Big Ten Football Power Rankings Week 3

Big Ten Football Power Rankings Week 3: It’s Lonely at the Top

This past week, the biggest surprise in the Big Ten was the loss by Michigan State to Arizona State. Other than that, most of the teams in the Big Ten Football Power Rankings Week 3 took care of business. Ohio State is a juggernaut, Penn State and Michigan bounced back, and Iowa is on the […]

Pac-12 Football Power Rankings

Pac-12 Football Power Rankings Week 3: Party Crashers Enter Top 3

Week two for college football is in the books, and it’s time to see where everybody lands in the Pac-12 Football  Power Rankings Week 3. Overall the conference had a good week except for loses by Arizona and UCLA. The Power rankings are based on quality wins, schedule played, and dominance. The “eye test” and preseason rankings […]

Big 12 Football Week Two

Big 12 Football Week Two Power Rankings: Which teams should be concerned?

Big 12 Football Week Two was very telling in many ways. For some teams, weaknesses were exposed, and for others, promise emerged. Here’s how Big 12 teams stacked up. 10. Iowa State Iowa State had a lot of promise headed into this season, and with good reason.  The Cyclones had one of the more impressive […]

College Football Top 10

Unafraid Show’s College Football Top 10 Rankings Week 3

The two most frustrating parts of being a college football fan are the biased polls and the terrible non-conference schedules. I cannot change the schedules but I can rank the college football top 10 teams by the correct criteria: quality wins, schedule played, and dominance. Most polls including the College Football Playoff Committee give college blueblood […]

NCAA Protecting Amateurism or Capitalism

NCAA Protecting Amateurism or Capitalism?

Is the NCAA protecting amateurism more important than protecting the physical or educational well-being of student-athletes?  It appears so, given the variance in the NCAA’s response to scandals involving its self-imposed duty to protect their “bedrock” principle of “amateurism” versus its duty to protect the physical or educational well-being of “student-athletes.” The NCAA quickly asserts its […]