CFB: Week Ten Preview
Games to Watch No. 6 Georgia (-9.5) at No. 11 Kentucky (3:30 CBS) Just like everyone expected, the SEC East will be decided this Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky. Each team comes in 7-1, 5-1 and have b...
No Shave November With The U
It is never a bad time to reflect on mental health. Here at Student Union we’ve decided to use all of the hot takes and facial hair in our power to make a positive difference this November. Move...
Why the Highest-ranked Group of Five Team might not come from the AAC at Season’s end
As we head into week ten two things look set in stone: Alabama is the best team in the country and the American Athletic Conference (AAC) will have the highest-ranked team from the Group of Five at se...
Syracuse Football Earns First Ranking Since 2001
After an upset-heavy weekend of college football, 7 new teams found their way into the AP Top 25. And for the first time since 2001, Syracuse was one of them. The Orange knocked off No. 22 NC State at...
UPDATE: Maryland Finally Does Something Right, Fires DJ Durkin.
Better late than never. Actual minutes after posting my previous article on Maryland deciding to keep head coach DJ Durkin despite the death of Jordan McNair, Durkin was let go. It seems that both the...
My Top 4 Predictions
So as I am sure you all know by now, the first CFP rankings came out yesterday. Now a lot of people are pissed because LSU is #3, and pretty much ignoring that they are playing Alabama this week so th...
Could Bama actually beat an NFL team?
Every year we hear about Bama having top tier recruits and the best coaching in all of CFB. With that, some people will always ask the stupid, yet intriguing question… “Could Alabama beat ...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: D’Eriq King
Houston handed USF their first loss this Saturday, 57-36, behind QB D’Eriq King’s incredible performance. King scored 7 touchdowns (5 passing, 2 rushing) and had 551 total yards offense. He accoun...
#MinshewForHeisman
All Hail our new lord, a flavor saver savior, Gardner Minshew II, the new sheriff over in Leachville. After Luke Faulk, arguably one of the greatest QB’s in PAC-12 history left, this man wieldin...
Scariest CFB Players
It’s Halloween. It means one of two things: You’re out partying until 3am and gonna regret doing so because it’s a god damn Wednesday and it is the middle of a School/Work week. You&...
Back with the Pac: Week 9
It was officially upset week for Pac-12 football this past weekend. Three ranked teams lost, all coming from the North division, which leaves us with one clear front runner with three weeks to play. T...
Urban Meyer Coming Back?
Ever since the end of Purdue’s blowout win over Ohio State, people around the country have been rumbling about Urban Meyer possibly leaving the Buckeye sideline prior to next season. The same Bu...
The First CFP Poll is Out… Things Happened.
Oh UCF Fans are Going to be Upset. With the release of the first edition of the College Football Playoff, teams know where they stand going into the tail end of the season. Some fans have to be very e...
Maryland Board of Regents does dumb thing.
Obviously, we have learned nothing from this. According to Rick Maese, sports writer for the Washington Post, DJ Durkin seems to be a lot safer than we all originally thought. On top of this, AD Damon...
The Hangover, Week 9: All Eyes on the SEC
Welcome to the eighth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Jacksonville, Florida, where Georgia r...
#4 LSU Has Forfeited Any Chance Vs. #1 Alabama
In a wild turn of events, it appears that the LSU Tigers have forgone any realistic chance to beat Alabama this Saturday. Vegas has released the lines for college football’s game of the week at ...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 9
Week 9 was not the best week to be a ranked team, as 11 of the top 25 teams lost, 7 of those 11 teams lost to unranked teams. Texas got knocked off by Oklahoma St., Syracuse beat NC State for only the...
CFP Contention Update
With the official College Football Playoff rankings coming out next week, here is a last-minute update. Despite the chaos this week (Ohio State, Oregon), the top four is relatively solid. Before the f...
Comparing this years QB prospects to last years
Now, lets get real…This years QB’s is not great at all, like borderline disgusting. If you had to compare this years class to last years, it’s like choosing between the Prom Queen, a...
Maryland football report deems culture not toxic, but basically toxic
What the hell Maryland? After eight weeks, there is finally an update on the Maryland football investigation. According to the Washington Post, the report found that “…the Maryland footb...
Campus Cover 042: Dan Jakes
This week the guys are joined by fellow Student Union contributor Daniel Jakes (@danimalj) as they all talk about the ranking of G5 teams, UAB (of course), Texas, and more. Last, but not least, we dis...
Florida/Georgia Preview: Bulldogs By Three Touchdowns
The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is finally here, and it’s gonna be another year of heartache for the Florida Gators. This Florida Gators team has come out of the gates HOT this ...
Thursday Night Showdown: App State at. Georgia Southern
With a slate of big college football games ready to go this weekend, don’t lose track of the Sun Belt Conference and two of the nations best teams record-wise. That’s right, 7:30 kickoff on ESPNU ...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: D.J. Knox
D.J. Knox, running back from Purdue, is this week’s Video Game Player of the Week. Knox ran for 128 yards and 3 touchdowns this Saturday. While other players may have put up stats larger than D.J....
Back with the Pac: Week 8
Once again the Pac-12 continues to consume itself. This week in Pac-12 football, Pullman, Washington continues to prove to be a death sentence for ranked teams playing there. In the south, Utah picked...
