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The pro-style West Coast Offense rarely works in college. It is just too complicated. Paul Hackett tried to implement it at USC and was a monumental failure. Later, he admitted it’s an offense that takes five years to learn. Makes a lot of sense for college, huh? Ty Willingham somehow got it working at Stanford, [...]

Fellow blogger Bruce Feldman’s latest entry ranks the top game day venues in college football, at least according to his experience. For those who don’t have a password, here’s the rundown: 1) Tennessee: Awesome, all of it. The stadium. The Volunteer Navy. The Orange Stoli shooters. The scene. The barbecue at Calhoun’s. Gotta give it [...]

Orson, the court jester of college football blogs from EDSBS is hosting the latest blog roundtable, started originally by Lloyd Carr-fan and budding HP nemesis, Brian, from MgoBlog. The topics are as follows: 1. What’s THE critical game of the season on the national scene? We’re looking for the one that will influence the most [...]

The college football fan’s offseason salvation–the preview magazine–has made its way onto magazine racks in the last month or so. This story from the Arizona Republic talks about how coaches look at the magazines to see what people think of their programs and how it all affects recruiting. “You read about your program, and the [...]

Here’s a nice story about Princeton’s 1951 Heisman winner Dick Kazmaier. At Princeton, he was a three-year starter at halfback. He ran, passed and punted the Tigers to a 24-3 record (1949-51), including 22 straight wins to close his career. He led the nation in total offense with 1,827 yards for the sixth-ranked Tigers in [...]

I guess short, mobile quarterbacks have to stick together, as this article from the Daily Iowan shows. Doug Flutie, at Tim Dwight’s youth football camp in Iowa reveals that one of his votes for Heisman went last year to diminutive-but-oh-so-exciting Hawkeye quarterback Drew Tate. “I always have a sentimental favorite in my voting, and he [...]

There seems to be a lot of confusion over who should belong in the Gang of Six. It can be encapsulated by this comment down below by a Michigan Blogger: You did not in your article on the Gang of Six state a single characteristic that leads to success that was not evident in the [...]

With battlelines now clearly drawn in the ’05 blog wars, Bruinsnation.com comes down on the side of reason with his look at CFR’s Pac-10 and SEC comparison. College football fans have for sooooo long been given one side of the story, mostly to the detriment of the West Coast. No longer.

Braves and Birds, a Georgia blog, gives it’s take on the Boise-UGA matchup and the debate surrounding it. Most of it deals with the post by CFR about the upcoming game. Still, there are clearly some things we see wrong with the analysis by B&B. B&B delves into a defense of Georgia’s defense, though CFR [...]

It’s clear by the commentary in response to our pieces below that either (a) People don’t understand our line of argument or (b) they don’t want to understand and would prefer that we not make them actually have to think about things they’ve never bothered to think about. Let’s start with our friends over at [...]