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Ohio State’s Championship Quest – Inside the Buckeye’s 2024 Campaign

Mark Haines on January 18, 2025

The Buckeyes’ 13-2 season demonstrates how, when properly deployed, elite talent can overcome almost any obstacle.

An Aerial Assault That Commands Respect

Will Howard transformed Ohio State’s passing game into one of college football’s most lethal weapons.

The numbers tell the story of aerial dominance:

  • 265.1 passing yards per game
  • 71% completion rate
  • 35 passing touchdowns
  • Two 900+ yard receivers (Smith: 1,227, Egbuka: 947)
  • 14 touchdowns from Smith alone
  • 10 scores from Egbuka

This passing attack kept defensive coordinators awake at night.

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Notre Dame’s Path to the National Championship Game

Mark Haines on January 17, 2025

Notre Dame’s Path to the National Championship Game: A 2024 Season Analysis

Notre Dame’s remarkable 14-1 season proves that championship-caliber teams are built on resilience, not perfection.

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Why Texas will beat Ohio State Tonight

Mark Haines on January 10, 2025

Will tonight’s championship matchup between Texas and Ohio State live up to the hype? All signs point to an instant classic in the making.

The Numbers Tell a Story of Perfect Balance

These two football powerhouses couldn’t be more evenly matched on paper. Texas brings its explosive offense (34.3 points per game) against Ohio State’s suffocating defense (12.1 points allowed). The Buckeyes counter with their offensive firepower (36.4 points per game), while Texas’s defense has been equally stingy (15.7 points allowed).

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Notre Dame vs Penn State: A Clash of Titans in the Orange Bowl Semi Final

Mark Haines on January 8, 2025

Thursday, January 9, 2025 | 7:30 p.m. ET

No. 7 Notre Dame vs. No. 6 Penn State

Hard Rock Stadium | Miami Gardens, Florida

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The Chess Match: Two Coaches, Two Programs, One Bowl Game Collision – SMU at Penn State

Mark Haines on December 20, 2024

Nobody expected SMU’s Rhett Lashlee to pull off what might be college football’s most remarkable transformation story of 2023.

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The Unlikely Revolution: When Indiana Crashed Notre Dame’s Party

Mark Haines on December 19, 2024

Marcus Freeman never saw them coming. Nobody did.

In the strange mathematics of college football, where tradition equals power and history writes the future, Notre Dame’s head coach should be preparing his Fighting Irish for another predictable playoff matchup against Alabama, Georgia, or Michigan. Instead, he finds himself staring across the field at college football’s most improbable revolution: an Indiana Hoosiers team that has turned the sport’s hierarchy on its head.

The Miracle Worker of Bloomington

The man responsible for this upheaval doesn’t look like a revolutionary. Curt Cignetti, with his measured tone and methodical approach, seems more likely to teach advanced calculus than engineer one of the most remarkable turnarounds in college football history. But numbers tell a different story:

  • An offense that scores 43.33 points per game (3rd nationally)
  • A defense allowing just 70.8 rushing yards per game (1st nationally)
  • An 11-1 record that nobody outside Bloomington thought possible

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The New Economics of College Football: Understanding the Transfer Portal Panic

Mark Haines on December 13, 2024

In two years, college football’s talent market transformed from an orderly command economy into a chaotic free market that would make cryptocurrency traders blush. The New Economics of College Football: Understanding the Transfer Portal Panic examines how over 750 players entering the transfer portal this month isn’t evidence of a broken system – it’s proof of a market finally finding its equilibrium. What looks like chaos to anxious fans refreshing their Twitter feeds is the messy emergence of college football’s first true labor market, complete with hidden negotiations, market-making general managers earning NFL-style salaries, and the type of resource allocation decisions that would make a hedge fund manager sweat. The panic isn’t about dysfunction – it’s about price discovery. And in this new world of college football economics, the only thing more expensive than talent is inexperience in managing it.

Detroit, MI – USA – 10-21-2024: A Wilson football from above on a pile of money

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Coaching Changes Updated

Mark Haines on December 9, 2024

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Offense vs. Defense: Georgia and Texas Face Off in the SEC Conference Championship Game

Mark Haines on December 6, 2024

Tomorrow night at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, two college football titans collide in the SEC Conference Championship game. It’s a showdown that transcends the scoreboard; Georgia, the reigning powerhouse with its electrifying offense led by Carson Beck, takes on a Texas team rewriting the rules of modern football with a defense that has defied all expectations. In an age dominated by high-flying offenses, the Longhorns have forged a defensive identity that could prove revolutionary. As these contrasting approaches meet, the question looms: Can a defensive renaissance overcome the offensive evolution that has defined this era of the sport?

The Evolution Game: How Texas Built a Defense for Modern Football

The numbers tell a story, but not the one you’d expect. In the gleaming, antiseptic confines of Mercedes-Benz Stadium, two football programs will meet tomorrow night, each representing a different answer to the same question: How do you win in an era when offense has seemingly broken the sport?

Let’s Break It Down:

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Big Ten Conference Championship Preview: Oregon vs Penn State

Mark Haines on December 5, 2024

We’ve broken down both teams – Oregon vs Penn State for the Big Ten Conference Championship Game. We’re calling this game:

The Perfect Season Meets the Perfect Defense: A Tale of Two Programs

In the high-stakes world of college football, where billions of dollars flow through palatial training facilities and coaches’ contracts read like small-nation GDPs, two programs have found remarkably different paths to the same destination. The Oregon Ducks, with their Silicon Valley-meets-Saturday-afternoon approach to offense, carry the weight of an unblemished 12-0 record. Their opponents, the Penn State Nittany Lions, have turned defensive football into a kind of performance art, yielding yards with all the generosity of a loan shark.

The numbers tell a story that Vegas oddsmakers have been struggling to decode. Oregon’s offense, orchestrated by the Oklahoma transfer Dillon Gabriel (who has thrown for 3,275 yards with the precision of a surgeon), generates 448.5 yards per game – exactly 5.7 yards more than Penn State. In the multi-billion dollar business of college football, that’s the equivalent of finding a penny in your couch cushions.

But here’s where it gets interesting. Let’s break it down:

Team Comparison: Penn State vs Oregon (2024 Season)

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