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Liam Coolican, Nate Moller and Patrick Gallagher | Friday, October 30, 2020
Well it finally happened. After six straight upset picks, Patrick Gallagher finally missed on one, giving everyone else a chance to catch up. Unfortunately, only Nate Moller notched a correct upset call last week, correctly nailing the Wake Forest over Virginia Tech result. As such, Patrick maintains a 16-point advantage in this week’s leaderboard, while
David Kramer | Monday, August 17, 2020
“We want to be safe and we want to play.” So begins the open letter penned by the Irish football SWAT captains. More of a desperate plea for clearance than an expression of intent, the message that flooded social media platforms this past week came ahead of the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences’ nightmarish news.
Aidan Thomas | Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Bowl games. Wow, there’s a lot I would like to say on the topic, so my challenge here is limiting myself to about 1,000 words on how much I hate the bowl system. Here’s to hoping I can control my ranting in this top five list of things I would change about how the system
Aidan Thomas | Friday, December 6, 2019
It’s conference championship weekend, and that means we’re back with another edition of Observer Roundtable Predictions. The SEC, Big 10 and Big 12 title games made our docket for this week, but check out the NFL and upsets piece to check in on some of our bold calls in other championship match-ups. As for how
Colin Capece | Friday, December 6, 2019
As someone who has been enamored with college football for as long as I can remember, this coming Saturday will be an absolute dream. Beginning at noon with the Big 12 championship game between Oklahoma and Baylor, there will be conference championship games to watch all day long. Every Power Five final features a matchup
Aidan Thomas | Thursday, November 21, 2019
Minnesota has really kicked us in the teeth the last two weeks. After all but David Kramer picked the Gophers to fall to Penn State, every one of us except Nate Moller picked Minnesota to beat Iowa. Overall regarding Minnesota games, we’re a combined 2-10, so to make ourselves feel better we’re not putting them
Jimmy Ward | Monday, November 18, 2019
I’m not a big fan of the Heisman Trophy in general. Ever since the award was given to Ohio State’s Troy Smith in 2006 over Brady Quinn, I started to tune out to the ridiculous spectacle. In my lifetime, this is when the award started to go downhill, but it can easily be argued that
Aidan Thomas | Thursday, November 14, 2019
As authors of the weekly Observer Roundtable, it is our job to find hot takes each week and pick the top games for each weekend. And as much as we celebrate our victories, we will own up to our losses. So with no further ado, we owe an apology to quarterback Joe Burrow and the
Aidan Thomas, Dominic Gibson, David Kramer, Nate Moller, Liam Coolican and Patrick Gallagher | Thursday, October 31, 2019
Welcome back to the third week of the Observer Roundtable! We took a week off, but the previous edition saw some close calls. Sports writer senior Liam Coolican almost made the call of the year as he called for Kansas to upset Texas as a 30-point underdog, and the Jayhawks came within two points of
Thomas Murphy | Thursday, November 15, 2018
I have coached the Navy Midshipmen to six-straight national championships, mentored three Heisman trophy winners and maintained a consistent top-10 recruiting class in my tenure. These are my greatest accomplishments. And yet, I find myself searching for something more. By something more, I actually mean something new. By something new, I mean a new NCAA