Football is back, ladies and gents, and with it brings the return of the Weekend Carnage Report, your Monday Must Read for football goings on. While the weekend was short on major earth shaking upsets, there was excitement to be found throughout the land. Blocked field goals, overtimes, sucker punches… and this was all week [...]
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In an effort to address all the teams and conferences that make the fall so exciting, OTP’s All-Star Editorial staff is putting on their prognosticatin’ hats and taking a stab at each of the conferences and all of the teams in FBS. Alan and Edge are giving you the conference’s order of finish, the records, the superlatives for offense and defense, and the biggest surprise for each conference. At the conclusion of our series, we’ll have the Bowl Projections for all 34 Bowl Games.
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Just as we did last year, OTP will be getting itself in season mode by revealing our Preseason Top 25 one pick at a time, followed by our conference predictions, All-American teams, and finally our conference winner and bowl projections. It’s still sunny and the pool is still open, but it’s time. Sweet tasty football [...]
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There has been no inanimate object or structure take as much of a beating as Yankee Stadium has in its short three month or so lifespan. Balls are flying faster than the last Peter North movie, seats are ridiculously over priced, and if you end up just short of the restaurant in center field, you’re [...]
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With the fall date at West Point looming for the Ball State Cardinals it’s never to early to look at the impact players on Army’s roster. Enter one Ali Villanueva, a former offensive linemen converted to wideout who is 6′ 10″. According to Army, Ali runs a 4.8 and weighs 286. Jared Lorenzen scoffs at [...]
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It’s been a couple weeks since we’ve thrown up our Humpday Quickies, but here we are. It’s the humpiest of days. Nothing really of note on the Cardinals that wasn’t already covered, so we’ll move ahead to the Wildcats who face Vandy this week. Is it winnable? Sure. Will they win? Who the hell knows. [...]
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With Monday comes clarity about the season as we take stock of the weekly shake ups and shockers in college football. We had a relatively upset-free weekend of college football save for one big Nittany Lion loss. Other than that, the outcomes were fairly predictable. Exciting, but predictable. The Good Texas Tech: The knock on [...]
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Truthfully, aside from Tommy Bowden getting the old heave-ho in Clemson, it’s sort of been a slow news week in terms of college football. The hype wagon hit fever pitch for last weekend, the OMG! BeSt wEekEnd Evur!!!! sort of feeling heading into Saturday. There is no Tuesday/Wednesday/Monday afternoon gameage for you to enjoy, and [...]
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7 days ago in this very space, I wrote about how my bloodlust wasn’t quite satiated after a weekend that saw no marquee teams defecate the bed. Ask and ye shall receive from the football Gods, as the Top 3 teams in last week’s OTP Blogpoll took the L. Capped off with a Ball State [...]
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An extra-special Humpday this week, as I sit in my office awaiting a potential phone call from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as I am the Phone A Friend for one of my colleagues. Should Meredith Viera ask him about Ball State football I think we’re covered. At any rate, here’s what’s happening across [...]
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