The Catwalk: Week 9’s Best and Worst Uniforms
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University What a week! Upsets were everywhere, and now only 5 teams still have that pretty lil goose egg in their loss column. As an IUFB fan, I say boot Michigan out of the p...
Beat the Spread: Balls to the Wall Money-Line Calls Week 9
Balls to the Wall Call #4 Michigan @( +24.5)Michigan St: Throw all the records and stats in the garbage during rivalry games. Cause of that logical fallacy Michigan St is a good pick here. A win again...
Touchdowns & Tailgates: Previewing MSU-Michigan
How’s it going guys! Welcome back to another edition of Touchdowns & Tailgates. Week 8 was a crazy weekend of football and I’m still not sure how Erik Oakley is alive after how lit Pen...
Contender or Pretender?: Heisman Stock Watch Week 8
So this article is a little late this week, and I apologize for that. It has been quite the week so far for me, with 4 tests, a quiz, and two papers due next week. Ouch. I know you guys didn’t c...
Extra Points: Week 9
Student Union presents Extra Points by Delphi High School. Faculty member Brian Tonsoni and his students have some fun while talking about the upcoming college football weekend....
Palmetto Rivals: Will Clemson Blow it Against FSU?
Student Union presents the Palmetto Rivals podcast with Liam Smith. Liam and his guests talk college sports with perspectives straight from college campuses across the country. Today’s Topics -C...
The Seven Seas: Penn State isn’t suddenly a national championship contender.
Don’t hop on the Penn State bandwagon yet. Let’s take a stroll through the 2014 season. The Nittany Lions take the future national champions in Ohio State to double overtime in a game they should ...
James Franklin: From dumpster fire to B1G Coach of the Year Candidate
The Penn State Nittany Lions football season was over. Fans of all ages, including myself, were ready to run head coach James Franklin straight out of town. Penn State was on the verge of a Rutgers-li...
Approach the Bench: Week 8 Big 12 Golden Bench Awards
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE GIVE OUT AWARDS TO THE BEST (AND WORST) PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK IN THE BIG 12. Eric Taylor Coach of the Week – Dana Holgorsen (West Virginia) West Virginia is good,...
On the Ball: Video Game Stats for Week 8
(This is a weekly article on Student Union Sports covering the most ridiculous stat lines of the week) I don’t know about you, but I thought this was a very weird week of college football...
The Catwalk: The Best (and Worst) Uniforms of Week 8
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Another week, another assault on the eyes from a Michigan team (not BIG Michigan, mind you). We also saw some great uniforms in a somewhat lackluster week of CFB (ex...
Stats 101: The Incredible Lamar Jackson
If you watch college football, it’s possible that six weeks ago, you had no idea who Lamar Jackson was. You do now. The God, the next Michael Vick, the best player in the country, call him what you ...
Beat the Spread: Balls to the Wall Calls Week 8
Balls to the Wall Call During last week’s column we highlighted Syracuse’s upset victory over Virginia Tech. Check out to see who we have on upset alert this week. #2 Ohio State @ (+20) (+789) Pen...
Beat the Spread: Lock of the Week
Lock of the week: East Carolina (2-4) @ Cincinnati (3-3) (-2) Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm (Nippert Stadium) Tv: CBS Sports Network: This is a resurrection game for College Football journeyma...
The 5 things Penn State must do to knock off Ohio State
Penn State hosts the number two ranked team in the nation on Saturday night as Ohio State will be welcomed to Happy Valley by a sea of white. The Nittany Lions are 4-0 at home this season and look to ...
Touchdowns & Tailgates: Week 8 Preview
Will this be the week Alabama finally falls from grace? Can Iowa pull the upset over a Wisconsin team that has lost two in a row? How bad will Michigan embarrass Illinois? Does Auburn have what it tak...
Ryan Plugge: Tailgating In South Bend
It is always special to me to go to other stadiums and enjoy a game day from someone else’s perspective. That is exactly what I did this past weekend. Texas A&M had a bye week so I decided t...
Timmy Talks: Episode 1
Student Union presents the Timmy Talks podcast with Tim Birkmeyer. Tim and his guests talk college sports with perspectives straight from college campuses across the country. Student Union’s goa...
Extra Points: Week 8
Student Union presents Extra Points by Delphi High School. Faculty member Brian Tonsoni and his students have some fun while talking about the upcoming college football weekend....
The Best Friday Night Lights QB: A Debate
Written by Austin Brown and Brooks Hepp Friday Night Lights was the single greatest television series of all time. For five glorious years, the Dillon Panthers (and later the East Dillon Lions) became...
