BCS National Championship Game

regular season college football schedule - rivalry games taking center stage - the Big 12 Conference is currently sitting on the outside looking in for a shot at one of the coveted 4 spots in the BCS Bowl Playoff. When the season kicked off way back in early September, four Big 12 schools actually had high hopes of receiving one of those four esteemed bids. Oklahoma, Baylor, West Virginia and Oklahoma State University all started the season like that little ant; they had “high hopes”! But as we near the end of the season, the college football Bowl Championship Series Selection Committee is simply not showing any love for the top rated teams from the conference. Baylor saw their season hopes plummet amid…

Philippines. He was raised with Christian values, morals, and ethics. Throughout his life he has done mission work and, with his family, devoted his life to Christ. Tebow has always been an accomplished athlete, but his morality never faded. Tebow is currently an outfielder in Major League Baseball’s New York Met’s minor league system. In his college days, Tebow was a standout quarterback at the University of Florida where he won the BCS National Championship games in 2006 and 2008. He also won…

entered the gates to KFC T20 Big Bash League fixtures during BBL05. With a crowd average of 28,279 over 32 games this summer, the BBL has found itself with the 9th highest attendance of a sporting fixture in the world. Crowds have risen an incredible 47% since the inaugural BBL01, when only 550,220 fans entered the gates (17,749 per game). Back then, the BBL was considered a joke of a league, something suitable for children, and children only. Now, five seasons in, not only is the Big Bash…

Is the College Football Playoff a step in the right direction in this sport or is it a step backward. In the past the College Football champion used to be decided by a National Championship game between the two highest ranked teams given to the two teams with the best records. Nowadays the champion is decided through a playoff system that includes the four best teams in the country. In my opinion I think that the playoff is a great idea, and I strongly believe it should continue. The College…

should be paid by the NCAA; based on the research I have done. This paper will be composed of various reason on why these athletes should be paid, and my paper will also include opposing views to this issue. My first section will consist of the revenue that some big name college programs bring the NCAA and I will also talk about the lack of professional teams in this section. In the second section, I will focus on march madness ( A tournament in which 65 college teams get to participate in,…

College Football’s bowl season is underway and with 36 games left to play in the next three weeks, it’s difficult not to feel the excitement. Bowl season kicked off Saturday in a day that showcased five games, albeit some more exciting than others. • In the opening bowl of college football’s postseason, the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl, the Utah Utes defeated the BYU Cougars in a game that ended a lot closer than expected after Utah jumped out to a 35-0 lead in the first quarter. The bowl…

Clemson Tigers If you think Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney's Tigers are content with the top seed in this year's College Football Playoff, think again. Despite Clemson’s No. 1 ranking, the Tigers will enter Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. as the underdog to the 4th-ranked Sooners. With most of the hype surrounding Oklahoma, which in some circles has portrayed the Sooners as possibly this year's Ohio State Buckeyes (won National Championship last season), the Tigers should be fueled to…

The kickoff to the college football season is exactly one week away and collegiate programs across the country are all trying to get to Glendale, AZ, site of the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. There’s a slew of intriguing matchups slated for Week 1 of the college football regular season, including TCU’s visit to Minnesota for a game with the Gophers, Arizona State’s trip to Texas for a matchup with A&M’s Aggies, Texas versus Notre Dame, Wisconsin and Alabama’s meeting at…

Waikato Rugby Union speaks up about the match fixing game allegation (this is my feature story) After the Ranfurly Shield game that occurred on October 3, 2015, there is allegation that one of the team players in WRU organization, Stephen Donald was involved in a match fixing game. The Waikato Rugby Union had a press conference on October 7, 2015 to answer the match-fixing allegation that they received from the media during the Ranfurly Sheild game. In the press conference General Manager,…

in the 20 years that Jastremski has worked for the Patriots, he had never met with Brady in the quarterback room. He also said that the meeting only lasted a few minutes and walked out a happy man because Brady had praised and thank him for the preparation of the footballs for the AFC Championship Game. He said they did not discuss anything relating to the deflation of game balls during the meeting. To evaluate the data collected on the day of the AFC Championship Game and test the likelihood…