Trash-Talking the 2016 Sweet Sixteen
So what if your team is in the Sweet Sixteen? They still suck. … Read More Trash-Talking the 2016 Sweet Sixteen
So what if your team is in the Sweet Sixteen? They still suck. … Read More Trash-Talking the 2016 Sweet Sixteen
Not every criminal in the sporting world makes headlines.… Read More Radio J-Dub, Volume 28 – The “Law and Order” Edition
We “Ed Hochuli-ed” the list. We’re big enough to admit it.… Read More Upon Further Review, Your College Football Heavyweight Champion Is…Baylor
As is prone to happen in December, the Dubsism College Football Heavyweight title has changed hands yet again. If you recall, two weeks ago, the Oklahoma State Cowboys wrested the belt away from the Baylor Bears. In turn, Oklahoma took it away from Oklahoma during their annual “Bedlam” rivalry game. Saturday marked the fifth time that… Read More Your New College Football Heavyweight Champion – The Oklahoma Sooners
Without a lot of undue fanfare, I’m just going to get to the reasons… 1) It Exposes The BCS For Being A Complete Sham This is what happens when you have a half-playoff, half-bullshit system. It’s no secret I am an anti-BCS guy; I’ve devised my own solution to this problem. But since the Dubsism… Read More Two Undeniable Reasons Why Northern Illinois In The BCS Is GREAT Thing
1) Minnesota might be the worst BCS Conference team I’ve seen since…well, Minnesota The good news is the Golden Gophers found the end zone this week, and they didn’t need a Sherpa guide to do it. The bad news is both of their trips to paydirt came after they were already down by six touchdowns,… Read More What We Learned From This Weekend in Football 10/9/2011
Because we are into the greatest 12 weekends of the year, it is also time to remind some people of just who they are. In other words, we are taking the pre-season Dubsism Top 25 and reminding them that they suck. Let’s be honest, a big part of college football is trash-talking. This is exactly… Read More Trash-Talking the 2011 Top 25
This blog really has its genesis in my response to a post over at TheSportsKraze (he’s done a great job with that blog, and you should read it…after you are done reading Dubsism, of course). His premise is that Texas A&M was “rejected” by the SEC, and as much as I like his work, I couldn’t… Read More Is Texas A&M Getting Ready To Leave It’s Wife For The “Hot Chick?”
Let’s face it, college programs cheat. There’s an old saying in college sports, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” Recently, we here at Dubsism hung a tag of “dirty program” on Auburn, but to be fair, they are far from the only one. Hell, they probably are all dirty; just because your school may… Read More The 10 Dirtiest College Programs Plus The Ones Of Which I’m Most Suspicious
With the NFL Draft looming, I found a list courtesy of the NFL Network featuring the schools consider to be the Top Ten Football Factories. We here at Dubsism took that list and crossed it against each schools three arguably most interesting players. Be mindful of the fact this list was devised and ordered by… Read More The Top 10 Football Factories – And Some That Didn’t Make The List
The sporting world is full of rivalries which engender so much passion there are clear battle lines drawn between the camps. But what happens to those of us who may feel animus toward both sides? Here’s a list of several such examples that make the collective colon here at Dubsism slam shut like a steel… Read More Famous Sports Rivalries In Which I Hate Both Sides
Bowl Championship Series: BCS Championship: Monday, January 10th; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: #1 vs. #2 The Prediction: Alabama (SEC #1) vs. Ohio State (Big Ten #1) The Actual Matchup: 1# Auburn (SEC#1) vs. Oregon (PAC-10 #1) Payout: $18,000,000 The Silly Prediction: First, the canned commentary: This is the matchup that nearly… Read More The Dubsism 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Matchups: How Wrong Our Predictions Were
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 12 Through a Comparison to Stuff in My Kitchen
Two things that everybody will be talking about around the Tuesday morning water cooler: LeGarrette Blount’s knuckles and Sam Bradford’s shoulder. Sure, those are the headlines from the opening weekend of college football, but they threaten to overshadow some other stories that need to be heard as well as some factors within those two tales… Read More College Football Week 1 – Stuff That Will Get Overlooked But Shouldn’t