Bold Prediction: Wake Forest To Upset Clemson By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger In the rocky world of college football, there's one school that stands on top of an unstable mountain – and it's not Rocky Top. It's down on the bayou, where there's no buy out for a coach that's clearly proven he's swamped in his ability to be a … [Read more...]
Is Nick Saban’s Success Causing Other SEC Coaches To Become Unglued?
Already On The Hot Seat, Butch Jones & Bret Bielema By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger With all the effects Nick Saban's success at Alabama has had on other SEC schools, this potential one might be the most bizarre. Is the standard Saban has set at Alabama so high that others coaches in the league are beginning to crack? Based on … [Read more...]
College Football Week 5 Top Games Picks & Predictions The Pigskin Prognosticator
Butch Jones, Bret Bielema & Jim Harbaugh Keep Fans Entertained Even In A Weak Week Of Top Games By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Just as the Prognosticator envisioned, Iowa gave us a Big 10 treat last week in its almost-upset and certainly thrilling game against Penn State. And while Purdue did not exactly take Michigan … [Read more...]
College Football Week 4 Top Games Picks & Predictions The Pigskin Prognosticator
ESPN's College Game Day Goes To New York City By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger You know it's an off week in college football when not only are there no blockbuster games, big rivalries or major conference battles, but when ESPN's College Game Day goes to New York City. New York City!? That's like celebrating Mardi Gras in … [Read more...]
College Football Week 3 Biggest Winners & Losers; Oh No Coach O At LSU
Buyer's Remorse On The Baton Rouge Bayou? By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Blogger A stark performance in Starkville, nothing gained in Gainesville and a "Heartbreak Hotel" in Memphis. These were all situations and scenes left on the turf from week four in college football. Here's a look at the week's biggest winners and … [Read more...]
College Football Picks Week 3 Top Games From The Pigskin Prognosticator
Clemson-Louisville, Tennessee-Florida, USC-Texas Who Will Win & Why By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Two weeks are in the rear-view mirror and here’s what the Prognosticator has learned about college football 2017. • Ohio State’s offense is as bad as it showed itself to be in the Clemson game last year. But the OSU will still win … [Read more...]
College Football Biggest Winners & Losers From Week 2
Oklahoma Lowers The Boomer On Ohio State & Auburn Reaches Offensive Low By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Blogger After Week 2 it's easy to see the biggest winners and losers emerge in the 2017 college football season. Here's how PubClub's Pigskin Prognosticator ranks them. Week 2's Biggest Winners • Oklahoma & Lincoln Riley. Boom! … [Read more...]
College Football 2017 Week 2 Top Games Picks From The Pigskin Prognosticator
Oklahoma-Ohio State, Georgia-Notre Dame, USC-Stanford & Nebraska-Oregon Highlight Weekend Action By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The 'ol pigskin bounced in several interesting directions during an entertaining opening weekend in college football. It bounced into the hands of a 5-star freshman at Alabama when a 5-star running … [Read more...]
College Football Week 1 Biggest Winners & Biggest Losers
Alabama Rolls And Big Blue Goes Big While Florida And Texas Fans Face Long Seasons By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Not all the questions about the 2017 college football season have been answered in Week 1, but we sure did get an indication of what is likely to happen the rest of the season with several notable teams. Here's a rundown of the … [Read more...]
College Football Week 1 Top Games Predictions From The Pigskin Prognosticator
Breaking Down Alabama-Florida State, Florida-Michigan, LSU-BYU & More Key Matchups By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Where did our summer go to so fast? Heck, the springtime, too? Fall is approaching and that means it is college football time again, which brings the Pigskin Prognosticator out of hibernation (and off the beach; … [Read more...]
College Football 2017 Preview: Top Teams, Biggest Disappointments & Potential Surprises
The Pigskin Prognosticator Examines Alabama, USC, Ohio State And Other Top (And Not) Teams By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Blogger College football is nearly upon us – kickoff is actually this week with Oregon State at Colorado on Saturday (11:30 a.m., PT, CBSSN) and Stanford at Rice (7 p.m., ESPN). Most schools, however, begin next … [Read more...]
How College Football Writers Helped Bring Down Hugh Freeze & Ole Miss
Hotty Toddy And A Sweet Tease – The Rebels Without A Cause By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Blogger One of the most interesting – and least talked about – factors in the demise of former Ole Miss football coach Hugh Freeze is the role a small group of reporters played in making it happen. They are the ones covering the story, too. It's the seven college … [Read more...]
Hugh Freeze The Latest Sports Figure To Do Something Really Stupid
Ole Miss Coach Resigns After Escort Service Calls – On The University's Phone By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Blogger Someone has done it again. This time it was not even an athlete, but a coach. A sports figure has done something so stupid – so incredibly foolish – even veteran reporters such as myself find ourselves stunned. Huge Freeze resigned as head … [Read more...]
