Ramblings from the Ultimate Sports Sentimentalist

Good Thoughts:
1.  Stan Parrish-  Any head coach who breaks a 35-game losing streak, which originated on October 25, 1986, deserves acknowledgement on every college football column this week.  Congrats Stan!  He was still an awful hire by Ball State though.
2.  Lower-Ranked Unbeatens-  Even though Florida, Texas, and Alabama took care of business this week, the BCS controversy continues to heat [...]

Way back in college football’s inaugural season of 1869 two polls were formed that enabled a group of  fans to vote on a national champion.  One of those polls, the College Football Researchers Association Poll (also known as the CFRA poll), emerged as the most preeminent poll in college football until the Associated Press rankings took [...]

I went 6-4 last week, which isn’t horrible.  Unfortuantely, this week I’m not quite as confident about my picks.  Everyone has a fatal flaw when it comes to picking games, and mine tends to be that I underestimate home field advantage and end up picking  too many road teams.  That’s what I felt like happened this week, [...]

In the perfect world, I would have a vote in either the AP or Coaches poll. Unfortunately I don’t, so the following rankings carry no weight whatsoever. However, as meaningless as they may be, I do promise to offer you a poll each week that stands out from the rest. The most unusual, and many [...]