Is it time to talk about the B1G West?
After this weekend we see four teams at the top of the B1G West with only one loss. Northwestern (4-1), Iowa (3-1), Wisconsin(3-1), and Purdue (3-1) all find themselves competing for a spot in Indy to...
The sleeping giant UCF is now wide awake
This is getting out of hand. After climbing upwards in the polls in consecutive weeks, it seems as if UCF has hit their ceiling at the number 10 spot, as they have been stuck there for two consecuti...
Who’s still alive? Breakdown of each team that still has a shot at the playoff
More than half of the college football regular season has been played and the playoff picture is starting to take shape. Only a few teams control their own destiny, with most others relying on other t...
SU25: October 24th
Alabama (10) Clemson (1) Notre Dame LSU Michigan UCF Oklahoma Georgia Texas Florida Ohio State Kentucky West Virginia Washington State Washington Iowa Texas A&M Oregon Penn State USF Wisconsin App...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 8
Week 8 has come and gone, and it is a week I certainly want to forget. My beloved Bearcats lost a conference game to Temple in OT. It was also a week to forget for the Buckeyes. Other teams, however, ...
The Hangover, Week 8: Meyer’d in Uncertainty
Welcome to the seventh edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Knoxville, Tennessee, where Tua Tagov...
Headaches and Heartache: Urban Meyer is Leaving Ohio State
The Ohio State Buckeyes and Urban Meyer were sent into turmoil this past weekend after getting trounced by Purdue. This came only two days after Paul Finebaum reported that he sensed Meyer’s tim...
UCF Still Gets No Respect And I’m Over It
I’ve been pushed over the limit now. As the college day was wrapping up and I had just witnessed Purdue make OSU their PurDaddy, Wazzu once again ruining the Pac-12’s chances at a playoff ...
Dan’s Bedtime Thoughts: Sorry for the Hiatus
I’m sorry for the couple of weeks off, my fellow companions. I’m just now getting into the flow of things again, so I figured that I’d pump out some content while I can’t sleep...
Crazy CFB Things That Are Still Alive
College football in a word: crazy. Lots of crazy things happen every year in the world of college football. Some crazier than others but I think we should go over some scenarios, that while not likely...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Alex Barnes
Alex Barnes from Kansas State will receive the honors of Video Game Player of the Week as he did anything he wanted to against Oklahoma State. Barnes quoted Avengers villain Thanos and said “fine, I...
Loser of the Week:Week 7
Four teams ranked in the top-10 suffered upsets in week 7; a wonderful weekend for losing. Penn State lost to Michigan State, Washington fell to Oregon in overtime, Georgia got trounced by LSU, but ou...
Back with the Pac: Week 7
Welcome to Back with the Pac: Week 7 where we look at the most unpredictable conference in college football! The main event of the weekend was Oregon vs Washington which lived up to all of the hype. W...
Checking In on Each New Power 5 Head Coach
Thirteen Power 5 conference schools entered this season with new head coaches, some set up to succeed and others starting from scratch to rebuild their program. Although it isn’t fair to judge t...
Campus Cover 041: There’s So Much Blood
This week we lead off with picks, talk about the week seven that was, the playoff picture, and then a little game in honor of the NBA opener. The Campus Cover is the always off-topic, sometimes correc...
SU25: Week 8
Blood week got us all messed up. Georgia, Penn State, West Virginia, and Washington all lost as top ten teams, as well as losses by Wisconsin, Miami, Penn State and more. Let’s take a look at ho...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 7
This week was craaazy! 8 teams ranked in the top 25 lost, while 5 won by less than a touchdown. This is one week of just many weeks that could look the same. This is the time of the year where teams a...
The Hangover, Week 7: Could It Really Be That Easy?
Welcome to the sixth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where “Dixie...
ATTENTION: We Have Achieved Blood Week 2018
It happened. Mayhem Week, Blood Week, Chaos Week, whatever you call it, it happened Week 7 of the 2018 CFB Season. A Week where every team dreads and prays that their team will not be apart of… ...
College GameDay is Finally Going to Pullman, Washington
Folks, it’s finally happening. ESPN decided “Hm, next week’s games aren’t all that strong. NC State vs Clemson…meh. Maryland-Iowa? Yawn. Miss State and LSU? Hard pass. Mi...
WE ALMOST HAD A COACH BRAWL
We were so close to a death match. Today’s Florida-Vanderbilt already wasn’t going how most of us expected, being that Vandy was out to a 21-10 lead towards the end of the first half. Then...
Let’s Talk About App State
Hidden in Boone, North Carolina, there is a football team who may be the best team in their state. Yes, there are seven FBS programs in the state of North Carolina, including four ACC programs, and th...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week Seven
Record to date: 17-24-2 Last week was another week sitting in mediocrity. Another winning week of college football for me in which I didn’t pick the right games for this article. I nailed Florid...
Upset Alert: Week 7 Edition
Week 6 was STRAIGHT CASH HOMIE. Texas knocked off Oklahoma, Florida stunned LSU, and Florida State covered, and really should’ve won, against Miami. Our two non-Power 5 picks hit beautifully. New Me...