College Football In July Starts With SEC Media Days 2017
Nation's Top PR Conference Turns Press Event Into A 4-Day Pep Rally For Fans By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The college football season does not start in August when teams open training camps. The game is too big for that now. It starts with publicity. And that begins with the leader in college football publicity and hype with something … [Read more...]
Alabama Football Tailgate Party Run By Auburn Company (And It’s Not Cheap)
The Quad Is A Pricy Place For Tailgating With The Crimson Tide By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There is a price to pay – quite literally – for having a winning football team in college football. This goes beyond coaching salaries and facilities; it means fans pay more and more for everything associated with the team. It starts with tickets, … [Read more...]
What To Make Of The Bob Stoops Surprise Retirement
Oklahoma Football Coach Departure Leaves Questions But Gets A #ThanksBob Hashtag By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Blogger It's one of those things when you first see it – in my case the sports ticker crawl on ESPN – that makes you rub your eyes and say "did I just read that correctly?" After 18 years, Bob Stoops announced his retirement. This was as sudden as … [Read more...]
Alabama Hires New Athletic Director, The Easiest Job In College Sports
Greg Byrne Just Has To Keep Nick Saban Happy By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The University of Alabama – my alma mater – has hired a new athletic director. It's Greg Byrne, who came from the University of Arizona. Arizona!? The school that has never played in the Rose Bowl (once a reward for winning the league title), that has produced … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator On Alabama-Clemson Winner (And Why)
Crimson Tide Goes For 17 National Championship & Lane Kiffin Doesn't Matter By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger After all the predictions, polls and playoff positioning, the college football season comes down to the two best teams, Alabama and Clemson. This has been a good, tho not dramatically great, season, like 2015. There was no … [Read more...]
Nick Saban’s OC Change Gets Lane Kiffin Off To Rocky Start
Sudden Move Shakes Up Alabama Before Playing Clemson In National Championship Game Just when it seemed as if Lane Kiffin had polished his tainted reputation, he gets sent home early from camp by the teacher. The Monday before the National Championship game, Nick Saban told Kiffin to go ahead and leave for Florida Atlantic. Steve Sarkisian will replace Kiffin as … [Read more...]
Penn State Rose Bowl 2017 Pep Rally Date & Information
Nittany Lions Cheerleaders, Blue Band & Fans Gathering At LA Live In DTLA That roar that's about to hit Los Angeles is coming from Penn State fans who are in town for the 103rd Rose Bowl game. And they are gathering the day before the game at the official Penn State pep rally, scheduled for Jan. 1 at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles (across from Staples Center) … [Read more...]
Alabama-Washington & Clemson-Ohio State Pigskin Prognosticator Picks
Inside The Helmets College Football Playoffs Semifinals Winners By the Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Blogger We interrupt your New Year's Eve plans by bringing you two critical college football games. Yes, the four-team playoff is happening on the biggest party day of the year so instead of putting on those cheap paper hats that say "Happy New … [Read more...]
Is This The End Of The College Football Bowls As We Know It?
Leonard Fournette & Christian McCaffrey Open Floodgates To The Demise Of Lesser Bowls By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger It was pretty much inevitable, but wow, that happened quick! When the College Football Playoff kicked off three seasons ago, it rendered all other bowl pretty much, well meaningless. Of course that matters little for … [Read more...]
Don’t Feel Sorry For Fired College Football Coaches
Charlie Strong And Mark Helfrich Get $22 Million In Buyouts From Texas, Oregon There's been a lot of media talk and fan reaction on social media about how Charlie Strong was treated before being fired at Texas and the "bizarre" press release that Oregon issued when it fired Mark Helfrch. Both have merits, of course. Strong was strung along for more than a year – having … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Conference Championship Games
Picking Alabama-Florida, Wisconsin-Penn State, Clemson-Va Tech & Bedlam In Oklahoma There was more action off the field this past weekend than on it in college football. On Thursday, just as LSU was ready to kick off against Texas A&M, the agent for Tom Herman leaked negotiations to Texas beat writers in the hopes it would light a fire under the Longhorns and … [Read more...]
Can Oregon Football Ever Recapture The Ducks Dynasty?
Quirky Uniforms, Great Facilities & Hurry-Up Offense No Longer Unique Attractions By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger There was a time when 4-7 was the norm, and 6-5 was a good season. Then along came Rich Brooks, then Mike Bellotti, then Chip Kelly and then, well, Mark Helfrich. The Ducks finished the 2016 season 4-8, which included … [Read more...]
Why I Should Be Become Tennessee’s Next Athletic Director – 5 Reasons
UT Needs A Persona Familiar With Vols Traditions & Culture Tennessee athletic director, Tennessee football, Rocky Top By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Sports Blogger The University of Tennessee is looking for a new athletic director (again) and I have the perfect candidate to fill it – me! UT is in need of someone who knows the university, an insider, not … [Read more...]
