Gophers taking off ‘like a house on fire’
FIRST DOWN The front-runner for Big Ten Coach of the Year? A guy from Clay Center, Kansas. A guy who coached under Glen Mason at the University of Kansas but [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Game Day
Posted October 23, 2013in Game Day
Midseason awards continue
FIRST DOWN The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Midseason Awards continue with a run through the B1G… Big Ten’s best team: Ohio State. Just because Urban Meyer provided the launching pad for [...]
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Posted October 16, 2013in Game Day
Stoops takes physical, psychological beating
FIRST DOWN The Tuesday Morning Quarterback Midseason Awards are out. Big 12’s best team: Baylor. Wait. Baylor? Who else? Got a better suggestion? Just when you’re ready to jump on [...]
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Posted October 09, 2013in Game Day
Somebody swallowed something
FIRST DOWN For his (deserved) fury, Paul Rhoads came away with a public slap on the shins from Bob Bowlsby. Which isn’t the same as a memo from the Big [...]
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Posted October 02, 2013in Game Day
Katie, bar the door
FIRST DOWN Of course. Of course Oklahoma State, the hands-down preseason Big 12 favorite, would be a double-digit favorite at West Virginia, a team that just been shut out by [...]
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Posted September 25, 2013in Game Day
It’s a plot, we tell you!
FIRST DOWN… and goal to go: Baylor scores 70 points a week, produces Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks, and does everything that the Texas Longhorns are SUPPOSED to do. And yet [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Game Day
When Tommie Frazier pickets
FIRST DOWN So they’re circling the wagons in Lincoln again. Circling, the Cornhuskers can do. It’s tackling that’s the problem. We kid, of course. Sort of. Nebraska football stories are [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Game Day
A move of panicked desperation
FIRST DOWN: It isn’t so much that Texas gave up 40 points and 550 rushing yards to BYU — although it sure as hell didn’t help matters — as it [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Game Day
Fife is the one with the bullet
FIRST DOWN Oh, Lord, the jokes. They’re coming fast and furious now, like Stephen Colbert on the wrong end of a Red Bull enema. Q: How do you tell [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Game Day, Recent Posts
Best and worst bowl matchups
FIRST DOWN: Wondering which bowls to watch? Here’s a postseason primer … Best Big 12 bowl matchup: Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M, Cotton Bowl, Jan. 4. [...]
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