Tag: Utah
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CFB Week Eight: Miami, Texas Tech, and Others Fall Victim to the Chaos
Every week this college football season, I feel like I’m pulling on the same thread. Nobody is safe. Anything is possible. There is no sure thing in this sport. In an era where the talent curve is flattening and the best teams are closer to the pack than ever before, anyone can beat anyone. This…
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CFB Week Seven: Indiana is What We Thought Penn State Was
Some weeks in college football just leave you staring at the wall looking for answers. It’s hard to come up with confident takeaways when it’s clear that only one thing is certain: NOTHING! The gap between the best team and 50th-best team is slimmer than ever. Somehow, none of the results and ALL the results…
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CFB Week Four: Indiana Cruises and Texas Tech Dominates
There are a few locales in college football that I call “Voodoo Venues.” These are stadiums where weird things always tend to happen, and they always favor the hosts. Think Pac-12 After Dark status, but permanently. Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City is one of the first Voodoo Venues to come to mind. Just think…
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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 Three: Predictions for Notre Dame, Dawgs, and More
Can I just roll out a take off the rip? The SEC starting conference play Week Three (or Week Two in some cases) sucks. College football would be better without the throwaway SEC vs. FCS weekend in late November. Let’s move these games to that weekend and get the cupcakes out of the way early.…
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CFB Week Two: Napier and Gundy in Real Jeopardy
As predicted, Week Two of college football did not disappoint despite the relatively lackluster slate. Four ranked teams lost, and quite a few schools categorized themselves as contenders, pretenders, or just flat-out failures. Let’s discuss the state of things after the second week of the season. Florida is not a playoff team I was happy…
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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…