Beaty Fired, It’s Basketball Season
After four years of David Beaty football in Lawrence, new AD Jeff Long announced the football program would be moving in a different direction come season’s end. Beaty will exit the scene with t...
College Hockey is About to Get B1Gger.
The legitimacy of the account is in question without a blue checkmark and some questionable posts in the past, but this tweet is certainly getting plenty of attention in the college hockey universe. W...
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...
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...
NCAA Alumni Team
College hockey is leaving an increasingly bigger footprint in the National Hockey League. A good amount of the young guns in the NHL are coming through the college ranks and I could not be more excite...
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&...
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...
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...
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 ...
LBJ is out of line for calling out Jimmy B
Lebron James is the best basketball player of all-time to not go to college. And I’m one of the biggest Lebron fans on the planet. But this afternoon, he went too far. For some context, Darius Bazel...
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, ...
College Hockey: Postgame Presser Week Four
We are about a month into the season and there is not much time left before conference play gets fully underway. All two of our pollsters (myself and Patty Norton) have our say after an action-packed ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Buck’s CFB Breakdown: Week 5 Edition
Everybody’s favorite series is back. Who am I kidding every series I do is your favorite series. Nonetheless let me tell what happened over the last few weeks even though you already know what h...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
#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...
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...
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...
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...
Jim Halpert’s Alternate Universe: A Basketball Odyssey
As we all know, Jim and Pam from the hit series, The Office, leave sleepy Scranton, Pennsylvania for their happily-ever-after in Texas. I always believed that Jim was destined for much greater thing...
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...
Big Ten Hockey Expansion
Wayne Gretzky being traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings was heartbreaking for Oilers fans and Canadian hockey fans alike. The move helped grow the game not only on the west coast,...
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...
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...
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...
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…...
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 ...
#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: ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RIP to the RPI Metric
I know it is football SZN and everybody is excited for that, but the NCAA has announced that college basketball will no longer use the RPI metric. The metric has been used to help decide tournament te...
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...
The SU Podcast: Hype SZN ft. Fur
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
Student Union College Football Preview: Pac 12 Poll
The “big three” at the top of the Pac 12 North may be able to compete with those of any division in the country. Because of these teams being super tough, there being five new coaches in t...
Student Union CFB Preview: Washington
What Chris Petersen is building up in Seattle still isn’t getting enough attention nationally. In the past two seasons, Washington has made the College Football Playoff and then after retooling ...
Student Union CFB Preview: USC Trojans
Clay Helton and the USC Trojans survived an early-season upset at the hands of Washington State and a mid-season demolition on the road against rival Notre Dame to win the PAC-12 championship in 2017....
G5 Friday: The Jackson-Johnson Connection
Who’s ready for some MACtion?? Nothing screams college football more than MAC conference games on Tuesday-Friday nights. And, with the season just around the corner, I thought I’d take a d...
Student Union College Football Preview: Oregon Ducks
Oregon is known possibly as much for their uniforms as they are for their football. The “University of Nike” seemingly has a new uniform design every week, yet, in football they haven̵...
Preseason Props: Betting the Big Ten
At this time of the year, there’s not a lot of sports betting action to go around. But if you’re like me and gearing up for the college football season, I’m sure you’ve already...
Student Union CFB Preview: Utah
Kyle Whittingham has been one of the country’s most consistent coaches during his tenure at Utah. However, many are questioning when the division title is going to come. In 14 seasons as the hea...
Student Union CFB Preview: Arizona
After a strong season under Rich Rodriguez last year, Kevin Sumlin will come to Tuscon to try to keep the momentum going for the Wildcats. Sumlin will have a ton of weapons on the offense with the ele...
Student Union CFB Preview: UCLA Bruins
UCLA has had a very odd but productive offseason, with Jim Mora, Josh Rosen, and others leaving the team, while new faces such as Chip Kelly, Wilton Speight, and others have joined the team. The team ...