Loser of the Week: Week 6
This weeks “Loser of the Week” features a tale of redemption, as the Texas Longhorns (inaugural “Loser of the Week” in week 1) marched into the Cotton Bowl on Saturday and beat...
Back with the Pac: Week 6
We are now officially half way through the college football season which is hard to believe. This past weekend, any chance of a Pac-12 football team reaching the playoff seems to have disappeared. Wit...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Tua Tagovailoa
This week we focus on the man who is leading the Heisman race, Tua Tagovailoa. Tua has been balling out all season. The only reason he hasn’t been putting up stats as large as other QBs is because h...
Who Should South Carolina Start at Quarterback This Saturday?
South Carolina is joining the list of teams with a quarterback controversy on their hands. Jake Bentley was not only the Week One starter for the Gamecocks, but was also regarded as a future first-rou...
SU25: Week 7
We’re halfway through the 2018 college football season and our rankings are starting to take tremendous form. More confidence in Michigan and Texas in actual rank, but not too much change in the...
Heisman Watch: The Year of the Back
Quarterback, that is. Remember before the season began when everybody assumed the college quarterback landscape was weak and that any of the talented running backs would be a shoe-in for the coveted t...
Marching Bands: College Football’s Secret Weapon
The age-old debate about whether the NFL product is better than the NCAA’s commodity is easily settled: the NFL lacks marching bands. The Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins escape blame he...
Land of Lincoln: Norman, Oklahoma
Well that’s that. The Stoops family is no longer when it comes to the staff of the Sooners. This is Lincoln Riley’s team now. Has been for a year and now he’s shocked the nation in h...
The Drake Curse: A Timeline
The Kardashians and Jenners have ruined numerous athletes careers by dating them in the past. The Kendall Jenner Curse is the most recent of a long stint of bad sports curses. We all remember Jessica ...
Oh, They BAD bad? Ranking College Football’s Worst Teams
So often we like to write about good college football teams and for good reason, but for some comical relief, or maybe agonizing pain for the fans of these schools, I thought it would be fun to look i...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 6
This college football season is fun! Cincinnati is ranked for the 1st time since 2012, Notre Dame looks like a contender, and I think it is safe to say that Texas is back! This week’s biggest win wa...
Junior QB, RB Transfers Provide a Spark for USF
South Florida should be turning some heads around college football. Charlie Strong took over right where Willie Taggert left off and the Bulls have been running ever since. After a 10-2 (6-2) campaign...
The Team Who Will Bring UCF Down
Enemies aren’t created. They’ve always existed and only just reveal themselves. That is the scenario UCF is currently facing. Not really. They already knew, but I don’t think the med...
LSU Punts Away Perfect Season
Noooo! Not like this, Coach O! Florida? LSU’s defense has been so good all year, but it was a pick-6 that finally ended the Tigers’ perfect season bid. Joe Burrow couldn’t get it don...
By God, Texas IS Back.
They actually did the damn thing and took down #7 Oklahoma! After losing to B1G powerhouse MARYLAND(!) in the first game of the 2018 campaign, it seemed as though Texas was on it’s way to anothe...
Kansas Football: At Least We Have Volleyball
Well, you can’t win ’em all, and luckily for the Jayhawks, they have two wins already in 2018, so they won’t lose ’em all either. Another fantastic defensive outing washed away...
Notre Dame: Legit Contender. No! Don’t Hang Up!
A big victory on Saturday night against #24 Virginia Tech once again proved to the nation that Notre Dame is not messing around in 2018. With wins over Michigan to begin the season, now two consecutiv...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week Six
Record to Date: 15-22-2 Another week, another stretch of bad luck for me. I played my biggest college football slate of the year last Saturday and went 15-10. Really good day and I was very happy wit...
Ian Book Adds Whole New Aspect to Irish Offense
In his first career start at Notre Dame Stadium, quarterback Ian Book showed what a difference-maker he is for the now 5-0 Fighting Irish team. The redshirt sophomore went 24-for-33 with 278 yards and...
Upset Alert: Week 6 Edition
Week 5 was a good week for picking upsets. Virginia Tech won outright at Duke, Northwestern was oh so close against Michigan, and Syracuse was minutes away from knocking off Clemson. I know close only...
I Have Decided To Go All In On The Benny Snell Jr. Heisman Train
Hear me out. As many people know, I am a HUGE QB guy, and will ride or die with that position until the day I die. It is the most critical position in all of sports and can make or break your team. No...
Campus Cover 040: Your Rankings Suck!
If polls are really just subjective interpretations.. why do we take them so seriously? How should the polls be figured? We take a look at this debate, the best teams ATS, and of course, our picks of ...
Syracuse Drops the Ball on Upset Bid
Being an unranked team and losing on the road to a top 3 opponent after having a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter is a very underrated way to lose a football game. Largely because of the fact that ...
Loser of the Week: Week 5
The Mississippi State Bulldogs fell to the Florida Gators 13-6 in Starkville to give the Bulldogs an 0-2 record in the SEC, but more importantly ensured them the title of Loser of the Week 5. YourR...
