I’ll keep this simple. What Northwestern said the Wrigley Field layout would look like: What the field looked like on their ticketing diagram: What the field really looked like: Why they pushed forward with a game in a venue that doesn’t meet NCAA field dimension bylaws: What we get as a result:

Bye weeks can be kind of fun.  While my Arkansas-grad coworker barely sleeps and skips breakfast, I sleep in, enjoy some nice over-easy eggs and hash browns, and spend my morning paying bills and organizing my desk.  For one fall Saturday at least, I am at ease. Which allows me to watch college football with [...]

First off, if you’re a Missouri fan, stop reading.  You won’t like this very much. OK… Are they gone?  No Missouri fans around? BWHAAAHAAHAAAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!! … TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO It’s June 10th.  Colorado has jumped to the Pac 10.  Nebraska will join the Big 10 tomorrow.  And Missouri’s in-house TV affiliate has a headline on their website – [...]

Somewhere in the blogging bylaws it states that three June 2010 posts must be dedicated to conference expansion talk.  So to keep up my end, here’s some completely unsubstantiated guessing as to the endgame. Oh, and I’m one of those “we’re headed for four 16-team Superconferences” guys, so this is my take on those 64 [...]

So the Big Ten is going to expand.  We know that.  And it might go to 16 teams.  We know that.  And there’s a chance that 4 conferences expand – say, maybe the Big 10, Pac 10, ACC, and SEC – each of them growing to 16 teams, and these 4 powerconferences dominate anything and [...]