And so we come to the portion of the Power Five previews where we cover the conference that was looking in from the outside at the College Football Playoff last year. In 2015, three-quarters of the teams ended the year with winning records, but none ended them with fewer than two losses after conference champion Stanford fell at...
Washington v. Southern Miss
Cotton Bowl Stadium -- Dallas, TX
December 26, 2015 -- 2:20 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
What's the perfect compliment for watching the vanquished team from this year's Apple Cup? How about keeping the remote handy and flipping back and forth between CBS...
Washington v. Oklahoma State
Sun Devil Stadium -- Tempe, AZ
January 2, 2015 -- 10:15 pm Eastern (ESPN)
Why You Should Watch
For the first time in this game's quarter-century history, the Cactus Bowl will be played after the New Year instead of in December. It's been an Arizona staple...
Everyone needs to throw out their two cents, don't they? Everyone offers a Top 25 ranking these days. The thing about these projections, though, is that they are always an amalgamation of a popularity contest and pure guesswork. Though neither will be relevant in the College Football Playoff picture, the AP and coaches...
Since bringing in Utah and Colorado in 2011, forming a couple of six-team divisions, and holding a championship game at the home site of the team with the better record, the Pac-12 has seen power shift completely toward the teams in the North. Essentially the conference has become a two-horse race, with the winner of the...
We're back on our regular schedule after last week's Thursday night fireworks in Waco and Palo Alto restructured the BCS standings. Hopefully things trend upward after the early picks went sour quickly, with all three of us starting 1-1 before Saturday's action even started.
Blame it on the Wednesday lines, or blame it on not being...
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...
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...
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...
September has yielded to October. The air is getting a little crisper, the tailgates a little rowdier, and the stakes rise with each passing week. We are starting to get a better feel of conference pecking orders, as teams settle out the hierarchy on the field.
The first weekend of the month had the potential to throw serious wrenches...
