QB WAR: Top SEC Quarterbacks
*Stats through 11/14 10. Drew Lock, Mizzou (-0.25 WAR) WHAT??? THE NEW SEC SINGLE-SEASON KING IN PASSING TDS IS BELOW AVERAGE? Yup. A surprise to start off the list, as electric as Drew Lock has been,...
Campus Cover 016: Championship Week
The Campus Cover (@TheCampusCover) is your primary source of College betting action. Hosted by PJ Guippone (@pjguip1) and Cody Goggin (@CodyGoggin), this podcast will give you picks of the week and pr...
The Case For and Against Every Team in Contention: Wisconsin
Wisconsin may be one of the easiest teams to define this year in terms of their contention. If they win this Saturday, they punch their ticket into the playoff, but if they lose, they’re out. As...
Urban Meyer stars in The Cameraman
During Ohio State’s victory over rival Michigan, star quarterback J.T. Barrett suffered what appeared to be a leg injury. In live action, the nature of the injury was a tad mysterious. Coach U...
The Case For and Against Every Team in Contention: Oklahoma
As I continue to talk about teams I could care less about, I find myself talking about Boomer Sooner. I must say, I could’ve cared less if you brought these guys up before the season started, bu...
The Case For and Against Every Team in Contention: Auburn
The Case For- Big Wins This team started off the year ranked #12 and have they worked their way up. They’ve had some stumbles, sure, but Auburn has carved its way into the playoff picture by bea...
Coaching Carousel 2017: Hiring, Firing, and Everything in Between
While the CFP gods release their rankings to us and the world, schools that won’t hear their names have been letting their coaches go, and beginning that wonderful process we all loved on NCAA 1...
Butch Jones Championship of Life Hot Seat: Championship Week
Welcome to the final installment of this year’s Butch Jones Championship of Life Hot Seat. We are going to do things differently this week since we have come to the end of the regular season we ...
Why I Believe Everything Lane Kiffin Says
It makes sense why some people aren’t on board the Lane Train. If you’re a Raiders fan, A USC fan, or a Tennessee fan, I may get it. He was young and jumped from one prestige job to the ne...
Off the Kliff
Kingsbury blues His sadness has spiraled down and down for the last two years. An endless slope beginning with nothing but a nudge of a rock. The decision was made. It was correct. He did what he had ...
Branch Sports Podcast Episode 4: Greg Schiano, Conference Championships, CFP
Welcome to the Branch Sports Podcast! We are excited to get to partner with Student Union Sports. We are three college students, former college athletes, childhood best friends and teammates. Two of u...
#SU25: November 29th
*Rankings compiled 11/28 I feel sick to my stomach for ranking Duke #1 finally, but it had to happen. After winning their bracket with impressive comeback wins, most notably against Florida on Sunday ...
The Case For and Against Every Team in Contention: Clemson
As we roll on with why one team should be in over the other, I’m going to take my unprofessional, very bad takes, and try to put my spin on why every team that people are talking about should or...
Mississippi State Hires Away Joe Moorhead from Penn State
Tuesday night, Brett McMurphy reported that Mississippi State, less than a week after losing head coach Dan Mullen to Florida, has hired Penn State offensive coordinator Joe Moorhead to fill the vacan...
College Basketball Pull-Up 3: 11/29/2017
The Pull-Up 3 is a daily blog of 3 college basketball games that I believe you could exploit and make some cash on. Check in every day for your picks of the day’s best college hoops action. Season...
Could Jimbo Fisher Build A Dynasty at Texas A&M?
This season’s coaching carousel has been a crazy one. Schools all across the country are firing coaches, and fan bases are hoping their school lands the next Nick Saban. One of the jobs that ope...
Ricky Aguayo Gets Jumped After ’16 Performance vs Florida
In a police report made public Tuesday, Florida State Seminoles kicker Ricky Aguayo said he was attacked by members of an FSU fraternity last year following a poor performance against the Florida Gato...
UCF: The Most Underrated Team in College Football
The University of Central Florida is looking for a shot at the “big boys” of College Football. The American Athletic Conference isn’t getting much love from any of the polls, especia...
The Big East Beat
I’m sure after reading last week, some of you jumped off the Big East bandwagon. It was a tough week for the conference. Seton Hall fell out of the rankings following a loss to Rhode Island and ...
Mike Leach Getting His Own Movie?
Unless you live under a rock, you know who Mike Leach is. For those of you who do reside in that situation, he is the head coach of the Washington State Cougars football team. Not only that, but he is...
Introducing the Student Union 64 team CFP
Here at Student Union, we are big thinkers. Your vanilla sports blog is probably debating who should be in the four team playoff as we speak, or maybe even getting wild and crazy with a six-team or ei...
College Basketball Pull-Up 3: 11/28/2017
The Pull-Up 3 is a daily blog of 3 college basketball games that I believe you could exploit and make some cash on. Check in every day for your picks of the day’s best college hoops action. Season...
QB WAR: Top ACC Quarterbacks
*Stats through November 12th 10. Ben Dinucci, Pittsburgh (0.29 WAR) He may not have gotten the start against Miami, but Dinucci was fine this year. Being just above replacement level in his first year...
