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Early Winners, Top Fan Injury
09.03.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
Fans, while doing a little property maintenance here at Fans25 headquarters, I injured my "click finger" and am having quite an ordeal typing right now. Yesterday around 4:30 pm, I was attempting to throw some dead rose branches into the woods behind the property, when a rose thorn sliced its way directly down the index finger of my right hand (the very place used for clicking the mouse and hitting buttons). Of course this is just a minor setback, but just goes to show that the football field isn't the only place injuries can occur!
Week One Predictions
09.02.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
It's Gameday. As I type those two words, a huge exhale leaves my lungs. I have waited and waited and waited for this moment for months now - as we all have - and it is now here. Tonight will see my TV screen filled with images of Steve Spurrier and Williams Brice Stadium as the Gamecocks host Southern Mississippi. It will also be filled with images of Pittsburgh and Utah - a game featuring two top 25 teams. All in all, there are 18 games tonight between 6:30 and 11:00 EST, so this should be a great evening of college football!...Last year in the Pick'em Contest here on Fans25.com, I scored in at 71% for the season. Not bad, just three points behind our winner. But I have yet to win the event going into our fourth version, and I am out for blood! Here are my predictions for week one.
10 Things, Preseason
09.02.10 - Posted By: Wes Mewbourne - Birmingham, AL
This year, I've decided to change it up a bit. Instead of the SEC Rundown, every Tuesday I'll have the top ten games, players, and story lines from the previous weekend in all of college football - not just the SEC. Feel free to voice all comments, suggestions, etc because that's what it's all about. Without further ado, I present you the preseason edition, which gives the top ten story lines to watch this season. Enjoy...
1. Will the champs repeat?
Ever since the Tide held up their first BCS trophy, and their first national title in 17 years, the Bama Nation and football fans across the country wanted to know the same thing – will they do it again? It’s asked every year, but in actuality, there has
The Conference Playoff
09.01.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
The battle for conference supremacy will be decided on the field. If there is one thing I have learned in the nearly five years of running this site, it is that almost every message board topic has the potential to evolve into a debate over which conference is the best (or more accurately, which conference sucks the worst). So while beating my head against the wall to help pass the time until kickoff Thursday night, I got an idea. What if there was a conference playoff? What if there was a playoff where each conference fielded an all-star team, and those guys battled it out on the gridiron for conference supremacy? The more I thought about, I thought "this could work." Then the more and more I got into it I thought, "this is genious!" All of the aspects we love about college football would exist in this postseason event - hype, pride, elite athletes, rabid fans, media frenziness, and most importantly, money.
Spurrier or Swinney? The Choice is Yours.
08.31.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
Clemson and South Carolina fans love to feud, and here is another topic in which there is no shortage of disagreement. These two coaches could not be more opposite, and that's what makes ths debate fun. As a head coach, 65-year old Steve Spurrier has been head coaching for 23 years at three different schools, has won a national title, six conference titles (one at Duke, five at Florida), coached a Heisman winner (Danny Wuerfell, '96) and has earned his own nickname: "Dark Visor." Swinney is just 40-years old, has coached a year and a half at one school, and has yet to be in a national title hunt (won one as a player in '92 with Alabama). However, he did coach a Heismanesque player (I'm joking, but look what Spiller is doing already for Buffalo), and has himself had a nickname long before Spurrier had one: "Dabo." So which one of these two men would you want leading your team?
Since You've Been Gone...
08.27.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
College football has been gone for six months. But now, it is just a few days from being back. Here is a look at all of the things the sports world has given us to pass the time. And while it has been fun to keep up with all of the other great things in the world of friendly competition, as soon as this article is complete, we are back to college football and nothing else!
The Winter Olympics from Vancouver, BC got us through the colder months. The United States finished first in the medal count, with 37 medals. But Germany (30 medals, second place) had more golds, with ten to our nine. Along with the X Games just before, there is now .....
Preseason Top 25
08.18.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
I really do believe that polls should not come out until the fourth weekend or so, but since they are fun, and we all like to know where our favorite team stands in the minds of others, here is my 2010 preseason top 25 poll! Some may wonder what the basis of my first poll is, and the answer is a number of things. It is a combination of how good I think the teams are (mainly), followed by where I think they will be around that fourth week I mentioned above. The most weight is given to who I really do think are the best teams out there. This poll won't match up super close to the AP or Coaches' poll (honestly, I wrote mine before the Coaches' poll came out the other day), but in my mind is the order of the toughest teams in college football...
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The Reason
08.18.10 - Posted By: Brett Haynes - Greenville, SC
Unless your favorite team is a member of the Southeastern Conference, chances are you are sick and tired of hearing about how great it is. Yes, there is certainly no shortage of media praise for the league that spans the Southern states. But it is mostly deserved. The SEC lays claim to the last four national championships, and seven of the last 14. On top of that, they bost a long list of out-of-conference wins over the last five years. Nothing lasts forever, but as of right now, this league is king. Here is the reason.
