College Football Nation: Shootout in the South and FSU QB has a Heisman Moment

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

  Great weekend of college football. We will be having some movement in the Top-10 for sure after certain teams’ performances.  The SEC brags about defense but it seems to be the last thing on their mind as every game is played. If there is a year to knock out the SEC from the title game or in the title …

College Football Nation: Points Galore and Players Protest NCAA

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

  Not too many “BIG” games happening this week and the media was sure to let us know about it.  Heck, ESPN’s Game Day went to Fargo, North Dakota, because of the lack of “BIG” games to go to.  It was nice seeing them there just to give the “little” guys a shout out.  We have had some great FCS …

College Football Nation: Tennessee skulks back to Rocky Top — and “Johnny Who?”

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

This week we had a few exciting matches that will really let us know who is a contender and who is a pretender.  We have fans in Eugene and Tuscaloosa feeling pretty good right now, while fans out in Lincoln wish they only had to play one half of football.  I also think we can change a few names on …

College Football Nation: Roll Tide and Clemson Does the Unthinkable!

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Was it worth the wait?  After spending all day on my couch watching college games, the last seven football-free months seemed to just melt away.  In week one of the season we have had all the excitement a fan could ask.  The week saw several FCS teams upsetting FBS squads, BCS schools losing to NON-BCS challengers and a few exciting …

No One’s Crashing The Party: The Real Contenders for the Crystal Football

Nathan Roholt FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Kevin Cline On Monday, we looked at who could potentially crash the National Championship Game, but we all know that is not happening.  It’s going to be two of the five teams below that play for a title.  But who has the best chance?  Let’s find out, unlikeliest to likeliest. 5) Stanford The last three years, the Oregon-Stanford game has …

College Football Notes: SEC beats Pac-12 and Clemson wins it all

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

We are less than a month from kickoff and I am SO excited for football season, you?. So many questions will start to be answered once the ball has left the tee.  Will the SEC win yet another national title or will someone else finally steal the spotlight?  Will another Heisman winner show up out of the blue?  Come the …

Notes From Around the College Football Nation: SEC Not Paying Enough and Oregon Making Changes

Jeff Hostetler FishWrap, FishWrap Archive

Recruiting is over and college football down time has begun…unless you are Nick Saban.  He gets to spend the next couple of weeks going over police reports and seeing if he can still keep these players on the Alabama payroll for another season.  I hope he takes a stand and kicks them off the team…he does oversign…so it’s not like he …

Attacking is Winning, Which Oregon Plans To Continue

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Attacking is winning. That is a note scribbled in the margins of what became Bill Walsh’s book Finding the Winning Edge. ESPN the Magazine recently examined the impact of that book on current football coaches.  The most interesting quote from the Mark Helfrich introductory press conference was this: “We will attack in all phases.  We will embrace innovation.  And we …