Best and Worst of Rivalry Week
You wait 365 days for this day. A lost season can turn into a triumphant one in one game. An opportunity to ruin the season for your hated rival is the opportunity of a lifetime. We’re out here ...
My First Experience at “Phog” Allen Fieldhouse
Growing up a Kansas State fan, you find out very quickly that you DO NOT like Lawrence, Kansas. I had only driven through that horrific town one time before this Thanksgiving weekend. A lot of people ...
Ducks Land Another 4-Star LB in Winston
A year ago, the Oregon Ducks football program had missed out on U.S. Army All-American defensive tackle Marlon Tuipulotu and four-star legacy cornerback Elijah Molden, placing their in-state recruitin...
Auburn Notches HUGE Upset Win over Alabama
Auburn fans blanketed the field from end zone to end zone, just like the last time they got to celebrate a stirring Iron Bowl win. This time, Jarrett Stidham, Kerryon Johnson, and No. 6 Auburn didn...
Cracking the Code: AP Poll Week 2
All data in this article is borrowed from collegepolltracker.com Welcome back for the 2017-2018 edition of Cracking the Code! Here’s a little background on the article (or to my loyal followers, a r...
On The Ball: Video Game Stats for Week 13
Well that was crazy. I don’t know exactly what to say about this last week of college football to be honest. When I said in my last article that we should be prepared for some craziness to happe...
SU25: Week 13
During the final week of the regular season, things got shook up a bit in the #SU25. With Alabama’s loss to Auburn, they dropped from first to #5 while Auburn jumped all the way up to number thr...
Tempe cools down, Todd Graham’s hot seat is vacant
Arizona State head football coach Todd Graham was fired shortly after beating rival Arizona in the Territorial Cup. The Sun Devils came back after halftime to beat the Wildcats 42-30 in Tempe on Satur...
Moving Up in B1G College Hockey
The newly strong Big Ten Conference (B1G) is moving up in college hockey. The conference has had quite an impressive start to the season. They have 4 teams ranked in the latest USCHO top 20 poll. With...
Best tweets of rivalry week
The tweets keep coming just as the chaos and insanity does. This college football season rocks, much like every other college football season. Going into Championship Week, a lot is still pretty murky...
My Wild Idea for a New College Football Playoff
Are you tired of your team getting so close to making the playoff, but then barely missing out? Yeah, I am too. The current playoff system is flawed, considering an undefeated team (Wisconsin) might n...
Playoff Eliminator Week 13
Don’t cry, but this will be the final installment of the college football playoff eliminator in 2017. By this time next week, we will know the field of four that will have a shot at the title. I...
It’s Time for Notre Dame to Move On
After a great start to the 2017 season, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have fallen apart at the seams once again. Just last year, the Fighting Irish finished a dismal season with a 4-8 record. In 2017,...
QB WAR: Top Big Ten QBs
*Stats through November 12, 2017 10. Wilton Speight, Michigan (0.04 WAR) Kinda like Tanner Lee.. he’s fine, just not very good. He’s not going to win you any games with his arm. I know h...
The Hangover, Week 13: Everything is Chaos
Welcome to the fifth edition of The Hangover where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Lake Martin, Alabama, where I’ve been drowning my sorrows...
The Power of Protest: VFL’s vs John Currie
These days, it doesn’t seem like anything can go right for the Tennessee football program. The Volunteers capped off the season with a 42-24 loss to in-state rival Vanderbilt, making them 4-8 on...
Florida Gators Welcome Back Dan Mullen
Now it is official. Florida finally has a new football coach. After a month of searching and having a lot of names pop up as potential candidates, Florida hires their once offensive coordinator to be ...
Gamecocks Being Regular Cocks
South Carolina is located in the heart of the Bible Belt. Most people in the state are the God-fearing type. They live their lives under the mantra “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you...
USC vs Clemson: The Only Game That Matters
Another year and another heated matchup between the Palmetto State rivals of the Clemson Tigers and the South Carolina Gamecocks. If you grew up in South Carolina like myself, then you know just how i...
Alabama Almost Beats Minnesota With Only 3 Players
In a matchup of top 25 hoops teams, Alabama found themselves in a precarious situation today. With about 13:40 left on the clock in the second half and Alabama just trimming the lead to seven, the who...
Chip Kelly Makes his Glorious Return to the Pac-12
It has been five long years since Chip Kelly has coached in a college football game. Today, the former mastermind behind the explosive Oregon offenses of 2009 to 2012 has returned to the Pac-12 confer...
Nebraska Fires Mike Riley
In a move that has been telegraphed for months, the University of Nebraska has finally parted ways with head coach Mike Riley. Many thought this would come much earlier in the season, especially after...
Scott Frost Should Be The Top Coaching Candidate For Everyone
51 kids on that UCF roster have now experienced both a winless and an unbeaten season. — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 25, 2017 THIS…..THIS, MAN. What kind of guy takes a team that was W...
The King and All of His Men: Grayson Allen and the Four Starting Freshmen
Duke will continue to compete in the Phil Knight Invitational (PK80) after their 99-81 victory over Portland State Thursday and a close one over Texas on Friday. This victory creates a 7-0 record for ...