The 10 Least Likeable Coaches In College Football
Bobby Petrino Leads List Of Despised Coaches There are programs and teams college football fans love to hate, but there are coaches, too. That's why PubClub.com has compiled this list of Top 10 Least Likeable Coaches. Do you agree? Maybe you're got some of your own – we would love your feedback. And what, no Nick Saban? Heck no because he's the gold standard for … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator: Rivalry Week Picks
Winners Of Ohio State-Michigan, Alabama-Auburn, Washington-Washington State, USC-Notre Dame And Other Top Games So long Louisville, your flirtation with the College Football Playoffs featuring your eye-catching quarterback was merely a tease. Are we saying hello to Clemson, finally awake after a season-long slumber? Alabama should wake up from last weekend’s sleepwalk … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator: Week 12 Picks
Can Michigan & Washington Recover, Plus It's Rivalry Week For USC-UCLA By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com's College Football Blogger Welcome to the Pigskin Prognosticator! Last week was “tell the truth” Saturday and sometimes the truth hurts. Michigan flat-out felt the pressure – learning that playing on the road in prime time is not always easy – Clemson finally got … [Read more...]
Kevin Sumlin & Gus Malzahn Back On The Coaches Hot Seat
Texas A&M And Auburn Fall Back Into Mediocrity By The Pigskin Prognosticator, PubClub.com's College Football Blogger For a while – a little more than a month – Kevin Sumlin and Gus Malzahn could sit down without worrying that their shorts would catch on fire. But the mirage that was their mid-season rise has quickly turned into the reality that their teams are … [Read more...]
Chaotic Upsets Won’t Change College Football Playoffs (For Now)
Clemson & Michigan Still In It While U-Dub Pretty Much Eliminated The College Football Playoff committee got what it did not want, a Saturday full of chaos when not just one team in its Final Four lost, but three of them. Yes, 3/4 of the teams that would be playing for the National Championship "if the playoffs were held today" went down on a single … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Week 11 Game Picks
Misery Teams As Much Fun To Follow As Playoff Contenders By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Welcome to the Pigskin Prognosticator! As the college football season falls into November, it’s almost as much fun to focus on the misery teams as it is the successful ones. Okay, it’s more fun! The number of teams – and fans – having miserable, forgettable … [Read more...]
The Real Issue With Michigan State Football In 2016
Sparty Has Been Living On Borrowed Time With Past Successful Seasons The wheels have officially come off Michigan State football in 2016 and the lug nuts are rolling all over East Lansing. One year after being in the College Football Playoffs, the Spartans went winless the last half of September and all of October and began November by losing to Illinois. … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Daylight Savings Time Picks
Going Inside The Helmets Of Alabama-LSU, Nebraska-Ohio State and U-Dub & The Pac-12 And The Playoffs By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger We;come to the Pigskin Prognosticator! Daylight Savings Time weekend edition! The Pac-12 should be concerned because if it can’t get an undefeated team into the College Playoff Committee’s Top 4 over a one-loss … [Read more...]
Why The Big 12 Made The Right Choice In Voting Down Expansion
Conference Stays With Existing Members & Relies On Regular Season To Determine Champion By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger In a time when conferences are expanding way beyond their geographic area, certain conference teams only play other conference teams every few years and traditional rivalries are disappearing, it's good to see the Big 12 … [Read more...]
Pac-12 College Football Sliding Into Mediocrity – Or Worse
Can Washington Save A Conference Suffering From Down Years By Oregon & Stanford? By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger The past few years, a few people (incorrectly, but it made for a compelling argument) were making the case that the Pac-12 was the best conference in college football. But not even anti-SEC man Danny Kannell can defend the … [Read more...]
A Solution To Declining Attendance At College Football Games
Embrace Tailgate Parties & Tailgating Tradition College football athletic directors are scratching their heads on how to get their fans to come to games rather than stay at home and watch on TV. They are trying all kinds of things but the prime solution is right in front of them: the tailgate parties. In order for people to get out of their house and spend the time … [Read more...]
Why Lane Kiffin Back To USC Is Not Such A Crazy Idea
Trojans Could Call Back Former Coach After Firing Clay Helton By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger When the USC Trojans go coach-searching again – and Athletic Director Lynn Swann may already be doing this behind the scenes to replace the overmatched Clay Helton – he may be doing like a quarterback does when he drops back to pass. That is, making … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Week 2 Games Picks
Tennessee-Virginia Tech At Bristol Speedway The Highlight In A Non-Spectacular Weekend By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Welcome to Week 2 of the Pigskin Prognosticator! After an opening weekend of great matchups this week we’re left with the likes of Florida State-Charleston Southern, Clemson-Troy and Texas A&M-Prairie View (I’ve heard of … [Read more...]