The Seven Seas: Alabama is the best team in the country. Period.
If you missed this weekend of college football, I’m sorry. But look no further than right here to catch up on what happened. Alabama is the best team in the country. Period. Clemson is good. Ohio S...
Palmetto Rivals Episode 2: Shotgun Formation
Student Union presents the Palmetto Rivals podcast with Liam Smith. Liam and his guests talk college sports with perspectives straight from college campuses across the country. Today’s episode o...
The Flexbone: The Perfect College Football Entourage
Alright, so last weeks edition of The Flexbone featured my all-star backyard football team. This week I thought I’d change it up (ever so slightly) and toss out my dream entourage of College Foo...
Luke-Warm Takes: Weekly Big Ten Power Rankings
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN POWER RANKINGS, by Luke Maiers. What did we learn this week in the Big Ten? Michigan State can’t wait for basketball season, TDs for Harambe has won more at TCF Bank Sta...
Contender or Pretender?: Heisman Stock Watch Week 7
Another crazy week in college football has ended, therefore it is also time for my Heisman Stock Watch. First, let’s get a quick recap of the week that was. Ole Miss and Arkansas played one of, ...
Approach the Bench: Week 7 Big 12 Golden Bench Awards
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE GIVE OUT AWARDS TO THE BEST (AND WORST) PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK IN THE BIG 12. Eric Taylor Coach of the Week – Bob Stoops (Oklahoma) A lesser man might have panicke...
On the Ball: Video Game Stats from Week 7
(This is a weekly article on Student Union Sports covering the most ridiculous stat lines of the week) Week 7 brought us a very mixed bag of results. We had a close top-10 game in Wisconsin vs....
The Catwalk: Week 7’s Best and Worst Uniforms
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Week 7 was features quite a few wild games, including some top 25 shootouts. This week also featured a wide variety of uniforms, some worthy of the likes of Derek Zo...
Beat the Spread: Balls to the Wall Moneyline Calls Week 7 Upset Special
Balls to the Wall Moneyline Call: In this edition of Beat the Spread, we will have a feature dedicated to calling upsets in this week slate. There are a lot of big games this college football weekend ...
Beat the Spread: Balls to the Wall Moneyline Upset Calls
Balls to the Wall Moneyline Call: In this edition of Beat the Spread, we will have a feature dedicated to calling upsets in this week slates. There are a lot of big games this college football weekend...
Touchdowns & Tailgates: Week 7 Preview
Man oh man, what a weekend. Ah, yes week 6 was a wild week of College Football, full of kickass tailgates and blocked game-winning PATs. Houston can say goodbye to their playoff hopes after getting u...
Sneaky Good Game of the Week: (10) Nebraska at Indiana
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University 3:30 PM EST, ABC & ESPN2 This weekend offers a nice slate of games, including OSU @ Wisconsin, Ole Miss @ Arkansas, and Bama-Tennessee. But a lot of times these ...
Ryan Plugge: Tailgating A Top 10 Match up Against Tennessee
Remember those movies you watched as a kid or the books you read growing up where everything falls into place perfectly? Let’s just say that is exactly what happened last Saturday for the Texas ...
Fashion 101: Oklahoma Football
Written by Charlie Dutton | Oklahoma University There are two kinds of teams in college football. No more, no less. There are the “uniform teams” and there are the winners. It wasn’t...
Extra Points: Week 7
Student Union presents Extra Points by Delphi High School. Faculty member Brian Tonsoni and his students have some fun while talking about the upcoming college football weekend....
Approach the Bench: Big 12 Power Rankings Week 7
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE BREAK DOWN THE POWER RANKINGS IN THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE. 1. Baylor (Last week: 1) Baylor was off this week which makes it kind of hard to bump them off the top spot. Th...
Palmetto Rivals: Pilot Episode
Student Union presents the Palmetto Rivals podcast with Liam Smith. Liam and his guests talk college sports with perspectives straight from college campuses across the country. In the first ever episo...
The Flexbone: The Ultimate Backyard Football Team
Ahh….Don’t you just love College Football in October? The air is starting to get a little crisper and fridges are starting to fill up with Sam Adams Octoberfest (or Angry Orchard if you ...
The Seven Seas: Blame Kevin Hogan for McCaffrey’s struggles
If you missed this weekend of college football, I’m sorry. But look no further than right here to catch up on what happened. The best part of Christian McCaffrey was Kevin Hogan. I can’t think of...
Contender or Pretender?: Heisman Stock Watch Week 6
Another exciting week in college football has ended, so once again, it’s time to check out my Heisman Stock Watch. October is one of the most exciting sports months for me, between college footb...
