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How the Mountain West Can Become an Automatic BCS Qualifier
The ongoing agitation for a playoff, while not without its intelligent and principled adherents, nevertheless is in some quarters largely a knee-jerk reaction born primarily of greed and envy. Last night’s Fiesta Bowl once again exposed the hypocrisy of this position, as two supposedly disheartened...
Don't Bet On It!: College Football Bowl Edition (Part VIII)
I’m not going to lie to you; this season’s bowl picks were a fiasco. I blew the call on seven of the first eight postseason tilts before dropping seven straight between the EagleBank and Chick-fil-A Bowls. This has been my worst year of postseason prognostications ever, so I’m not even going to...
Don't Bet On It!: College Football Bowl Edition (Part II)
I made it through the Sin City Las Vegas Bowl in my last round of picks, so it’s time to rejoin the postseason schedule on the eve of Christmas Eve and run down my next four bowl predictions. As always, my ordinary mantra applies: Don’t Bet On It! These are the next games on the slate in need of...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
Needless to say, it has been a busy week in Bulldog Nation, which is why I’m a bit behind schedule in bringing you this week’s special dual SEC/national edition of "Don’t Bet On It!" Reversing the typical trends, I went 4-2 in last week’s national games of interest and 2-4 in last week’s conference...
Don't Bet On It!: National Game of Disinterest
We have already gone around the SEC and taken a look at the national games of interest, which leaves us with just one game remaining . . . namely, the national game of disinterest. The national game of disinterest is the one game each week that I refuse to pick because I cannot for the life of me...
Week Twelve BlogPoll Ballot Draft
If you’re like me, one of the things for which you’ll be thankful this Thanksgiving is the fact that the 2009 college football season is almost over and women’s gymnastics season is almost upon us. Nevertheless, the show must go on, so I guess it’s time I went ahead and cast the first draft of my...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
As I first began looking ahead to another lackluster weekend of college football action in the SEC, it occurred to me that there’d probably be more good games if there weren’t so many mediocre teams. Take that for whatever it’s worth as you consider the fact that I went 5-1 in last week’s league...
Don't Bet On It!: National Game of Disinterest
First, there were the national games of interest. Next, we went around the SEC. Now, it is time for us to look at the weekend's least compelling college football contest, to which we here at Dawg Sports refer as the national game of disinterest.I've spent the last two weeknights watching...
Don't Bet On It!: Around the SEC
I started with the national games of interest this week, so now I need to circle back around to look at the Southeastern Conference slate. My 6-1 ledger in last week’s league picks left me at 57-10 for the fall, but, honestly, I should’ve gone 7-0 against last Saturday’s sorry...
BtB 2009-10 Mid-American Conference Preview
The MAC went through the entire decade of the '00s without earning a single at-large, something they managed to do three times in the 1990s, including the last two years of the decade. The last three seasons pretty much summed up the variety of reasons why. Last season, the Eastern...
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