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Trent's Touchdown - Six Games to Watch in Week 12

With births to conference championship games and outright claims to the top spots in other conferences on the line, Week 12 looks like a winner. So, let’s skip the preamble and get right to the games...

Written by Trent Lane about 8 days ago 271 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 11

I think I just realized last weekend that we are getting to the end of the season. This has been one wacky season so far, and it’s only going to get wackier...

Written by Trent Lane about 15 days ago 214 reads 3 comments
Trent's Field Goal: Three Games to Watch in Week 10

While it looks like the Pac-10 was decided last week, the SEC, Big Ten, and ACC all have games that will heavily impact their conference outcomes. Just so you know, I’m refusing to put Iowa on this week’s list...

Written by Trent Lane about 22 days ago 18 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six College Football Games to Watch in Week Nine

Well, I’m rested and back from Puerto Rico and ready to run down this week’s games. Thankfully the Duchess was tired after our trip to Old San Juan, so I got to watch the ends of the Alabama-Tennessee and Miami-Clemson games...

Written by Trent Lane about 29 days ago 136 reads 3 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games To Watch in Week Seven

The strangest thing about last weekend’s games was the lack of a major upset. Yet, we did get a nice little shake-up in the polls—but more on that later...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 month ago 172 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Six

Unlike past weeks, there were no major upsets last weekend. Color me shocked, as I figured Boise State would be residing in the number 4 spot right about now...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 month ago 125 reads 3 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Five

Another week, another handful of upsets and shake-ups in the polls. If I were a team in the top 10 and facing a marshmallow opponent, I would be very scared (I’m looking at you, Cincinnati)...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 month ago 4 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games To Watch in Week Three

This may sound strange, but the freshmen quarterbacks out there definitely showed some poise and resilience in Week Two...

Written by Trent Lane about 2 months ago 4 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Two

So, we’re already one week in and the wacky world of college football is back in full swing. Not only did one of the elite teams of college football lose to a team from the Mountain West, ...

Written by Trent Lane about 2 months ago 108 reads 6 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week One

Oh man, it’s the best time of the year not associated with a bearded fat man. That’s right; it’s the beginning of college football season...

Written by Trent Lane about 2 months ago 67 reads 0 comments
David Ortiz, Steroids, and Red Sox Nation

When I was six years old growing up in the wilds of Vermont, I knew three basic truths about the world I lived in. One, that Scooby Doo would always foil the plans of some evil do-er. Two, that my Atari was my most prized possession...

Written by Trent Lane about 4 months ago 33 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six BCS Bowls to Watch

It’s all come down to this. The last handful of bowl games and the end of the 2008 season is here. It seems like just yesterday I was reading some article in USA Today and some columnist ...

Written by Trent Lane about 11 months ago 345 reads 6 comments
Trent's Touchdown - Six Non-BCS Bowls to Watch

Here we are at the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas. I’m talking about Bowl Week. Well, it’s longer than a week, but you get the picture...

Written by Trent Lane about 11 months ago 244 reads 4 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 15

There are a few things you can always count on. You can count on weird, twisting mythology in any Stargate show. You can count on overt misogyny in Robert Ludlum books. And you can count on the BCS screwing up at least one thing per season...

Written by Trent Lane about 11 months ago 362 reads 4 comments
Trent's Touchdown - Six Games to Watch in Week 14

Welcome to the Thanksgiving addition of the Touchdown. I’m telling you, when I get older, I’m going to have to stop watching college football, because it’ll give me a heart attack...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 344 reads 1 comments
Matt Cassel: The New Golden Boy?

You ever hear the phrase that the favorite player on a football team is the backup quarterback? Well, welcome to New England, where Matt Cassel is the new golden boy.Now, the Patriot fans fall into two distinct categories...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 370 reads 1 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 13

Riddle me this. Did the average fan actually watch a lot of college football last weekend? I swear, I watched like 15 total minutes last week...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 357 reads 2 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 12

What a horrible week for college football this week. We get treated week in and week out with Big 12 shootouts in prime time, yet this week we get nothing. I guess we can all look forward to the big Texas Tech-Oklahoma tussle next week...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 201 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Eleven

College football is at its best when big shake-ups happen. It makes for entertaining viewing and makes you wonder things like “should there be a playoff?” and “how many replays ...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 270 reads 6 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 10

Oh man, we go all season with a few really good games, and then get knocked up last week with the OSU-PSU and Texas-Oklahoma State games. Seriously, right now, both would be in my top 10 games of the year...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 249 reads 0 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Nine

As I stated in my blog a few weeks ago, the Touchdown (and other articles) was put on hiatus due to Wedding/Honeymoon issues, as in I was both getting married and going on my Honeymoon...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 276 reads 9 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Five

I think it's official: If you don’t get pumped up watching SEC games, there is something seriously wrong. Even the Duchess was sitting on the edge of her seat for the end of the LSU/Auburn game, and she only has a passing interest in football...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 299 reads 3 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Four

While I am willing to admit that Week Three wasn’t all it could have been, it sure as hell beat out the first two weeks in regards to watchability...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 316 reads 4 comments
The Matt Cassel Era and the New England Patriots' Karma

I was recently reading an NFL Week Two article from a certain ESPN hack writer, who shall remain nameless, and he was writing about the Patriots/Jets game...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 486 reads 1 comments
Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Three

Do you know how painfully boring Week Two was to watch? In the middle of the afternoon, I debated whether to watch the Clemson/Citadel game on ESPN360 (I ended up watching the third quarter) ...

Written by Trent Lane about about 1 year ago 292 reads 0 comments

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Trent Lane Article Archive

Trent's Touchdown - Six Games to Watch in Week 12

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 11

Trent's Field Goal: Three Games to Watch in Week 10

Trent's Touchdown: Six College Football Games to Watch in Week Nine

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games To Watch in Week Seven

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Six

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Five

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games To Watch in Week Three

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Two

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week One

David Ortiz, Steroids, and Red Sox Nation

Trent's Touchdown: Six BCS Bowls to Watch

Trent's Touchdown - Six Non-BCS Bowls to Watch

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 15

Trent's Touchdown - Six Games to Watch in Week 14

Matt Cassel: The New Golden Boy?

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 13

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 12

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Eleven

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week 10

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Nine

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Five

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Four

The Matt Cassel Era and the New England Patriots' Karma

Trent's Touchdown: Six Games to Watch in Week Three

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