Category: College Football

The season is coming to a close and the Heisman hype is growing with each passing day. There is some movement in the Heisman Watch and it’s almost time for my season ending special edition article. This should be fun.

The age of the BCS lottery machine is upon us.  The difference between winning and losing has a lot more to do with money than it does with the score.  It’s hard to know what drives a good team anymore; the money or the winning.

Wait a minute! There’s a Pac-10 Championship game?? No, not really, but USC play UCLA in one of the biggest games of the year, which effectively decides the Pac-10. Oh, and the other game’s a small southern rivalry pitting Georgia against LSU in the Dome in Atlanta. Should be quite a weekend, shouldn’t it?

“You can tell everybody that Prairie View football is back.”

In those words, the most remarkable rebuilding process ever to go undocumented was kept silent from the world. There was no mention on ESPN; there was no article on cbssportsline.com; there was no acknowledgement anywhere in mainstream sports society. But in the graceless ignorance given to Division 1-AA football, Prairie View A&M, the worst football program of the 1990s, has returned.

Ahh….it’s Championship game week. Some teams love it, some teams hate it, and for some teams, winning this one is the “big one” compared to winning a bowl game (no, I’m serious).

Here are my predictions for the Big XII and ACC Championship games, with the SEC and `Pac-10 Championship game’ between USC and UCLA coming later in the week.

November 14, 2005, will mark the end of an era in Kansas State football. The man who orchestrated the greatest turnaround in college football history stepped down. Yeah, I’m dumbfounded also. ESPN.com stated that Head Coach Bill Snyder announced his decison to his team on Monday. After 2 strait losing seasons, you might be thinking that he quit. Feeling that he wasn’t a use to the program anymore. But Ted Sims, a senior linebacker, said it best, “Coach isn’t quitting, he’s retiring.” I have no idea what his thought process was. But I truley respect the man with all my heart. He didn’t just take a “hard” job 17 long years ago at Kansas State. He took the hardest Head Coaching job in the whole country. The team had lost 27 strait, was on the verge of being the 1st team to lose 500 games, absolutley horrid facilites, and if the school didn’t see results, the program was going to be dropped. Coach Snyder began to take the loyal Purple Pride on a ride of a lifetime. His 1st season, the team went 1-10, but had a enthusiasm towards the teams play. In 1991, the team went 7-4, 1992 the “Kansas State Kittens” went 5-6, and in 1993, hell froze over. Coach Snyder did the impossible and took the 1993 version of his Wildcats to the Copper Bowl in Tuscon, Arizona. An estimated 20,000 ‘Cat fans made the trip to the game. In the 54-17 romp, the team showed that something specail was on the way

I’m just sad it’s Week 13 of the college football season. Honestly…

The window of opportunity is closing for these Heisman candidates to show what they are really made of. Season is coming to a close and these exciting games could be the defining factor on the person winning the Heisman. So these last couple weeks are more important than ever for Heisman candidates trying to get a chance to hoist the Heisman.

Who impressed, depressed and didn’t move us after Week 12 of the college football season.

By Sean Quinn

There’s only one way the BCS will get off the hook this year – if Reggie Bush doesn’t win the Heisman Trophy.

Fast forward 20, no 30 years from now. Suzanne Somers will cover the remaining five percent of her body in plastic, Freddy Adu will be one year away from reaching his potential and Flintstones Vitamins, not steroids, will be the latest drug used by MLB sluggers. More foolish, though, is the fact that the best college football player of most people’s lifetime didn’t win the Heisman Trophy. It’s just as foolish as Citizen Kane not winning the Oscar in 1941.