By Timothy Threadcraft / @shadcraft21 The Game of the Century 3.0 is almost here, and for the first time in a year, there’s a legitimate argument that these aren’t actually the two best teams in the nation anymore. This is LSU’s last shot at revenge, perhaps the college football world’s last...

By Timothy Threadcraft / @shadcraft21 Whether we like it or not, for the time being, it seems that Notre Dame is back. Recent SEC dominance notwithstanding, Brian Kelly has built up a sturdy rushing attack and rugged defense in his three years in South Bend. The surge in recruiting resulting from the...

The Oklahoma Sooners are one of the true powerhouse programs of college football. When their schedule was released for the 2012 season, every Sooners fan circled a couple of games. The Red River Rivalry Shootout is always the first game circled, as making the annual trip down I-35 South down to Dallas...

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Big Ten football conference is going to live up to its moniker. Thanks to the sanctions levied on Penn State and Ohio State, the 12-team Big Ten has been reduced to just 10 teams eligible for the second Big Ten Championship Game. And wouldn’t you know...

Watching the dismantling of West Virginia has become routine the past two weeks in the Big 12. You can even argue that teams are deep into West Virginia’s tendencies, as there is enough tape out on the Mountaineers for coaches to prepare for the dynamic offense. Heading into the game with Kansas State,...

Behind Steve Young, the Hall of Fame’s only left-handed quarterback, Steve McNair was my other all-time favorite signal-caller. Those two players had so much in common in terms of styles, intelligence and absurd amounts of “you gotta KILL me to get me off this field” within. They lived the cliché...

Andy Reid has been both wildly successful and highly infuriating since he took over the head coaching duties for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999. He selected Donovan McNabb with his first draft pick as an NFL head coach. With McNabb and the late, great Jim Johnson calling the defense, Reid took the...

Peyton Manning isn’t the same quarterback he was when his Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl. Take a look in the mirror and tell me if you’re the same person you were when he accomplished that. Time has moved on, and we’re in another decade. It’s funny how fast the minutes...

Last Friday morning, I made the trek from Dallas, Texas to Baltimore, Maryland with the sole purpose of rooting on my Dallas Cowboys. Rooting them on to what, you might ask? Certainly not victory, because the Cows have stunk up the joint all year long and there was no reason to think the game on Sunday...

As a Dallas Cowboys fan, there are three things that you expect from your team. You should have a dominant running game, a fast but furious defense, and a quarterback that can take you to the promised land. As much as it pains me to say, today’s Cowboys team is lacking production from all of these...

By Timothy Threadcraft / @shadcraft21 (Ed’s Note: God bless our resident Yale alum for spitting poetic on the top contenders for John Heisman’s trophy, but a question was raised at the barbershop last week that I found compelling. One of the old man barbers in the shop said that Geno Smith...

Last Saturday, the fifth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs faced off against longtime foe, Steve Spurrier. Spurrier’s Gamecocks blew them out of Columbia, 35-7. The team in garnet and black played ferocious defense. Star running back Marcus Lattimore ran punishingly. Quarterback Connor Shaw rarely threw...