Commentary By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Editor There's more whining than celebrating and the media – especially the commentators and "analysts" on ESPN which fans the flames of the latter – when it comes to the College Football Playoffs. That's the case with 12 teams and it will be the same with 16. Heck it would be the same with 32 or more. Just look at March … [Read more...]
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College Football Coaching Carousel 2025 Is A Result Of The Nick Saban Factor
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Down they go, one after another like bowling pins. But don't feel sorry for them, for they are getting ejected while being handed platinum parachutes. The college football coaching carousel in 2025 shows the money insanity that is running (and ruining?) the sport. And you thought the NIL was out of control. James … [Read more...]
A First-Person Blog Of The Oregon Football Game-Day Experience
By Gary Hussey, Special To PubClub.com There’s something special about game day in Eugene. The moment you step off those school buses that brought us from the local mall to right outside Autzen Stadium, you can feel it: the hum of anticipation, the waves of green and yellow jerseys and the smell of tailgates firing on all cylinders. On this day, the Oregon Ducks hosted the … [Read more...]
Dumb College Football Rules I Would Like To See Changed
By Kevin Wilkeson, College Football Editor The problem with college football is that they keep messing with our game. And by "they," I mean the people on the rules committees who decide how the game is played. It's bad enough that the NIL and out-of-control transfer portal have made it become more like the NFL but it's intensified by a bunch of rules that are like those of … [Read more...]
Test Your College Football Knowledge With This Trivia Quiz
So you think you know college football? See yourself as an expert on schools and traditions? Well, as Lee Corso might say "not so fast my friends." Test your college football knowledge with this college football trivia quiz! Play it with your friends before a game (or during a blowout), in a bar or heck, even as a drinking game. Some questions can be searched but others … [Read more...]
Test Your University of Alabama Knowledge With This Football Trivia Quiz
So you think you know Alabama football? Well, here's your chance to prove it. Here are questions and answers to some easy and difficult trivia questions. Get all of them and you're an expert. Get only half of them and it's time to study this post like a final exam. The first one, tho, may prove to be the toughest. Get that one and the others should be like getting a win over … [Read more...]
Weather Conditions For College Football’s Top Rivalry Week Games
It's Rivalry Weekend in College Football and that means it's put away the turkey and get out the school colors to let loose all emotions on what for many fans is the biggest sports event of the year. It's when neighbors and friends turn on each other for a few hours, when husbands and wives don't see eye to eye, when stadiums are full of people passionately cheering for their … [Read more...]
College Footballl Picks For Nov 9 Week 11 From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Expert There's a storm brewing in the South and it's not just Hurricane Rafael. Alabama is at LSU and Georgia is at Ole Miss in games that will and could end the college playoff hopes for the losers. Meanwhile, all is calm on the Midwestern front where Ohio State gets a bye week – in so much as Purdue is a … [Read more...]
College Footballl Picks For Nov 2 Games From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Expert Halloween is here and some teams are wearing pretty good disguises, fooling some into thinking they are better than they are, while others are simply giving their fans a bag of rocks. But depite this situation, optimism is in the fall air for many because of the forgiving 12-team playoff, even providing … [Read more...]
College Footballl Picks Indiana Hosts Game Day Week From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The schedule makers must think that college football fans like to wake up on Saturday mornings to watch or go to games. We do not, okay. It's okay in Indiana, which is hosting ESPN's College Game Day for the first time, meaning students will probaly pull an all-nighter and not the kind that involves … [Read more...]
What They Are Saying In Alabama After Kalen DeBoer’s Latest Loss
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor About mid-way through the third quarter of Alabama's second loss to a Tennessee team this year I texted an influential booster and Sky Box holder to inqure about how many Jack & Cokes he had drank to that point. "I lost count," was his reply. Like my friend, Alabama football fans have gone from sitting on … [Read more...]
College Football Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator Texas-Georgia Alabama-Tennessee
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst There is euphoria is Eugene, elation in Austin, sighs of relief on the bayou, faded optimism in Oxford, whining in Columbus, rocky ground on Rocky Top and downright confusion in Tuscaloosa. Regarding the latter, The Prognosticator was in Tuscaloosa this past weekend and a mere six games into the DeBoer … [Read more...]
