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...]
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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
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 commissioners, hands-out school presidents and TV … [Read more...]
PubClub.com’s Pigskin Prognosticator Predicts Termoil With This Week’s College Football Picks
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 agents. Apparently, no buyout is safe, so watch … [Read more...]
Hey Texas A&M: Here’s Your Next Coach And He Won’t Have A $77 Million Buyout
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 next head football coach and he won't come with a $77 … [Read more...]
College Football Week 11 Game Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 are quacking in Oregon. As college football … [Read more...]
Big Week In The SEC College Football Top Games Nov. 4 – The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 opponents like its tight ends do tacklers, Washington … [Read more...]
Halloween Weekend College Football Games – The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 around State College while Big Blue has been caught … [Read more...]
College Football Week 8 Games Penn State-Ohio State Alabama-Tennessee –The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 to confuse. As college football rolls into the … [Read more...]
College Football Week 7 Games Picks & Predictions From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 Jimbos are hanging thier cowboy hats mighty low … [Read more...]
Top Week 6 College Football Games Picks & Predictions: The Pigskin Prognosticator
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, Michigan is as untested as an engineer's first … [Read more...]
College Football’s Hottest Sideline Reporters
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 Andrews. The blonde bombshell also happened to be a … [Read more...]
College Football Week 5 Top Games Analysis From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 less – to lose on the last play, the pounding of a … [Read more...]
Week 4 College Football Analysis, Colorado-Oregon, The Bama Dynasty – The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 football dynasty simply because the team has a … [Read more...]
Week 3 Top College Football Games Breakdown – The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 taking off the diapers and putting on the big-boy … [Read more...]
Analyzing College Football Winners & Losers From Week 2 Games – The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 of another kind the Tiders are saying "what … [Read more...]
College Football 2023 Opening Game Picks – The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 default with conference realignments. The next … [Read more...]
Things I Would Like To Hear Coaches And Players Say At Preseason Media Days
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 conference media days. They offer no true glimpses … [Read more...]
Why A 12-Team Playoff Is Bad For College Football
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 programs by little schools and buzzer-beaters at such a … [Read more...]
Despite The California Atmospheric River, Georgia & TCU Fans Won’t Get Wet At SoFi Stadium (Maybe)
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 the tropical scene of gently swaying palm trees, … [Read more...]
College Football Rivalry Week Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 Carolina!? Now we're about to get stuffed on Rivalry Week … [Read more...]
College Football Picks Week 12 From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 Montana State. The Grizzles vs. the … [Read more...]
Week 11 College Football Games Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 Bears and nearly became the ones who got conquered; … [Read more...]
Alabama Football 2022 Is A Win Or Lose We Booze Season
By The Kevbeaux, PubClub.com Party Blogger Okay, so things aren't going as expected this season. Apparently, even in Tuscaloosa with Nick Saban as your coach, you can't play for or win the National Championship every year. But Alabama football fans need to adopt the Pubclub.com cheer of "Win Or Lose, We Booze!" And that's what many of us did Saturday night in a Bama … [Read more...]
Week 9 College Football Games Picks From The The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 again. Why, just in the last week alone, Penn State and … [Read more...]
Who Is Lee Corso? A Look At The Career Of ESPN’s Beloved ‘Coach’
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 the coaching and playing career of this legendary … [Read more...]
College Football Picks World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 been derailed but is hanging on the edge of a … [Read more...]
Is Nick Saban Slipping As Paul Finemaum Suggests?
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 win and came within a few inches of a missed field … [Read more...]
College Football Week 7 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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, Georgia is winning while not impressing anyone anymore, … [Read more...]
College Football Week 6 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 the very least start a Facebook Group page. Misery … [Read more...]
College Football Week 5 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 historical matchups of teams. You can only get that right … [Read more...]
Auburn Needs The Right Fit As Coach And That’s Not Easy To Find
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 country. Win, and you will be rewarded and lose, … [Read more...]
College Football Week 4 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 SEC (so, too, is Missouri except it goes unnoticed … [Read more...]
College Football Winners & Losers For September
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 winner. But the Sun Devis are a September winner because … [Read more...]
College Football Week 3 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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, no less – to Marshall. Florida is not back yet … [Read more...]
College Football Week 2 Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
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 progresses and teams truly reveal themselves. That … [Read more...]
Be Careful What You Ask For When It Comes To A 12-Team College Football Playoff
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 quarter? Clemson's 30-3 snoozer over Notre Dame in … [Read more...]
College Football Week 1 Losers – LSU, Brian Kelly, Oregon Ducks & Pac-12
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 as a league and even worse when your two marquee teams … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 1 Games, Times & Predictions
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 has had more drama than the George Steinbrenner … [Read more...]
