Tag: UCLA
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Not So Happy Valley: Penn State Fires James Franklin
College football fans are irrational. It’s just a matter of fact. When our team loses a couple games, everyone should be fired and the program should be razed to the ground. When we win a few, we’re all the way back and it’s playoff or bust. That’s just what we do. I know I was…
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CFB Week Six: Preseason Top Two Knocked Out of Playoff Race
College football never disappoints. It just doesn’t. The blog this week practically writes itself. I don’t even know where to start. I’m sitting here in October, not even six weeks after writing my season preview, and three of my four predicted semi-finalists are out. Remember this clown shit? There’s a lot of red ink on…
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CFB Week Three: Say Goodbye to Clemson and Notre Dame
One of the toughest things about college football is that we spend eight months trying to predict which teams will be good and which won’t, all for those guesses to come crashing down a few weeks into the season. For Clemson and Notre Dame, two teams I had in the playoff coming into the season,…
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CFB Week One: LSU Roars, Bama Unravels, and Texas Disappoints
Week One of the college football season has come and gone, mostly. We’ve still got Bill Belichick’s North Carolina debut against TCU tonight, but every other game has been played out. After eight-plus months without college football, it’s hard not to make knee-jerk reactions and adjust expectations we’ve spent months forming. Overreacting would be pretty…