College Football Picks & Predictions Oregon-Ohio State & More From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The Prognosticator is in Tuscaloosa this week to address a rumor that Alabama lost to Vanderbilt. That situation starts the Kalen Countdown but folks in Knoxville and Auburn can't get too smug considering their own situations. Plus, there's mysery in Missouri and Michigan, sorrow in Southern Cal and … [Read more...]
College Football Picks & Predictions Week 6 Games From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Expert The college football world is still buzzing from the titanic tilt in Tuscaloosa, which makes this Friday and Saturday seem like a weekend full of undercards. But there was activity elsewhere. The M&Ms (Miami and Michigan) benefited from blown officials calls, the Sooners came on later to make things … [Read more...]
Alabama-Georgia Tops College Football Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Expert This week is the Clash of the Titans with a few other games of mild interest scattered around like undercards to a big prizefight. There is some concern in Athens and optimism in Tuscaloosa while elsewhere there is nervousness in Norman, a chill so deep on the Plains some are already … [Read more...]
Tennessee-Oklahoma Leads This Week’s Pigskin Prognosticator Best College Football Picks
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Analyst After some breathtaking moments in Lexington, Eugene, Las Vegas and Tuscaloosa to start the season, college football takes a breather in Week 4. Still, there are anxious moments for some programs and fans. They are circling the Gators in Gainesville, gathering the tribe in Tallahassee and are breaking … [Read more...]
Civil War & Apple Cup Lead This Week’s Pigskin Prognosticator Best College Football Picks
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Analyst The Prognosticator has had to double check to be sure he has not pulled a Rip Van Winkle and slept through September and October into November, for this weekend there are two West Coast rivalry games, the Civil War and the Apple Cup. The next thing I know, Nick Saban won't even be the Alabama coach. But … [Read more...]
Texas-Michigan Leads This Week’s Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Picks
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Analyst The optimism and excitement of Week 1 has either been pumped up or deflated, depending on the perspective of one's allegiances. In Gainesville College Station and Blacksburg, for example, they are already resigned to the fact this won't be "the year" (again!) while in Athens, Oxford, Knoxville and Norman, … [Read more...]
Analyzing Labor Day Weekend College Football Games – The Pigskin Prognosticator Is Back!
By The Pigskin Progosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Columnist To grasp what is happening in college football today one has to take the "it's almost the NFL now" approach. The tranfer portal, the NIL-fed milion-dollar offers for quarterbacks, West Coast teams playing in Midwestern and Eastern conferences and now a multi-team playoff that may not even reward the most … [Read more...]
Alabama Hires Nick Saban’s Successor But Who Is Kalen DeBoer?
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The first things Alabama foootball fans have to do regarding thier new coach is learn his name and how to pronounce it. Reporters need to learn how to spell it. Kalen DeBoer. Certainly doesn't roll off the lips quite like Nick Saban. The first things that Kalen DeBoer needs to do are convince top receiver … [Read more...]
Alabama Fans Hope Nick Saban’s Retirement Goes Better Than That Of Bear Bryant
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The GOAT is gone, off to Lake Burton and his boat, no longer on the sideline, at the podium or on the practice field for Alabama football. Nick Saban has retired and as reality slowly sinks in to replace shock, Alabama fans are sure hoping things go much better now than they did after the school's other legendary … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator Picks College Football Playoff Games Michigan-Alabama & Texas-Washington
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger In the wake National Signing Day, transfers, opt-outs, draft declerations, Florida State stalled at the complaint department and now threating to leave the ACC to go anywhere but there (hey, you were once an independent, maybe give that a try again), the College Football Playoffs are about to step out from … [Read more...]
Rose Bowl Stadium 2024 Fans Tailgating Guide For Alabama And Michigan Fans
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Tailgate Blogger The 2024 Rose Bowl features Alabama and Michigan in one of the College Football Playoff seminal games. Here is a complete fans guide to the tailgate scene, the stadium and the scene from a local’s viewpoint. Rose Bowl Party & Travel Tips • Arrive Early. Kickoff is 2 p.m., PDT. Motorhomes will be staying overnight in … [Read more...]
