Category: Published Opinion

Column: Not even mad; just disappointed

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Nov. 20—It would have been cool. The ESPN College GameDay program that airs each Saturday morning during football season seemed like it would be in Missoula this week. A source who had a source said ESPN had reserved a block of hotel rooms in the Garden City; the combined 20-2 record of the Bobcats and Grizzlies made the 124th Brawl of the Wild, set for Saturday at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, …

Penn State gains relief after win, wonders what might have been [opinion]

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… EAST LANSING, Mich. – They celebrated Saturday night like they won a championship that they expected to win when all of this began. They carried their coach on their shoulders when it was over. They raised a clunky trophy and posed for photos with it. They banged lockers in the bowels of Spartan Stadium. All that after Penn State’s 28-10 victory over hapless Michigan State for the Land Grant …

Column: A Michigan takeover at Wrigley Field ends in a wild 24-22 comeback win over Northwestern

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Big-game atmosphere arrived at Wrigley Field on Saturday afternoon when Northwestern played host to Michigan in a Big Ten affair, complete with a big-game announcer in Fox Sports’ Gus Johnson. Everything was in place for a great day of football, and perhaps an advertisement for a future bowl game at Wrigley Field, a long-held dream of Chicago Cubs owners. The weather resembled a Cubs-Cardinals …

Penn State’s Terry Smith draws strength from his daughter [opinion]

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Terry Smith has been reliable, direct and effective since he joined the Penn State football staff as James Franklin’s first assistant coach in 2014. That hasn’t changed since he became the interim head coach last month when director of athletics Pat Kraft fired Franklin. “He’s a straight-up guy,” linebacker Amare Campbell said. “He calls everybody out. It doesn’t matter who you are, what your …

Penn State players, coaches describe unknown as nerve-wracking [opinion]

NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Interim head football coach Terry Smith described Ethan Grunkemeyer as Penn State’s quarterback of the future this week. That might be true, but Grunkemeyer could just as easily wind up at another school after the season ends. It all depends on what the next Nittany Lions coach thinks of him or if he brings in a hand-picked quarterback. To describe the emotions and the tension inside the Lasch …