The format. The schedule. The locations. They’re all wrong. But other than that, the 12-team college football playoff will be fine. This week, the people running college football again proved they have absolutely no interest in promoting the game of college football. …

The biggest victory for UConn in the past week did not take place in Storrs or Albany. It took place in Bristol. ESPN loves UConn again. And that means UConn may not be long for the Big East. For about a decade, ESPN has basically ignored or outwardly derided UConn…

What if the NCAA gave two automatic bids to each of the 32 Division 1 basketball conferences? We’d be able to create the best 96-team tournament in recorded history. As I outlined, I would like to see the NCAA do this if it’s serious about expanded the tournament. Adding 28…

Ever since I first heard the phrase “expanded NCAA Tournament,” I was against it. I didn’t even like expanding to 68, much less 90 or 96. The NCAA Tournament is perfect. Right? My opinions changed forever on the night of Saturday, March 11, 2023. The MAC title game between Kent…

I bought a new television that arrived the same day the 2014 college football season started. That’s how excited I was. After decades of debate, college football would finally have a playoff in 2014. From week one through Championship Saturday in December, the drama around the playoff built and built…

The BCS always got it wrong. Until it didn’t in 2005. By then, it was too late. In 1998, college football entered a brave new world that was supposed to fix the one thing that haunted the sport through the 1990’s — a true national champion. Four times in the…

1993 produced the biggest regular season game and best single day of college football in my entire life. Of course, college football being college football, the sport has ensured that neither ever happens again. What made the 1993 college football season feel so special was the wide variety of teams…

Any time college football hits on a successful formula, you can be sure they will ruin it. I’ve been a college football fan since the age of 6, when the fall of 1988 brought the sport directly into my life. There hasn’t been an autumn since where I wasn’t obsessed…

The Olympics have sucked for a decade now. It’s not all COVID’s fault. Since the tremendously entertaining 2012 London Olympics, the Olympic movement has ground to a halt. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were hard to stomach because of their location in Putin’s Russia. The 2018 Winter Olympics suffered…