Clemson QB, Trevor Lawrence to Play vs. Wake Forest
Tiger fans can breathe easier now because after leaving last week’s game against Syracuse because of neck and head injuries, Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence is expected to play against Wake F...
Why all of CFB should be cheering for WVU
West Virginia Mountaineers. Arguably one of if not the hottest teams in all of college football. We knew last season that they were up and coming within the Big 12, but with Baker Mayfield and the S...
Building the Ideal CFB Fantasy Team through the Start of the Season
Since Kenyan Drake and the rest of my NFL fantasy team decided to disappoint me once again, I started thinking about what it would be like if I forgot about my mediocre team and got a fresh start in t...
SU25: Week 6
After five weeks of play, we’re getting closer and closer to the halfway mark of the season. Seems like every week there are a couple of teams who come out of no where to jump in the top 25, onl...
Back with the Pac: Week 5
Week five of Pac-12 football has come and gone revealing the contenders and pretenders of each division are beginning to form. The North continues to prove it is the stronger division, but we might be...
Week Five Was Cool
Exposition Week Five to me has always been the week where you figure out who’s heading in which direction. The sample size is finally available and we’ve got a solid idea of who is good, w...
UCF looking strong after Pitt win; seeking more respect in rankings
The Knights continue to win, making it now 17 straight victories and over 650 days undefeated. If UCF was any other “elite power five” school they would no doubt be within the top 6 in rankings....
Country Roads, Take Me Home…to the College Football Playoff?
Within the Student Union website and even college football as a whole, West Virginia has almost been swept under the rug. Yes, WVU Twitter is in full force, believing they have the talent to compete f...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Kyler Murray Pt. 2
Kyler Murray is the first player to be chosen as a Video Game Player of the Week more than once. It seems like every week he is putting up big numbers; this week he literally outdid himself. Murray sc...
The Hangover, Week 5: A Quick Word About Kentucky
Welcome to the fifth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Athens, Georgia, home to a fantastic ba...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 5
Week 5 was another rather exciting week of football. Clemson came back late to stay undefeated, Notre Dame is rolling with another win against a ranked team, and Michigan barely survived an upset. Thi...
Campus Cover 039: Transfer Talk
Kelly Bryant transfers from Clemson.. should Jalen Hurts do the same at Alabama? We discuss this, play a couple new games, and feed you a ton of correct picks. The Campus Cover is the always off-topic...
Upset Alert: Week 5 Edition
Not a horrible week in Week 4. Missouri covered, and Kentucky and Purdue both won outright at home in upset wins. Let’s keep moving forward with some big conference matchups this weekend! I present ...
The Cup Check 9/28: Presented by Student Union Sports
On this week’s episode of the Cup Check, Luke “Big Takes” Maiers joins the show to talk a little football. Topics include life advice for Kelly Bryant, Roughing the passer rules, and...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week Five
Record to Date: 12-18-2 Last week was brutal. The Oregon beat is one of the worst of my entire life. They had a 99% win probability TWICE during the second half and couldn’t close it out. I admi...
Loser of the Week: Week 4
Picking a loser was easy this week; it has to be Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech suffered an embarrassing loss to Old Dominion on Saturday. You would think after having a week off due to Hurricane Flor...
#7 Stanford vs #20 Oregon Film Session
Ya hey we all know why you are here. So no foreplay lets just dive right in to everyone’s favorite series. Obviously to view all the plays you can visit my twitter page where I posted them. Whil...
Is Syracuse a Legit Upset Threat at Clemson?
After just four weeks of play, this has already been a big season for head coach Dino Babers and the Syracuse Orange football team. The squad, led by quarterback Eric Dungey has a record of 4-0 for th...
Can the Buckeyes Take Down the Happy Valley White Out?
Last time the Ohio State football ream stepped foot into Beaver Stadium an eerily cold, snowy, and rainy day overtook State College. Neither team could get going consistently on offense or fully gain ...
The Comeback of the Bearcats
It only took 2 offensive series before coach Luke Fickell replaced QB Hayden Moore with Redshirt freshman Desmond Ridder for the Bearcats. Ridder is a former 3-star recruit for the Bearcats. After tak...
BREAKING: Kelly Bryant to Transfer out of Clemson
Kelly Bryant started the past 18 games for Clemson… his next start will be for a different school. On Sunday, head coach Dabo Swinney informed Bryant that he was no longer the starting quarterba...
Back with the Pac: Week 4
With week 4 bringing us the beginning of conference play, #Pac12AfterDark was in full effect! Oregon vs Stanford was the premier game in the conference this past weekend, and it lived up to all of the...
SU25: Week 4
Alabama (11) Clemson (3) Georgia Ohio State Oklahoma Stanford LSU Washington Auburn West Virginia Notre Dame UCF Penn State Michigan Wisconsin Kentucky Miami (FL) Michigan State Duke Texas BYU Oregon ...
Dan’s Bedtime Thoughts: Week 4
We were having a discussion in our Slack chat the other day about how other teams stack up with Alabama this year. Our Clemson guys of course thought that they stacked up well, along with a few of our...
Should Notre Dame Stick with Ian Book?
As was said during ESPN Chicago’s radio broadcast of the Notre Dame game against Wake Forest; it is not too often you switch quarterbacks after starting 3-0. However, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish b...
