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Are BCS Fans Really This Naive?

We’ve all heard them over and over again. It’s the same stuff year after year. Blanket assumptions opined by ignorant fans from BCS teams questioning the worthiness of non-BCS teams and their quest to bust the BCS...

Written by Brian Nelson about 5 days ago 478 reads 100 comments
Iowa, Oklahoma State, and Boise State, Oh, My!: The BCS At-Large Teams

With only two weeks until the BCS bowl selections, we have a pretty good picture of what at-large teams will be available...

Written by Pete Misthaufen about 6 days ago 1,116 reads 61 comments
BCS Bowl Predictions: Final Week

This week featured some of the most compelling and most meaningful games of the season. Oklahoma State's buckling at the Bedlam game had by far the most significant impact on final BCS destinations...

Written by Brian Nelson about about 15 hours ago 7,774 reads 60 comments
Someone Upstairs Looking Out for Iowa

I like Iowa. I've been in their corner for most of the season thus far. I love defensive teams who win with grit and clutch play, especially on the road. But I have a problem with today's game...

Written by Brian Nelson about 28 days ago 1,352 reads 43 comments
College Football's 11 Best 11s: Texas, Alabama Stalk BCS Title

The storyline may vary, the locations differ, but rising to the occasion will be the theme as one reviews the college football activity of this past weekend...

Written by BabyTate about 7 days ago 1,505 reads 33 comments
Heisman Banter : Who's The Legit Front-Runner?

The College Football season is drawing to a close, Bowl match-ups are becoming clearer week by week, but what about the Heisman Trophy? There's a handful of names that are vying for College ...

Written by adam biggers about 24 days ago 778 reads 31 comments
BCS Championship Prediction: Why the Texas Longhorns Will Beat Alabama

As it stands now, Florida, Texas, and Alabama hold the top three spots in the BCS standings, and it doesn't seem like anything will change that until the forthcoming match up between Florida and Alabama in the SEC title game...

Written by Dino Nicandros about 25 days ago 2,316 reads 30 comments
The Top 10 Winningest College Football Programs of All Time

Teams such as Florida and LSU may have found recent success in the BCS Era, but neither of those programs has had the prestige and historical significance of the teams that comprise the all-time Top 10...

Written by HD Handshoe - Block-O-Nation about 10 days ago 1,311 reads 22 comments
BCS Quick Fix: How To Add Meaning To the Big 12 Title Game

I know this proposal seems crazy, because it would never be accepted, no matter how reasonable it sounds or how easy it is to implement...

Written by Brian Nelson about 18 days ago 578 reads 22 comments
A USC Trojan Fan's Perspective of the Texas Longhorns

As the title of this piece suggests, I am a fan of the USC Trojans. More specifically, I am a disappointed fan of the USC Trojans. The 2009 college football season has been one of chagrin of both myself and my fellow fans of the Men of Troy...

Written by Rick McMahan about 2 days ago 1,883 reads 19 comments
BCS Nightmare: Three Upsets That Will Devastate the System

Every year at this time the BCS hinges its hopes that the elite teams will distinguish themselves from the pack, creating clear, crisp champions and compelling match-ups...

Written by Brian Nelson about 4 days ago 1,307 reads 19 comments
Big Fish: Five Star Recruit to Visit Lincoln

Look at this picture and get to know this face because the name is a bit hard to pronounce. Owamagbe Odighizuwa (Pronounced: Oh-um-ah-be Oh-dig-eez-uh-wuh) isn't just another Nebraska football ...

Written by Josh Klein about 11 days ago 1,031 reads 18 comments
Stating His Case: Keenum On Top of Heisman Leaderboard?

Case Keenum is having a monster year for the No. 18 Houston Cougars, but if you use the Worldwide Leader in Sports (ESPN) to get your college football info, you may not even have a clue who Case Keenum is, let alone how good he is...

Written by HD Handshoe - Block-O-Nation about 28 days ago 1,031 reads 18 comments
Breaking News: "Mulligan Replay" Rule Announced To Help BCS Contenders (Satire)

The NCAA, in conjunction with the BCS, has finally agreed to publicly announce the implementation of the new "Mulligan Rule...

Written by Brian Nelson about 15 days ago 453 reads 17 comments
Will Dallas-Fort Worth Stop Being Big 12 Country?

When the Big 12 was formed more than a decade ago, the leaders of the new conference decided that they had no need to include a team from North Texas...

Written by Pete Misthaufen about 13 days ago 518 reads 16 comments
Bo Pelini's Defensive Turnaround Will Be Key If Huskers Upset Longhorns

Yes, I know that Maurice Purify (pictured) no longer plays for Nebraska. So save your emails. Yes, I know the Huskers lost the game shown in the above photo...

