0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 9/13/2016
The Big 12 had a very busy offseason dealing with expansion talk, having a conference championship game, and the fallout from the Baylor University scandal. The conference was hoping that when the season started, they will be able to focus on just football, but after the first two weeks, things aren’t looking too good for […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 8/30/2016
The NFL had barely recovered from Deflategate before Colin Kaepernick’s protest thrust them back into another scandal. The NFL predictions against the spread are quickly taking a back as all eyes turn to the NFL PR Machine. Some people believe that Colin’s actions, his refusal to stand during the playing of the National Anthem could […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 8/16/2016
During the off-season, the NFL rules committee continued their attempts to make the game safer by tinkering with kick returns rules, which have led to quite a few complaints from special teams players. A new rule the committee will implement this season and revisit after the season is over is the placement of the ball […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 8/1/2016
The NFL regular season is merely a month away. Another year of amazing catches and extraordinary comebacks awaits football fans. While some NFL fans are still embroiled in arguments over NFL expert picks, others are obsessing over the must-watch games of the 2016 season, the most prominent including the following: 10). Patriots/Browns Week 5 While […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 7/22/2016
Last season, some of the biggest names in the NFL were forced to miss most of the season, which directly affected the way their team performed. This year, those injured players are healthy and ready to go, which should make a significant difference to how things play out this year. Since their team’s NFL spread […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 5/10/2016
The polls have had their say and no the computer rankings have caluclated who the top teams in college football are. Alabama is number one, Florida State is second and Oregon and Ohio State are hoping to wiggle in to one of the top two spots over the next seven weeks. Fire up the engines […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run
The NCAA has been criticized for a lot of its practices because they seem unfair to student athletes whom the organization says it tries to protect. While the organization and schools benefit from college football rankings, which help them get into well-paying bowl games, the student athletes are supposed to be happy with getting a […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 5/2/2016
Entering the 2016 NFL Draft, experts predicted a lot of players from Ohio State would be drafted because of the success the team had in the past two seasons. However, nobody expected the team to have as much success as it did last week. The fact that they had so many players picked in the […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 3/29/2016
Coke or Pepsi? Apple or Android? In ‘n Out or Five Guys? Democrat or Republican? It seems as though everything must have a label and everybody must fall under one category. This theory extends to the world of college sports as well. Pay the players or not? Playoff supporter or opponent? Football school or basketball […]
0 comments by Joe Webb on 1/20/2016
The Alabama Crimson Tide just wrapped up their fourth national title under head coach Nick Saban, forming what amounts to a college football dynasty (four titles since 2009) and arguably places Saban atop college football’s Mount Rushmore in terms of greatest coaches ever. It was an insane 2015 college football season, one that culminated in […]
0 comments by Joe Webb on 12/2/2015
On Tuesday, December 1st, the latest rankings for the College Football Playoff were released and it certainly looks like the Oklahoma Sooners will be part of the second ever four-team playoff. The Sooners won their pseudo-Big 12 Championship Game this past Saturday night, routing the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Stillwater by 35 points. The Sooners […]
0 comments by Joe Webb on 9/22/2015
After this past weekend, the top three spots in the AP poll for college football are occupied by the Ohio State Buckeyes, Michigan State Spartans and there’s a tie for the No. 3 slot between the TCU Horned Frogs and Mississippi Rebels. Of the top four teams, the Buckeyes had the biggest scare after winning […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 9/15/2015
As Ryan wrote in a previous article, small businesses often fail to see the importance of social media for their activity. But even those who create a social media presence often follow a wrong path, focusing on metrics that are not quite as important as they seem. Depending on your operation, the translation of metrics […]
0 comments by Joe Webb on 7/22/2015
The 2015 college football season is just a month away, as year two of the College Football Playoff is ready to get underway. The new campaign packs a serious punch when it comes to hype, as Jim Harbaugh takes over the Wolverines, the Ducks try to move on without Marcus Mariota and Nick Saban’s Crimson […]
0 comments by Crystal Ball Run on 3/24/2015
In March 2015, four NFL players younger than 30 unexpectedly announced their retirements. These decisions all occurred within days of one another, and the conclusion drawn was unmistakable. With all the recent news about brain damage causing long-term issues for football players, each man chose his health over his vocation. They were not the first […]