SEC College Football Teams Power Rankings After Week 1
Alabama's Rout Of USC The Good While LSU Is The Bad & Mississippi State The Ugly By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger If the first weekend of college football is any indicator – and things can certainly change but it sure starts to put things in perspective – then the SEC won't quite be the challenging juggernaut it's been the past several … [Read more...]
A Woman’s Guide To Watching College Football 2016
Top Teams, Traditions & Game-Day TV Tips By Kevin Wilkerson Ask The Man Blogger & College Football Expert Ladies, no need to worry about losing contact with your man now that college football season has arrived in America. PubClub.com's Ask The Man has the solution with this simple but insightful guide to college football, how to watch it and be intelligent … [Read more...]
College Football Season Is When The Top Party Schools Earn Rankings
Tailgate Parties Define The Best Party Schools For Students and Also Alumni It's as much a part of college football as" dotting the "i," splitting the "T and Song Girls in those white sweaters with the USC lettering. Tailgate parties are celebrations, gatherings where students and alumni mix and mingle, where opposing fans make their presence known, where the … [Read more...]
College Football 2016 Pigskin Prognosticator: Tennessee
Butch Jones, Not The Team, The Key To Vols' Season By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Fotoball Blogger All the talk around Rock Top is how this is the year that Tennessee gets back to the top of the SEC East and how it could well win the conference, perhaps compete for a National Championship and maybe even beat Alabama. It has a proven quarterback, two quality … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Coaching Tree Bearing Fruit For Alabama’s Future
Jimbo Fisher, Jim McElwain & Kirby Smart All Lined Up As Potential Successor By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger Alabama football is in good – no, make that great –hands right now, and things look pretty bright for the future because of Nick Saban's coaching tree. Like Paul "Bear" Bryant before him, Saban has developed a line of assistants … [Read more...]
It’s College Football Season In July – In The SEC Anyway
SEC Media Days Another Reason This Is The America's Top Conference By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger It's mid-July and most of America is thinking of beaches, vacations, summer festivals and getting out of the heat. In the Southeastern Conference, they are thinking college football. The SEC Media Days are underway, July 11-14, from a hotel … [Read more...]
Bands A Huge Part Of College Football Traditions
Fight Songs, Pre-game And Halftime Shows Add To The Atmosphere By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger & Million Dollar Band Alumni The dotting of the "i", the Salute to the Hill, the playing of "Conquest," the marches through campus into the stadiums as part of various pre-game "stomps." College bands are as much a part of college football … [Read more...]
College Bands Getting Tuned Out By Greedy Athletic Directors
LSU & Big 12 Playing Sour Notes To The Spirit Of College Football By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Blogger And Million Dollar Band Alumni I was appalled to learn that LSU – one of my fellow SEC schools – announced that will it no longer allow visiting bands to perform during halftime at Tiger Stadium. Furthermore, I was infuriated at the flimsy excuse: "it's a … [Read more...]
An Alabama Signing Day Story With Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant
Young Reporter Recalls The Day The Bear Called By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger It was National Signing Day and I was due to interview Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant about that year's class. I was a young reporter for the Alabama student newspaper, the Crimson White. Bryant was late in his coaching career, on the verge of retirement, … [Read more...]
The Secret To Alabama’s Success Is Not Just Recruiting
Nick Saban Develops The Talent He Recruits To Play For The Crimson Tide The numbers of Nick Saban's recruiting success are mind boggling. In his time at Alabama, Saban and staff have signed a whopping 33 five-star recruits and a wipe-your-eyes-am-I-reading-this-correctly 134 four-star recruits. Every single player in the 2016 class is either a three-star, four-star … [Read more...]
The Difference In NFL Cheerleaders And College Cheerleaders
Sexy Girls And Cheering Squads Enhance Sidelines Of Sporting Events First of all, every male who watches pro football should thank Tex Schramm. As the original president and long-time General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys, he's the one who created the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the first of the hot, sexy sideline girls that's now a par of every professional sports … [Read more...]
