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How to Choose the Right Custom Golf Cart for Your Needs
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Top 7 Heisman Trophy Winners of All Time
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The Fallout: How Scandals Impact College Football Programs and Communities
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The Cleveland Browns: Gearing Up for the 2024 NFL Season
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Ranking the Top Quarterback Prospects in the 2025 NFL Draft
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7 Essential Strategies for Smarter Sports Betting
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Tampa Bay Broadens OC Hiring Pool with Prospects from Texans, Lions, and Rams
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The Advent of Fantasy Leagues and Online Betting: How It Changed The NFL Forever
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Creating a College Baseball Team: A Comprehensive Guide
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Coaching, Players and Fans: How Technology Has Changed The NFL Game
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The Tech-Touchdown: How Digital Advancements are Changing Coaching in the NFL
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How the NFL Is Using Virtual Reality to Change the Game
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How To Tailgate Like A Pro As You Cheer On The Las Vegas Raiders This Season
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Student Union Sports Podcast: Tipping off March Madness w/ Jeff Nadu and Keith Landry!
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Student Union Sports Podcast: SEO Strategy for 2022 w/ Patrick Norton
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Why Backing the Milwaukee Bucks for a Repeat NBA Title is a Smart Bet to Make
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Introducing “Sports on Main”, a Weekly Sports Update from Ursinus College
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7. Heavyweight 1v1 Battle | Cody Goggin vs. Anthony Ventura
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The Ocho Podcast Trivia (Ep 5)| Potential Perfect Game on the Line!
Anthony & Harrison establish themselves as a Powerhouse as they attempt to complete the first ever perfect game of Ocho Trivia! The Ocho is a quick 8 Question Trivia Podcast presented by Student U...
Should Poker be a College Sport?
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Podcast Trivia | Ep 4: Special Guest Jeff Nadu
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Podcast Trivia | Episode 1: Play the Course | Is Geneva in Italy?
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Why Have the Buffalo Bills Still Not Won a SuperBowl?
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Sports Trivia & NFL Trade Deadline Recap: The Talking Heads Ep 11
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The Sports Don and Friends Podcast W/ guests Kevin Olsen, Chasen Smith, and Dal Gray
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The Sports Don & Friends: Episode One Ft. Tyler Vertin & Eric Robinson
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Friday Fire
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Done with the One and Done
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The Jerome 2018 – Staff Picks
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Northwestern: Little Brother of The Big 10
The Wildcats are the annoying little brother of Big Ten football. They tend to find themselves in close games, but when it comes to crunch time they can rarely get it done. This past season was differ...
Tennessee Set to Face Cuonzo Martin, Mizzou
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Vols Look to Bounce Back Against Kentucky
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Why the SEC is the Most Overrated Conference in CFB
I get it. The SEC has two teams in the National Championship game. But, this still needs to be brought up because the issue is as prominent as it’s ever been. It’s also like beating a dead...
Tennessee Hires Alabama DC Jeremy Pruitt
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Bracketbusters: Tennessee Volunteers
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Jimbo Fisher Resigns at FSU, Takes Job at Texas A&M
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College Basketball Preseason Round Table
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Baker Mayfield Deserves the Heisman
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What does Arizona State do?
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Tom Crean hired by ESPN
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History 101: Oklahoma Sooners
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Are the Oklahoma Sooners the Best Program of the Modern Era?
By: Jesse Crittenden College football can bring out the best and the worst in all college football fans. It brings out our arrogance, our cockiness, and our irrationality. However, it has given me s...
Week 7 Top 20 Breakdown
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Philosophy 101: What if Sam Bradford Didn’t Get Hurt in 2009?
If you were to look at the 2009 final NCAA football standings, you would see an 8-5 finish for the Oklahoma Sooners. While this finish might be respectable for most programs, it is very unacceptable f...
Student Union Staff CFB Roundtable
We are now three weeks into the college football season. With conference play beginning for most teams this weekend, some of our writers sat down to discuss the biggest story lines of the season so fa...
