NCAA; college sports; football
"Frustrated." "Slighted." "Snubbed." Those awords describe the feelings many Missouri fans, adminstrators, players, and coaches have towards Mizzou's selection to play Navy in the 2008 Texas Bowl. The Texas bowl ...
I've written before on cupcakes in college football (see here as well). You know the cupcake. The team expected to lay down in front of your superior squad in exchange ...
to study, errr..., play football at the University of South Carolina. If coach Spurrier is there in four years time (he's currently 64 years old) I'll be surprised. The recruiting ...
Here's Al Roth at Market Design: College football doesn't host playoffs. The "championship" game matches the two highest ranked teams at the end of the regular season, based on a ...
From Pat Forde at ESPN: Oklahoma ran it up last and loudest, scoring 45 fourth-quarter points in its past two games against Oklahoma State and Missouri -- 31 of them ...
Lately, the hiring of Gene Chizik for the head football coaching job at Auburn generated a ton of (mostly negative) buzz. Charles Barkley's comments about race as a factor, particularly ...
The NCAA permits up to $350 in gifts from their schools and $500 from bowl management. Typically the school gives them shoes and athletic gear, but bowl gifts can be ...
In the WSJ, Darren Everson serves up a very econ-oriented piece on "What the Rise of Southern Football Says about America." Subscription is required to view the entire piece, but ...
I've had an longtime fascination with gameday ticket resell, not just the analytics and systematic data study but in a "hands-on" way -- I guess you could call it "behavioral" ...
Several years back, I thought that the process toward a playoff would have played out by now. The 1998 BCS agreement struck me as a key step toward a playoff ...