Alabama’s 16th National Championship Erases Kick Six Mysery
2016 Title, Along With Auburn's Fall, Is Redemption For Bama Fans By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Blogger & Alabama Alumni It took a little more than two years, but Alabama fans can finally erase the misery of the "Kick Six." The 45-40 win over Clemson to win the school its 16th National Championship is a sweet feeling for Crimson Tide … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator: Why Alabama Rolls Clemson
Between The Helmets Of The National Championship Game What a year! In 2015 we had the Miracle at Michigan (or the Botched Punt at the Big House if you prefer), the Miracle at Ole Miss, the Miami Miracle at Duke, the Phantom Offsides On The Onsides Kick, OB To TD for Nebraska, the Flop On The Plains, the Hail Mary Prayers By BYU, the Rise of the Rosen One at UCLA, the … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Not Yet Bear Bryant As Alabama’s Greatest Coach
Six National Titles And 25 Years Keeps The Houndstooth Hat Hanging High After Alabama beat Clemson for the National Championship, some have argued that Head Coach Nick Saban is the best coach in the history of Alabama. It was Saban's fourth title with the Tide since he took over in 2097 and fourth in seven yeas since his first in 2009. That is impressive to say the … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Playoff Picks
Inside The Helmets For Clemson-Oklahoma and Alabama-Michigan State This college football playoff thing has already cost Alabama one National Championship and now the school is in it again. Standing in its way this time is another team from “that” conference while two other teams are shoved off to a side stage. If this were a big music festival Alabama-Michigan State would … [Read more...]
Dabo Swinney Is College Football’s New Pete Carroll
Clemson Is USC East With Its Entertaining Head Coach From his "Dabo dance" in the locker room to hosting Santa Claus on his roof, Swinney is the new version of Pete Carroll and that is to say the coolest college football coach in America. Like Carroll, Swinney is free-wheeling fun. His players love it, the media loves it and the team is playing like Carroll's USC … [Read more...]
Why The Hurry-Up Spread Offenses Are Dead in The SEC
Auburn & Texas A&M Finish DFL In West Division The brief run of the hurry-up, spread and deception offenses are over in the SEC. This is evidenced by the fact that the two biggest examples of it – Auburn and Texas A&M – were DFL (that's last place in case you are wondering) in the West Division in 2015. Auburn finished at the bottom and Texas A&M in … [Read more...]
Pac-12 Hurts Stanford Playoffs & McCaffrey’s Heisman Chances
Lack Of Exposure, Not Regional Bias, Costs The Cardinal Stanford will not be part of the College Football Playoff and sensational running back/all-around player Christian McCaffrey likely won't win the Heisman Trophy. A large part of the blame for this belongs to the Pac-12 Conference. While coaches, fans, and even West Coast media point their fingers at a "regional … [Read more...]
Nick Saban Chases Away Another SEC Coach
Mark Richt The Latest To Feel The Effect Of Not Living Up To Alabama Coach's Standard First it was Phil Fulmer. Then Urban Meyer. Then nearly Les Miles. And now Mark Richt. The latter is the latest SEC coach to be chased away by Nick Saban and his exacting standards. Saban has not just set the bar in the SEC, he's set it so high that other programs are … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Conference Title Games
Inside The Helmets Of Alabama-Florida, Iowa-Michigan State, Clemson-North Carolina & USC-Stanford Here’s a fun thing to do if your team is not in a conference championship game or has no hope of making the College Football Playoff: Follow the coaching carnival that’s as lively this year as, well, the party called Carnival. Les Miles was headed out of LSU only to have the … [Read more...]
Arkansas-Ole Miss Lateral Play Saves SEC Championship Game
Wild Ending Enables To Alabama Continue Path To The College Football Playoff The SEC has pretty much what it wanted – a National Championship contender playing a 10-win team – in its league championship game. And had Florida beaten Florida State it might even be a play-in game for the College Football Playoff. Still, with the college football world watching, Alabama … [Read more...]
The Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Thanksgiving Games
Going Inside The Helmets For Key Rivalry Games: Alabama-Auburn, Ohio State-Michigan, Norte Dame-Stanford & OU-Oklahoma State Thanksgiving weekend used to be the traditional big-rivalry time in college football. And while we still have Alabama-Auburn, Ohio State-Michigan and USC-UCLA, the sport is still missing Oklahoma-Nebraska and Texas-Texas A&M. That’s what … [Read more...]
Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Games Nov. 21
Inside The Helmets Of Ohio State-Michigan State, Oklahoma-TCU & Baylor-Oklahoma State The SEC, which pretty much dominates the college football conversation for 3/4 of the year, steps to the side this weekend and hoists two other conferences up on the big stage. The Big 12, which has pretty much been in hibernation the whole season, comes alive with not one but two key … [Read more...]
Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Games Nov. 14
Inside The Helmets Of Alabama- Mississippi State, OU-Bayor And Can Clemson Keep Winning Well Sparty, it was fun while it lasted. But surely even the most die-hard fans can’t be too green over the loss; after all you beat Oregon only when their receiver dropped a clear touchdown that would have won that game, Michigan was a pure fluke and you barely beat Purdue and Rutgers, … [Read more...]
Alabama-LSU, Clemson-FSU Face Bad Weather Conditions
Fans & Tailgate Parties To Suffer More Than The Teams Rain and even thunderstorms are predicted for college football's two major games on Nov. 7. Alabama and LSU square off in the day's marquee matchup in Tuscaloosa, while Florida State travels to Clemson in another game that will have an impact on the College Football Playoff. In fact, three of the top four … [Read more...]
Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Picks & Predictions
Alabama-LSU, Florida State-Clemson & A Stanford Upset There was another crazy ending on a kick this past weekend; that’s three on three consecutive Saturdays. And what about the ending to the Michigan game in which Minnesota’s game-winning touchdown was ruled down at the 1 and there was only time for one final play!? It’s been quite a season and things are about to get … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Oct. 31 Games
Inside The Helmets Of Florida-Georgia, USC-Cal, Ole Miss-Auburn And Other Key Contests This is college football’s catch-your-breath weekend. The sport is taking a power nap, the kind everyone needs on occasion. But then again, it could wake up and provide us with another dramatic finish the way it’s done all year – a Hail Mary, a miracle game-winning touchdown on a field … [Read more...]
Alabama-LSU Again A Prime-Time SEC Game
CBS To Televise Key Matchup That Could Impact College Football Playoff One of the biggest college football games of the year will be a prime-time affair, as CBS-TV has announced the kickoff on Nov. 7 for Alabama-LSU for 8 p.m., ET. This is a rare double-header day for the network, which normally televises one SEC game at 3:30. It will feature lead announcers Verne … [Read more...]
World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party Is The Georgia-Florida Game In Jacksonville
In the rest of the USA, it's the weekend past Halloween. But in Jacksonville, Florida, it a different kind of party. On Saturday, Nov. 2, Georgia and Florida play a college football game that has earned the nickname of World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. And Jacksonville officials are ready for the onslaught of Dogs and Gators fans, many of whom are just there to … [Read more...]
Alabama Football Top 10 Game Day Crimson Tide Essentials
Everything You Need To Have To Roll With The Tide With another run at a National Championship contending team, Alabama fans are rolling again in 2015. Because of this there is more – much more – to attending a football game at the University of Alabama than just showing up with a ticket. And even before the pre-game tailgate on the Quad and the march to Bryant-Denny … [Read more...]
College Football Tailgating Key To Getting Fans To Games
ADs Need To Embrace The Game-DayExperience College football athletic directors are scratching their heads on how to get their fans to come to games rather than stay at home and watch on TV. They are trying all kinds of things but the prime solution is right in front of them: the tailgate parties. In order for people to get out of their house and spend the time and money to … [Read more...]
Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Games Analysis Oct. 24
Inside The Helmet For Alabama-Tennessee, Clemson-Miami, USC-Utah Obviously knowing that Jimmy Buffett is playing Irvine Meadows, the college football schedule makers made it a light weekend of games this week. The most significant involves the Third Saturday of October, a long-time traditional Southern rivalry. They may have also sensed we need a week to catch our breath … [Read more...]
Michigan State Miracle Has College Football Buzzing
Sparty's Incredible Win Over Michigan A Play For The Ages Turn on the TV and you'll see the it everywhere. Go on Twitter and look at the comments. The Michigan State Miracle is the talk of college football the day after the incredible ending resulted in a 27-23 win over arch-rival Michigan. The ending was so stunning it instantly had people comparing it to the … [Read more...]
College Football Best Of: Band, Tailgate Party, Cheerleaders
Top Rankings Of The Game's Fans, Atmosphere & Stadiums The AP and College Football Playoff Committee have theie rankings. And PubClub.com has ours. And it's not just our Top Party Schools. It's this other all-important element of the college game, the atmosphere around the game. That's the live in-person experience and even watching on TV. So here's our picks for … [Read more...]
Pigskin Prognosticator College Football Games Oct. 17
Inside The Helmets For USC-Notre Dame, Alabama-Texas A&M, Florida-LSU This is the Pigskin Prognosticator, a weekly look "inside the helmets" of key college football games for the week of Oct. 17. Have we ever had a wilder week off the field, during the week, in the history of college football? The Prognosticator does not want to take comedic jabs at Steve Sarkisian … [Read more...]
Steve Spurrier Retires From South Carolina To Coach USC?
Head Ball Coach Could Be Coaching Trojans This Season The sudden – and immediate – retirement and the timing of it coming just a few hours after a premier program fired its coach led PubClub.com to speculate that Steve Spurrier left one USC for another USC. That's a thought that has gained some traction on Twitter, too (hashtag #USC). Spurrier To Be On Sidelines … [Read more...]
Is Steve Spurrier Trading One USC For Another?
South Carolina Coach Suddenly Retires After Trojans Fire Steve Sarkisian; Hmm Pure speculation here but why not, right? Steve Spurrier suddenly retires – effective immediately – the same day that Southern California fires Steve Sarkisian. Could he be going from one USC to the other USC? It's not necessarily as crazy as it sounds. Spurrier needs a new jolt and USC … [Read more...]
