So I guess I have a terrible concept of deadlines, since the college football season starts tomorrow night and I’m barely halfway through these previews. So let me try to run through my predictions and then, in 3 months, we can all point and laugh at how horrible I am at predicting these things. ACC…
The ranks of those too good for a conference shrinks again this year as Navy joins the American, leaving just three independent programs in the FBS. Two are strong, major programs on their own and the other is Army West Point. Rankings these teams is the easiest thing I’ve done yet in this project. 1.…
The American becomes a 12-team conference this season and will end the season with a title game. In the last four years, the AAC has undergone more changes than any other conference. Only Cincinnati, Connecticut and South Florida remain from when this was the Big East. Plus, for the first time in over a century…
There’s programs reloading, programs growing and programs trying to find ways to stay successful this year in the Mountain West. But, at the end of the season, things are going to look very familiar. Boise State stands on top with Utah State and Nevada giving chase. San Diego State and Air Force look to continue…
A number of C-USA teams are replacing their stars, none more so than Marshall. That could leave opportunities for young players to shine and young teams to make some moves up the standings. However, I think that the names on top of the conference won’t be doing much changing from last season. East 1. Western…
Rebuilding is a theme that runs through most of the teams in the Sun Belt this year. Whether it’s a program working from the ground up (Georgia State), a team reeling after losing a ton of talent (ULM) or former powers wanting to restore their position in the standings (Troy), a number of teams are…
We’re gonna be talking about Algebracket today. If you’re not hip to Algebracket, then you’re missing out. The creators, Peter Rifel and Adam Wilcox, have done a terrific job crossing the bridge between those who like to put up brackets and those who understand the deep analytics and stats that go into it. Basically, they…
To say that Russell Westbrook is having a great season would be like saying that the 80s were a great decade for the US Men’s National Hockey team. 1980 was nice, obviously, but they didn’t win a single Olympic/world championship medal for the remainder of the decade. Westbrook is in a similar, but vastly different…
So that plan to do this once a week when February hit didn’t so much pan out. Turns out that putting together a bracket after following 100+ teams every week is rather time consuming. But I’ll try to make up for it by doing, not only NCAA seed lines, but the NIT as well. And,…
I’m doing a “trial fandom” of the Nashville Predators, to see if I can actually root for a team for longer than a season or two. Below are my initial observations from the last few weeks of fanning the Preds. 1) For some background, I live in/near/around/[insert preposition of choice] Nashville, TN. Land of sweet…
Now that football is over, its time to shift my attention to the hardwood. College basketball, that is. With that comes some of the most fun, at least for me, regular feature here at the Bang: bracketology. Yes, I know I’m sick. Now I will admit that I’ve been keeping up with the college basketball…
Apparently, I’ve got a lot of anger surrounding my sports fandom so this will probably be a regular feature here at the Bang. I’ve been trying to figure out how to articulate this recently, because as an Ohio State fan (and a sad Browns fan), I’ve found myself drawn into some of these pointless sports…
Now, I know it’s been quite a while since any of have posed anything. But the upcoming first College Football Playoff seems like a good time to reverse that lazy trend. So here’s the Bang’s first bracketology for the College Football Playoff. Remember, much like the brackets we do for college basketball, these are our…
Group B was figured to be the Group of Death Part 1. The defending world and European champions were drawn with the team they beat in the final in South Africa, plus the South American upstart Chile. Australia was the sacrificial lamb. But as we’ve seen over the last week, the emperor was essentially naked.…
So we actually recorded an hour-long show going over all of our first round picks, and then the audio exploded. So that is not here. Our running though the second round is here, so please accept our apologies, scope our first round picks and listen in for the second. Then watch the draft starting tomorrow…
