Crimson Tide & Tigers Play For National Championship By The Pigskin Prognosticator, College Football Blogger The season-long storm of college football has arrived in Santa Clara – along with a real storm and what the heck were the decision-makers thinking when they put the championship game in a damp and cold location in the first place – with the two storm … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Don’t Expand CFP When There’s Only Two Worthy Teams
Alabama & Clemson Show 4 Teams Is Too Many For Playoff By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The impatient media clamored for years to get a playoff in college football. Now that there is one, they are now constantly calling to expand it to eight teams. Yet at the same time they criticize the boring games in the semifinals and moan about … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: CFP Playoff Predictions From The Pigskin Prognosticator
Alabama-Oklahoma & Clemson-Notre Dame Winners (And Why) By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The appetizers have been laid out on the table – the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the Cheeze-It Bowl, even the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl among the offerings – but these are mere pre-party snacks while we all await the main … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Urban Meyer Retires – Told You So In September
Ryan Day To Become 25th Ohio State Buckeyes Coach Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Of course. Urban Meyer has announced his retirement from Ohio State and if this surprises anyone, then they don't know Meyer's history or what preseason turmoil can do do a program. I saw this coming more clearly than a pass to an uncovered receiver back in … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Conference Championship Games
Alabama To Roll Georgia In SEC Championship By The Pigskin Prognosticator, College Football Blogger It's teeth-chattering time in Ohio, Georgia and Oklahoma, and a little bit in Alabama, and that has nothing to do with cold winter weather. It's conference championship weekend and the chills will be rolling down the spines of fans whose teams are playing to get … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Why A 2-Loss Georgia Should Be In The Playoff
Tide, Clemson, Irish And, Yes, The Dawgs Should Be In CFP By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger With the regular season now complete, the top four teams are evident and here's my top 4 teams that should make the College Football Playoff, regardless of what happens in the conference championship games. The only thing that can change is the … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger The Pigskin Prognosticator: Is A Notre Dame Or UCF Upset Lurking?
Not All Pre-Thanksgiving Games Are Turkeys By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Thanksgiving is the following weekend but there's a lot of turkey being served up this week with a lineup of games that will stuff the pockets of several small athletic departments in exchange for getting slaughtered. Served up on the platter for … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskins Prognosticator Picks Week 11’s Top Games
Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Notre Dame, Michigan & Oklahoma All Fight To Say In CFB Playoff By The Pigskins Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There is happiness in Ann Arbor, despair in Baton Rouge, a lot of clapping in Clemson, satisfaction in South Bend, kickoff confusion in Lincoln, bedlam coming to Boomertown, and Tua in … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The First Shoes Drops On USC Firing Clay Helton
Hot Seat Gets Even Hotter For Embattled Trojans Head Coach By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The first shoe has dropped in the process of USC firing Head Coach Clay Helton, and it hit Offensive Line Coach Neil Callaway squarely on the head. Callaway has been let go, and Offensive Coordinator Tee Martin has been demoted – not in title, … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Why Are There Not More Good Teams?
Alabama And Clemson Are In A Different League By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Whenever I look at which four teams should be in the College Football Playoff, I easily identify the first two. Alabama and Clemson. But then, I shake my head. As I go down the Top 10, the quality teams drop off like a bowling ball falling off a table. … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party Weekend
Georgia-Florida And Other Scary Games On Halloween Weekend By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Several years ago, an old-timer sports writer took a detour to the press box before the Georgia-Florida game. Tens of thousands of people – twice as many as the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville held, he noted – were tailgating and partying in … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: One Thing Alabama Fans Don’t Like About Watching Tua Tagovailoa
The Tide Is On A Roll With It's Amazing Quarterback By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Alabama fans are taking great pleasure in watching Tua Tagovailoa play for their Crimson Tide. He is leading the team to unprecedented offensive heights to the point it's reached ridiculous levels. Tagovailoa has Tiders slapping their thighs when he … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Will USC’s Clay Helton Be First Coach Fired In 2018?