USC Fires Steve Sarkisian; Now Both Can Start Recovery
Trojans Again Looking For New Coach To Lead Troy The healing has begun, both for the USC football team and for Steve Sarkisian. USC Athletic Director Pat Haden finally took the right move and fired Sarkisian. This is one day after Sarkisian reportedly was intoxicated in a team meeting and was told not to go to practice, and two months after being inebriated at a major … [Read more...]
Pat Haden Should Have Fired Steve Sarkisian In August
USC Football Coach Needed To Be Let Go After Salute To Troy Embarrassment It's easy to picture Pat Haden, on a calm Sunday morning at a USC basketball event, suddenly thrust into another issue with his football coach. He receives a call, the coach is missing, was apparently intoxicated at a team meeting and is not at practice. So Haden has to suddenly go into crisis … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Oct. 10 Game Picks
Inside The Helmet To Cal-Utah, Texas-OU & Other Key Matchups Some pundits were scratching their heads last week after the games because they did not foresee certain results, but that’s not the case with the Prognosticator. Chief among these was the Trampolines falling to Arizona State but UCLA did what it does every year, and that’s drop a game after a big win or a … [Read more...]
South Carolina-LSU Shows SEC Rivals Can Be Friends, Too
Game Moved To Baton Rouge; Tiger Band To Learn Gamecocks Songs Yes, the SEC is cutthroat competition when it comes to college football. There's bitter battles on the recruiting trail, some pretty harsh insults traded between fans on social media and at tailgate parties, and hard hitting on the field. But there are times when everyone comes together, too, and that's … [Read more...]
College Football Teams Suffering From New Hires
Nebraska, Tennessee & Texas Struggling With Fresh Coaches Three major college football programs have hired coaches the past couple of years and all three may be having second thoughts about the coaches they chose at the time. Alumni and fans certainly are, and are venting their frustrations on Twitter. Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas thought they made smart hires … [Read more...]
Red River Rivalry Could Determine Charlie Strong’s Future
A Blowout Loss May Send The Texas Coach Out To Pasture Despite a 1-4 start and coming off a blowout loss, Charlie Strong still has the support of alumni and the administration. But that could change after the Red River Rivalry. If the Longhorns suffer another embarrassing defeat, then the brief Strong experiment could send the coach riding out of town. And not in the … [Read more...]
Red River Rivalry This Weekend’s Biggest College Football Party
OU-Texas Game Goes Beyond Tailgating There's the rivalry. There's the atmosphere. And there's the party. The Red River Rivalry – the annual OU-Texas game held at the Teas State Fairgrounds – is Saturday, Oct. 10, and it's the biggest social scene on the weekend in college football. It starts on Friday in Dallas and rolls all through the city. Then it spills … [Read more...]
Joaquin To Affect College Football, MLB & NASCAR
ESPN GameDay Fans To Get Soaked For ND-Clemson Hurricane Joaquin is not apparently much of a sports fan. As Joaquin parallels the Eastern Seaboard late this week and into the weekend, it threateners college football games – including two major contests – plus potential cancelations of MLB games and the NASCAR race. According to AccuWeather.com, delays, widespread … [Read more...]
Clemson Excited To Host GameDay & Notre Dame
Hurricane Joaquin To Make Things Wet & Wild It's going to be both wild and wet this weekend in Clemson, S.C. The wild part comes from the football team hosting Notre Dame and the school hosting ESPN's wildly popular pregame show, GameDay. The wet comes from Hurricane Joaquin, which is causing a flash flood watch and could well bring thundershowers to the set on … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Oct. 3 Games
Alabama-Georgia, UCLA-Arizona State & Notre-Dame Clemson Predictions Welcome to the Pigskin Prognosticator for the college football games of Oct. 3. This is what goes on inside the helmets and therefore will determine what happens on the field. All times listed are Pacific Time, for while the Prognosticator has an SEC heritage, he now lives in Pac-12 … [Read more...]
Free Beer From An Orlando Bar Until UCF Wins
The Basement Makes Offer During Football Team's Games Here's a cheers to free beers. Even if the team doesn't win. The Basement bar in Orlando, FL, has the best promotion of a bar in college football and is actually giving away free beer during games. It started it because the home team, normally competitive Central Florida, the team that produced Jacksonville … [Read more...]
Five College Football Coaches Already On The Hot Seat
Alumni & Fans Quickly Turning Up The Heat At Top Programs We're only a month into the 2015 college football season and already some coaches are feeling the heat. It fact, our #5 had his britches burning even before the first game. Coaches in the SEC are always on the hottest seats, by the way. It's the most pressure-packed place to win in college football. Mainly … [Read more...]
College Football Pigskin Prognosticator Week 4 Picks
Pac-12 Games Take Spotlight In Late September Games The Prognosticator was spot-on with UCLA last weekend, the game coming down to practically the last play with the ball in the BYU quarterback’s hands and him rolling to the right... But then he threw it to Jack Miles instead of one of his players in the end zone and the Bruins escaped with a win. However, the … [Read more...]
