Category Archives: The Guest Room

SI’s Stewart Mandel outlines his thoughts on how the Pac-10 and Big Ten (names subject to change) will form their divisions once they reach full 12-team strength. He brings up an interesting (and probably fatal) flaw in the “zipper” model proposed by some for the Pac-10. Given the history of the league (such as last year’s Civil War game, or… Read more »

For those of us who find soccer* mind numbingly dull I offer you this football related post to entertain you. Something I haven’t seen really addressed anywhere within all this talk of the coming conference mega storm is the shake up it will cause with the various bowl arrangements. Now I realize there are a fair number of people who… Read more »

Well, who here thought we’d be talking about college sports in June? Or that THE LANDSCAPE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS WOULD CHANGE FOREVAR? I’ve been thinking about the demise of the Big 12. Now, I know it is a fairly recent conference that lacks the history of what is now the Big Ten, that it was a marriage of connivence between… Read more »