Tua Tagovailoa Wants to Bring Back the NCAA Football Video Game
Tua Tagovailoa has set the college football world on fire. After his heroic victory in last year’s National Championship game, Tua became an automatic 2018 Heisman favorite. All summer, people w...
The Hangover, Week 4: Getting a Sense of What We Know
Welcome to the fourth edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where I finally t...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 4
Week 4 was exciting! As a student and a fan I was at the Cincinnati game when they came back from a 21-0 deficit. That was so much fun to see live, but that’s not what I’m here to tell you right n...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Dwayne Haskins
Just like Kyler Murray from OU, Haskins is a player that I figured would end up making this list and is also a possible Heisman contender. Dwayne Haskins hasn’t really played a bad game yet, but thi...
Things Are Pointing Up in Upstate New York
A very complex title, but the gist is pretty simple. Upstate New York football is somehow, someway on the map. Sorry, Army, I love what y’all did in Norman, but today is about two programs more near...
Behind the Numbers: Old Dominion Shocks Virginia Tech
Sooo Old Dominion is pretty bad at football. Right? Maybe not. The Monarchs were off to an 0-3 start with losses to Liberty, FIU, and Charlotte. Not exactly heavyweights. So when Virginia Tech came to...
Let’s check in on Ohio State.
Has the situation gotten all that better? Unless you have been living under a rock, everyone should know about the mess that was Ohio State’s offseason. I think I have published five or six arti...
Are Dynasties in College Football a Good Thing?
After allowing a 75-yard touchdown pass on the game’s first play from scrimmage, the Alabama Crimson Tide went on to score 62 unanswered points in their week three road victory against Ole Miss. The...
Upset Alert: Week 4 Edition
Somehow, someway, we got 3 upset picks right straight up last week. Syracuse knocked off Florida State, Troy stunned Nebraska, and in perhaps the biggest surprise of this college football season, Wisc...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week Four
Record to Date: 8-14-2 (-5 units) We finally found our level last week. Week One went really well, week two went really bad, and week three finally evened out. Buying the half point on Wake Forest sav...
Loser of the Week: Week 3
Week 3 of college football gave us on of the worst performances we’ll see all season. If you haven’t already figured out who the loser of the week is, here’s a hint… How does a...
Defensive Heisman Watchlist: Part II
So we are back again with the greatest idea on the planet. It’s mine so if you use it I will sue you. Nonetheless it is time to update our candidates and how they are doing and introduce a new c...
A case for an alternative Big Ten Championship game
Ohio State is the best team in the Big Ten. This isn’t really a hot take or news in any way. Even without head coach Urban Meyer, they got off to a great start, outscoring opponents in the first...
Week Three’s Good and Bad
They were the best of times (for some teams), they were the worst of times (for others). Some teams smartly played BYE this week. It’s always good to regroup and just kinda watch other teams tri...
#12 LSU vs #7 Auburn Film Session
No poll, but I figured the fellow readers of our wonderful website would’ve chosen this game since it was the closest and it was between two really good teams. So here ya go. What I saw The Good...
Back with the Pac: Week 3
Welcome to the first edition of Back with the PAC where we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly happening around the Conference of Champions during football season! Each week will feature a breakdo...
Contenders and Pretenders: Chain Restaurants on Gameday
Everyone obviously has their local college bars that they love. Whether they have a badass projector or a bunch of small tv’s with weird colors radiating from the screen. But we’re not her...
Dan’s Bedtime Thoughts: Week 3
Another week, another step closer to the Big Ten becoming like the Pac 12 after a laughably dismal showing. Ohio State was one of the few bright spots this week, along with Penn State. The B1G has off...
SEC Releases 2019 Football Schedules
In the never-ending quest to help the American public make plans well in advance, the SEC released the 2019 football schedules on Tuesday. The SEC has committed to at least one conference game every w...
Big Ten Football Should Scrap its Division System
Shortly after Maryland and Rutgers announced their intent to join the Big Ten in 2012, the conference implemented its geographical East-West division split. It has been a fine system and was a positiv...
Buck’s CFB Breakdown: Week 3 Edition
Well, I am back. A lot of stuff happened in college football–like always–so I will give my opinion on those things–like always. If you want more of my thoughts just go to www.bucktho...
Syracuse University: A Football School?
Walking up to the Carrier Dome this weekend, something felt different. There was the usual scattering of drunk people. The dudes yelling at people saying I would go to hell if I didn’t turn my life ...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Alan Bowman
My Video-Game Player of the Week for this week is Alan Bowman, who put up huge numbers as Texas Tech won in a shootout against Houston. This past Saturday, Bowman threw 5 touchdown passes for……...
#SU25: Week 4
Alabama (10) Clemson (2) Georgia Ohio State Oklahoma LSU Stanford Washington West Virginia Notre Dame Auburn Penn State Mississippi State Virginia Tech UCF Oklahoma State TCU Oregon Wisconsin Michigan...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 3
Week 3 could have gone better, as 3 top 25 teams had to cancel their games due to Hurricane Florence. Everybody here at Student Union Sports send their prayers to everyone affected by the disaster. So...
The Hangover, Week 3: The Picture is Taking Shape
Welcome to the third edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Auburn, Alabama (gross), where I watche...