Bret Bilema Out At Arkansas
Head football coach Bret Bilema, fondly known as Bert by us all, was let go by the University of Arkansas tonight. To be fair, it looked like Bert gave up on the Arkansas job a long time ago. With AD ...
The U Loses, So Does America
The Miami Hurricanes were put in the #2 spot in the College Football Playoff rankings, and in the same week lost to a 4-7 Pitt team. Thanksgiving meal might have been a little too heavy for the Canes ...
The Johnny Rambos Podcast Palmetto Bowl preview with Clemson Tom and Ted Hyman
Episode 16 of the Johnny Rambos Podcast with Clemson Tom and Ted Hyman. Clemson Tom tells all his crazy stories from his times in Columbia while Ted provides wonderful analysis on the current state of...
Beat the Spread: Black Friday Special Picks
The fact that you get these picks for free is a Black Friday deal better than any other. We have had a solid record of 21-13-4 and we are looking to ride the wave. I’ve gone on a gambling clea...
Did Tennessee Make The Right Decision With Jauan Jennings?
On Wednesday night, Brady Hoke and the Tennessee athletic department dismissed wide-receiver Jauan Jennings from the team. The dismissal came after a rant posted on his Instagram live ripping the Tenn...
Ole Miss Upsets Mississippi State, Takes Home The Golden Egg
Jordan Ta’amu threw for 247 yards and two touchdowns, Jordan Wilkins ran for two scores and Mississippi upset No. 16 Mississippi State 31-28 on Thursday night. Ole Miss held off a late Mississip...
Auburn Lands Two Big Time 4-Stars
Seth Williams: Today Auburn landed two major commits for next year. The Tigers added a dynamic playmaker to their future wide receiver corps Thursday when prospect Seth Williams joined their 2018 rec...
Ideal Coaches for CFB Teams: Part 3
The final piece of the coaching puzzle! Here it is, enjoy: Tennessee: Dan Mullen While Butch Jones should be commended for rebuilding Tennessee after the disastrous tenures of Lane Kiffin and Derek Do...
2017 College Football Coach of the Year Candidates
Mark Richt (University of Miami) In just his second season in Coral Gables, Richt has the Miami Hurricanes in a great position for a playoff berth. The Canes have their first 10-win season in 14 yea...
SU player spotlight: Tremont Waters
Will Wade’s first season with LSU did not have a ton of promise. The LSU program was not much with Ben Simmons and it hasn’t been much since then, either. Maybe there is something brewing,...
Barstool Clemson Beats Cocks; Trolls Barstool U of SC
We are half way through Rivalry Week, and Clemson has already claimed victory over South Carolina. On Wednesday evening, Barstool South Carolina’s twitter was hacked. The culprit: Barstool Clems...
Contender or Pretender?: Heisman Rankings Week 12
This Saturday (save for Army-Navy), the college football regular season will sadly come to an end. With the end of another exciting regular season, the College Football Playoff will commence for the f...
College Hoops All-Hair Team
College is a time to explore your look, be young and try new things. I am saying this from experience. In this school year alone, I have gotten close to 12 inches of hair cut off, tried a mustache f...
Commodores Gain Yet Another 5-Star Recruit in Shittu
Vanderbilt coach Bryce Drew is rolling on the recruiting trail. On Wednesday, five-star Class of 2018 power forward Simi Shittu committed to be a Commodore, giving Drew his second five-star pledge of ...
The Student Union Sports Podcast Episode 9: Thankful for Rivalry Week
The Student Union Sports Podcast offers you an inside look at college sports from the perspective of actual college students while also highlighting our talented student writers. Today’s show includ...
Campus Cover 015: Time to Play The Game
The Campus Cover (@TheCampusCover) is your primary source of College betting action. Hosted by PJ Guippone (@pjguip1) and Cody Goggin (@CodyGoggin), this podcast will give you picks of the week and pr...
Butch Jones Championship of Life Hot Seat: Week 13
We have come to the final week of the regular season. Many coaches still have jobs waiting to be fired. We have a coach who isn’t on the hot seat that is apparently getting fired after the game ...
College Basketball Pull-Up 3: 11/22/2017
The Pull Up 3 is a daily blog of 3 college basketball games that I believe you could exploit and make some cash on. Check in every day for your picks of the day’s best college hoops action. Season...
SU25: Week 12
To be perfectly honest, this was a pretty boring week of college football. Outside of Michigan and Oklahoma State, not a lot of teams in the top 25 lost. That means this week, all hell is about to bre...
Unexpected Things in College Hockey
College hockey arrived over a month ago and we have seen some truly incredible things come out of that month. We have also seen a lot of unexpected things. So, here is my top “Unexpected in Coll...
Ideal Coaches for CFB Teams: Part 1
Thanksgiving week is finally upon us, and with it, one of the biggest weeks of the season for college football coaches and their agents. When the 2017 regular season resolves Sunday, the football coa...
Ideal Coaches for CFB Teams: Part 2
I’m back for the second part of ideal candidates for teams looking for coaches. Nebraska: Scott Frost Let’s face it. The Mike Riley experiment at Nebraska hasn’t worked out. He is a...
Student Union Basketball Poll
The Associated Press may have released a poll last week for the regular season despite the fact it was essentially the exact same as the preseason one. But, here at Student Union, we use logic and bra...
