Fiesta Bowl

Power conferences in college football gain even more strength

2013-04-25 17:45:00

College football commissioners were going to end their three-day unity conference in Pasadena with a round of "Kumbaya" at the hotel's valet carport. That was before the consulting firm that dreamed up "College Football Playoff" suggested something more...

Mississippi, no joke, makes a big splash on football signing day

2013-02-06 19:43:00

The Southeastern Conference conducted its annual player draft Wednesday in advance of winning its eighth straight national title next season. There's nothing like national SEC signing day, with other conferences participating the way the Washington...

UCLA football: Bruins have a difficult road schedule in 2013

2013-01-10 13:55:00

The Pac-12 didn’t do UCLA any favors with the 2013 schedule. The Bruins have back-to-back road games against the conference’s top two teams, Stanford and Oregon. They also have difficult road games at Nebraska (Sept. 14) and USC (Nov. 30)....

For Oregon and Kansas State, Fiesta Bowl is nothing but a consolation game

2013-01-03 00:00:00

— The bumper sticker for this year's Fiesta Bowl could be: "They have only themselves to blame." Kansas State (11-1) and Oregon (11-1), playing Thursday night, would be playing for the national title had the season ended the afternoon of Nov. 17....

Chris Dufresne's top 10 college football moments for 2012 season

2013-01-08 18:45:00

The end of this season means there's only a year left of the snaggle-toothed Bowl Championship Series, a cartel dreamed up by Satan that has been infuriating college football fans since 1998. We can't wait for the new four-team playoff starting in 2014...

Chip Kelly takes another pass on NFL, opts to stay at Oregon

2013-01-07 08:56:00

Chip Kelly came oh-so close to making the leap to the NFL but in the end decided to stay put as the highly successful coach of the Oregon Ducks. Sound familiar? Multiple sources are reporting that after lengthy interviews with the Cleveland Browns and...

As usual, SEC claims ownership of BCS

2012-12-02 20:50:00

ATLANTA -- No one down here in Southeastern Conference country was surprised Sunday when the final Bowl Championship Series standings confirmed Alabama would be playing Jan. 7 for the national title. The surprise is why the SEC isn't playing the SEC...

Times college football rankings: Five California schools make the list

2012-11-28 15:33:00

Rankman has rarely been this excited about two recently "dropped out" teams playing on a Thursday night in Piscataway, N.J. The showdown between Rutgers and Louisville now features two teams representing three different conferences. Rutgers is joining the...

USC idle; Lane Kiffin still center of attention

2012-12-01 00:00:00

Unbuckling the mailbag: Question: The temptation to cheat grows in proportion to Lane Kiffin's failures. Why does Pat Haden plan on keeping him? Matt McKillop Answer: Kiffin doesn't need to cheat to win. Players are not USC's problem. The Trojans had...

A South'easter roars over college football

2012-11-18 00:00:00

Saturday is the reason they play the regular season all the way to the end. Just when you think you know everything, you know nothing. Kansas State was No. 1 in the Bowl Championship Series standings but now it's not. Oregon was No. 2 but now it's...

Notre Dame's BCS prospects are not quite golden

2012-11-11 21:10:00

Top-ranked Alabama's stunning-if-you-say-so home defeat Saturday narrowed the national-scope scenarios but also raised the gun barrels of anxiety — especially in South Bend. The idea that Notre Dame could ever be left out of anything seems...

First BCS standings don't quite add up for Oregon

2012-10-15 00:00:00

Oregon fans have been advised to stay away from sharp objects following their beloved Ducks' disturbing No. 3 debut in the first Bowl Championships Series standings. Third in the BCS is like fourth in the Olympics, but the good news is that this is the...

South Bend Tribune/JAMES BROSHER.Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly removes his jacket to reveal The Shirt 2013 during ceremony on Friday, April 19, 2013, outside of the Hammes Bookstore on the Notre Dame campus.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Matt Kaiserman #26 and Matt Slater #72 of the Boise State Broncos dump Gatorade over head coach Chris Petersen after the Broncos 17-10 victory against the TCU Horned Frogs during the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl at the Universtity of Phoenix Stadium on January 4, 2010 in Glendale, Arizona.

2013-04-16 09:47:00

Kansas State University head coach Bill Snyder speaks during a news conference at the Camelback Inn Resort in Paradise Valley, Arizona on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Kansas State faces the University of Oregon in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl on Thursday. (Travis Heying/Wichita Eagle/MCT)

2013-01-31 10:30:00