Category: Emily Van Buskirk

This week’s numerical nourishment is dedicated to game changers, particularly of the defensive variety. Because this year in college football, defense is the new offense. Game changers are not always…

This week’s statistical roundup is dedicated to the unlikely heroes – the unranked teams that pulled off miraculous upsets against top-ranked opponents. The Syracuse Orange, who toppled the mighty Clemson…

At this point in the season, we are all getting a feel for college football. This week, I was in New York covering a game and visiting family, and was…

This week’s statistics column is dedicated to the one thing everyone needs to play the game: the ball. I’m talking about guys who have it the most, the guys who…

With all the anger, hate and division going on in our country right now, we at The Sports Fan Journal decided to dedicate this week’s college football statistical leaderboard to…

Last week, the college football slate was highly entertaining with ranked teams being upset, games going into double-overtime and several squads being shut out of the end zone completely. We…

The reason I love writing this column is simple: in an ever-changing sports climate, numbers are the only constant. Rankings, scores, statistics, game clocks – everything in sports has a…

The American novelist Thomas Wolfe once said that you can’t go home again. But sprawled out on the couch in his dad’s head coach office at Middle Tennessee State, Brent…