Florida State Should Be More Upset At This School Than Alabama For CFP Playoffs Snub
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger With sympathies to Florida State (as well as to Georgia), the College Football Playoff committee got it right. Alabama in, FSU (and Georgia) to a consolation bowl. When there are only four spots for eight deserving teams, half of them get left out, even if you went undefeated in your conference or only lost once in … [Read more...]
College Football Conference Championship Game Predictions From The Pigskin Prognosticator
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert Alabama remined alive with the improbabe 4th and Forever, Washington stayed in its Dog House with a bold fourth-down call (as well as a questionable official's call), Florida State ran to a narrow victory, Michigan managed to crack open the Nuts from Ohio and Georgia flattened its overmatched … [Read more...]
Ohio State-Michigan, Alabama-Auburn Rivalry Games Picks – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The Game. The Iron Bowl. The Civil War. The Apple Cup. College football rivalries are the lifeblood of the game, conference realigments, the transfer portal and the NIL be damned. The passion of college football comes from the fans, not conference … [Read more...]
PubClub.com’s Pigskin Prognosticator Predicts Termoil With This Week’s College Football Picks
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyist Ol Jimbo is gone – counting not sheep but million-dollar bills (either 75 or 77 of them, depending on which number you care to believe), Zack has been hacked at Mississippi State and a few other coaches are on the phone discussing their futures with their … [Read more...]
Hey Texas A&M: Here’s Your Next Coach And He Won’t Have A $77 Million Buyout
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Analyst Blogger Editor's Note: Texas A&M did not hire PubClub's college football blogger as head coach. After boosters and alumni went ballistic over Mark Stoops the school made the safe way and hired Mike Elko of Duke. Hey Texas A&M, over here. I've got your … [Read more...]
College Football Week 11 Game Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst Ol' Jimbo is almost gone-bo, the mess at Michigan is getting deeper than JJ McCarthy can throw the long ball, Lincoln Riley has made the first CYA move while at USC, Oklahoma has succumbed to Bellam, Texas has pulled off another Houdini escape and the Ducks … [Read more...]
Big Week In The SEC College Football Top Games Nov. 4 – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst We're into November and here's what we know about college football 2023. USC is the most exciting team in college football regardless of the outcome, Michigan still hasn't played anybody yet is apparently taking no chances, Georgia is shedding meodicre … [Read more...]
Halloween Weekend College Football Games – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The Hype is fading for "go for it on 4th down even if it makes no sense" Heupel in Rocky Top; USC fans are getting tired of being Oklahoma West and want to go back to being, well, USC; the nickame "Big Game James" is not exactly something that is being said … [Read more...]
College Football Week 8 Games Penn State-Ohio State Alabama-Tennessee –The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Expert Texas A&M, USC and Colorado are falling, Notre Dame is falling and then rising, Ohio State and Penn State are finally going be tested, Michigan continues to beat up on wimps and blimps, Washington is saying "hey look over here!," and Alabama continues … [Read more...]
College Football Week 7 Games Picks & Predictions From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The Dogs slayed the Cats, the Boomers have boomed into the Top 5, Big Blue has yet to really prove itself, Bucky is hanging on, the Spears have disappeared because they play in the ACC, Bama may be back after all and in the Lone Star state, the Sarks and the … [Read more...]
Top Week 6 College Football Games Picks & Predictions: The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst An old rivalry resumes while a new one takes place, all within less than 200 miles of one another, as college football rocks into Rocktober. About all that's settled so far is that Georgia is causing its fans to use only the front part of their recliners, … [Read more...]
College Football’s Hottest Sideline Reporters
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor They are the beauties among the beasts, the great-looking gals who roam the sidelines, interview the coaches and report on injuries. For years this area was the domain of men but the big breakthrough for women – good looking ones – started with the head-turning Erin … [Read more...]
College Football Week 5 Top Games Analysis From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst It's Week 5 of the college football season and so far we have seen the fall and potential rise of a dynasty, the rise of an old one, the demise of a new one, the in-over-his-head coach of a traditional one sending 10 men onto the field – after a timeout, no … [Read more...]
