College Football Preview 2008 News

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SEC Preview: The Dregs

As hierarchical as I-A college football is (indeed, much more so than any other American sport), nowhere is the caste system writ larger than in the SEC, where the good stay good, the bad stay bad, and Phil Fulmer stays comically overweight. Were EPL-style relegation ever to be implemented, you may rest assured that no...

Big Ten Preview: Penn State

First of all, no, I don't have any idea if this is Joe Paterno's last season or not. How can I know if JoePa himself doesn't know? What I do know is that whatever Paterno is doing, it's working. Sort of. The Nittany Lions were an agrarian army awfully arrayed just four seasons ago, and the hoots of derision coming from all...

Big Ten Preview: Illinois, Wildcard

The Fighting Illini were quite the surprise in college football last season, going 9-4 overall and 6-2 in the Big Ten a year after finishing 2-10. The quick turnaround in Champaign resulted in the first Rose Bowl berth for the Illini since 1983, and the team celebrated by getting their butts kicked 49-17 by USC.Still,...

Big Ten Preview: Overrated Players And/Or Concepts

This was way more difficult than it appears. Overrated players are usually at glamor positions on glamor teams; with Beanie Wells definitively not overrated, Penn State's general lack of star power, and everyone predicting doom for Michigan there was little to go around. So, like, I had to go with concepts. But not for...

Big Ten Preview: 2007 Recap

When Big Ten teams got blown out in the Rose Bowl and Not Fiesta Bowl in 2006, it was embarrassing and annoying. Very annoying, as sports commentators from sea to shining sea used it as a foolproof indicator the Big Ten was a dinosaur conference, destined for irrelevance and the scrap heap. This, of course, was the worst...