Down the Stretch They Come: The Biggest Games of the Final 6 Weeks

Schedulers across the non-BCS universe have done a nice job arranging for back-loaded championship races in all 5 leagues.  These are getting lost in the national race, of course, so here’s a look at some games to keep in mind as we steam toward the end of the year.  We’ll give it another week or so, [...]

Week 7 Pick Summary

All the Spread Picks from the Week 7 Previews in one place:

12:00 to 2:00 Kickoffs

Arkansas State +10 at Indiana
Miami +12.5 at Central Michigan
NC State -7.5 at East Carolina
Southern Miss -14.5 at Memphis
Temple -20 vs. Bowling Green
Eastern Michigan +14.5 at Ball State
Ohio -17 vs. Akron
Western Michigan +24 at Notre Dame
UNLV +3.5 at Colorado State

3:30 to 6:00 Kickoffs

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Week 2 Conference Scoreboard

Up at the top there, we’ve added a Conference Scoreboard- a chance to see how each league is performing against BCS leagues, each other, and the lowly FCS.  Obviously there are differences between BCS wins, but I’m not planning to try to break them down any further than that.

Hopefully we’ll see a few more notches in [...]

Holiday Week Bowl Update

A quiet week on the fringe, especially since a lot of the non-BCS bowls have given way to the bigger leagues this week.  We have had a few more surprises this week, which sets up a very interesting run through the rest of Bowl Season

Marshall 21, Ohio 17- this, to me, is a big surprise and [...]

Fringe Hangover, Wednesday, December 23

Last night, BYU continued the process of boosting the MWC’s status by kicking Oregon State all over the Las Vegas Bowl.  In the face of howling winds, BYU led most of the way to a 44-20 victory.

Tonight, Utah will look to keep that going as they take on Cal in the Poinsettia Bowl.  This is Utah’s [...]

Fringe Hangover- With Links! Tuesday, December 22

I haven’t really done the link-sharing post thus far in the short history of this site, mainly because I hadn’t come up with a way to sift through 54 teams worth of web writing.  But for now, I’ll be giving it a try here during bowl season since the games are pretty concentrated.

Tonight, we have the [...]

Fringe Hangover: St. Pete Bowl Wrapup & Tonight’s Game

The St. Petersburg bowl was, from everybody’s perspective but UCF’s, a great success.  A sellout crowd of over 29,000 gave the game the atmosphere you might expect from a more prestigious bowl, and the game was fairly interesting for a couple reasons as it evolved.  The first half was fairly competitive until it wound down, with [...]

Phoenix Pub & Football On The Fringe St. Pete/NFL Live Blog!

If all goes according to plan, then I’ll be live the St. Petersburg Bowl tonight when UCF squares off against Rutgers, and if it really goes according to plan, then I’ll be here live-blogging the event. Meanwhile, the NFL has some game going on too, so we’re joining up with the Phoenix Pub crew for [...]

Fringe Hangover: It’s Bowl Season!

After all this time, we’ve made it through to the college football postseason, and we’ve got 3 weeks of interesting matchups in bowl games big and small. They start today with two that ought to be pretty good. I’ve previewed them already, but here’s a couple more bits of tid:

Wyoming: 5-6 All time bowl [...]

Bowl Week #1 Previews At the Pub

Yup, I’ve posted my first batch of bowl previews over at The Phoenix Pub.  I had thought about generating more in-depth ones to post here, but between the matchup mentions going on in the season reviews and the Pub posts, they’re about covered.  Feel free to add other thoughts or insight into the first bowls of [...]