Michael Porter Jr. Likely Out For Season
Enormous news out of Columbia, Missouri today. Five-star recruit and possible first overall pick in next year’s draft, Michael Porter Jr., will undergo lower back surgery that would likely end h...
Is it Wrong to Bench Baker Mayfield?
Surprise, surprise, here I am again talking about Baker Mayfield. But how could you not when he’s the hottest topic in college sports? He’s almost guaranteed to win the Heisman, the Maxwel...
Ducks Get Another Big Time Commitment in Bol Bol
Oregon was unable to reel in the No. 1 overall prospect in the class of 2018, R.J. Barrett. But they will sign the class’s top big man. Bol Bol announced on Monday that he will play for the Ducks i...
Logan Brown, 4-Star OT, Commits to Wisconsin
While the Wisconsin Badgers have been effective at evaluations to a point where they have put themselves into their current position as a playoff-worthy team, fans naturally want to find someone with ...
Introducing: QB WAR
Over the past month or so, I have been devising a way to measure QB performance outside of the norm that accounts for opponent strength instead of just the stats amassed. This basically all stemmed fr...
Jim Mora out at UCLA
Much to the surprise of no one, Jim Mora was let go as the head football coach of UCLA on Sunday. Many were surprised that it didn’t actually happen sooner. They definitely did him dirty though ...
Is El Pollo making basketball picks or football picks?
Another win for the underdog king last week as Texas A&M pulled off the upset of Ole Miss. Sometimes I really think I should just stick to this, especially after a weekend like last where I put up...
College Basketball Pull-Up 3: 11/21/2017
The Pull Up 3 is a daily blog of 3 college basketball games that I believe you could exploit and make some cash on. Check in every day for your picks of the day’s best college hoops action. Season...
What I’m Thankful For: College Basketball Edition
In lieu of the holiday season, I’ve decided to take a little time to talk about what I’m thankful for this college basketball season. College Basketball is Back I’m thanking my lucky...
Recapping the 2017 Charleston Classic
This past weekend, TD Arena in beautiful downtown Charleston played host to the Charleston Classic, an annual kick-off tournament that showcases some of the NCAA’s most elite talent. This year&#...
I Try To Hate Him But I Can’t: Baker Mayfield
As hard as I have tried over the last three years to hate Baker Mayfield, I can’t. From his better than you attitude, to his off the field antics in Arkansas Baler is a very hateable guy. One of...
On the Ball: Video Game Stats Week 12
It seems crazy that it is already past week 12 of the college football season and we are heading into rivalry week so soon. It seems like just yesterday I was counting down the weeks to the opening ga...
Purdue, Not Horrible at Football.
Coming into this season, people could’ve cared less about the Purdue football team. In the past four years, their overall record was 9-39 with no hope in sight. As this season has wound down, th...
Best tweets of week 12
It wasn’t the most exciting week of college football, but that doesn’t mean the tweets stop. They still roll in like Tide or like literally no one against Wisconsin’s defense. Really...
Week 12 College Football Bad Beats
Although not the greatest matchup weekend we have ever seen in college football, we sure did have our share of bad beats. I hope you found yourself on the right side of the outcomes of these games. Io...
The Big East Beat
The Big East is and forever will be a top three basketball conference. Other conferences have their ebbs and flows, but the grit and heart of The Big East reigns supreme always. It is not the Big East...
The Hangover, Week 12
Welcome to the fourth edition of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Athens, Georgia, home of a great bar scene and a pretty good f...
College Basketball Pull-Up 3 11/20/2017
The Pull Up 3 is a daily blog of 3 college basketball games that I believe you could exploit and make some cash on. Check in every day for your picks of the day’s best college hoops action. No...
Aggies Beat down the Lobos in Weir’s return to Las Cruces
For as long as Paul Weir is New Mexico’s head coach, the Rio-Grande Rivalry between New Mexico and New Mexico St will be one of the most heated rivalries in college basketball. The NMSU Aggies pound...
Baker Mayfield just won the Heisman
I am the biggest Kansas basketball fan in the world. I love everything about the University of Kansas. I love Kansas more than I love most people. But Baker Mayfield is a BALLER! The Kansas Jayhawks a...
Something More Valuable than Designer Clothes: Was it Worth it?
Three UCLA players (LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill) were arrested on November 7 by Chinese police officers for shoplifting in Shanghai, China. This poor choice of action by these three youn...
Fantastic Four
While this Saturday was pretty mellow, that’ll be far from the standard over the course of these next two weekends. Rivalry games are on the way, as well as conference championships, with the Bi...
The Iron Bowl: 2017 Edition
It is hard to believe, but right before our eyes, the 2017-18 College Football season is close to its end. With the end approaching this can only mean one thing: Rivalry Weekend. While there are a ton...
Contender or Pretender?: Heisman Rankings Week 11
As the semester begins to sing it’s swan song, so too does the college football season. College basketball regular season play is beginning to heat up at the same time as the Heisman race. The n...
Real star of PK80 is the uniforms
Next week, Nike is hosting the PK80 invitational in honor of Phil Knight’s 80th birthday. This is a hell of a birthday party considering it includes some of the best programs in the nation. The ...