Luke-Warm Takes: Weekly Big Ten Power Rankings
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN POWER RANKINGS, by Luke Maiers. What did we learn this past weekend in the Big Ten? It really sucks being Joey Julius, Rutgers likes to give up points, Jabrill Peppers is the ...
Approach the Bench: Week 6 Big 12 Golden Bench Awards
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE GIVE OUT AWARDS TO THE BEST (AND WORST) PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK IN THE BIG 12. Eric Taylor Coach of the Week – David Beaty (Kansas) It’s not often that Kansas...
On the Ball: Video Game Stats from Week 6
(This is a weekly article on Student Union Sports covering the most ridiculous stat lines of the week) Well, here we are, another week of college football in the books. I can’t believe w...
Beat the Spread: Locks of the Week, Trap Game, and Balls to the Wall Moneyline Call
Going into week three of this column we have learned that Vegas knows there stuff. Over that time period, we have picked 6 pushes. Many of them coming from last minute garbage time scores… (Tennesse...
Touchdowns & Tailgates: Week 6 Preview
Welcome back to another edition of Touchdowns & Tailgates. Week 5 had some really awesome matchups and it showed us a lot about the top teams in the country. For one, Deshaun Watson and Clemson re...
Fashion 101 | King of the Uniforms: Top 5 Oregon Duck Combinations
By Omar Noujoum Deion Sanders, one of the greatest to ever play football, said, “you look good, you feel good. You feel good, you play good. You play good, they pay good.” Is that factual? Well, i...
Approach the Bench: Big 12 Power Rankings Week 6
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE BREAK DOWN THE POWER RANKINGS IN THE BIG 12 CONFERENCE. 1. Baylor (Last week: 1) Baylor barely scraped by against Iowa State on Saturday. Any time a game comes down to...
History 101 | The Good, The Bad, & Tyrone Willingham: A Decade of Washington Football
By Omar Noujoum Would you consider the Washington Huskies among the powerhouse programs in college football? Yeah, probably not. They’re not Ohio State, they’re not Florida State, and they sure as...
Extra Points: Week 6
Student Union presents Extra Points by Delphi High School. Faculty member Brian Tonsoni and his students have some fun while talking about the upcoming college football weekend....
THE COCKBLOCK: WEEK 5
WELCOME TO THE COCKBLOCK. CHECK IN EVERY WEEK FOR TAKEAWAYS, PREDICTIONS, GAMECOCK FOOTBALL ANALYSIS, AND NOTHING POSITIVE ABOUT THAT TEAM FROM THE UPSTATE. &...
Lil’Looks: 8 Landing Spots for Blake Barnett
By Lilly Donahue | Indiana University When Blake Barnett got the starting nod for Alabama’s season opener against USC, Bama fans assumed he’d take the reins and lead the Tide to another title. But...
The Seven Seas: The First Annual Savage of the Year
If you missed this weekend of college football, I’m sorry. But look no further than right here to catch up on what happened. North Carolina’s kicker is savage of the year. Heisman? Maxwell? Forge...
History 101: A Decade of Mizzou Football
One could argue that the last ten years for Mizzou sports may have been one of the best periods in their entire history. Gary Pinkel took this team to levels they have never been to and a couple of ti...
The Flexbone: Recapping GameDay at Clemson
If you’ve read any of my other posts, you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I’m not the biggest fan of the Clemson Tigers. Well that’s putting it lightly….I FUCKING ...
Approach the Bench: Week 5 Big 12 Golden Bench Awards
THIS IS A WEEKLY COLUMN WHERE WE GIVE OUT AWARDS TO THE BEST (AND WORST) PERFORMANCES OF THE WEEK IN THE BIG 12. Eric Taylor Coach of the Week – Mike Gundy (Oklahoma State) Gundy did his homework be...
Communications 101: Kevin Wilson
By Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Anyone who knows anything about Indiana football knows about our coach, Kevin Wilson. But if you, like most of America, are not a fan of IU football, then K-Willy...
Contender or Pretender?: Heisman Stock Watch Week 5
What an entertaining weekend it was. Two Top-10 match-ups, and the ultimate dual-threat QB duel between DeShaun Watson and Lamar Jackson (more on that later). A startling 9 Top-25 teams were defeated ...
Luke-Warm Takes: Weekly Big Ten Power Rankings
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN POWER RANKINGS, by Luke Maiers. What did we learn this week in the Big Ten? Iowa and Michigan State are overrated, there are some pillow fight of games coming up in conference...