Kentucky Keeps Improving
Kentucky took down South Carolina for the fourth straight time last night in front of a sold-out crowd in Columbia, SC. The Gamecocks pulled out all the stops, including a crowd and uniform blackout, ...
Heisman Hopefuls 2017
By: Zach Ruocco – University of South Carolina Beaufort Heisman Hopefuls 2017: Sam Darnold USC’s early Heisman front runner, Sam Darnold, struggled last Saturday against Western Michigan, but ...
Three Most Overrated College Football Playoff Contenders
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SEC vs PAC 12 Part 2
We are ALL tied up 3-3 after yesterday. Will the PAC 12 continue their Cinderella story like run? Or will the Tide Roll so the SEC can live up to their number one seed? Winner has the ACC in the...
SEC vs PAC 12
Our first matchup involving the SEC, and our last one before the championship. Winner gets the ACC. Let’s. Go. Texas A&M vs Utah Texas A&M – Cody Goggin This is a bit of a we...
3 Most Underrated College Football Playoff Contenders
Andrew Grimes | St. Petersburg College Every year the preseason polls are released and the chatter for the CFP begins. Along with all the CFP talk there is also conversations about teams who either ge...
B1G vs ACC Part 2
BIG first day for the ACC as they pulled ahead 5-2 on day one. Today features Heisman contending (and winning) QBs, a few ELECTRIC running backs, and a dancing PJ Fleck. Can the B1G pull of a HUGE...
B1G vs ACC
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Big 12 vs PAC 12 Part Two
Welcome to day two of our quest to find out who is the one conference to rule them all. In case you missed day one, you can revisit it here to catch up. The PAC 12 won day one 3-2 with wins from: ...
Big 12 vs PAC 12
Back in the day, when the NCAA Football series was still a thing, (With all due respect, fuck you Ed O’Bannon….no offense) my buddy and I used to line up each of the conferences and play o...
Fashion 101: TCU Football
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Pac 12 South Preview
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Big Ten West Preview
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Knee Jerk Reaction to the First Coach’s Poll
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Secretary of State Jim Harbaugh
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Mike Gundy’s Alternative Facts of College Football
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Bulldogs Slay The Huskies: The Moment of March
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PAC-12 Fanboy: Oregon
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Student Union Study Hall: Episode 7
Student Union Study Hall is a weekly College Basketball recap produced by college students for college students. Each week Student Union writers Liam Smith, Austin Brown, and Luke “Big Takes...
Instant Reaction: Mark Stoops Extension
The University of Kentucky has officially extended head football coach Mark Stoops’ contract through 2022. This extension is coming off a 7-6 season, 4-4 in the SEC, and finishing 3rd in the Eas...
The Big Ten has been GOOD All Year
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Tom Crean Out at IU
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March Madness Preview: SEC
There will be five SEC teams in the Big Dance this postseason, surpassing last year’s total of three. Does this show growth in the league now? Possibly, but it still has some ways to go. After looki...
I Picked a Bracket by Each Team’s Mascot….It’s Not Looking Great
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Everyone has a fun idea on how to fill out their bracket, some do it by stats, others by colors, or even by hermit crab (see our twitter)! For my bracket in the Stud...
The Abomination that is the Selection Committee
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Instant Reaction: IU Elects Not to Host NIT Opener
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SEC Tournament Recap
The SEC Tournament had a few surprises up its sleeve this year in Nashville, but some things went according to plan. Here’s my recap of the 2017 SEC Tourney. Wednesday: In day one of the SEC tou...
East Tennessee State: Where IU Players Go to Dance?
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University With yesterday’s loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament, the IU men’s basketball team has all but guaranteed that they won’t be receiving an i...
Student Union Study Hall: Episode 5
Student Union Study Hall is a weekly College Basketball recap produced by college students for college students. Each week Student Union writers Ben Shumate, Austin Brown and Luke “Big Takes” Maie...