Mankato Rising in College Hockey
The most southern team in the State of Hockey, the Mankato Mavericks, have made a strong showing in the first part of the season. Coming out with an 8-3-0 record in the 2017-18 season. The WCHA team l...
Georgia Gets 4-Star DT Jordan Davis
Georgia Bulldogs’ recruiting class has gotten a lot stronger on the defensive line after Jordan Davis committed to the program Thursday. Davis is a promising star at defensive tackle. The native...
Potential Scenarios in the Big 12
After Oklahoma’s 38-20 victory over TCU last Saturday, the Big 12 championship and path to the playoff became a little bit clearer. The conference is OU’s to lose at this point, as they remain the...
Week 12 College Football Betting Preview
Earlier in the week, I let you guys in on some of the weekday gambling secrets. Now, I take a look at the lines for the weekend and highlight the games in which I believe we can make a little money on...
Stop the Jon Gruden Rumors
I don’t understand the Jon Gruden to Tennessee rumors. I really don’t. Gruden rumors fly around every year, but for some reason, they seem to be picking up more steam than currently. He’s no...
Campus Cover Episode 014: I’m Sorry Miami
The Campus Cover boys are back with another amazing episode. Cody apologizes to Miami, PJ discusses Bears wiping their asses with trees, and we have more UAB talk. Follow both of us @CodyGoggin and @p...
Degenerate’s Guide to Weekday College Football Gambling
As you sit in your Thursday afternoon Principles of Microeconomics class scrolling monotonous websites to kill the time, I’m sure you usually end up on your favorite sports website (hopefully th...
Beautiful club hockey uniforms, for your viewing pleasure
Here at Student Union, our hockey crew has decided definitively that club hockey IS college hockey. One of the many factors that makes club hockey fun is the uniforms, especially for schools without a...
Can The Rest Of The SEC Beat Bama? Defense & Special Teams Edition
Last week I did the offensive part of this series, so if you missed that check out the starting lineup. This week I will do defense as well as the kicker and punter. This is the best of the SEC that c...
If You Don’t Know Now You Know; The Young Bull
It was a calm Tuesday in Tuscaloosa. Students were finishing up some exams before Thanksgiving break, some were getting ready for their Tuesday night bar visits. Neither of those come as a surprise. W...
Butch Jones Championship of Life Hot Seat: Week 12
Well folks, it has finally happened. The man who should have been fired about 2 years ago has finally buckled. This week, Butch Jones got fired from the head coach position of Tennessee. Next year I a...
Rumor Roundup: Chip Kelly to Florida
Since the Jim McElwain debacle and our fascinating article by the most attractive writer here at SU, Florida has been in limbo. Gator fans have since collectively decided that the 2017 season matters ...
Playoff Eliminator Week 11
As the playoff committee has released their thoughts on the landscape of the college football playoff, so the playoff eliminator rolls on. There are nine teams that still have a possible path to the p...
Worst Teams in College Hockey
This blog is for you boys, the guys who aren’t ever talked about. When I say “the worst teams” I’m going to talk about the teams at the verrrry bottom of the stats. The teams that make...
Cracking the Code: AP Poll Week 2
All data in this article is borrowed from collegepolltracker.com Welcome back for the 2017-2018 edition of Cracking the Code! Here’s a little background on the article (or to my loyal followers,...
Breaking down the Champions Classic
The Champions Classic will be in full swing tonight, which means College Basketball season is officially back. Duke, Michigan State, Kansas and Kentucky renew their experiences in the prolific classic...
Ohio State’s Ground Game is Very, Very Good
Former Ohio State great Woody Hayes once said, “……I will pound you and pound you until you quit.” For years, that has been the mantra of Ohio State football. Whether it’s...
SU25: Week 11
Week 11 provided us with a much clearer picture of the college football landscape. Georgia finally lost, Notre Dame got dismantled, Ohio State and Oklahoma both won in blowouts, and Alabama narrowly e...
El Pollo, in touch with pop culture
After another win last week from the Knights of West Point on Veteran’s Day Weekend, I decided to switch it up a bit this week. Is my system broken? no, but I am only a man and I get bored somet...
Michigan Football Will Be Back On Top Next Year
We all know that Michigan was quite dominant last year. They may have lost three games, but all were close, with a one point loss to Iowa, an overtime touchdown allowed against Ohio State, and a 4th q...
J.K. Dobbins Becomes 4th Straight Buckeye to Rush for 1,000 Yards
Ohio State freshman J.K. Dobbins joined an exclusive club on Saturday when he became the fourth running back in school history to rush for 1,000 yards in his freshman season. He is also the second str...
The 2013 Iron Bowl Revisited
As a Notre Dame fan and student, I have no idea why I’m writing about college football when I need to push it out of my mind and deny that this season ever happened. I must say, though, the 2013...
BREAKING NEWS: NCHC Is Still Good At Hockey
After this weekend, the conclusion is still… that the NCHC can play hockey at a high level. They have 5/8 teams ranked in the Top 20, and would have more if those teams did not face the Elite...
The Hangover, Week 11
Welcome to the third edition of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes a day later than I originally intended. My laptop broke Sunday morn...