Student Union CFB Preview: California
While Cal wasn’t anything special last year, second year head coach Justin Wilcox certainly has this team trending in the right direction. The division that they are in makes things tough, but a...
Student Union CFB Preview: Arizona State
The Sun Devils have a new light shining on them with the hire of Head Coach Herm Edwards. Edwards also brings with him a ton of NFL talent in guys like Antonio Pierce and Kevin Mawae to held turn th...
Student Union CFB Preview: Colorado Buffaloes
After a surprise 2016 season which was capped with a PAC-12 South championship, the Colorado Buffaloes took a step back into reality in 2017. Colorado finished last in the South with a record 5-7 with...
2018 Team Preview: Oregon State
To be frank, it doesn’t look great. After an abysmal 1-11 2017 season that included a coaching change after a 1-5 start, things seems to have hit rock bottom in Corvallis. That being said, t...
Does Trevor Lawrence Pass the Eye Test?
Ok Clemson fans, we get it, Trevor Lawrence is the second coming of Deshaun Watson. Freshman phenom, potential Heisman candidate, going to put up record numbers….We will take your word for it. D...
Student Union CFB Preview: Big 12 Poll
The Big 12 certainly seems like the most wide open power five conference. Only half of the league returns their starting QBs, with most of those replacements being from last year’s top half. Mos...
Campus Cover 035: ACC Preview
Cody and PJ are back to talk ACC, including a possible Georgia Tech/Duke bet. Also talk about geography, PJ’s drunkeness, and Chinese food. Take a guess who we pick to win the conference. Regist...
Student Union CFB Preview: Oklahoma Sooners
Led by Heisman trophy winner Baker Mayfield, OU had a great run in 2017. Their offense was electrifying, averaging 45.1 points per game. Their only regular season loss came as a shocker when they fell...
Student Union CFB Preview: TCU
Gary Patterson and his pack of Horned Frogs had a decent 2017-18 season, going 11-3 and having another great year, unlike every other Texas college team. This is their 3rd year out of the past 4 winni...
Big 12 BOLD Predictions
Every season there are multiple events that occur that majority of people don’t see coming. Some people try to predict outrageous things before the season starts so if they actually happen they seem...
Student Union CFB Preview: Oklahoma State
Mike Gundy is replacing two of the biggest stars in school history, yet he seems to have the answers to everything. Zac Robinson, Brandon Weeden, and Mason Rudolph. Hell, even J.W. Walsh wasn’t ...
The NCAA Finally Does Something Right; Changes CBB Rules
WELL GOOD MORNING NCAA! I personally have railed against the NCAA for a very, very long time, but I will give credit where credit is due. This is a very progressive move by them, and *should* help wee...
Student Union CFB Preview: Texas Longhorns
The Texas Longhorns are one of the most prestigious programs of all time. Unfortunately, they seem to have fallen off the wagon as of late. With perennial expectations of Texas being “backR...
Student Union CFB Preview: Kansas State
Is this the final ride for the Purple Wizard? Who the hell knows, honestly. Bill Snyder cannot die. Going into age 78, he still coaches the Wildcats. The most celebrated (and successful) coach in K-St...
Most Underused Offensive Players in Recent CFB History
Alvin Kamara– 2017-2018 Offensive Rookie of the Year Alvin Kamara was probably someone you didn’t know about until last season. That’s because in his last two years of college playing at Ten...
Student Union CFB Preview: Iowa State
Iowa State came out of absolutely nowhere last year to upset Oklahoma in Norman and finish tied for 4th in the Big 12. I’m really not sure what to think about this team as most of the games they...
Preseason Props: Betting the ACC
At this time of the year, there’s not a lot of sports betting action to go around. But if you’re like me and gearing up for the college football season, I’m sure you’ve already...
Student Union CFB Preview: Texas Tech
Things can only get better.. right? Coming into the 2017 season, the Texas Tech defense had nowhere to look but up. Ranking near the bottom of the nation in practically every single defensive category...
