Igno Rants on College Football

Igno Rants on College Football


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The Week 11 Pickcast is unclenching in stages
November 11, 2016

We’re in the back quartile of the regular season, and the pressure is building for many teams. Will they let all that pent-up anxiety out in one ignominious game like Texas A&M, or will they have the constitution to ride the toilet for the long haul?

Week 10 Recap: The Schedules of Destiny
November 07, 2016

With Week 10 in the books, and the second CFP rankings coming out tomorrow, it seems clear that five teams have a clear path to the playoffs by winning out: Bama, Clemson, Washington, and Michigan / Ohio State.

Week 10 Pickcast: Off track
November 04, 2016

Year Three of the College Football Playoffs isn’t going according to our historic script. We should be wringing our hands over the large number of undefeateds still in play.  Instead, we’re left with a Saturday in November that won’t add much to the mu...

Week 9 Recap: CFP Rush Hour
October 31, 2016

The two-lane blacktop that serves as the only ingress to the College Football Playoffs — that suburban, gated community of college football’s top 1% — is suddenly in a bit of a traffic jam. Typically at this time of year,

Week 9 Pickcast: Letting the rest of the league have a turn
October 28, 2016

While we’re not ready to say there aren’t any good games in the SEC this weekend, with Bama on a BYE week, Florida looking stale, and Ole Miss / Georgia tanking like General Patton — it’s on Auburn to be the conference standard-bearer.

Week 8 Recap: They are who some of us thought they were
October 24, 2016

Few things in life are as satisfying as being RIGHT (one of those is winning 4 titles in 7 years).  Jeremy believed in his beloved Tigers, and they showed up in a big way against the buffet warriors of Arkansas.

Week 8 Pickcast: Low down on the showdown in the West
October 21, 2016

It’s high noon in the dusty streets of the SEC West.  The cowbellers are busy watching, terrified, from the seedy apothecary as the bad hombres of Alabama, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, and Ole Miss step out for college football’s version of gunfig...

Week 7 Recap: Light ’em up… or just squeak by
October 17, 2016

If you’re not Alabama, you either lost or won a squeaker this weekend. Let Jeremy and Carey take you through how it all breaks down: from NC State’s adoption of the Adam Griffith School of Field Goals to Mark Richt bringing the “big game” mentality to ...

Week 7 Pickcast: A whole lotta hate to go around
October 14, 2016

The LSU/Florida lovers’ spat threatened to overshadow Tennessee Hate Week, but here we are at the Third Saturday in October. Outside of this game, there’s a couple of other top-25 matchups with OSU/Wisconsin and Ole Miss/Arkansas.

Week 6 Recap: out with the old, in with the new
October 10, 2016

Goodbye Stanford and Oregon, Hello Washington and Washington State.  So long Houston and UNC and Tennessee’s “pixie dust”.  Hello to high-octane, HUNH Bama, and Auburn winning with stifling defense, a pounding ground game,