Tennessee Volunteers Fire Head Coach Butch Jones
After five below average football seasons at the University of Tennessee, the Butch Jones era has come to an end, as announced by the University on Sunday November 12th. The firing came as no surprise...
Lope Nation Podcast Episode with Joshua Lovern
We finally got a podcast on our favorite college basketball, the GCU Antelopes. Austin Montgomery talks with mid major basketball reporter Johsua Lovern to preview the Lopes 2017-2018 season, and thei...
Early Take: Vermont Basketball
Vermont Basketball might win 30 games without anyone noticing until March and then be a favorite for a few upsets. There’s no way I can see anyone but Vermont winning the America East Conferen...
Best tweets of week 11
What was potentially the best Saturday of the college football season is now over and many of the games ended in fairly decisive fashion. One of those, Miami’s 33 point win over Notre Dame, was ...
Future headlines of NCAA sanctions
I will translate that tweet for you. The NCAA is handing down sanctions on Houston’s Rob Gray because he played basketball. Also, he is a basketball player. He did not play in the season opener,...
How the Rankings SHOULD Look on Tuesday
You hear coaches say that the midseason rankings don’t matter and they don’t pay attention to them. On an extremely superficial level, sure. If you’re in the top 4 after week 8, it does not guar...
Army Football: Actually Good
Army’s football team is starting to gain some momentum this season, running the triple option to near perfection. There’s a certain bad feeling you get when watching a game and rooting aga...
The Three-Point Line: Creator of NCAA Legends
Since its introduction in 1986, three-point shooting has not only changed the game of college basketball, it has also given the smaller-size players a chance to become “Legendary Sharpshooters&#...
Best Saturday in College Football?
On Gameday, Kirk Herbstreit just mentioned that this is the best Saturday in college football this year. So let’s take a look at some of the pivotal matchups brewing for today that can shape and...
Opening Day takeaways
Opening day for the college basketball season is finally here. With it, there are predictions, hot takes and a full day of games that will probably end in absolute blowouts. Still, what it mostly mean...
Convicts Murder Catholics’ CFP Hopes
If you’re a college football fan, you gotta love when Notre Dame is having a decent season. Not because you actually root for them or anything like that, but because you get to hear the delusional F...
College Basketball Preseason Round Table
Merry Basketballmas, friends. The best five months of the year are finally here, so we asked some of our writers to sit down and talk about what they’re most excited about for the upcoming seaso...
College Basketball 2017-18: Year of the Antelope (GCU Preview)
By Austin Montgomery and Jacob Allen. The Grand Canyon University Antelopes will be the biggest story of college basketball this season. The 2017-2018 season marks the first year of eligibility for ...
The Student Union Podcast Episode 8: LiAngelo and Locker Room Talk
The Student Union Sports Podcast offers you an inside look at college sports from the perspective of actual college students while also highlighting our talented student writers. Today’s show includ...
Recent HS Basketball recruits who never panned out.
With College basketball quickly approaching, I take a look at my favorite highly touted prospects from high school basketball who just never panned out. Ballislife and HoopMixtape were the greatest tw...
What Would a 16 Team Playoff Look Like?
The College Football Playoff needs expansion and they need to expand to 16 teams. Thank God there’s at least a four team playoff now, compared to the flawed system of the BCS computer rankings proje...
Student Union Preseason Top 25
College basketball is BACK! On Friday, we get to start a new road towards March Madness and everything starts anew. Duke has a billion new freshman coming back with Grayson Allen, Michigan State has M...
UNC Looks to Repeat Amid Frontcourt Concerns
It was expected that this season for the Tar Heels would turn out much like 2006 and 2010 in that it would be a rebuilding year. After back-to-back title game appearances and being crowned last year&#...
Campus Cover Episode 013: College Football Erotica
The Campus Cover podcast offers you “expert” gambling advice paired with juvenile shenanigans. RT our Campus Cover weekly parlay on Twitter. As always, the show is hosted by Student Union ...
Contender or Pretender?: Week 10 Heisman Rankings
The day has finally come. It is time for a change at the top of the Heisman rankings. Week nine provided some of the best games of the season, and a shakeup in the Heisman rankings. Without further ad...
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY! was offside
On this day in 1975, Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger etched his name in to the rich history of Notre Dame football. The walk-on from Joliet, Illinois took down the Georgia Tech QB in what would be...
The Butch Jones Championship of Life Hot Seat: Week 11
There has to be some conspiracy here to not fire coaches until the end of the season, because there are four coaches on my hot seat right now that should be out of a job and the fact they aren’t...
Missouri State Eyes MVC Title
The Missouri State Bears have not made the NCAA tournament since 1999, when they were coached by current UCLA coach Steve Alford. In recent years, this has been partly due to to the dominance of Creig...
Best Team in College Hockey
St. Cloud State University was voted the undisputed number 1 in the nation this week in the latest USCHO poll. With a very impressive 7-0-0 record, they are proving to be the best team in college hock...
The U is “this close” to being back
The U is finally on it’s way back to the top of the college football world after a decade plus absence. Every college football season, fans gather to ponder the same questions. Is Texas back?...
