of Ann Arbor indicate Michigan Head Coach Lloyd Carr could retire on Monday, after Michigan’s regular-season finale at home against the hated Ohio State Buckeyes.
Notre Dame, Ohio State, and USC fans weep at the thought . . .

The craziest year in college football continued on Saturday. 
-Notre Dame lost to Air Force and the Irish officially hit rock bottom . . . until they lose to Duke on Saturday.
-Most of the temporary pretenders (UConn, USF, BC, Ohio State, Michigan, Arkansas) have been knocked off their high perch, leaving what appears to FINALLY be [...]

With the NFL rolling along full-throttle, MLB Hot Stove action heating up, and college oblong-ball as crazy as ever, folks might’ve been unaware that COLLEGE BASKETBALL began it’s regular season this week. My grad alma mater and pre-season #11 DUKE kicks off on Friday with one of it’s familiar local patsies (NC Central), and [...]

The craziest year in college football continued on Saturday. 
-Notre Dame lost to Navy for the first time in 44 years.  Congrats to the gutty Navy players, but the bigger story is ND Coach Charlie Weis finally “losing the crowd.”  The ND football program is now at an all-time low, and regardless of whose fault it [...]

As we talked about in a previous post, in order to keep membership in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (Formerly I-A), a school needs to have to achieve an average attendance of 15,000 once in a rolling two year period.
Here are the nine schools, plus one on the bubble, of these attendance requirements.  These [...]