Breakdown: The First 8 Weeks of the 2012 College Football Season
Breakdown: The First 8 Weeks of the 2012 College Football Season If you’ve been watching ESPN GamePlan on Direct4TV, you’ve seen all the biggest NCAA matchups from around the nation. If you’re limited to what your local cable TV station considers relevant, here are a few highlights you may have missed: Week 1 The 2012 College Football season started with a slew of upsets.... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2012 Week 3 Rankings
At the quarter pole of the 2012 regular season, just two contenders remain* in the hunt to nab an elusive and prestigious place in BCS Buster history. After a weekend of massive attrition, the field was winnowed from the seven hopefuls that survived through the first fortnight of the season to this dichotomy. * I know that there are technically three undefeated non-AQ schools.... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2012 Week 2 Rankings
You may (or may not) have been wondering where the BCS Buster Power Rankings were last week. Let’s just say my life was as disheveled as the BCS Buster landscape as the new week began, and both needed a few days to settle out. So we’re picking up this year’s first regular-season installment after the second week, after teams have had time to shake out the cobwebs... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2012 Preseason Preview
This will be the third year that we’ve followed the trials and tribulations of teams outside the power structure trying to burst through onto the big stage. It might very well also be the penultimate opportunity we have to track them, at least in the terms that have been dictated over the past decade by the Bowl Championship Series. But a Buster by any name will be just as... Read More
A Geographic Solution to the Playoff Conundrum
Plenty of people have ranted about playoffs and bowl games and college football’s musical-chair conference realignment. Hell, I’ve ranted plenty about the subject, here and elsewhere around cyberspace. This isn’t a rant decrying the state of the game, nor is it a thinly-veiled diatribe. I come not to bicker about the system, but to offer a solution that has been... Read More