NCHC Outlook: St. Cloud St. Huskies, New Number 1
Denver Pioneers: The Old After a very interesting week in the NCHC, National Collegiate Hockey Conference, there is now a new Top Dog in Cawlidge Hawkey. The Denver Pioneers were absolutely stunned by...
Big Baller Potentially Locked Up in China
SMH (Shake my head) As many of you know, LiAngelo Ball, the middle brother, the long-lost child, the red-headed step child, was arrested for shoplifting in China. Teammates Jalen Hill and Cody Reilly ...
Bill Walton in the news to really get us amped
This week marks the start of the 2017-2018 college basketball season. Yes, the most wonderful time of the year is finally here. If there is one thing in particular to get us absolutely amped for colle...
Hey, The CFP Committee Got It Right Again!
The CFP committee just released the second edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings on ESPN, so it’s time for my weekly reactions to the updated Top 25. Here we go: Head-to-Head...
Can The Rest Of The SEC Beat Alabama? Offense Edition
It is pretty clear that Alabama is superior to the rest of the SEC and it isn’t even close. Because of this, I wonder sometimes how it would go if the other SEC teams came together and formed a ...
It’s Time to Talk to Your Kids About Michigan State
Remember the deal with Iowa a few years back when everyone was surprised that they were in the Big Ten title discussion? Well, it’s now time to talk to your kids about Michigan State. A year after m...
Student Union Player Spotlight: Michael Porter Jr.
School: University of Missouri Hometown: Seattle, Washington Position: Forward Year: Freshman Last March, the number one high school basketball player in the nation, Michael Porter Jr. shocked the Col...
El Pollo, king of underdog picks
I went 2-1 last week. Both Temple (fucking finally) and Louisiana-Lafayette won as at least a six point underdog. I want to take this time to toot my horn a little bit. I have like 12 or 13 wins now (...
Could This be the Final Strike Against Butch Jones?
It should come as no surprise that Butch Jones’s days as head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers are numbered. His team stands at a pedestrian 4-5, with a concerning 0-5 record in SEC play. Jones...
UAB Football: A Cinderella Story
After the 2014-15 season, the football program at the University of Alabama Birmingham was shut down after the president of the school declared it, “simply not sustainable.” Players were crying, f...
The 3 Most Underrated Teams in College Football
College football rankings typically don’t mean much to some teams. If you aren’t in the top 10, you’re probably not under the microscope by the playoff committee and therefore aren&#...
Watch Out For Alabama …….. Basketball
It’s no secret that The University of Alabama makes a name for itself on the gridiron. Football has always been king in Tuscaloosa. With arguably the most historically successful football progra...
On the Ball: Video Game Stats for Week 10
You remember how I said there was a big shakeup at the top of the playoff rankings last week? Well that pales in comparison to what happened this past week in college football. The playoff picture is ...
Some tweets to sum up week 10
Week 10 is in the books and goddamn is the Big Ten a shit show. Thanks to Ohio State’s loss to Iowa and Penn State’s loss to Michigan State, the conference’s dreams might be dead. Th...
SU Top 25 Poll: Week 11
Over the past few weeks of college football, literally everything has been hitting the fan. Look at Ohio State and Penn State. Two of CFB’s powerhouses both took major losses this past weekend. ...
If undefeated, Wisconsin cannot be left out of the CFP
Many have begun to question whether Wisconsin would deserve one of the four spots in the College Football Playoff even if they finish the season at 13-0 and win the Big 10. The day that an undefeated ...
Playoff Eliminator: Week 10
Holy cow, there was a lot to unpack after this weekend. Ohio State got slaughtered, Penn State dropped another, and maybe Miami is for real? At this point, college football is starting to lose its min...
If Barstool Bloggers Were College Football Players
Unlike most sports media outlets, a large majority of writers here at Student Union are huge fans of Barstool Sports and the impact they have had on how we consume our sports news. In my mind, Barstoo...
Kevin Sumlin’s Out; Aggies Still In Trouble
With report after report swirling around after the Aggies 42-27 loss to Auburn, the A&M faithful is only left to wonder how many days they have left with Kevin Sumlin as their head football coach....
A Wild Night In Bedlam
Man. What a game. It’s hard to even process everything that happened in the Bedlam shootout. All I remember is there was an abundance of offense, and essentially nothing resembling defense. Oh yeah,...
The Subtle Excellence of Brandon Wimbush
In a resurgent season for the Fighting Irish, most of the talk has been centered around new defensive coordinator Mike Elko and the remarkable turnaround of a group that was trampled far too often las...
The Hangover, Week 10
Ohio State, I just don’t get you. A week ago, I wrote that I was all in. I apologized to JT Barrett for doubting him, I recognized that the Buckeyes were a legitimate threat to Alabama, and I we...
3 Factors That Make a True Freshmen QB “Choke”
College freshmen all across America have a reputation of trying to be the “cool guy” when it’s their first time in a new place, or campus in this case. Most of these “cool̶...
Student U after Dark with Baker Mayfield
Baker Mayfield is a conquerer. There is no place he is uncomfortable. More than anyone has even thought. Of course, the gridiron is his dojo. There is no one more comfortable sitting in a pocket. Toni...
