Ramblings from the Ultimate Sports Sentimentalist

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- [...]

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 [...]