#6 Stanford v. #5 Iowa
Rose Bowl -- Pasadena, CA
January 1, 2016 -- 5:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
It is the oldest remaining tradition in a shifting landscape of college football, as the venerable old stadium nestled in the Arroyo Seco in the shadow of the San Gabriel mountains gets...
Many thought I was giving in to my rooting interests when I picked the Oregon Ducks to win by 17 on New Year's Day. Instead the reality of my present enrollment in Eugene led me to undersell the team, as my prediction fell three touchdowns (and a two-point conversion) shy of the final margin of victory. Not even Mark...
If you got the chance to watch this year's Rose Bowl down in Pasadena between the Oregon Ducks and Florida State Seminoles, you would've thought (like I did) that it was going to be a pretty good game. Coming into the contest, Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota were prepared to go head-to-head in only the third meeting...
The BCS era is over, and we are nearing the moment when New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are restored to preeminence on the bowl calendar. The catalyst for this change on the cusp of new epoch is the aggregation of the New Year's Six, expanding the elite series of bowl games from four to a half-dozen contests.
Two of...
#2 Oregon v. #3 Florida State
Rose Bowl -- Pasadena, CA
January 1, 2015 -- 5:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
It's the first semifinal of the inaugural College Football Playoff, a long-sought Pandora's box that has been the elusive goal of many a fan and pundit for decades....
This year was the dawn of a new era in college football. Gone was the 16 year run of the Bowl Championship Series and in was the new College Football Playoff. The top-4 teams, as chosen by a committee, would compete in a playoff to determine who will be the true National Champion.
After a full season the final four of...
Championship weekend provided plenty of opportunities for the half-dozen hopefuls for the four bids into the inaugural College Football Playoff at the FBS level. Oregon atoned for its only loss of the season, trouncing Arizona in the rematch at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara 51-13 to capture its first Pac-12 championship since 2011....
The Big Ten and Big 12 have more teams in the top 10 of this week's FBS Top 128 Power Rankings. The Pac-12 has the highest-rated team, and even Marshall is ahead of the highest-rated SEC school -- and that's despite the Herd suffering their first loss of the season on Friday. It is hardly in a position of weakness, but the league...
One team has been conspicuously absent from the leaders in the FBS Top 128 Power Rankings this season. The Oregon Ducks have become synonymous with high-flying offense over the past half-dozen years, consistently knocking off opponents by 10, 20, even 30 points per game. Yet in 2014 the Ducks have been mired in the second tier of...
Nebraska entered the weekend as the team best positioned to knock off Ohio State for the Big Ten championship. By the end of Saturday afternoon, the Cornhuskers had been exposed as pretenders to the throne.
Wisconsin spotted the visitors a two-touchdown lead after Nebraska scored less than a minute into the second quarter to go...