Written by Michael Huckstep about 4 days ago 399 reads 14 comments
Band Of Brothers: Nebraska Cornhuskers Pick Cotton, Prove Bloodlines Run Deep

Ask any college football team in America and they’ll tell you the same thing. They’re more than just a team. They’re a fraternity of sorts. A brotherhood. At the University of Nebraska, they take that term literally...

Written by Michael Huckstep about 12 days ago 537 reads 14 comments
Utah vs. TCU: Does a Win Mean BCS for the Utes?

Utah-TCU. The biggest non-BCS game of the year for the second year in a row. At stake, the MWC championship, a BCS berth and if TCU wins soundly and the cards fall right, a chance to play for the crystal football...

Written by Brian Nelson about 19 days ago 676 reads 14 comments
Twenty-One Teams Thankful for the BCS

The BCS yesterday officially gave up on 99 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. As such, there are only twenty-one possible teams that could receive one of the ten BCS slots...

Written by Pete Misthaufen about 4 days ago 825 reads 12 comments
It's Hate Week!: Week 13 College Football Predictions

It's always a bummer for us at the VFA that Penn State really has no natural rivals. Sure, the Lions played Pitt, USC, and Notre Dame a bunch of times back in the "independent days," but now ...

Written by Alex Ferguson about 4 days ago 1,183 reads 11 comments
Fresh Coach, Fresh Start?

So much history through the years of seeing the good teams succeed year in and year out. Well it seems times are changing as alot of the old familiar successful programs I remember watching growing up are falling by the wayside...

Written by JESSI SHARPE about 18 days ago 494 reads 11 comments
Big 12 North Predictions and Power Rankings (Week Eleven)

It's been the story of the entire season, hasn't it? One week, you feel like you've finally begun to understand the mindless havoc that is the Big 12 North. The next, you realize that there's a reason you've deemed it 'mindless havoc' in the first place

Written by J.D. Schaller about 19 days ago 317 reads 10 comments
Oklahoma Sooners Lose Another Tight Game, 10-3

All's not well that doesn't end well. The Oklahoma Sooners, unable to overcome five interceptions thrown by quarterback Landry Jones, three field goal attempts missed by placekicker Tress Way, ...

Written by Sooners Examiner about 21 days ago 319 reads 10 comments
A Heisman Vote for Nebraska's Suh

Every year, the Heisman Trophy is presented to “the most outstanding college football player in the United States.” Since 1990, however, the award has been almost entirely limited to quarterbacks and running backs...

Written by Wes Bunting about 24 days ago 375 reads 10 comments
BCS Rankings Week 10: USC, Virginia Tech Lose, but Texas Moves To No. 2

It was an upset filled Halloween weekend in college football that must have left a number of last week’s top 25 member’s spooked at their new positions in or out of the BCS poll...

Written by Dan Kelley about 27 days ago 1,131 reads 10 comments

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Article Archive

Are BCS Fans Really This Naive?

Iowa, Oklahoma State, and Boise State, Oh, My!: The BCS At-Large Teams

BCS Bowl Predictions: Final Week

Someone Upstairs Looking Out for Iowa

College Football's 11 Best 11s: Texas, Alabama Stalk BCS Title

Heisman Banter : Who's The Legit Front-Runner?

BCS Championship Prediction: Why the Texas Longhorns Will Beat Alabama

The Top 10 Winningest College Football Programs of All Time

BCS Quick Fix: How To Add Meaning To the Big 12 Title Game

A USC Trojan Fan's Perspective of the Texas Longhorns

BCS Nightmare: Three Upsets That Will Devastate the System

Big Fish: Five Star Recruit to Visit Lincoln

Stating His Case: Keenum On Top of Heisman Leaderboard?

Breaking News: "Mulligan Replay" Rule Announced To Help BCS Contenders (Satire)

Will Dallas-Fort Worth Stop Being Big 12 Country?

Bo Pelini's Defensive Turnaround Will Be Key If Huskers Upset Longhorns

Band Of Brothers: Nebraska Cornhuskers Pick Cotton, Prove Bloodlines Run Deep

Utah vs. TCU: Does a Win Mean BCS for the Utes?

Twenty-One Teams Thankful for the BCS

It's Hate Week!: Week 13 College Football Predictions

Fresh Coach, Fresh Start?

Big 12 North Predictions and Power Rankings (Week Eleven)

Oklahoma Sooners Lose Another Tight Game, 10-3

A Heisman Vote for Nebraska's Suh

BCS Rankings Week 10: USC, Virginia Tech Lose, but Texas Moves To No. 2

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