What Could’ve Been: The Jim Harbaugh/Kansas Saga
Everybody’s favorite milk-drinking, red meat-devouring, chicken-avoiding, khaki-wearing football coach resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he belongs, but Jim Harbaugh’s journey to the Bi...
Student Union QB Lab: ACC
Hello and welcome to the first QB breakdown for the preseason of the 2018-2019 football season. In these articles, Cody Goggin and myself, Andy Jones, will be taking our top 3 QB’s from each Pow...
Student Union CFB Preview: Baylor
Hey, Baylor might be okay after all. The first year of the Matt Rhule Baylor era went…. really bad. This is no fault of Rhule’s as the attrition the program went through following the depa...
Student Union CFB Preview: Kansas
The Jayhawks have one of the most negative outlooks you can find in the game. With new Athletic Director Jeff Long in the building, the writing is on the wall for head coach David Beaty. With three w...
Ryan Day: THE New Coach Of Ohio State
New Beginnings, New Hampshire.. Ryan Day yesterday became the head coach of THE Ohio State University. If you somehow missed all the news because you have no wifi or live under a rock, Urban Meyer got...
Student Union CFB Preview: Big Ten Heisman Candidates
Big Ten football is a thing of beauty. With 14 Heisman winners in their history, I wouldn’t be surprised if they added #15 this year. With a stacked division like the Big Ten East, one of the best i...
PSA: NO MORE FALL WEDDINGS
Ladies, this article is more aimed towards you due to that men have exactly 0% say over wedding choices. Also, please take the words said in this article by heart because your significant other is hur...
UPDATE: Call the Fight, McMurphy Has Won
Zach Smith told @1057TheZone he never abused Courtney. Here is text message b/w Zach & Courtney when he admits & apologizes for strangling his wife on Punta Cana trip in March 2015 & again...
Urban Meyer Releases Statement, Says A Whole Lot of Nothing
pic.twitter.com/wrlRi9jtZz — Urban Meyer (@CoachUrbanMeyer) August 3, 2018 Oh no. Yeah…. Who proofread this for Urban? There is a lot to unpack in this statement, and honestly, I am not su...
Student Union CFB Preview: Big Ten Poll
A quick disclaimer to start this one… this poll was conducted before the recent news about Urban Meyer came out, so I’m sure they may have been a few changes, but even at that, Ohio State ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Ohio State Buckeyes
Ohio State is one of the best, if not THE best, college football program of all time. They have one of the best rosters in the country this year, with blue chips on blue chips at every position. They ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Wisconsin
Wisconsin was by far one of the best all around teams of the 2017 season. They finished with a 13-1 record (9-0 in conference play minus the B1G Championship) and wrapped up the year with a win over t...
Campus Cover 034: Big Ten Preview
Cody and PJ return to talk about the Big Ten, the Urban Meyer situation, any why their Big Ten Championship pick might not be something you’d expect. Stanley picks: over on Iowa, Maryland, Penn ...
Auburn Has Just Signed The Brandon Weeden Of The SEC
Sit down kids and let me tell you the story about a trendsetter in college football. This legend goes by the name of Brandon Weeden and he was a very special player over at Oklahoma State in Stillwate...
Student Union CFB Preview: Big Ten Awards
This season, the Big Ten is in a state of flux. The East is going to be ridiculous, as always, but the West is on the rise. Wisconsin and Iowa should both be strong teams from there, and it would not ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Michigan State
Michigan State was a win against Ohio State away from playing Wisconsin for the Big Ten Championship. After beating Penn State on an afternoon in which Ohio State was massacred by Iowa, Michigan State...
Urban Meyer and the Morality of College Football
By now, unless you are living under a rock, everyone should have heard about the very damning accusations against Urban Meyer and Ohio State. Obviously this is an issue, and will continue to be for Oh...
