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The Longhorn Opinion Array The Preseason Top 25
I'm submitting Barking Carnival's Preseason BlogPoll wild ass guess entry soon and the final step in my mailing it in research was to consult three of the gridiron Oracles I most respect. This is partly motivated by a real interest in their opinions, as EDSBS's Spencer Hall writes the defining...
Phil Steele Hates Trent Richardson
and other assorted curiosities. I have nothing against Phil Steele, admire him quite a bit actually. I am sure as hell not going to publish a 328-page college football preview magazine in 3.5 font and cram every possible bit of detail into it, including Les Miles' periodontist (Dr. Richard Stein,...
Revisiting Phil Steele
Remember the consternation a couple of weeks ago from Phil Steele ranking Texas #11? I just bought the magazine, and see where his ranking comes from. He has a logic behind it, and thought that would make for interesting discussion. Unless you would rather talk conference realignment. Three...
2010 ACC Football Starts Lost To Injury
Leave it to college football guru Phil Steele to keep the entertained during the offseason with all sorts of interesting statistics. This week it's a look at starts lost to injury. Steele's research has shown that teams that suffered a lot of injuries the previous year will generally have a better...
Georgia Bulldogs 2011 Season Preview: The New Mexico State Game
The New Mexico St. Aggies, who will visit Sanford Stadium to play the Georgia Bulldogs on November 5, ranked 103rd nationally in passing defense, 110th in rushing defense, 112th in total defense, and 115th in scoring defense in 2010. Both by land and by air, the Red and Black ought to be able to...
Georgia Bulldogs 2011 Season Preview: The Florida Game
It should be apparent by now that I have been putting off previewing the Georgia Bulldogs’ October 29 SEC East showdown with the Florida Gators in the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, so much so that I have devoted front-page space to double-dipping Dawg bites and examining such pressing...
Home Field Edge And Difficult 2011 ACC Road Football Schedules
This week, Phil Steele explained how he computes each team's home field advantage in his preseason magazine. Steele uses nine different individual factors over a three year period to rate a program's home field edge. Here is a look at Steele's 2011 home field edge ratings in the ACC: 1. Virginia...
How Good is Your Home Field Advantage?
Five weeks 'till kickoff...Five weeks 'till kickoff...Five weeks 'till kickoff... Phil Steele gave us a look inside his rankings of home field advantage data today. As he makes his predictions each week, he adjusts for home field advantage. Ah, but not all home fields are created equal. A trip to...
Ten Dollars To Burn: The Most And Least Accurate College Football Preseason Magazines
OMG FOOTBALL SOON (seriously -- Big Ten Media Days are in the last week of July and fall practice is scheduled to start in the first week of August). Until then, we're still in prime preseason magazine territory on the 2011 calendar. Most of the mags are your standard, boilerplate issue with...
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