A sports blog by and for Midwest Sports Fans
Week 13 of the college football season is upon us, and we’re at the home stretch. The turkey and stuffing and his been eaten, bowl games are just around the corner, and the final full week of regular season games still what should be very entertaining games for our viewing pleasure.
Week 10 of college football is upon us, bringing yet another exciting week of Saturday action. Last week we saw Nebraska dominate Michigan State, Missouri upset Texas A&M in overtime, Oklahoma beat up on Kansas State, and Stanford beat USC in this season’s best game of the season.
This week we have some more great top 25 action, with the best of the best being, of course, the LSU-Alabama showdown on Saturday night. So settle down, relax, and get ready for another great weekend of college football.
Week five of college football in 2011 is upon us.
Last week we saw Oklahoma State narrowly beat Texas A&M, Clemson pull an upset over Florida State, Illinois escape an upset, and LSU take the No. 1 ranking away from Oklahoma. This week more exciting and entertaining college football games are on their way, so settle down, relax, and enjoy your weekend.
Here are some of the marquee games to pay attention to this week (with additional spreads and picks here), then the entire college football TV schedule for week 5.
Recently, the SEC announced its decision to get rid of the divisional format, partly in response to the SEC West getting shut out of the tournament last year and partly in response to the annual absurdity of how the conference tournament is seeded.
For this year, the results of this change will be felt only during the SEC Tournament, as the schedules will remain the same with teams playing their former divisional foes twice and the other six teams just once. Consequently, I’m leaving them split up as I take my first look at each of the major conferences.
The new feature of this year’s tournament is the “First Four”. It was created to allow more teams into the tournament that theoretically deserved to be in it. It also serves to eliminate a few extra 16 seeds early on.
Supposedly, the addition of three new teams in the tournament was supposed to end the post-Selection Show ranting about teams that were snubbed. In reality, only controversy has resulted from these extra teams.
In the post, we provide the TV schedule and announcers assignments for the four “First Four” games and then take one final quick look at the biggest tourney snubs, with the benefit of 36 hours of perspective.
Want a prime example of just how intertwined the Internet and it’s many memes are with our offline lives? Here you go.
In Alabama, where a lot of people probably still use MS-DOS, they are making deliciously clever fan signs based on viral videos.
Well done Crimson Tide fans. Well done.
Standing at 4-4 on the season, the Lane Kiffin Project has been somewhat successful.
The Volunteers have put two different teams on the field this year: one has been reminiscent of last season’s mediocre squad, with a sputtering offensive attack; the other has been a motivated SEC contender that can play with any team in the nation.
A week ago, the Vols had a chance to knock off one of the top teams in the country in Alabama. Tennessee dropped the game 12-10 after a last second blocked field goal by Alabama’s gargantuan defensive tackle Terrence Cody. Finishing games in the fourth quarter has been an Achilles heel for Kiffin’s squad.
