Even though Florida State technically won the last BCS national championship, the College Football Playoff has been far kinder so far to the Atlantic Coast Conference than the previous system. The season before, the Seminoles knocked off Northern Illinois in a BCS Buster game that went bust, drawing the short end of the stick for the...
Tulsa v. Virginia Tech
Independence Stadium -- Shreveport, LA
December 26, 2015 -- 5:45 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
The Independence Bowl is the 11th oldest bowl in the FBS postseason calendar, predating 70 percent of the other games you have a chance to watch during December and...
The pinnacle of success for any football team is to win a national championship. But, for the 667 football teams that participate at the NCAA levels of the sport, there are just four national championships to go around.
For the rest of the hundreds of schools that don't go on to claim the ultimate prize in their...
Cincinnati v. Virginia Tech
Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium -- Annapolis, MD
December 27, 2014 -- 1:00 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
The early game from Annapolis will get you warmed up for a full slate of Saturday games. It's a random bowl game live from a military...
After nearly a decade of SEC dominance, it was only fitting that the other southeastern conference was the league that finally ended the streak of national championships compiled by Alabama, Auburn, Florida, and LSU. And it was fitting that the league earned the honors thanks to an undefeated season by Florida State. After all, the...
Old Dominion was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime for its football team, a chance to play college football powerhouse Alabama in 2015. Old Dominion football is on the rise, but I don't think anyone saw Alabama knocking at the program's door -- especially since the football program just got restarted in 2009.
So something...
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...
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,...
Upsets finally reared their ugly heads this week, as six teams from last week's Tailgater poll fell by the wayside on Saturday. Four of those teams -- #3 Stanford, #14 Oklahoma, #19 Michigan, and #21 Northwestern -- all fell to teams that were unranked at the start of the weekend. After the upsets, only two of those teams remain in the...