Rule Proposal for the NCAA
It’s not every year that you see two of the worst Power 5 teams playing each other, and today we saw just that. Rutgers and Kansas squared off for the bragging rights of not being the worst team...
KANSAS FOOTBALL IS GOING BOWLING
Cancel the Rutgers Scarlet Knights’ football program IMMEDIATELY. 55-14? Are you kidding me? KU just put up 55 points on a team that only allowed 52 to THE Ohio State. Urban Meyer on the hot sea...
The Cup Check 9/14: Presented by Student Union Sports
On todays episode of the Cup Check, the boys prepare for Hurricane Florence, while also breaking down the upcoming weekend of College Football. Antics ensue…...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week Three
Record to date: 6-12-1 (-5.1 units) What an atrocious week last week. Normally that’s what my week one performance is like, but it came week two. Just disgusting. I’m having really bad luc...
The 10th Anniversary of the Greatest Game Ever Played
On September 13, 2008, Mississippi State and Auburn squared off at Davis Wade Stadium for what would be an instant classic. It didn’t look as if the barn was ever gonna burn, but with 7:38 left ...
Campus Cover 037: We’re Baaaaack
We.. um… had some issues come up and are just now returning, but the Campus Cover makes its triumphant return just in time for week 3! In this episode we discuss early season overreactions, what we ...
Loser of the Week: Week 2
Week two featured some spectacular losers. Florida lost to Kentucky for the first time in 31 years, and the North Carolina Tar Heels got blown out by East Carolina. But this week’s loser of the ...
Nick Bosa: The Heisman Candidate We Need
As an Ohio State fan, it’s easy to be subjected to the bias that Nick Boss has been one of the best players in the nation, yet it is hard to believe that there have been many players that have p...
#SU25: Week 3
Alabama (7) Clemson (4) Georgia Ohio State Auburn Oklahoma Wisconsin Stanford Washington West Virginia LSU Notre Dame Virginia Tech Mississippi State TCU UCF Penn State Boise State Oregon Michigan Ari...
Dear Vanderbilt University, Please Hire Jay Cutler.
After the news out of Vanderbilt that athletic director David Williams would be resigning, Clay Travis dropped into the conversation with an absurd suggestion for the university’s next man up: ...
Deep ball beauty
There are certain things in the world that are simply too beautiful to be described in plain English. Instead, one needs to delve into comparisons and figurative language to explain the sensation. For...
Upset Alert: Week 3 Edition
Upsets are one of the most exciting parts of any sport. As we move into Week 3 of the college football season, we start to get a feel for where teams lie. We also get a feel for teams that should be w...
#2 Clemson vs Texas A&M Film Session
So in the poll on the Student Union twitter, the masses voted that I do my film session on the Clemson-Texas A&M game. So here I am, pleasing the people. This is the game of the year thus far, so ...
DO NOT HIT THE PANIC BUTTON, ARIZONA WILDCATS FANS
Coming into the season, the Arizona Wildcats had dreams of having a successful season behind new head coach Kevin Sumlin and Heisman candidate Khalil Tate. Yet here we are two weeks into the college f...
The Hangover, Week 2: Good Things are Ahead for Texas A&M
Welcome to the second edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Columbia, South Carolina, where I wat...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Kyler Murray
After watching Murray perform the way he did in week 1, I figured it was only a matter of time before he would end up as my Video Game Player of the Week. And it did not take long at all as he has bee...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week: Week 2
Week 2 was a rather exciting week, with games like Clemson at A&M going down to wire. With that being said, this week it was pretty easy to pick biggest win, as well as the most cupcake win. Mos...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week Two
Week One Record- 5-8-1 (-1.4 units) Week One was tough. Week One is always tough. Despite months of offseason research, you don’t know what a team is going to do until you actually watch them pl...
Student Union Top 25: Week 2
Nothing like a little overreaction after week one. This week we saw Michigan, Miami, and Florida State all take losses in primetime, causing Michigan and Miami to fall to 23 and 24, while having Flori...
The Cup Check 9/7: Presented by Student Union Sports
On todays episode of the cup check, the boys prepare for the weekend of football with some questionable topics…. Today we are trying to understand the mind of Le’Veon Bell, get to the bott...
The South Carolina Gamecocks Are Going to Upset the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday
#GeorgiaHateWeek is in full swing in Columbia, SC. There is a palpable energy in the city that I haven’t felt since 2014. Obviously 2015 and 2016 were tough years for the Gamecocks, however 2017...
Is Nick Saban Trying to Tell Us His Job is Too Easy?
Tua is obviously the better quarterback, let us make that very clear before we begin. You may know by now, but Nick Saban went OFF on Maria Taylor when she asked about the QB competition between Jal...
Notre Dame Playoff Chances Soaring Through the Roof After Just One Game
After coming away with a 24-17 victory in the “return of rivalry” game against the Michigan Wolverines, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s playoff stock seemed to shoot way up. According t...
Grading New CFB QB 1’s After Week 1.
The 2018 College Football season started in August but the first weekend of September marked the start of some fresh new faces who are trying to take their respective teams to the promise land. Among ...