Week 4 College Football Analysis, Colorado-Oregon, The Bama Dynasty – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analysist The (media) sharks, who have been waiting years for any signals of distress, are circling around the surf in Tuscaloosa, ready to devour any morsel that comes their way. They are proclaiming the end (again) of the great Saban and the Alabama … [Read more...]
Week 3 Top College Football Games Breakdown – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Epert Blogger There are questions about the quarterbacks in Tuscaloosa and Columbus, cautious optimism in Austin and Chicken Little is running around College Station because the sky – or at least buyout money – may be falling on Jimbo Fisher. College football is … [Read more...]
Analyzing College Football Winners & Losers From Week 2 Games – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub's College Football Blogger College football's opening weekend created more questions than answers, as usual, tho at first glance maybe there's more to Dion than just neon, both Clemson and LSU are looking more like paper tigers than real ones and as T-town braces for an orange invasion … [Read more...]
College Football 2023 Opening Game Picks – The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The Pac-12 has run aground, the ACC is in danger of sinking, the Big 12 has grabbed a lifeline and the Big 10 and SEC are the mother ships of college football. Hundred-year rivalries are dropping like apples from a tree while others are being rekindled by … [Read more...]
Things I Would Like To Hear Coaches And Players Say At Preseason Media Days
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger This is, as the 'ol ball coach once said, "talking season." And come Labor Day Weekend it will be "doing it" season. But for now, college football fans and media get sanitized remarks from coaches and players at press conferences and interviews during preseason … [Read more...]
Why A 12-Team Playoff Is Bad For College Football
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Editor The push for expanding the College Football Playoff to 12 teams has some people – many of those in the media who have been pushing this proposal – having visions of what March Madness has brought to college basketball. Thrilling early-round games, monumental upsets of big … [Read more...]
Despite The California Atmospheric River, Georgia & TCU Fans Won’t Get Wet At SoFi Stadium (Maybe)
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Rain, rain and more rain. The California atmospheric river has transformed the state from a sun drenched one to rain drenched one. That may dampen the pregame spirts of Georgia and TCU fans in Los Angeles for the College Football Playoffs National Championship who no doubt were expecting … [Read more...]
College Football Rivalry Week Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst It was "almost week" last Saturday in college football. Ohio State almost lost to Maryland, Michigan almost lost to Illinois, TCU almost lost to Baylor and USC almost lost to UCLA. Tennessee did lose, tho, and not in a small way, to, er, South … [Read more...]
College Football Picks Week 12 From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst This is breather week in college football. So much so that ESPN's GameDay is not in Ann Arbor or Baton Rouge or Eugene but in Bozeman. Before you start searching your phones, that's in Montana and the game is the cross-state rivalry between Montana and … [Read more...]
Week 11 College Football Games Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert It's do or drop month in college football and this past week several teams did both of those things. Georgia reduced Rocky Top to rubble; Ohio State nearly got blown off the field by the wind tho certainly not Northwestern; USC woke up the hibernating … [Read more...]
Week 9 College Football Games Picks From The The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Expert Halloween has come and gone yet some of the scariest moments of the college football season still remain. Some teams have made it through without any frightening moments, others have survived scares and still others are hoping not to be spooked … [Read more...]
Who Is Lee Corso? A Look At The Career Of ESPN’s Beloved ‘Coach’
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor He is the face of the wildly popular College GameDay, inventor of wearing the headgear of his weekly pick of one of the teams playing as the show's host university and ESPN's beloved "Coach." But who exactly is Lee Corso and was he really a coach? Here's a look at … [Read more...]
College Football Picks World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The World's Largest Cocktail Party is upon us, Clemson has received an early Christmas present by the Atlantic Coast To The Playoffs Conference – the SEC must have loaned the Tigers the officials from the Alabama-Tennessee game – the Lane Train not only has … [Read more...]