Trojan Fans Need To Be Re-Energized – And Fast By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Here's how bad things are at USC in relation to its football program. Apathy has set in among the fans and alumni. Ten years of too many mediocre coaches to want to count and unrealized expectations can wear down even the most loyal and vocal of fans. And … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Ohio State’s Loss To Purdue Eliminates It From Playoff Contention
Why The Buckeyes Are Out Of The National Championship Picture By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger It was this year's Iowa. Ohio State was knocked out of the 2018 season College Football Playoffs on the road against a middle-of-the-road Big 10 team. And make no mistake about it, the Buckeyes' hopes of winning a National Championship are … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 8 Picks & Predictions
The Third Saturday Of October Means The Alabama-Tennessee Game By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Paul "Bear" Bryant was taking slow, long strides off the Neyland Stadium field when one of the few UT fans left in the stands yelled down at the legendary coach. Bryant's Alabama team had just scored two touchdowns in the final … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Alabama-Tennessee Rivalry Still Special To Many Fans
A Perspective of The Third Saturday in October From Both Sides of the Ball By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger I'm from Knoxville. And went to college in Tuscaloosa. I'm surprised they let me back in the Volunteer State when I go home to visit the family. That security doesn't stop me when I arrive at McGhee Tyson Airport with a list of … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 7 Picks & Predictions
Georgia Looks To Put Coach O Into The Dawg House By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger They are toasting the team in Texas, feeling pretty sold in South Bend and cracking up in Columbus (hey, we kept our coach and look at our team!) but also starting to feel bad in Baton Rouge while its near anguish in Auburn. College football has … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Texas Is NOT Back And Notre Dame Is Not THAT Good
Longhorns & Irish Making Noise But It's Falling Deaf On These Ears By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The Horns have hooked OU. The Red River Rivalry turned burnt orange when Cameron Dicker's 40-yard field goal soared through the goal post to give the Longhorns a 48-45 victory over Oklahoma. It was the team's fifth consecutive victory … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: How I Would Have Responded To The Mike Gundy Reporters Threat
Oklahoma State Football Threat Should Have Had Coach Suspended By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger First of all, let me state that I have covered college football for two daily newspapers, in addition to a student paper and the student yearbook. I've also covered events for the Associated Press and United Press International. I've been in … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 5 Picks & Predictions
Ohio State-Penn State & Stanford-Notre Dame Picks & Predictions By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There's a whiteout happening in Happy Valley, a blacked-out in Blacksburg, a Frost-out in Lincoln land, a bit of a thawing out in Austin and a crimson hot Hawaiian volcano exploding in Tuscaloosa. As college football heads … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Alabama So Good Nick Saban Wants Negative Media Coverage
Tide Coach Asks Reporters To Write About Bad Things After Latest Rout By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Nick Saban continues to be creative in the ways he uses the media to send messages to his team. There was the "they ran through us like sh** through a tin horn" rant after the Georgia Southern game in 2015. There was last year's "rat … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 4 Picks & Predictions
Stanford-Oregon No Longer A Marquee Matchup By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Three weeks into the season and we've seen a tidal wave rolling over the opposition, a suspended coach who keeps tripping all over himself while his team pours it on others and other coaches – two in just their first year – needing a fire hose to try and … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: 5 Coaches Already On The 2018 Hot Seat
USC's Clay Helton Leads Pack With Arkansas' Chad Morris Rising Fast By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Why some teams are on a roll – Alabama, quite literally – others can't get out of gear. And because of that, their leaders are sitting on the hot seat of college football coaches. Here's the Top 5 coaches currently on the hottest seats … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Alabama Could Be Best Team Of All Time
With Tua Tagovailoa Alabama Is Not Just Unstoppable But Unbeatable By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger If you're in the way of Alabama's team in 2018, the best thing you can do is take cover. Because the Crimson Tide is on a roll and there's no stopping this overwhelming force of college football. The Red Elephants are quite simply … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 3 Picks & Predictions
Ohio State To Fall To TCU; LSU In Key Matchup On The Plains By Kevin Wilkerson, The College Football Pigskin Prognosticator While some teams are trying to reason with the hurricane season, others are trying to ride out a stormy first two weeks. Arizona is learning that Kevin Sumlin can't coach without Johnny Manziel, USC is realizing that Clay Helton can't … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 2 Picks & Predictions
Texas A&M To Upset Clemson By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The Pigskin Prognosticator was a bit rusty in Week 1. I made the mistake of listening to the college football "experts" touting Miami as a National Championship contender when I knew they are coached by Mark Richt and of course he's too soft to ever win a title. Oh, he'll … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Week 1 Analysis – A Very Weak Pac-12 Conference
Alabama On Top, And Watch Out For Notre Dame By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Three facts emerged from the opening weekend of the 2018 college football season. 1.) Alabama is the dominant, team to beat this year. 2.) The Pac-12 Conference is – by far – the weakest of the Power 5 conferences. 3.) Notre Dame just might be a team to … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: With Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama Is The Team To Beat
Crimson Tide Could Be The Best Of The Nick Saban Era By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Penn State nearly lost, Ohio State's feature remains unknown, Clemson, Georgia and Oklahoma look explosive but who can really tell against those opponents and neither Auburn nor Washington looked worthy of even a Top 20 ranking. And Alabama rolled. In … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: Urban Meyer Suspension Will Eventually Cost Ohio State
Buckeyes Will Suffer The Pain Of Ongoing Controversy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Ohio State wimped out – did the "PR thing" and fumbled it at that – kept Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes are a national title contender in 2018. Meyer gets to keep his job, Ohio State could very well win a National Championship and all that "mess" in … [Read more...]
College Football Blogger: The Pigskin Prognosticator Week 1 Game Picks
Breaking Down Michigan-Notre Dame, Washington-Auburn, Alabama-Louisville By Kevin Wilkerson, The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Blogger Here are this week's key games. All times Pacific Time because The Prognosticator lives on the West Coast. Saturday, Sept. 1 • Oregon State at Ohio State (9 .m., ABC) The Meyer Mess makes this matchup something … [Read more...]