Student Union CFB Preview: Penn State
When it comes to being a team, regardless what kind, you should always look to build upon previous success and move forward. Tension can add up and a group can begin to feel the weight of expectations...
Student Union CFB Preview: Iowa
Are we going to have another typical Iowa season, or is there room for something greater? We typically know what to expect from Kirk Ferentz teams: Strong O-line, strong running game, and good tight e...
The Curious Case for HBCU Football
College football, you know it, you love it. What makes college football great? Culture. Culture is rooted deep in our veins, we all understand and respect the intensity of major rivalries like Alabama...
Student Union CFB Preview: Illinois
The Fighting Illini have been in the rebuild stage for what feels like an eternity. Their games have been hard to watch with glaring issues on all three phases, but it’s all developmental and w...
Friday Fire 7/6
As we approach the weekend, I can only hope that everyone here has recovered from their Fourth of July escapades. Just because Independence Day has passed doesn’t mean we can’t still celeb...
Jake Fromm is Bad at Lakes, Breaks his Hand
Over the holiday week, Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm broke his non-throwing hand in a “freak lake accident.” The incident occurred Monday on Lake Burton in Georgia. Georgia fans can hold ...
Fireside Chat w/ ARJ (Andrew Ryan Jones)
Hello folks, I am currently on vacation in the Mountains of Big Bear (my old hometown) and camping out. As the #Blogger I am, while sitting around the campfire and just twiddling my thumbs, I have dec...
Why Mental Health/CTE Needs To Be Talked About
(Note: This will be more of a serious article, so if you’re looking for a good laugh, you won’t find it here) A while back, we heard the news about Tyler Hilinski and the tragic incident t...
The Sports Fans You Meet Working At Lowe’s
It’s summer time and it means I’m doing one of two things: Chilling at home with real food, spending time with my family and girlfriend (editor’s note: sick brag, bro) Working at the...
Thursday Throwbacks: A Special Edition Of Friday Fire
Why hello, I know you’re not used to seeing me write on a Thursday unless it’s a TBTQB (I have been lagging on them, but they will be coming out soon) but yet here we are. So, when I woke ...
Lonnie Walker Loves Hitler
Lonnie Walker, the freshman phenom from Miami was drafted in Thursday night’s NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs with the 18th overall selection. Numerous draft analysts called this the steal of...
Why hasn’t SlamBall blown up yet?
For those of you who don’t know, SlamBall is a sport which has been described as football and basketball combined into one. SlamBall is the sport with trampolines, dunking and big hits. Most spo...
Friday Fire: Karaoke Edition?
Well folks, the work week is finally over. Summer has officially started, we are less than 75 days away from both College Football and NFL, and best of all, it’s officially Lake/Beach/Pool SZN. ...
The Kevin Knox anxiety attack
During the NBA combine an executive from a team asked Kevin Knox if he had a child, which Knox politely answered “no.” Then the executives kept pressing him, saying that they had learned h...
XXXTentacion’s death and what it means to the rap game
Regardless of whether you liked XXXTentacion or not his presence in the new age rap game was vital. In my opinion, of this “new class”, he was one of the first rappers to open up and be su...
Why Texas Can’t Have Nice Things
Tom “The Crazy Hip Uncle” Herman. Bringing his swagger and all that jazz over to Austin to help bring back Texas. Well, spoiler alert: Texas is not back… They have had improvement in...
The Student Union Sports Podcast: #WorldCupWoes
Special late night Summer edition of the Student Union Sports Podcast for the real fans out there. Today’s topics include World Cup gambling woes and the age old debate of Cigs vs JUUL…I k...
Strike Up The Band…
If you don’t know by now, all of us here at Student Union love music. We grade NBA draft prospects based off of Ye songs.. Hell, we even give out our favorite songs of the week for Friday Fire. ...
Friday Fire: 6/15
We Might Actually Burn the Place Down this Week Well well well, we have another week in the books people, and you know what that means. I don’t know about everyone else, but my weekend is about ...