Alabama Football To Sell Beer In Bryant-Denny Stadium
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 anyway. A few weeks before the season, the Tuscaloosa City … [Read more...]
Labor Day Weekend College Football Key Games With Ranked Teams
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 neutral-site game against USC, Michigan or Wisconsin, opens … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Is Right – 2021 WAS A Rebuilding Year For Alabama
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 12-2, won the SEC and played for the National … [Read more...]
Mike Leach Has An Interesting Idea For SEC Football Divisions
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 State – the self-proclaimed pirate and frequent … [Read more...]
What To Expect In College Football For The 2022 Season
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 for the 2022 season. While others focus on players, … [Read more...]
Here’s What The Pac-12’s Next Steps Should Be And It’s Not Merging With The Big 12
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 teams or however many are left. It should also look to … [Read more...]
Conference Realignment And College Football’s Direction Not Good For Every School
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 consider. Perhaps, just perhaps, all this big-time money grab is … [Read more...]
USC And UCLA To The Big 10 – Why It Makes Sense
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 the stuff of Troy legends. Many of the games start … [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...]
Holiday Bowl Events Show The Price Fans Pay For Corporate-Sponsored Bowl Games
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Blogger The Holiday Bowl is coming to downtown San Diego. For the first time in the game's history it is being played at Petco Park, home of the Padres. It's in the Gaslamp/East Village area of San Diego and is a dynamic area full of bars and restaurant/bars. I happen to live a few blocks away so when this was announced, I was … [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...]
Top College Football Bowl Games For Fans & Party Destinations 2022
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger One of the most fun aspects of bowl games are the different teams, fans, bands, cheerleaders and students that show up for them. The destination also plays a huge part in the atmosphere and the mood, along with any bowl pageantry, such as a parade, pep rallies and other activities. Team matchups can also add spice to the … [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...]
Alabama-Notre Dame Series History – From An Alabama Fan’s Point Of View
Crimson Tide Has A Long History Of Frustration At The Hands Of The Irish, But Can Thank Them For One Great Coach By Kevin Wilkerson, College Football Editor (And Alabama Alumnus) The series history between Alabama and Notre Dame isn't long. But it sure is historic. The storied schools have played just seven times but four of them have had National Championship … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Conference Championships Game Picks
ACC, Big 10, Pac-12 & SEC Title Games With Playoffs On The Line By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger While the ACC and Big 10 slept, the Florida Gators wept, the USC Trojans kept (their faint playoff hopes alive) and a flying shoe got more attention than the final results. Florida is no longer a shoe-in for the playoffs even … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Picks Ohio State-Michigan Canceled Week
Big 10 Worms It's Way Out Of A Corner By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There is a conclusion in the SEC, submission in the ACC, confusion in the Big 10 a blindsided Buff in the Pac-12. With Alabama and Florida set to play for the SEC Championship, Notre Dame gifted a place in the ACC title game, the Big 10 failing to can save … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 14 Games Bold Picks & Predictions
Top Four In College Football Playoff Rankings To Roll To Big Wins By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Ryan Day is out for another game; Michael Penix, Jr., is (unfortunately) out for the season; Sarah Fuller is back kicking; Nick Saban is back coaching and Coach O is, too, much to the chagrin of LSU fans. As college football … [Read more...]
Conference Schedule Makers Should Be College Football’s Heisman Trophy Winners
Collectively They Are More Valuable Than Any Single Player By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClubc.com College Football Blogger The MVPs of this college football season are not quarterbacks Mac Jones, Justin Fields, Trevor Lawrence or any of the players, but the schedule makers in the various conferences. Collectively, they should be awarded the Heisman. That is … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Thanksgiving Weekend Games Bold Picks & Predictions
A Unique Look At This Week's Top Games – The Ones That Still Are Scheduled, Anyway By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The schedule makers have been doing as much juggling the past week as a circus clown. Except this isn't funny. Confusing, now that's a different matter. Tennessee was scheduled to play Vanderbilt but the … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 12 Games Bold Picks & Predictions
Indiana Hopes To Go Nuts Against The Acorns In This Week's Top Game By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger In this year of the underdog and the unheard of, there is still some stability with the powerhouses. While there is Liberty, Coastal Carolina, Cincinnati, Indiana and BYU, there is also Alabama, Ohio State Notre Dame, Clemson … [Read more...]