Is Nick Saban Slipping As Paul Finemaum Suggests?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor So Alabama lost to Tennessee. First time in 15 years. On the road to the loudest crowd Neyland Stadium has had since, well, it's been so long nobody can remember. The Tide played so poorly at times it did not to deserve to win, then it came back and did deserve to … [Read more...]
College Football Week 7 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Analyst College football rolls into the Third Saturday of October with the sun shining for some teams and rain clouds hovering over others. Bama is not Bama without Bryce, Tennessee is high on Rocky Top, USC is building with those transfer Lincoln logs, … [Read more...]
College Football Week 6 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College football analyst And another two go down. On Sunday morning, Karl Dorrell was fired at Colorado. By the afternoon, Wisconsin did the same to Paul Chryst. Early season fired football coaches should all gather on a beach somewhere to drink margaritas and Mai Tais. Or at … [Read more...]
College Football Week 5 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The Prognosticator is always amused by the college football analysts on all the networks previewing and predicting the week's upcoming games. They always talk matchups, who's playing quarterback and blah, blah, blah. Not once do they factor in the … [Read more...]
Auburn Needs The Right Fit As Coach And That’s Not Easy To Find
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Terry Bowden once said, when talking about what it's like to be the head football coach at Auburn University, "you could be 10-0 at Auburn and save your career, but you haven’t saved your job yet." Auburn is a different place to coach than any other college in the … [Read more...]
College Football Week 4 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst Three weeks, two coaches fired with another one on the way. Here's what we know so far about college football 2022. Nebraska really stinks and things in Lincoln are far worse than we ever imagined, Georgia is really good, Auburn is an embarrassment to the … [Read more...]
College Football Winners & Losers For September
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor The first month of college football produced several winners and losers. Here's a rundown of both. WINNERS Arizona State. You may wonder how a 1-2 team that gave up 250 yards rushing to a previously-undistinguished running back from Eastern Michigan can be a … [Read more...]
College Football Week 3 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator PubClub.com College Football Analyst Week 2 always settles a lot more than Week 1 in college football because it begins to put those opening games into perspective. For example, Ohio State's somewhat narrow win over Notre Dame doesn't look quite as good after the Irish lost – in South Bend, … [Read more...]
College Football Week 2 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Analyst College Football is here and that's great but about all you can really tell about the Week 1 games is that some teams are 1-0 and others are 0-1. What might look impressive or disastrous in September may not be that way come late October as the season … [Read more...]
Be Careful What You Ask For When It Comes To A 12-Team College Football Playoff
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Be careful what you ask for when it comes to a 12-team college football playoff. Why? I list five reasons below. 1.) Expect Even More Playoff Blowouts You think Georgia's whipping of Michigan in last year's semifinal was so bad you changed channels after the first … [Read more...]
College Football Week 1 Losers – LSU, Brian Kelly, Oregon Ducks & Pac-12
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com's College Football Editor The heck with the winners; it's the losers that are much more fun to rip in a post-week column. And there were some doozies in Week 1 of the College Football season. 1.) Utah, Oregon And The Pac-12 Conference It’s bad enough to be in a limbo contest for survival … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 1 Games, Times & Predictions
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The NIL, so many transfers we may start having to buy programs again to keep track of all the new players and USC and UCLA trading culture for cash. It's enough to make you say "enough of this; just play the damned games!" College football's offseason … [Read more...]
Alabama Football To Sell Beer In Bryant-Denny Stadium
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Kevbeaux, PubClub.com Fans won't have to sneak alcohol into Bryant-Denny Stadium for Alabama football games in 2022. Tho they probably will, anyway. That's because Alabama will be selling beer during Alabama football games this fall. Well, pending approval by the Alabama alcoholic beverage control board … [Read more...]
Labor Day Weekend College Football Key Games With Ranked Teams
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor For several years, Labor Day Weekend brought college football fans a series of blockbuster games like a comedian's one-liners, one after another at dizzying speed. But many of those have subsided the past two seasons. Alabama, for instance, instead of having a … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Is Right – 2021 WAS A Rebuilding Year For Alabama
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor I'm with Nick Saban here (I usually am, by the way). What's the big deal about him saying that 2021 was a rebuilding year for Alabama? It WAS a rebuilding year. Yet the media is going crazy, basically calling Saban crazy for saying that about a team that went … [Read more...]
