By: Conner Handel The college football playoff has produced no shortage of controversy for the sporting world. This time last year the only remaining undefeated team, Florida State, entered the ACC Championship game barely clinging to the final playoff spot as the four seed, which sparked some questions. Could the committee leave out the only […]
By: Luke Johns, KCOU Sports …the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals? Thought the Ohio State Buckeyes playoff run was similar to the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals playoff run? Turns out it was. Check out the list of the coincidental similarities: Lost one of their best players to injury before the season started. In spring training it […]
By: Greg Dailey, KCOU Sports Rumors and scenarios swirled throughout championship week. Would the Southeasten Conference be faced with the unthinkable? Would the upstart Missouri Tigers from the East knock off the mighty Crimson Tide and possibly leave football’s premiere conference without a representative in the College Football Playoff? Saturday afternoon, Alabama put those discussions […]
By: Conner Handel, KCOU Sports The SEC is far and away the best conference in college football. At least that is the public perception. But is that true? Florida State’s head coach Jimbo Fisher would disagree. “You guys say one conference is better, but I don’t think it’s as drastic,” Fisher said at his Monday […]
By: Nate Gatter, KCOU Sports Warmup Why does the committee hate Florida State? I’m not sure anybody likes the Seminoles anymore, but they simply won’t stop winning. The Seminoles have won 28 consecutive games dating back to last season and are the only remaining undefeated FBS team. Yet, somehow, they are ranked fourth in the […]
By: Tyler Greever, KCOU Sports They all gathered around the tree. It really was their first Christmas. The excitement had built, the anticipation was finally over. College football’s long-awaited tree was finally here: a playoff. Under the playoff tree laid four gifts. Oh what fantastic gifts they must be! The four best teams in the […]
By: Nate Gatter, KCOU Sports The eye of the college football playoff storm is here and Week 13 brings the committee’s top 10 teams a relaxing reset before plunging straight back into the churning uncertainty. While great games abound from ranks 11-25, the top 10 will remain largely untested. Florida State, Oregon, and Mississippi State, […]
By: John Saltzman, KCOU Sports All season the SEC West has dominated the college football landscape. The volume of talented teams is unmatched anywhere else in the nation and this couldn’t be more evident with the first release of the playoff committee’s rankings, which awarded 3 of the 4 top teams SEC West teams. On […]
By: Nate Gatter, KCOU Sports Warmup Finally, after weeks of near-flawless play, Bad Bo has made his return. Mississippi’s senior quarterback, once maligned for his inconsistency, had been proving his doubters wrong with each passing week of Ole Miss perfection. Wallace made his triumphant return to unfathomable recklessness, however, in the Rebels’ 10-7 loss to […]