College Football – UCLA Bruins Maul Texas Longhorns
Every year in college football, there is one weekend that gets dubbed Upset Weekend, wherein several top teams fall to underdog opponents. This weekend was not Upset Weekend—it was just nearly Upset Weekend, with Alabama only pulling off a win over Arkansas (who at number 10 was only an underdog compared to ’Bama’s number 1) [...]
Texas Runs Over Rice
Ah, the first Sunday of September. Unless you’re one of the unfortunate (?) saps who have to wait till Labor Day night to see your team play, you’re spending today rehashing and parsing your team’s performance, rating it against the pre-season hype and your personal expectations, and recalibrating your hopes for the season. Yes, college football is [...]
Big Twelve Dead; Long Live the Big Twelve
Colorado has already jumped ship to the Pac-10. Nebraska is poised to announce a move to the Big 10. The only question left is what happens to Texas? And I don’t mean just the University of Texas at Austin, AKA the Texas Longhorns, AKA my alma mater; I mean all the schools in the state [...]
USC Hires Lane Kiffin from Tennessee
So one big college program fills its head coaching gap, only to leave another one empty. The big news in college football this morning is that Lane Kiffin has resigned from Tennessee, after only one year as its head coach (replacing ousted long-timer Phillip Fulmer), to take the head coaching job at USC. Southern Cal, remember, [...]
Texas Tech Hires Tommy Tuberville
Texas Tech has found their replacement for recently fired head coach Mike Leach in Tommy Tuberville, the ex-head coach of Auburn. This is an interesting hire for a couple reasons, all of them equally exciting and perturbing for a Texas fan. (Remember, Texas Tech is in the same division as Texas and Oklahoma, the Big [...]
Elena’s World: Congratulations, Crimson Tide
Wow. Just wow. That’s all I can say about that game.
When you think about what a national championship game should be and what it should have, this match-up was it. And it came down to the last three minutes on the field, and it was so full of ups and downs for both sides that everyone watching it—at least everyone with an emotional attachment to one of the teams—got taken for a roller coaster ride of sky-rattling highs and disemboweling lows. Just so we’re clear, I’m a Texas girl. I bleed burnt orange, and I am damn proud of that fact. And this is me saying Congratulations, Alabama. You won. You won an honest game, and you should be proud of yourselves.
More thoughts from a Texas fan after the jump…
Texas Tech Fires Mike Leach
I know we don’t do a whole lot of sports reporting here at BSC, but if any of you have been following my sporadic college football column installments, then you may be interested to hear about this shake-down. Yesterday, Texas Tech fired head coach Mike Leach just before the hearing to determine whether he was [...]
Elena’s World: Bowl Season – the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Since (Division I) college football doesn’t have a playoff system, what fans get instead is Bowl Season. It coincides with the holidays, providing a welcome respite—be it for Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanza, or Festivus for the rest of us—from shopping and parties and visiting relatives, and makes the season more palatable for the (unconverted) Scrooges and the Grinches of the world.
I’ve got a few thoughts on the last 10 days of football plus a PSA about the bowl confidence game after the jump…
Elena’s World – Texas vs. ‘Bama vs. the BCS
Saturday, December 5, 2009, was the kind of day college football is all about. It had the upset of the top-ranked team in the nation, near-upsets in games with bowl implications, games that came down to literally the last second of play…everything.
More after the jump…
