The Loc-Nar messed up everything it touched…much like instant replay did for the National Football League.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 160: “Heavy Metal”
Dubsism…the only place you can see the connection between a fictional gambling “sting” in 1930s Illinois and a real one in present-day Iowa.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 158: “The Sting”
Pretty sure he’s not as much of a douchebag as Olbermann.… Read More Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 77: Hawkeye Olbermann?
That’s right, with the addition of Nebraska, the Big Ten has twelve members. Gone are the days of hiding the “ten that is actually 11” thing Escher-like in the conference logo. Gone are the days of my being able to refer to this league as the Big Eleven Ten (I will be sticking with Big… Read More Penn State ’11 – When The Ten That Was Eleven Became Twelve
That’s right, with the addition of Nebraska beginning in 2011, the Big Ten will have twelve members. Gone are the days of hiding the “ten that is actually 11” thing Escher-like in the conference logo. Gone are the days of my being able to refer to this league as the Big Eleven Ten (I will… Read More Penn State ’10 – The Last Year for the Big Eleven
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. There is a rule in the blogosphere that says if you tag more than three posts with “college football,” you are required to do a pre-season ranking. It’s really almost like a chain letter; failing to engage is such willful prognostication can mean your goodies… Read More The 2010 Dubsism Pre-Season College Football Rankings
Since it seems the college football world is about to undergo the tectonic shift of conference re-alignment we’ve all been waiting for, it may be time for us here at Dubsism to introduce you to a conference and its members with whom you may not be all that familiar. When it comes to the Big… Read More Understanding The Conference That Was The Big Ten Through a Comparison to Classic Game Show Hosts
Two years ago, Southern Cal and Ohio State were universally regarded as being two of the elite programs in all of college football; both were on a roll of consecutive shared or outright conference titles. Two months ago, they met in a Clash of the Titans in Columbus, with one seeming like a lock to… Read More Terrelle, the Trojans, and the Battle of Thermopylae?
Fans of this conference are all too familiar with this situation. One upset tosses the standings into a potential collision between at least four teams, leading to the usual punditry about tie-breakers and “if team x beats team y” scenarios. How fitting was it that the catalyst upset for the 2009 Train Wreck was brought… Read More College Football Week 7 – The Week the Big Ten Formed its Annual Train Wreck
1) Hotty Toddy Gosh Almigh…FAAACK!!! When Houston Nutt’s Ole Miss Rebels travel to Columbia for a showdown with the South Carolina ‘Cocks of the “Ol’ Ball Coach,” and you put it on national television, entertainment should abound. First of all, there’s at least three good Beavis and Butthead-types jokes in the prior sentence alone. Then there’s always… Read More College Football Week 4 – The FAAACK! Edition
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