SEC Tournament Preview and Predictions
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History 101 : Kentucky Basketball
Jared Estep | IUPUI Since 2009 and the arrival of head coach John Calipari at the University of Kentucky an abundance of talent has come through the city of Lexington. Following the miserable Billy ...
Releasing The Baer From His Cage
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The Debate: Fultz Vs. Ball
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Jordan Bohannon Keeps Iowa’s Heart Beating
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The BIGGEST Play of the College Basketball Season
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History 101: Villanova Basketball
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Who’s Gonna Win the Island?
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Photography 101: Villanova Basketball
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Stats 101: UCLA Basketball
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#FireTomCrean? Maybe. #FireFredGlass? Hell No.
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Philosophy 101: What if Colt Didn’t Get Hurt?
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Student Union Study Hall: Episode Two
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Give the UCONN Women Some Respect
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Philosophy 101: What if Gordon Haywards Shot goes in?
By: Jacob Allen | Grand Canyon University The 2010 National Championship featured national power Duke and the nations Cinderella story for the 2010 season, Butler. College basketball in March is full ...
AL-right CBB Gambling Picks, 2/10
WEEKLY BETTING LINES, done by Luke Maiers and Austin Brown. Current Record: 17-23 What an ugly week for out betting lines when we had so much confidence. We got absolutely demolished and our lines wer...
What if College Athletics Had Jersey Sponsors?
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Recently, the NBA announced that it would begin selling ads on jerseys to interested corporations, and some teams have already sold their space. For many fans of tra...
Health 101: The Boilermakers Unfortunate Past Could Have Included a Championship
By: Jacob Allen ⎟ Grand Canyon University There are certain players that seem to linger in college, for what seems like decades. KU’s Perry Ellis, North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough, and Wichita ...
Luke-Warm Takes: Big Ten POY Watch AND ONE
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR WATCH, by Luke Maiers. It is a damn shame that two of the best players in the nation are from the same conference because both Ethan Haap and Caleb Swanigan...
AL-right CBB Gambling Picks
WEEKLY BETTING LINES, done by Luke Maiers and Austin Brown who are members of Team Joey Freshwater. Current Record: 14-16 We just can’t seem to find a winning week. With that being said, I am ne...
Is Iowa Better Without Jok?
THIS IS AN ARTICLE, by Luke Maiers who is a member of Team Joey Freshwater. Now before everyone gets all excited and calls me an idiot, I would just like to say that I appreciate what Peter Jok has do...
Luke-Warm Takes: Weekly Big Ten POY Watch AND ONE
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR WATCH, by Luke Maiers. What did we learn in the Big Ten this week? Iowa can win convincingly without Peter Jok, Melo Trimble and Maryland are running away w...
Philosophy 101: What if Ben Simmons Went to KU over LSU?
By Braeden Mueller | Arizona State In what was the bigger upsets in recent recruiting history, Ben Simmons took his talents to……wait for it…. LSU! The basketball capital of Louisiana, LSU! At th...
AL-right CBB Gambling Picks
WEEKLY BETTING LINES, done by Luke Maiers and Austin Brown who are members of Team Joey Freshwater. Current Record: 9-11 I will admit that last week we led you into a losing record, but in our defense...
Air Bud: 5 Star Recruit
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University If you’ve ever seen Air Bud: Golden Receiver you know that Buddy is a legit wide receiver, despite being a dog. Unlike Odell Beckham, Jr. in the post season, B...
No Place Like Home
THIS IS AN ARTICLE, by Luke Maiers who is a member of Team Joey Freshwater. There is nothing like the home court advantage, especially when it comes to college basketball. The roar of the crowd, the o...
The Cinderella Story: FGCU Eagles
Next team on my Cinderella list is none other than Florida Gulf Coast. This is a team that is not far from the last time they were the Cinderella Team of the NCAA Tournament. In 2012-2013 they stunned...
