Based on the results of my computer, the top five upsets of 2018 were:
Akron 39, Northwestern 45 (September 15, 2018)
Maine 5, Central Michigan 17 (September 22, 2018)
Virginia Tech 35, Old Dominion 49 (September 22, 2018)
Western Kentucky 30, Louisiana Tech 15 (November 24, 2018)
Ohio State...
Dick Tomey, former Arizona football coach, dies at 80
I will always hold Coach Tomey's work in high regard. I got to see a lot of him while I was teaching at San Jose State University. He inherited a team that was an absolute mess (Lowest APR in the FBS, a lot of crime (including a player after...
The biggest upsets (defined as the largest deviations from my computer fit) in the 2017 FBS season were all posted in the Month of October:
11-Oct-17 South Alabama 19 Troy 8
13-Oct-17 Clemson 24 Syracuse 27
28-Oct-17...
Why the Ivy League might finally be ready to compete in the playoffs
This is just an opinion piece suggesting that the Ivy League *should* consider participation in the playoffs. I wish they would. But I doubt some sports writer will convince them to.
https://deadspin.com/phil-knights-money-couldnt-keep-oregon-out-of-college-f-1828059887
College football—any sport really, but especially college sports—does not have a long memory. Shiny recruiting classes fade and go their separate ways, once-great coaches are fired after a couple bad...
... The Occidental College Tigers.
Oxy plays in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics Conference (SCIAC) at the NCAA DIII level. They opened 2017 with losses in three of their first four scheduled games. The game they did not lose ... was canceled. Then, following their third loss...
People are cutting the chord on cable television right, left, and center. In our house, for example, the only reason we still have cable is to get a wide variety of live sports.
So how do people get their sports? Maybe there are some strategies people have that will be eye-openers for others.
According to my computer, the top ten upsets from last season are:
10-Sep-16 Central Michigan 30 Oklahoma St 27
02-Sep-16 Army 28 Temple 13
01-Oct-16 San Diego St 24 South Alabama 42
15-Oct-16...
I'm watching the CUSA game, in which there are 83 combined points before the fourh quarter has even begun . . ad all I can think is
Both of these defenses are better than Notre Dame's.
These ratings are really meaningless, as the only even slightly meaningful comparisons are between the pairs of teams that have played one another (with the exceptions of Marshall, who has yet to play, and Hawaii, who has played two teams.) But the all too early TFS conference ratings following...