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Aidan Thomas | Wednesday, March 8, 2023
The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is generally less prone to upsets than the men’s tournament. But as the depth and talent in the field increase the parity of the event, upsets are beginning to happen with more frequency. Just last year, four teams sitting on the 11 and 12-seed lines won their opening game. Two
Joseph Tunney | Wednesday, November 30, 2022
5. Purdue vs. No. 2 Michigan (-16.5), 8 p.m. Michigan is coming off of the best win in the college football season, a 45-23 dismantling of Ohio State. After big plays from quarterback JJ McCarthy and receiver Cornelius Johnson kept the Wolverines in striking distance at halftime, the bruising offensive line opened big holes for
The Observer | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Tennessee and TCU, both unranked entering the college football season, continued their surprising starts by improving to 7-0 on Saturday. Tennessee did not let up following their thrilling win over Alabama, scoring 52 first-half points and coasting to a 65-24 victory against UT Martin. TCU had a more difficult test in the form of No.
Joseph Tunney | Wednesday, October 5, 2022
5. Texas @ Oklahoma, 12 p.m., ABC, (Texas -7) Sandwiched in between the two weeks of the Texas State fair in Dallas is the Red River Showdown between Texas and Oklahoma. The game is almost guaranteed to be a good one as regardless of the quality of the teams, only one game since 2014 has
Matthew Crow | Tuesday, September 6, 2022
After a far-too-long offseason (and a smattering of Week 0 matchups), college football is back, and with its triumphant return came everything we have come to know and love about the sport. A wild opening weekend featured upsets, dominating performances, nail-biting finishes, and several teams finding bizarre ways to win. Here are five of the
Bella Laufenberg | Friday, February 12, 2021
Though only published in December, Gary Belovsky began the work for his recent climate change study over 40 years ago. Freshly off his doctoral studies of calculating a model of the diet of moose in northern Michigan, Belovsky, who is currently a professor emeritus of biological sciences, moved to Montana to work on the National
Benjamin Padanilam | Tuesday, February 16, 2016
No. 24 Notre Dame competed in the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona, to open its season this past weekend and finished with a record of 3-2. The Irish (3-2) began their tournament on Friday with a doubleheader, battling No. 23 Utah in the afternoon before taking on No. 18 Kentucky in the evening. In their
Alex Carson | Monday, November 16, 2015
What’s the point of playing games if nobody’s going to pay attention to the results? I’m looking at you, AP poll. You got a lot of things wrong this week. Go down the list of tiebreakers in most major sports, and the one we default to is an intuitive one: head-to-head. It makes sense —
Zach Klonsinski | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Instead of Cinderella’s slippers, get ready to put on your blue suede shoes and play the Delta blues, College Football Playoff Committee: Memphis could be about to crash your ball. If you should know anything about my qualms with the College Football Playoff, it’s that the current four-team format doesn’t allow any room for the
Alex Carson | Monday, October 12, 2015
For some weird reason, Ohio State is the No. 1 team in the country on polls conducted during the 2015 season. Why? The Buckeyes were very good last year, yes, but they haven’t done much of anything yet this season. Their best win? Indiana, who got knocked around pretty well by Penn State on Saturday.