The problem with college football recruitment
Just last week, Ryan Dickens, a New Jersey high school senior and University of Connecticut recruit, sat at his high school awards ceremony after receiving an award celebrating his athletic, academic ...
Collins Trying to Take the Wildcats Dancing
THIS IS AN ARTICLE, by Luke Maiers who is a member of Team Joey Freshwater. The History There are 351 schools in NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball, and there are only a hand full of teams that ha...
2017-18 Florida Football: Fun in the Sun
The state of Florida has always provided two constants: wild headlines and good football. From the glory days of the U, to Tebow Time, to FSU’s recent dominance, the wackiest state in the USA ha...
Conspiracy Behind Johnny Football
The Man. The Myth. The Legend. The Conspiracy? Within the past week, Johnny Manziel has come back into the media light in surprisingly a good way. He said he has become sober and is ready to make life...
Beware the bubble: Blackmon’s heroics make Indiana safe
It’s never too early to start examining teams resumes for the NCAA tournament. The bubble can be scary, all it takes is one bad loss to knock you off it. That being said, let’s take a look at team...
History 101: Arizona State and the Todd Graham Era
By Braeden Mueller | Arizona State December 2011: Hired Coach Todd Graham after only one season at Pittsburgh. His quick departure from Pitt caused some controversy as he notified his players and st...
Luke-Warm Takes: Big Ten POY Watch AND ONE
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR WATCH, by Luke Maiers. The Big Ten is going to be a dog fight all the way until tournament time, and I truly believe that any team in the conference can mak...
AL-right CBB Gambling Picks
WEEKLY BETTING LINES DONE, by Luke Maiers and Austin Brown. Last week was a kick to the shorts when Butler made two free throws with one second left to cover against Xavier, that’s how close AL-...
The Cinderella Story: Vermont Catamounts
The Cinderella Story during March Madness is one of the best things in all of sports every year. Small schools getting their moment to shine on the big stage while everyone is watching. People often f...
The Change Iowa Needed
THIS IS AN ARTICLE FOR STUDENT UNION SPORTS, by Luke Maiers. Think of the most boring, predictable thing you can think of (such as grass growing or paint drying), and you have the Iowa Hawkeye’s...
Luke-Warm Takes: Big Ten POY Watch AND ONE
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR WATCH, by Luke Maiers . There were some impressive stat lines thrown up in the last week, some of those coming in losses. The race just keeps tightening up ...
Beware the bubble: Can Northwestern actually make the tourney?
It’s never too early to start examining teams resumes for the NCAA tournament. The bubble can be scary, all it takes is one bad loss to knock you off it. That being said, let’s take a look at team...
Another Feather in Swanigan’s Hat
THIS IS ARTICLE IS BY LUKE MAIERS WHO IS A MEMBER OF TEAM JOEY FRESHWATER. Background Thursday night while I was at the Purdue, Iowa game, I was ripping into pretty much every player that the Boilerma...
Luke-Warm Takes: Big Ten POY Watch
THIS IS A WEEKLY BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE YEAR WATCH, by Luke Maiers. Is it the year of the big man in the Big Ten? It only makes sense that it would be because looking at the standings for the conferenc...
The Seven Seas: Clemson and Alabama were on a different level
If you missed this bowl season of college football, I’m sorry. But look no further than right here to catch up on the seven biggest things you didn’t see. Clemson and Alabama were the two be...
History 101: Boise State Football
By Ben Shumate | Brown University It might be hard to believe for some that it’s been ten years since Boise State shocked the world in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma. The game is easily one of the...
Beware the bubble: Don’t sleep on Texas Tech.
It’s never too early to start examining teams resumes for the NCAA tournament. The bubble can be scary, all it takes is one bad loss to knock you off it. That being said, let’s take a look at team...
Fashion 101: Wyoming Football
By Ben Shumate | Brown University Wyoming folks know and love brown and gold like nothing else. If you grew up in the Cowboy State, as I did, you more than likely have some baby photos lying around li...
