The smallest of the Power Five conferences, and the only one that does not currently hold a championship game, managed to crown a solo champ in 2015 and earned a spot in the College Football Playoff quartet as a result. There the Sooners were steamrolled 37-17 by Clemson, and the Big 12 is just 1-3 in New Year's Six games since the...
#20 LSU v. Texas Tech
NRG Stadium -- Houston, TX
December 29, 2015 -- 9:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
If you already tuned in for the first matchup of top-25 teams this season, you might as well stay tuned into ESPN to watch this nightcap game from Houston. The SEC-Big 12 showdown at...
It is hard to believe that we're already entering the fourth season of the Big 12 in its 10-team configuration. Bucking the trend of expansion, the league seems content to continue playing on with fewer than a dozen schools. (The better the payday distribution for each team still standing, after all.) What will that mean in the new...
The beer went on ice and the coals started getting hot a little earlier this week. We're coming at you with a special Thursday Tailgater this week thanks to a pair of school-night showdowns with serious BCS implications. So crack open a cold one, and let's dive into this week's look at our picks against the spread.
It was a rough week...
The big game of the weekend took place in Tallahassee, where the rivalry between Florida State and Miami had greater implications than it has in the past decade. The Hurricanes kept it close for a while, but ultimately the Seminoles proved why they've been a member of the elite triumvirate of college football this season as they pulled...
Two of the three Tailgaters had winning records against the spread, with Matt overtaking Zach in the season standings. But while John went 5-0 with his first five picks, including South Carolina's improbable upset of Missouri, the later games proved difficult for everyone. Not a single of our Upset of the Week picks, for instance,...
There weren't as many shakeups to the Top 25 this weekend, though there were several games that left teams falling out of the rankings and other teams earning their way back onto the list. Two teams fell out of the top ten, while the teams that defeated them either rose up into or consolidated their position within the ranks of the...
Last week turned out rough for the crew, with nobody finishing with a winning record. As it was, the chaos that swept through college football also wreaked havoc on our records picking against the spread.
After the improvement of last week, we all feel back to Earth once again. When it all balanced out, here's how each of us fared...
If last weekend kicked off upset season, this weekend's slate of games might be remembered as "The Night Dixie Drove Itself Down". The hierarchy in the SEC was skewed, with the East rapidly developing into Missouri's one-horse race and the West looking even more like Alabama's to lose. Five teams that were in our top 25 last week -- LSU,...
Most of our picks last week converged, meaning we would either sink or swim by the results of the Saturday games. Luckily for all of us, most of those choices came through, highlighted by Missouri's upset of Georgia. Ultimately, though, Matt pulled even with me in the overall standings after I laid the points with Texas A&M and...