UCF moves up in polls after week 1; rankings could be on their side this season
Week one was filled with some interesting games and some pretty routine ones. After the dust of the opening weekend of college football settled, the polls gave teams and fans an inside look at how t...
Biggest Win/Most Cupcake Win of the Week
College football is back! Week 1 has finally come and gone, and there were some great games and some not so great games. This new weekly series is pretty simple: the biggest win of the week in terms o...
Defensive Heisman Watchlist
As I am sure most of you know the Heisman trophy is more or less a glorified “Best QB or RB” and that is because after Charles Woodson won it in 1997 those are the only two positions that ...
The Best and Worst of CFB: Week One
Week one is in the books and it’s almost time for week two. But first, let’s go look at the best and worst from the first week of college football. Worst The Big Ten East What a tough week...
Buck’s CFB Breakdown: Week 1
Week one of college football is in the books, so why not go over what happened? If you want more of my thoughts just go to www.buckthoughts.gov.www/buckthoughts. Should open as a word document. SEC St...
Is Eric Dungey the Best QB in the ACC?
Hot take title for clickbait or legitimate argument? Eric Dungey has inserted himself into the conversation for the ACC’s best quarterback. And he’s a bad, bad man. Let’s throw away the passing ...
JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week: Keytaon Thompson
Welcome to the first edition of “JJ’s Video Game Player of the Week.” Each week I will be selecting one player to talk about who put up crazy, video-game like stats. There were a lot of power-fi...
Dan’s Bedtime Thoughts: Week 1
This past weekend was one that should be celebrated as a national holiday as COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS BACK. Hopefully all your bets, and dartying were as successful as mine. After the first weekend I rea...
The Hangover, Week 1: Let’s Take Some Temperatures
Welcome to the first edition of the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football. This week, The Hangover comes from Charlotte, North Carolina, where I spe...
Urban Meyer’s Gators and the Perfect “30 for 30”
Unless you’re living under a rock that doesn’t get ESPN+, we’ve all had to endure the scandals coming out of the Ohio State football program. Urban Meyer’s involvement in covering up for wide ...
On the Biggest Stage the PAC-12 Comes Up Short…Again
When you think of PAC-12 football in big time games against the SEC there are not too many fond memories that come to mind. No matter how good a PAC-12 team is, they just never seem to stack up to foo...
Loser of the Week: Week 1-Guess Who’s Not Back…
College football is back and after opening weekend we already have some big-time losers. Welcome to my new weekly article where I will be picking a “Loser of the Week” to commemorate the s...
THE Student Union CFP Predictions
You can cancel your ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, NBC, and any other sports channel subscriptions. This is the only sports site you need. And it is that time of the year. Where the best guys come forward and...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week One (Saturday/Sunday/Monday)
If you haven’t read Part 1 of BBB Week One and want to bet Friday’s games click here. Thursday night already got us some great action. Some good bets, some bad. No extra points in OT screw...
What win #1 over UConn told us about the UCF Knights
The Knights did exactly what they needed to do on the gridiron against UConn on Thursday evening, beating them solidly 56-17 with one of the Husky touchdowns coming late in the fourth quarter. The U...
Student Union Preseason Top 25 Poll
College football is back upon us. For weeks we have been previewing the 2018 season and how we think it will all shape up. This preview process concluded with 16 of our most talented writers voting on...
The Johnny Rambos Podcast Episode 28
On episode 28 of the Johnny Rambos Podcast, Hunt Dad and Johnny return to the booth to talk about preseason football and the Browns’ Hard Knocks season. They discuss Clemson football and the foo...
Blake’s Best Bets: Week One (Thursday/Friday)
Real college football is officially here. We made it through months of baseball. We survived endless Urban Meyer scandals. We traversed through the brutal Week Zero action, and we are rewarded by the ...
The 20 Greatest voices in Sports
This article takes a look into the best voices in sports, not just broadcasters and commentators, but the personalities that make your overall sports experiences more enjoyable. 20. Dick Vitale –...
Join SU’s ATS Pick ‘Em Pool
Do you think you’re among the best of the best? Do you want to test that against the best fans and writers for Student Union? Of course you do. Welcome to our first annual Student Union Sports...
The Cup Check 8/30: Presented by Student Union Sports
Topics for 8/30 -College Football Week one Previews-Daddy Long Neck and Gucci Berry-Week 1 Locks and Upsets of the Week-Agents in the NCAA-Weekly Nut-tap...
Zach Smith Imploding On Twitter
If I am Zach Smith’s attorneys right now, I am shaking my head until it falls off. I am just assuming right now, but I do not think that Zach Smith consulted with his lawyers before taking to tw...
AGI Model: Looking Back at 2017
If you’ve followed me over the past year, you know that my “AGI” model as I decided to name it has been my child. My goal with this was always to create a tool to predict college foo...
Kellen Mond Named Starting QB for Texas A&M
Jimbo Fisher announced on Monday that sophomore Kellen Mond will start over Nick Starkel for the Aggies’ season opener vs Northwestern State. Mond was thrown into the fire last season after Star...
Student Union CFB Preview: SEC Poll
It only took us a little over five weeks, but we have finally reached the conclusion of our conference previews. If you have been paying attention for the past few weeks, thank you for reading! You ha...