Will Uber’s Announcement Lead to More Coaches Being Fired?
Everyone knows that to be an elite coach for pretty much any college program you need to be good at two things: recruiting and dealing with/covering up crimes. I’m not saying all athletes are crimin...
Student Union: The Difference
As I sit here typing this, I’m listening to our guy Johnny Rambos’ Student Union Summit podcast. It gets to around 5 minutes left in the podcast and they mention my name in their favorite ...
Ten Things To Do at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas
With at least one more season of David Beaty unfortunately on the horizon, it’s apparent that the only reasons to attend a Kansas Jayhawks football game is for Family Weekend, you know somebody ...
Surprise, Surprise, the NCAA Does Something Bad Again
On a day where something actually went well for the NCAA, in only the way they can, they found a way to fuck it up. Two days before announcing that changes were coming to the transfer rule, the NCAA a...
David Stern was the real reason for Lamar Odom’s crack addiction
Everyone and their sisters know that David Stern was the worst commissioner in the history of sports, hated by basically every basketball and sports fan. What people don’t know is just how evil ...
I Was Julius Caesared by Not Being Invited to Last Week’s Student Union Summit
This past weekend, Student Union Sports held its first annual SUS Summit somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia. To receive an invite, you had to be one of the top dogs at the blog, producing content and pag...
The Decision: Kyler Murray Edition
If you’ve been paying any attention to the MLB Draft (which literally 3 people in the world I think actually watch past the 1st pick), then you heard a very interesting name drafted by the Oakla...
Hunter Johnson Transfers: Hate to See Him Go, But Love to Watch Him Leave
Today it became official that Hunter Johnson will transfer to Northwestern University. He’ll sit out the 2018-2019 season, but be left with 3 years of eligibility after that. This came as absolu...
Row Tide: Bama Up A Creek…without any gas
It’s the start of June, Summer is in full swing, Darty SZN is officially activated, and College Football is just less than 3 months away. So, lets take a look into how Nick Saban and the Nationa...
The Wicked Witch Is Dead
Praise the lord, Sheahon Zenger isn’t in Kansas anymore, and from the looks of it, David Beaty doesn’t appear to be far behind. University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod sent out a sta...
Tinder Coaches: #2
Dabo, 48 Clemson Bio: “Thank god for puberty… and Deshaun Watson” Spotify Anthem: Forever and Ever, Amen – Randy Travis Thank god for Deshaun Watson is right, Clemson has bec...
Who Are The System QB Teams In College Football
We hear it all the time. “*Insert NFL QB Here* is a system Quarterback.” Most notably, QB’s such as Blake Bortles, Joe “Elite” Flacco, and even Thomas Edward Patrick Brad...
Danny Kanell Weighs in on the Saban vs. UCF Saga
Earlier in the week, Nick Saban was questioned about the University of Central Florida’s self-proclaimed “National Champion” status after finishing their season 11-0. Saban, coming o...
“Happy Holidays, Commissioner”
This past December, I delivered Commissioner Mike Slive and his wife Liz their annual mason jar of cheese potato soup. The delivery is a tradition that we’ve been doing since who knows how long, and...
Life Tips: Provided by a Washed Up College Graduate
Well folks, college has been an amazing four year ride, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to leave. But it’s time to face reality…I’m officially a washed up post g...
3 Most Exciting Non-Conference Games in the First Month of the 2018 Season
For the most part, the NCAA is pretty good at scheduling some quality (or at least appealing on paper) non-conference games every season. 2018 will definitely be no exception to that as proud die-har...
Acceptable reasons to be a fan of a college
I feel like I should include a trigger warning at the beginning of this because people really value their fandom. People create reasons to love teams and they convince themselves that it is a valid ra...
Weeks 3 & 4: Curb Your Optimism
These two weeks feature some make or break games for teams with zero margin for error in 2018. In parts of America, fall will start to creep into college football stadiums. In other parts, it’s ...