Connecticut v. Marshall
Tropicana Field -- St. Petersburg, FL
December 26, 2015 -- 11:00 am Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
If nothing else, this quirky bowl game that has been shoehorned into a domed ballpark in Florida for the past eight years will provide you with a reason to stay home on...
The 12th weekend of the college football season offered even more separation between the Group of Five. East Carolina's second straight defeat left the American Athletic Conference with a slew of three-loss teams jockeying for position in a bloated field of mediocrity. Georgia Southern's third loss of the season, at Navy,...
The reshuffling of the Group of Five hierarchy by East Carolina's loss last weekend opened the door for greater introspection. At this point Conference USA and the Mountain West have the most likely tracks toward claiming the Access Bowl bid this season, with the AAC and MAC shooting themselves in their feet.
That deliberately...
Two weeks ago I talked about how seemingly sure locks for BCS bids stumbled on the path in recent seasons, counseling caution lest we get too excited about any team's chances of claiming the first-ever guaranteed bid into one of the six premier bowl games for a mid-major program. No longer do teams have to meet arcane requirements...
In his 20 years as the head coach at Michigan State, Tom Izzo has been a model of consistency. Every one of his recruiting classes has managed to play in at least one Final Four during their four years at the school... every one, that is, until the streak ended on Sunday. Against the Connecticut Huskies, the Spartans committed an...
Half the fun of March Madness every year is that it yields upsets galore. The story of the NCAA Tournament is a story of Cinderellas, of that one shining moment that can turn a group of college kids into legends.
But not all upsets are created equal. Some were of the mildly-shocking variety, while others genuinely resulted in the...
The first weekend of March Madness is in the books, and in its wake lie millions of busted brackets. Some people might still have all their Final Four teams still alive, while the chaos of the opening rounds has wreaked greater havoc on other predictions. The only real winner, though, is Warren Buffett, who now gets to keep a...
As we near the peak of the madness this March, individual honors are getting ready to be handed out to the best of the best in the country. Here we countdown the top 10 players who had the biggest impact on not only their teams this season, but on the whole nation.
10) Justin Anderson, Virginia:
There’s no secret to the success...
We were blessed with some tight games, some close finishes, and a couple of near-upsets last weekend. Of course, last-second heroics like Ohio State's miraculous back-door cover did nothing to help this particular trio of Tailgaters, but taken all together last Saturday offered tons of excitement.
This week, all three of us...
Twenty teams have joined the FBS ranks over the past two decades. Five more are on their way into the uppermost division of college football over the next three years. As the past month of case studies has illustrated, teams that have taken the leap in the modern era have experienced the full spectrum of successes and...