Alabama-USC 2016 Game Renews A Brief But Storied Rivalry
Bear Bryant, John McKay & The Wishbone Big Parts Of Series History Two of the most storied programs in college football meet again, with Alabama and USC playing in Cowboys Stadium – Jerry's World – to kick off the 2016 season. It's a renewal of a brief, but eventful rivalry that has history and once featured two of the game's all-time greatest coaches. Most of the talk … [Read more...]
Best College Football Game Traditions From Tailgating To Cheerleaders
Top Tailgate, Party Towns & Pre- And Post-Game Celebrations The AP, ESPN and the College Playoff Committee have their rankings. And PubClub.com has our rankings. And it's not just our Top Party Schools. It's this other all-important element of the college game, the atmosphere around the game. This is what you can only get by being at the game, not at home … [Read more...]
USC Football Transportation: South Bay To Coliseum On LA Metro
How To Use The Beach Cities Transit, Green Line Train & Silver Line Bus Here's how to get from the South Bay Beach Cities to USC games at the Coliseum using the LA Metro system. • Take the Beach Cities Transit, or the "white bus" from the Beach Cities to the Metro station. There are two buses, the 102, which goes to the Metro Station at Marine Street, and the 109, … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Sports Bars College Football Alumni Game-Watching Places
Where L.A. Transplants Watch Arizona State, Ohio State, Nebraska, Wisconsin & More Schools In Los Angeles, a huge number of transplants from the rest of the USA means there are fans and alumni of schools who gather to watch games together and of course, that's in a bar. Here's a rundown of bars in Hermosa Beach where groups – sometimes 50+ strong – gather to watch … [Read more...]
USC-UCLA Game A Different Experience For Transplanted SEC Fan
The Tailgate Party And Singles Scene At This Cross-Town Rivalry I'll never forget attending my first USC-UCLA game. The rivalry is something I had watched on TV from afar, one vivid memory being of the camera following a very attractive blonde as she walked up the steps at the L.A. Coliseum, dressed in a full-length coat on a warm, sunny day in November and, upon … [Read more...]
Alabama-Tennessee Rivalry Special For UA Alumni & Knoxville Native
Rocky Top is home, sweet home to me. After all, I'm a native of Knoxville, and in high school, sold Cokes at UT games in Neyland Stadium. But make no mistake, when the Vols take the field against their most hated rival, I don't do the Tennessee Waltz. I roll with the Tide. When Alabama wins, I do as the players and coaches do in the locker room, I smoke a cigar. There … [Read more...]
USC Football Says No On-Campus Tailgating For Arizona Game
Fans Also Not Excited About Thursday Night Pac-12 Encounter There's not been much for USC fans to be excited about this season – other than the firing of Coach Lane Kiffin – and they are not at all excited about having to play a game on a Thursday night. First, there's LA traffic, it's at night and, well, it's on a Thursday instead of a Saturday. And now, USC has sent … [Read more...]
With Lane Kiffin Fired, I Can Finally Root For USC Football Again
Long-Time Trojans Fan Can Again Cheer 'Fight On' Even before moving to Los Angeles, I liked USC football. It had Heisman Trophy winners, a legendary coach whose wise-cracking comments kept reporters laughing and who drank "see throughs" at booster cocktail parties, games played in sunshine in November and, of course, fielded the Song Girls with their pleated skirts and … [Read more...]
Back On Campus: The Alabama Football Game Day Experience
The Party Blogger Returns To His Alma Mater For Tailgate Parties, The Bars & The Game Awesome! Were I to describe the experience of an Alabama football game in a single word, that would be it. Awesome. In a "back to school" experience for me, I spent the weekend of the Alabama-Ole Miss game in Tuscaloosa, AL. It was a return to the place where I went to college, … [Read more...]
It’s A Roll Tide Weekend For The Nightlife Party Blogger
It's Back To School For cDllege Football Tailgating And Tuscaloosa Bars For Alabama-Ole Miss Game It's Roll Tide and, yes, even a Hottie Toddie or two as I spend the last weekend of September in Tuscaloosa for the Al-a-BAM-a and Ole Miss college football game. It's back to school for me, for I am a Bama graduate – and putting that degree in journalism to good use with … [Read more...]
UCLA Nebraska Party Bus Hermosa Beach to Rose Bowl
College Tailgate Party Rolls With Transportation From the South Bay College football season is here and that means tailgate parties! One of the season's first big games is in the historic Rose Bowl as Nebraska visits UCLA. But as anyone not from Pasadena will tell you, it's a long way to the Rose Bowl from other parts of L.A. And that's why the South Bay Beach Cities … [Read more...]