The Lineup: US Presidential Football Team
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University With our nation’s presidential inauguration on the horizon, I’ve taken the liberty of creating a starting lineup for a football team made up of US presid...
The Fournette and McCaffrey Epidemic: How players skipping bowl games could kill college football
Much has been said of Leonard Fournette and Christian McCaffrey’s decisions to sit their bowl games out to prevent injuries. Some people support their decision and believe it is in their best intere...
History 101: Ohio State Football
History 101: Memorable Moments in Buckeye History When I look back over the past years of Ohio State football it is hard to pick years where Ohio State wasn’t good. But in the years between 2006-20...
The Problem with Musburger and Mixon
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University During last night’s Sugar Bowl matchup between Oklahoma and Auburn, ESPN announcer Brent Musburger elected to make an extremely controversial statement about...
Social Studies 101: Ohio State Football
There’s nothing like Big Ten Football, seriously, I can’t think of anything that tops game day. Especially Ohio State Football traditions, whether it’s the Walk to the Shoe, the tailgates, or th...
Health 101: Ohio State Football
How Cardale “12 Gauge” Jones Brought the Buckeyes all the Glory Looking back at Ohio State’s last couple of seasons as I was going through trying to pick a major injury that hurt the team I deci...
Photography 101: 2014 Ohio State Football
By Anthony Ventura | West Virginia University PRESEASON Braxton Miller, the quarterback at Ohio State, was all anyone knew for a while. Since week 4 of the 2011 season, Miller had been THE guy at Ohio...
Philosophy 101: What if Braxton Miller Never Got Hurt
By Anthony Ventura | West Virginia University The Alabama Crimson Tide won the 2015 College Football Playoff Championship to repeat after winning the 2014 College Football Playoff Championship. Ezekie...
History 101: Ohio State Football
By Anthony Ventura | West Virginia University If we look over the last 10 years, the Ohio State football program has had quite a fun ride, but if we look simply at the comparison between the ends, 200...
Payment Plan
By Clay Weas | University of Iowa What if I told you there was a company that makes nearly a billion dollars a year, $989 million to be exact, pretty much all off of free labor. That company exists an...
The Road to the B1G Championship
It has been a chaotic year for the best conference in college football and it is not over yet. The Penn State Nittany Lions will take on the Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten Championship game Saturday...
#CHAOSTEAM: IU Football Truly Embraces Its Role
After my shift ended at work today, I scrolled through my Twitter feed, and started seeing Kevin Wilson’s name all over my screen. At first I figured he said something funny/controversial, but t...
Do Conference Titles Matter? Not Necessarily, But Head to Head Matchups Do
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University For the first time in the young College Football Playoff’s history, we have a major conflict. And, just like the first minor conflict, it’s all about con...
The Catwalk: Rivalry Trophy Edition
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University When I sat down to decide this week’s uniforms, I discovered that Week 12 was one of the most solid uniform weeks of the season! This was great for picking the...
The Catwalk: Week 11’s Best and Worst Looks
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Still trying to reconcile the results of last week’s election? Give yourself a break with this wild weekend of football! We saw #2, #3, and #4 all fall unexpec...
The Catwalk: Week 10’s Best and Worst Uniforms
Lilly Donahue | Indiana University Week 10 was overall a pretty tame week of college football, with all 5 undefeated teams leaving the week with their goose egg still intact. Even the biggest game of ...
Ryan Plugge: Week 10 Tailgating
Happy Gameday everyone! I recently just traveled to Tuscaloosa for the Texas A&M vs. Alabama game. This wrapped up my traveling for the year as I will not be traveling to Starkville for the Missis...
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? The sea of red game (Neb. vs. Wisc.) gave us one hell of a show, Northwestern might actually be goo...
One and Done? PSU Offensive Coordinator Joe Moorhead
Just like every other year of college football, 2016 is chalk full of surprises. One of the biggest has to be the resurgence of Penn State football after a pretty sluggish start. Upon his arrival, hea...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...