Student Union CFB Preview: Alabama
We all know how this goes: Bama is going to be good. Now they might have an extremely good QB, so we are all going to die. So… the Tide are probably going to go to the playoff again. They have b...
Student Union CFB Preview: Georgia Bulldogs
Fresh off a National Championship appearance and armed with the best 2018 recruiting class, spirits are high in Athens. Head coach Kirby Smart, a branch off the Nick Saban coaching tree, has continued...
The Cup Check 8/24: Presented by Student Union Sports
8/24 Topics/Segments -Urban Meyer Suspended -Clemson QB Battle -NFL Helmet Rules -Dez Bryant….Pick a team dude.. -Best Conference #EmbraceDebate...
Blake’s Best Bets: The Futures Edition
We finally made it guys. This weekend we will get to watch (semi) real college football. The best way to get juiced up for the college football season is by laying down some action. Every week I am go...
Why the 2018 CFB season is the most important ever for “G5” teams such as UCF
Undefeated. Zero games lost. That’s what the 2017 UCF Knights did on the football field, yet they received no credit and weren’t taken seriously until they were victorious in the Peach Bowl. ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Auburn Tigers
Auburn is one of the country’s most recognized brands. They continually contend for the titles in the country’s toughest division (arguably). They are looking up this year. Though they end...
Student Union CFB Preview: SEC Heisman Candidates
Year after year the SEC hosts a ton of the most talented athletes in college football, and this coming season looks to be no different. Lets take a look at who among these players have the bet shot at...
Student Union CFB Preview: Texas A&M
Oh man, the past 4-5 years of being an Aggies fan has easily taken a few weeks off my life. Winless Novembers, QBs transferring mid-season (yes, multiple QBs), and even a coaching change. From the goo...
Student Union CFB Preview: Mississippi State
Best Mississippi State team ever? If Joe Moorhead has anything to say about it, yes When Dan Mullen left for Florida, there was a small amount of panic among the MSU fanbase. This was arguably the bes...
The Hangover, Preseason Edition: We Need Football More Than Ever
Welcome to the preseason edition for the sophomore season of The Hangover, where I recap the previous weekend in college football or, in this case, get you ready for the upcoming season. This week, Th...
Student Union CFB Preview: SEC Dark Horses
The SEC has been under Alabama’s thumb for as long as I can remember, but I will try to convince everyone–mainly myself–that there’s a chance the Tide’s reign of terror...
Student Union CFB Preview: Florida
Another year, another new head coach for the Gators. This one, however, has a much more proven track record. Is Dan Mullen finally the guy? Last season, the bottom fell out for the Gators and alleged ...
Student Union CFB Preview: South Carolina Gamecocks
In their second season with Will Muschamp as head coach, the South Carolina Gamecocks finished the year with 9 wins. In each of their past three seasons, their win count has improved. The 2017 season ...
Student Union CFB preview: LSU
The SEC is the hardest conference all year round. For instance, LSU Tigers had the 15th overall recruiting ranking last year but 5th in the SEC. Ed Orgeron is heading into his 3rd season as the Tigers...
Urban Meyer Suspended. My Thoughts:
Ohio State has suspended coach Urban Meyer for the team’s first three games after a two-week investigation into allegations that Meyer and others mishandled domestic assault accusations made aga...
Breaking: Urban Meyer Suspended Three Games
So it took the Ohio State Trustees ALL DAY to come to a decision that we all knew they were going to eventually wind up at. At this point everyone knew he was going to face a suspension of some kind. ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Missouri Tigers
Last year was quite the Cinderella story for Missouri. After having losing records in 2015 and 2016, it seemed as if they were on that same path in the first half of season going 1-5 and losing their ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Kentucky Wildcats
The good news is that Kentucky returns 15 starters from a team that went 7-6 last year. The bad news is that they lose their starting quarterback and don’t have a lot of experience at the positi...
Student Union CFB Preview: Ole Miss
This Ole Miss offense is going to be FUN. The defense has some questions, but expect the Rebels to pull an upset or two in the SEC West. Matt Luke did not have an enviable job in 2017. Promoted to h...
Student Union CFB Preview: Tennessee
No longer the champions of life, Tennessee is now lead by a new man. Jeremy Pruitt is yet another Saban assistant to get a head job; it’s time to see which category he is in. The Butch Jones era...
Tailgate SZN Survival Guide
Beer. Football. Burgers. And more beer. It’s almost every college student’s favorite time of year: Tailgate Season. Here are some pro tips on how to effectively tailgate and make it out alive: 1. ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Arkansas
Arkansas is about to undergo a complete identity change. Under new head coach Chad Morris, you will see shift from a pro-style to a spread style offense, along with a reenergized defense under new c...
Gameday Weeks 13-15: The Game, America’s Game
Rivalries are the lifeblood of collegiate athletics. Rivalry week is the best week of the year. I love it and hate it at the same time. I love the rivalries, the passion of the players and fans, and t...
Student Union CFB Preview: Vanderbilt
Kyle Shurmur returns for his 8th year under center in Nashville. Okay, not really, but it seems like it. I also bet that you couldn’t name another player on Vanderbilt unless you are a fan of th...