Mike Leach Has An Interesting Idea For SEC Football Divisions
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Coaches often say things that are in their own best interest but if you get past the rolling of the eyes part sometimes they say things that actually make sense. While chatting with SEC Network after his podium time during SEC Media Days, Mike Leach of Mississippi … [Read more...]
What To Expect In College Football For The 2022 Season
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By The Pigskin Prognosticator, College Football Expert The arrival of the conference media days means that the college football season is within stadium binoculars view. It's a lot closer than USC or UCLA is to Columbus, West Lafayette or New Brunswick, that's for sure. This is a different kind of look at what to expect … [Read more...]
Here’s What The Pac-12’s Next Steps Should Be And It’s Not Merging With The Big 12
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, College Football Editor While the SEC, Big 10 and Big 12 are busy in a money-hungry conference expansion mode, the laid-back Pac-12 has been out relaxing on the beach, catching some waves. But if it is to remain a conference it had better stop hanging 10 and start hanging on, as in hanging onto 10 … [Read more...]
Conference Realignment And College Football’s Direction Not Good For Every School
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson, College Football Editor In the madhouse that is college football today – mega conferences, teams ripping up roots to follow the money to play games absurdly long distances from their campuses, the NIL and a dizzying array of transfers – there's one possible factor that no one has yet to … [Read more...]
USC And UCLA To The Big 10 – Why It Makes Sense
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Kevin Wilkerson PubClub.com College Football Editor On the surface, it seems absurd. Southern California teams – sunshine, blue skies and crowds going to football games in t-shirts and shorts – playing fall Saturdays in the frigid Northwest. UCLA on a snow-blown field in Iowa? USC at Rutgers!? Rutgers? That's hardly … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator Alabama vs. Georgia Bold Prediction For The Championship Game
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst And then there were two. The same two which a month ago played for the SEC Championship. The same two which were pre-season picks to make it this far. Ahh, the preseason. Remember that time? It's almost like Spring Training in baseball, where "every team is a contender." Turns out there are only two … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Playoffs Analysis & Picks
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The dust has hardly settled on all the coaching changes as well as on National Signing Day with its name, imagine and likeness impact as the College Football Playoffs lurk in the background of the holidays. Let's see, a group of boosters in Texas announces a $50K "charity" program for offensive linemen … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator Conference Title Game Picks & College Football Coaching Changes
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst Rare is the time when conference championship games takes a backseat to what is happening at other programs. But this is 2021 and, as one legendary college coach would always tell his players before big games, "expect the unexpected!" It all started with Lincoln Riley suddenly switching from red and … [Read more...]
Alabama’s Iron Bowl Comeback Exorcises The Tide’s Demons At Jordan-Hare
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor The nightmares at Jordan-Hare. The Kick-6, the extra second on the clock before the half leading to an Auburn field goal, the ball bouncing off the back of a receiver being returned for a pick-6, the phantom holding call on O.J. Howard when the game appeared to be won and even in this game the first fumbled hold of a … [Read more...]
