The College Football Researchers Association has elected the Florida State Seminoles as its 1999 college football national champion.  Here is the first-place voting breakdown for this season: Florida State (12-0)- 13 votes Marshall (13-0)- 2 votes This CFRA poll is similar to CFRA’s 1999 national championship poll, in which the BCS champ received 13 first-place [...]

We’re back!  It’s the holidays and that means the bowl season is in full swing. Justin and I review the early bowl games, the Ohio St. suspensions, and discuss our playoff proposals. http://68and16sportscast.tumblr.com/

Last year in this entry, I rant and raved about how bad my sports year had been.  This year was better, but it had the potential to be amazing.  It can be called the year of the near-miss.  Once again Andy Murray fell just short of winning Wimbledon.  Butler almost shocked the world and beat [...]

The College Football Researchers Association has elected the Tennessee Volunteers as its 1998 college football national champion.  Here is the first-place voting breakdown for this season: Tennessee (13-0)- 13 votes Tulane (12-0)- 2 votes The 1998 season was the inaugural year of the BCS, and while Tennessee was the unanimous champ in the Coaches and [...]

I’ve been reading that new Death to the BCS book (book review to follow in the coming days) and here is a disturbing website, operate by the BCS, they directed me to: http://www.playoffproblem.com/index.htm This site’s purpose is simply to  attacks a playoff system and defend the current status quo.  However, the desperate and defensive way in which they [...]

The College Football Researchers Association has elected the Michigan Wolverines as its 1997 college football national champion.  Here is the first-place voting breakdown for this season: Michigan (12-0)- 9 votes Nebraska (13-0)- 5 votes You may recall that the 1997 season resulted in split champions, as Michigan was voted in as the AP # 1 and [...]

The College Football Researchers Association has elected the Florida Gators as its 1996 college football national champion.  Here is the first-place voting breakdown for this season: Florida (12-1)- 13 votes Ohio State (11-1)- 2 votes This CFRA poll emulates the final AP and Coaches Polls of 1996 which both voted one-loss Florida as the # [...]

The College Football Researchers Association has elected the Nebraska Cornhuskers as its 1995 college football national champion.  Here is the first-place voting breakdown for this season:  Nebraska (12-0)- 15 votes This CFRA poll replicates the final AP and Coaches Polls of 1995 which both unanimously voted Nebraska as the # 1 team in the country.  [...]

The College Football Researchers Association has elected the Nebraska Cornhuskers as its 1994 college football national champion.  Here is the first-place voting breakdown for this season:  Nebraska (13-0)- 8 votes Penn State (12-0)- 6 votes This CFRA poll is similar to the final AP and Coaches Polls of 1994 which both voted undefeated Nebraska ahead [...]

The votes have been tabulated and we are ready to begin our series of retrospective College Football Researchers Association National Championship announcements.  Because the CFRA was not in operation from 1993- 2008, no national champions were elected during that time period.  Now, the CFRA has gone back and voted on national champions for each of these [...]

College football fans get ready because one of the nation’s most historic college football polls is in the process of retrospectively electing national champions from the years 1993-2008.  All the debate and controversy from those college football seasons is about to return, and the College Football Researchers Association is going to settle the score once and for all. [...]

I have already provided insight my favorite point spreads and upset picks, but for those who want to see my full list of picks and my confidence intervals for each here is a link to my ESPN Bowl Mania entry: http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/en/entry?entryID=171375

The college football bowl season begins in a few days, which means another edition of our yearly bowl pool.  Justin and I go through our bowl picks (we pick every bowl game) in a draft style format.   http://68and16sportscast.tumblr.com/

From top to bottom, it’s probably a slightly below average bowl season, as far as matchups go.  Four of the five BCS games are either as good or better than usual, but the fifth game is absolutely horrible (Oklahoma-UConn).    However, just because a lot of the games don’t look great on paper, doesn’t mean that [...]

Bowls are always the time for upsets due to several factors.  First of all, the underdog often comes in with a lot more motivation to win than the favorite.  Also, teams typically have about a month off between the end of the regular season and their bowl game, which is plenty of time for a [...]