Hawkeyes Stun Buckeyes, Put CFP Hopes Out of Reach
So…..umm yeah, I honestly had no idea I would be in this position as an Ohio State fan when I sat down to write this. To be honest, I am completely shocked, devastated, pissed, and much more. I ...
G5 Game of the Week:#18 UCF @ SMU
Line: UCF @ SMU (+14.5) (moneyline: SMU +465) (UCF -630) Total 73: When: 6:15 p.m. Saturday at Gerald J. Ford Stadium Broadcast: ESPN2: A huge matchup in the American Athletic Conference will broadcas...
Week 10 Winner$
What better way to start off my time at Student Union than to give out some #winners? As the football season goes on, the lines Vegas creates keep getting more accurate. However, there are some games ...
Beat the Spread: Perfect Parlay Week 10
After a couple abysmal weeks have dropped our season record to a pedestrian 15-13-4, I promise this the week we are turning this ship around. I’m feeling really good about these underdogs and I beli...
Four statistics on why Bedlam is not a “rivalry”
Oklahoma versus Oklahoma State. Sooners versus Cowboys. Bedlam. It’s one of the biggest rivalries in all of college football. Every year, Bedlam brings out the best, but moreso the worst, in all of ...
Desert Hot Takes Episode 7: College Basketball Preview
The Desert Hot Takes podcast, features Host Austin Montgomery, and co-host Jacob Allen, bringing up the hottest takes on this side of the Mississippi. This week’s episode of Desert Hot Takes inc...
The Campus Cover Episode 12: College Football Week 10
The Campus Cover is your primary source of College betting action. Hosted by PJ Guippone (@pjguip1) and Cody Goggin (@CodyGoggin), this podcast will give you picks of the week and previews of the best...
Eight Team Playoff Is The Answer
When I thought about the College Football Playoff Committee releasing their top four in the playoff rankings this week, I couldn’t help but to notice that there were way more than four teams cap...
The Johnny Rambos Podcast Episode 14 With Barstool Sports Young PageViews
Johnny and Huntdad discuss Zekes suspension, the reemergence of corn rows, and College football playoff talks. Young Pageviews from Barstool Sports stops in for an interview with the Rambos Podcast gu...
JJ Taylor is the Best RB You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet)
When I sat down to watch some late-night PAC 12 action on September 22nd, little did I know that I would discover a talent that most of the country had not seen play before. It wasn’t just his q...
Club Hockey is College Hockey: Virginia Tech’s Stephen Gerke
The American Club Hockey Association is one of the coolest leagues in all of sports. Club hockey is indeed college hockey. Most college hockey teams fall in the ACHA. Hockey is superbly competitive an...
Mr. October Aka Khalil Tate: Rich Rod’s Saving Grace
Mr. October aka Khalil Tate Tucson, Arizona A sub-par Arizona team went into September at 2-2, without very much to look forward to. With a difficult schedule approaching and narrow losses to Houston ...
CFB Preview Week 10
After last week, I feel as if I can die a happy man. J.T. Barrett put on an ABSOLUTE CLINIC last week against Penn St. I am on cloud nine after the Buckeyes finally get a marquee win in Columbus. So b...
College Hockey Rivalries
Big college hockey rivalries aren’t just the NHL’s typical “Wednesday Night Rivalry Night.” It’s a passionate affair that starts months before they even play a game. College hockey rivals ar...
SEC Coaching Board Story
What was once considered the most dominant conference in football is on the verge of a mass exodus of coaches. The SEC is looking at having five, possibly six, open head coaching gigs. That’s ja...
Best Games of Week 10
Week nine was pretty solid. Hearts were broken, coaches were fired. Some other things happened, but we aren’t worried about it, it’s week ten, y’all. As you are reading this, week te...
The Student Union Sports Podcast Ep. 7: Jim McElwain and a Good Looking Catfish
The Student Union Sports Podcast offers you an inside look at college sports from the perspective of actual college students while also highlighting our talented student writers. Today’s show includ...
Contender or Pretender? Week 9 Heisman Rankings
While the top spot in the Heisman rankings remains the same once again, there is some shakeup in the next four spots. A new face for the season makes an appearance, one that has been on Heisman lists ...
Notre Dame is For Real
From a 4-8 season to being ranked third in the first installment of the playoff rankings, this has been a heck of a year for the Irish so far. After being on the hot seat following a poor season last ...
Can’t Knock the Hustle Episode 107 – The Reintroduction
PJ and Bryce talk about Rhodes Athletics, CFB Playoff Rankings, Butch Jones & Jim McElwain, NFL Trade Deadline, Barry Bonds should we care?, will people actually use the Amazon Key?, Martavis Brya...
The Butch Jones Championship of Life Hot Seat: Week 10
There was a huge surprise from the hot seat world this past week with Florida firing coach Jim McElwain. He had been to the SEC championship game each of the last 2 seasons with records of 10-4 and 9-...
Preseason poll released for 2017-2018 season
Today, the Associated Press released their preseason poll for the 2017-2018 season of College Hoops. I still think polls are stupid. The only thing that is dumber than polls is preseason polls (also, ...
Playoff Eliminator Week 9
Following the first college football playoff rankings by the committee, we now have a better understanding of the contenders for the college football playoff. Unfortunately, I have had to eliminate so...