Analyzing College Football Hires, Lincoln Riley USC, Brian Kelly LSU & Billy Napier Florida
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Analyst When USC fired Clay Helton back in September, the first person I felt it should go after was Lincoln Riley. Never, ever, tho, did I think AD Mike Bohn would make such a bold hire. Surprisingly, he did and it was done in such secrecy that media quizzed Riley about the LSU job after Bedlam and nobody mentioned USC. … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Has A Rat Poison Rant On Alabama Fans’ Unrealistic Expectations
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Nick Saban went OFF on a caller's question calling out what he feels are unrealistic fan expectations for the Alabama football program during his weekly "Hey Coach" show, broadcast on Facebook and other platforms. Normally serene in the calm setting of Baumhower's Victory Grill in Tuscaloosa, Saban nearly exploded … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator Rivalry Week College Football Games Analysis
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The head Mullenhead has been tossed leaving the Swamp being swamped with negativity, things are very plain down on the Plains and there are some very wounded Ducks in the Beaver State, tho it's hard to find a more miserable fan base than those along Figueroa Street in L.A. The message is clear in college … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator: UCLA Hangs A Record 62 On USC
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst With the season headed into the short days of November and December, it's not just the rivalries and championship aspirations that are heating up but restless alumni. Nervous ADs have canned coaches at Virginia Tech and Washington within the past week and more are likely to be sent to the showers in the … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator: College Football Playoff Rankings Weekend Games Picks
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The College Football Playoff Committee has spoken and the resulting chills and thrills are going through schools and fans now like a cold November wind. People do like to overreact to such things without taking a moment to step back and seeing the big picture. Which in this case is the fact that a lot of … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator: World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party Weekend Games
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The World's Largest Cocktail Party is this weekend, the annual Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville, FL, and it has all the makings of a Dawgs day afternoon. Elsewhere it is Halloween eve, which may cause a few teams to get spooked – anticipating this, Cincinnati let this happen a week earlier against … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator: Alabama-Tennessee Is Still An SEC Rivalry
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub College Football Blogger If you listen to the media and tune into programs like the Paul Finebaum Show (as pretty much everyone in the South does), then you will hear there is no rivalry anymore between Alabama and Tennessee. The Tide has won 14 straight in the series, it's no longer competitive, the fans don't care and it's no … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator: Can Alabama Bounce Back From Last Week’s Shocker?
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Analyst The Crimson Tide got held back by an unexpected wall in College Station – I mean where did that team come from!? – and now tries to weather the storm in a remote Mississippi town known as Starkville to get back into serious National Championship contention. The answer as to whether or not Alabama can … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 6 Picks & Predictions
By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger And then there were two? After the first weekend in October?? That remains to be seen but there were some interesting developments in Week 5 that lead into Week 6 in college football. One of the Cockroachs got crushed while the other one was kept alive by Coach Oh (No!), Oregon proved that Duck Farts … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator On The Cockroaches Of College Football
Auburn & Notre Dame Keep Surviving While It's the Hogs At The Dogs And Alabama Hoping To Roll Over Ole Miss By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger I have a nickname for two college football programs. Upon first reading this you are likely to come to the quick conclusion that it is an incredible insult. But that is not the case. … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 4 Picks & Predictions
UCLA Trampolines Turn Out To Be Fool's Gold By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Sometimes, the Pigskin Prognosticator buys fool's gold. Goes against what I know best, and that is picking games based on certain schools' tendencies and traditions of successes or failures. So when that gold looks good – like the gold on UCLA's … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 3 Picks & Predictions
A White Out At Penn State, The Renewal Of An Old Big-8 Rivalry And Alabama Goes To The Swamp By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger As college football rolls into its third week we know a few things while some others remain a mystery. For example, the Nuts' defense cracked and now the team is fighting for its playoff life. The Hogs … [Read more...]
USC Will Fight On Without Clay Helton And It’s About Time
The 'Nine Lives' Coach Finally Runs Out Of Luck By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger In the "what took so long" category, USC has finally fired Clay Helton. The "nine lives" coach, who seemingly was like a cat being dropped from a balcony who always landed on his feet – could not overcome getting blown out by Stanford. The 42-28 loss to a … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 2 Picks & Predictions
Oregon-Ohio State Highlights This Week's Games While Clemson Licks It Wounds And LSU Braces For Impending Doom Under Coach Oh By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert The first week of the college football season is over and apparently, it's over as well for Vanderbilt football, the ACC, most of the Big 10, a lot of the Pac-12 and Coach … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 1 Picks & Predictions
Clemson-Georgia Top Opening Weekend Games By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert After an offseason that had you not knowing your SEC from your NIL and will eventually have you not knowing your ACC from your Big 10 and even the Pac-12, it's time for the teams to tee it up and tee off on each other. It won't be long before the … [Read more...]
