mid-majors Stories - SB Nation
Week Two BlogPoll Ballot Draft
After a wild first couple of weekends of college football, I don’t know what to make of any of these teams. Clearly, there are not 25 teams deserving of a top 25 ranking, nor are there ten teams wor...
Kyle Gets Conciliatory: An Encouraging Word About Boise State's Place at the Table
The recent Congressional hearings on the Bowl Championship Series are as unlikely to produce anything except talk as the Congressional hearings on steroid use in major league baseball, but give the gr...
Kyle Gets Contrary: Congress, the B.C.S., and the Virtue of Being Elitist
It is no secret to anyone that I am staunch in my opposition to a Division I-A college football playoff in any form whatsoever. It is, I hope, also no secret to anyone that I give mid-majors their due...
Don't Bet On It!: Bowl Edition (Part VI)
We are getting deep into my bowl picks now, which probably just means this evening’s set of forecasts will be smothered in wrongness, sprinkled with incorrectness, and topped off with a great big do...
The BCS Works! Everybody Gets What They Want!
We've been hearing the chant for a playoff system from nearly every direction for a while now, and the Big 12 South division is the newest exhibit in the pro-playoff arsenal as to why the BCS is the s...
Week Twelve BlogPoll Ballot Revised
As always, I posted my preliminary BlogPoll ballot on Sunday night, solicited reader feedback, and gave additional consideration to my rankings before making appropriate adjustments to produce this fi...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
I’ve already set forth this week’s S.E.C. picks, so it’s time now to turn to the national games of interest. Because last week’s national picks contained more rhyme than reason, my non-S.E.C. ...
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK: The Picks
ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: No. 9 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College The ACC Championship Game has not really turned out the way the bigwigs intended it since the game began, though the Virginia Tech-...
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