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2 Steps to Fix the College Football Playoff’s Scheduling Problem

There’s simply no excuse for the awful scheduling of the New Year’s Six bowls and the college football playoff. From year one, it was painfully obvious to everyone involved that college football fans want to watch the biggest games on New Year’s Day. In the just-concluded decade of the 2010s…

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2 Steps to Fix the College Football Playoff’s Scheduling Problem
2 Steps to Fix the College Football Playoff’s Scheduling Problem
Sports

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May 3

Why the 12-Team College Football Playoff Will Fail

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. …

College Football

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Why the 12-Team College Football Playoff Will Fail
Why the 12-Team College Football Playoff Will Fail
College Football

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Mar 22

Is It Just Me or Is ESPN Wooing UConn?

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…

ESPN

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Is It Just Me or Is ESPN Wooing UConn?
Is It Just Me or Is ESPN Wooing UConn?
ESPN

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Mar 15

What A 96-Team Bracket Looks Like, If Every Conference Got Two Bids

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…

College Basketball

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What A 96-Team Bracket Looks Like, If Every Conference Got Two Bids
What A 96-Team Bracket Looks Like, If Every Conference Got Two Bids
College Basketball

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Mar 15

Uh Oh, I Figured Out How A 96-Team NCAA Tournament Can Work

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…

College Basketball

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Uh Oh, I Figured Out How A 96-Team NCAA Tournament Can Work
Uh Oh, I Figured Out How A 96-Team NCAA Tournament Can Work
College Basketball

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Dec 2, 2022

The Peak of the Four-Team Playoff: College Football 2014

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…

College Football

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The Peak of the Four-Team Playoff: College Football 2014
The Peak of the Four-Team Playoff: College Football 2014
College Football

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Sep 28, 2022

The Peak of the BCS: College Football 2005

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…

College Football

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The Peak of the BCS: College Football 2005
The Peak of the BCS: College Football 2005
College Football

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Aug 17, 2022

The Peak of New Year’s Day: College Football 1993

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…

College Football

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The Peak of New Year’s Day: College Football 1993
The Peak of New Year’s Day: College Football 1993
College Football

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Aug 15, 2022

Peak Seasons Define College Football

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…

College Football

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Peak Seasons Define College Football
Peak Seasons Define College Football
College Football

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Feb 28, 2022

10 Needed Changes to Save the Olympics

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…

Olympics

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10 Needed Changes to Save the Olympics
10 Needed Changes to Save the Olympics
Olympics

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