These Are The College Football Teams That Eat Their Own Mascots
Steers On The Grill And In Hog Food Heaven, Fans 'Gobble Up' These Nicknames By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor It's one thing for LSU fans to yell out "hold that Tiger," even tho their mascot is a Tiger. And it's quite another thing for a fan of the Arkansas Razorbacks to roast a pig at a tailgate party. Yet it happens – there's a lot of … [Read more...]
Why Everyone Should Want Alabama To Win The National Championship
After A Tumultuous 2020, The World Needs A Return To Normalcy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor In difficult times, it is always comforting to find something that is right in the world. That at least a few things are where they belong and that not everything is in chaos. That is certainly the case this year, a year like none other in our … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Week 11 Games Bold Picks & Predictions
With Much Of SEC Plus Ohio State Sidelined, These Teams Take Center Stage By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger After smooth sailing for much of the season, the Good Ship College Football ran aground this week, especially in the SEC. COVID-19 protocols caused the postponement of four games – including Alabama-LSU – and this leaked … [Read more...]
Alabama-LSU And Texas A&M-Tennessee Games Postponed Due To COVID-19
Tide & Tigers Might Have To Be Canceled By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Posted Nov. 10 Two more SEC football games scheduled for this weekend have been canceled Alabama-LSU and Tennessee-Texas A&M. Earlier in the week, Mississippi State was forced to postpone its game against Auburn. After having pretty much a COVID-free … [Read more...]
SEC Teams Dealing With COVID-19 Cases; Auburn-Miss State Postponed
Alabama-LSU And Tennessee-Texas A&M Games Up In The Air By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor While the Big 10 and Pac-12 have been dealing with COVID-19 issues, the SEC is now facing the same issue. On Monday, it was announced that the Auburn-Mississippi State game scheduled for this Saturday has been postponed due positive test results … [Read more...]
College Football Week 10 Games, Picks & Predictions – The Pigskin Prognosticator
Which Team Will Win Clemson-Notre Dame And Welcome To The Party, Pac-12 By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Usually, the crazy things in college football happen on the field. But in this odd year, they are taking place both inside and outside of the white lines and some of the happenings are clearly out of bounds. For example, … [Read more...]
College Football Week 8 Games, Picks & Predictions – The Pigskin Prognosticator
Big 10 Joins The Season; Bama On A Roll By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger After watching the first part of the college football season from the bench, the Big 10 finally gets off the sideline and onto the field. The teams are sure to keep a safe social distance from their school presidents, who tried to squash the season only to … [Read more...]
Watch Out SEC – And College Football – The ‘Bama Factor’ Is Back
Crimson Tide's Domination Of Georgia Sends A Clear Message: Alabama Is Back By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor There were questions after the defense gave up more than 600 yards to Ole Miss the previous week but make no mistake, Alabama is back and not only that, but the "Bama factor" is back. So watch out SEC and college football. The … [Read more...]
College Football Week 7 Games, Picks & Predictions – The Pigskin Prognosticator
Alabama-Georgia The Key Matchup In Latest Crimson Tide 'Game Of The Century' By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert First, it was defense on the field. Now, the SEC can't seem to defend against another relentless opponent: coronavirus. Just as the Prognosticator settled in to write this week's column, Nick Saban – tho asymptomatic … [Read more...]
What In The College Football World Is Wrong With SEC Defenses?
Even Alabama Is Giving Up Points & Yards In A Big 12 Style Of Play By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Once the standard in college football for playing defense, the SEC is now resembling the Big 12. Traditional defensive football teams Alabama, Florida and LSU are surrendering yards and points in alarming numbers (alarming to the fans … [Read more...]
College Football Week 6 Rewind: Top Winners & Losers, Highlights & Lowlights
Georgia Emerges On Top, Lane Kiffin Wins While Losing, Jimbo Fisher Gets The Alumni Off His Back (For Now) & Bad Defenses Are All The Rage By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Whoa, that was exciting. College football delivered close game after close game after close game in Week 6 (Oct. 10) in a storm of points that rivaled … [Read more...]
How Hurricane Delta Is Affecting These SEC College Football Games
LSU-Missouri Relocated; Alabama-Ole Miss Kickoff Time Moved Back 90 Minutes By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor Hurricane Delta is scheduled to hit the state of Louisiana west of New Orleans on Friday, and its wind and rain will be traveling up the state thru the weekend. Its conditions will also be felt in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi on … [Read more...]
College Football Schedule Oct. 10 Games Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
Hurricane Winds Are Blowing In Louisiana And Mississippi While There Are Potential Winds Of Change In Auburn, Oklahoma And Texas By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Expert There's a lot of storms brewing in college football this week, one created by a Delta Force hurricane and more from stirred up alumni and fans. Hurricane Delta has … [Read more...]