A Great Bobby Bowden Story From This Sportswriter
Legendary Florida State Coach Was No Bear Bryant In His Own Words By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Bobby Bowden has died. Dadgummit. The legendary Southern-talking, media-loving Florida State football coach passed away in August of 2021 – the time of year when he would be running a pre-season training camp – at the age of 91. I met … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Comments At SEC Media Days Show Why He Stands Above All Other Coaches
Alabama Football Coach Basically Kicks Sand In The Faces Of Other League Coaches By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor If you wonder why Alabama is always on top of the SEC in football, it's because it all starts at the top. And once again, Nick Saban showcased it, albeit in in a very simple environment this time: not on the field but at the … [Read more...]
Back On The (College Football) Grid: College Football Playoffs & NIL Analysis
Waking Up To Bad Reality In One Of America's Top Sports By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Ever since the last of the confetti fell to the turf after Alabama's latest National Championship, I have been off the college football grid, enjoying other aspects of being on Planet Earth such as March Madness, going to the beach and getting back to a … [Read more...]
Tennessee Football Hardly Goes Out Of Its Way To Hire Josh Heupel
AD Danny White Hires His Central Florida Coach Tennessee football, Josh Heupel By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Tennessee Football sure didn't go out of its way to hire its next football coach. New Athletic Director Danny White, recently of Central Florida, hired Josh Heupel, also from Central Florida. Gee, hope the school … [Read more...]
Tennessee Football Turmoil: Vols Face Hiring New AD, Coach & NCAA Sanctions
Philip Fulmer Steps Down, Jeremy Pruitt Fired & Possible Heavy NCAA Sanctions Await The Struggling Program Tennessee Football, Jeremy Pruitt, Vols, Rocky Top By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor It has the Vol Walk, the Salute To The Hill, the Splitting of the T, Smokey the mascot and the checkerboard end zones. And now, there is now a … [Read more...]
The End Of The 2020 College Football Season Means Relaxed Saturdays Again
Fans Can Put The Routines & The Superstitions Behind Us And Relax. Until Next Fall college football 2020 season, sports blog Published Jan. 16, 2021 By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The 2020 college football season is over, and that means I can finally have my Saturdays back again. You see, Saturdays for a rabid … [Read more...]
Why College Football Schools Made The Right Decision To Play In 2020
Teams, Players, Conferences And Fans All Win (And So Does Alabama) college football 2020, sports, COVID-19 Published Jan. 14, 2020 By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor When the 2020 college football season ended in early January 2021 with the Alabama Crimson Tide winning the school's 18th National Championship and Head Coach Nick Saban his … [Read more...]
Why Nick Saban Is The Best All-Time Coach In Alabama Football History
Six National Championships In 12 Years Surpasses The Accomplishments Of Bear Bryant Nick Saban, Bear Bryant, Alabama football Published Jan. 11, 2020 By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor The University of Alabama has been blessed to have had some of the greatest coaches in the history of college football. Wallace Wade and Frank Thomas … [Read more...]
Why The 2020 Crimson Tide Is The Best Alabama Team Of All Time
Nick Saban Leads Bama To The School's 18th National Championship Published Jan. 11 2020 Alabama football, Crimson Tide, Nick Saban By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Anytime a team goes through a season with dominance and wins a championship in convincing fashion, there are a lot of "best ever" questions posed by media and fans. But … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator Predicts The Alabama-Ohio State Outcome (And Why)
Like It Or Not, The Crimson Tide & Buckeyes Play For College Football's National Championship By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The Tide is high and the Buckeyes are blooming. Alabama and Ohio State are playing in college football's National Championship on Monday, Jan. 11, at Hard Rock Stadium outside of Miami, tho … [Read more...]
How A Non-Power 5 School Can Make The College Football Playoffs
Cincinnati, Boise State, Liberty And Other Small Conference Teams Need To Follow This Formula By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor If you listen to some in the media, it is impossible for a team from a non-power conference to make the College Football Playoffs. That is simply not true and here's why that is the case. The College Football … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator Picks The College Football Playoffs Semifinals Games
Breaking Down The Alabama-Notre Dame & Clemson-Ohio State Winners By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There are some who said it would never happen, a few who didn't want it to happen but were forced to make it happen, and others who wish it had never happened at all. But college football went forward in 2020 and thanks to … [Read more...]