BCS Buster Power Rankings: Ranking the 2011-12 Non-AQ Bowls
Bowl season is upon us, and for the first time since 2005 we lack a BCS Buster playing in one of the five marquee contests. TCU’s opportunity passed immediately, when they were unable to complete their comeback against Baylor after allowing eventual Heisman winner Robert Griffin III to engineer 50 points on their traditionally-stout defense and lost the season opener. Southern Miss lost to Marshall, and then UAB, both indefensible defeats that... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Pre-Bowl Rankings
And sadness descended upon the column, its very reason for existence put into question as the cartel won this installment. But we soldier on, knowing that while this year’s battle may be lost, the war rages on and Busters will live to fight another day. For the first time in six years, the college football regular season ends without a non-AQ conference invoking the auto-bid stipulations and Busting into the BCS party. It was a dark weekend... Read More
Midnight Comes Early in Houston
What in the hell happened in Houston today? What does it feel like to watch your dreams be killed on your home field? What does it feel like to give 17 points in the spread, yet knowing those 17 points would still have left you in a deficit to your opponent? An era ended today at Robertson Stadium, the longtime quarterback on his way out the door and the coach almost certainly soon to follow once they’ve endured the sting of playing down into... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Week 13 Rankings
One week remains in the regular season. One BCS Buster has a direct path to one of the four lesser BCS bowl games. Another has a direct path if the other falters. Either way, no matter what transpires, Championship Weekend will provide a fascinating final set of showdowns to determine who might be this year’s Buster. But while the rest of the country debates “Will they or won’t they?” about a rematch between LSU and Alabama... Read More
BCS Buster Power Rankings: 2011 Week 12 Rankings
Just a few weeks remain in the regular season, and the picture for BCS Busters has increasingly come into focus with each extended weekend of action. We’ve effectively narrowed the pool down to a field of three contestants still in the running. After all, if you’re not at least in the top 25 of the standings at this point, there’s likely no way that a non-AQ team is going to vault from nowhere up into at least the top 16 in the... Read More
