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 [...]

Let me preface this column by saying that I generally like most college football commentators on ESPN/ABC.  A lot of people complain about Corso and Holtz’s annoying antics, but I find them generally amusing.  The only problem I begin to have with any of these guys is when they start writing columns during the week.  [...]

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I was 4 of 7 again in my upset picks last week, not including my incredible longshot prediction that Texas Tech would win in Lincoln.  So far the double digit longshot I have chosen each week has covered every time and actually won straight up 4 times.  This week I’m not crazy about a lot of the dogs, but here [...]

It’s nice to see the College Football Researcher’s Association shake-up college football  by producing a somewhat unconventional poll.  While the general makeup is similar, there were a few teams who were ranked either much higher or lower than in the AP and Coaches.  Here are this week’s rankings: 1.  Florida (7)- 175 points 2.  Texas- [...]