You don’t need season preview mags, Corso or Herbstreit or Mark May. You don’t need The Wolverine Football Season Preview in all of its glossy glory. You don’t need websites or weblogs or monkeys throwing darts. Everything you need to get a randomly generated pile of bullshit an accurate gaze into the [...]

For those that don’t know me all that well, I love video games…and I love football. The NCAA Football series by EA sports has brought these two things together in perfect harmony for years and years, going back to the Sega Genesis in the dorms of the University of Michigan ten years ago. Since the [...]

7-Year Itch
Year after year. Blue-chip recruit after blue-chip recruit. Promise after promise. Where is the big payoff? The National Championship we pine for each year only makes us crazy. No player on the roster has seen better than a 3-0 start to a season. Lately, the race has been over before it’s started. In 2000, [...]

The Slowest Week of the Year
Note to self: Find something to do this week to keep mind off of impending season.
Like a five-year-old waiting for December 19th to turn into December 25th, I can’t seem to find a way to ease the restlessness and anticipation for the upcoming college football season. It’s now August 24th, [...]

Unhealthy Addictions
I can’t stop playing NCAA 2003 for the X-Box. It has become a serious problem. In anticipation of the coming season, and because I can’t bear to watch the Colorado game on ESPN Classic anymore, I have actually watched the computer play itself on several occasions. The realism is ridiculous, and JJ (soon to [...]

The Tailgate
And so it begins. A group of people that have seen each other only a few times in the last eight months will soon be congragating every Saturday through Thanksgiving…plus a Bowl game (god willing). At 8am on Saturday, September 1st we will begin a ritual known as the Tailgate. Stronger than any religion, [...]