College football Week 5 is in the books and TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage hones in on the 11 results of the most interest to anyone tracking the road to January and the teams that will play in the biggest bowl games.
Alabama and Ohio State play key divisional games on Saturday night, and the BCS picture promises to get further sorted out with the big games involving LSU, Georgia, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. From Tuscaloosa to Columbus to Athens to South Bend, Week 5 offers a good package of games and TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage hones in on the four biggest…
TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will be back later this week with a look at the four marquee games. For now, let’s whet our appetites with a look at the most notable games on the undercard, going conference-by-conference. Here we check in on what’s a quiet week in the Big 12 beyond the Sooners’ visit to South Bend, but has three cases where the conference can quietly build a resume
TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will be back later this week with a look at the four marquee games. For now, let’s whet our appetites with a look at the most notable games on the undercard, going conference-by-conference. There’s more going on in the Big Ten then Badgers-Buckeyes and it starts with a rivalry battle that could have postseason stakes at the prize.
TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will be back later this week with a look at the four marquee games. For now, let’s whet our appetites with a look at the most notable games on the undercard, going conference-by-conference. Here are focus will start with the ACC’s key Coastal Division game on Thursday, along with several matchups likely to be important as teams scramble for bowl eligibility.
TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage will be back later this week with a look at the four marquee games. For now, let’s whet our appetites with a look at the most notable games on the undercard, going conference-by-conference, focusing here on an interesting Saturday night agenda in the Pac-12…
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The Big 12 got the headlines on Saturday with the thrilling win by Texas over Oklahoma State, and the electrifying performance put up by West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith, as he marked himself the clear frontrunner for the Heisman Trophy, but both the Longhorns and Mountaineers have plenty of reasons to be concerned as they look ahead on the rest of the season and consider their hopes of a major bowl game.
The Big 12 promised a balanced and competitive year in the conference’s broad middle class, meaning there would be an exciting race for a possible at-large bid to the BCS and at the very least to get the conference’s spot in the Cotton Bowl. With Kansas State’s win over front-runner Oklahoma, we can add the race for the league championship itself into that mix, and every game among contenders in this league is a big deal. That’s why Texas-Oklahoma State is likely to be the most consequential game of Saturday and where TheSportsNotebook, after looking at the undercard games yesterday, will begin the Friday previews of the three marquee games of college football Week 5…
The endless parade of non-conference games that have marked college football’s first month comes to a merciful end this Saturday, and college football Week 5 is marked with good league slates throughout the country. It starts tonight with Stanford-Washington, as the Cardinal look to show their steady running game led by Stephan Taylor can produce a road win against a modestly competitive Huskie team. TheSportsNotebook runs down what’s ahead on a conference-by-conference basis…