The Blue Workhorse

Led by sophomore point guard Jeff Teague, who has thus far outplayed all opposing point guards, including North Carolina’s Ty Lawson and Boston College’s Tyrese Rice, Wake Forest defeated previously undefeated Clemson 78-68 on the road to start 3-0 in the ACC. With Pittsburgh’s loss later, Wake Forest is now the only remaining unbeaten team.

The win against Clemson moved Wake to 16-0 setting a record for the best start in school history, something even Tim Duncan couldn’t do (13-0 was Wake’s best start with Duncan).

So how has a team unranked in the preseason moved into the Top 5 with a 16-0 start?

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While flipping through the channels on Friday night around 5 o’clock, I just happened to put it on ESPN and settled down to watch the UCLA Bruins basketball team, coming off a heart-breaking loss to unranked Michigan, take on the Salukis of Southern Illiois.

I just figured this would be another broadcast, until I heard who was color commentating. Yes, my ears instantly recognized the voice of one chair-throwin’, player chokin’ and hell of a basketball coach named Bob Knight.

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The college basketball season started last week, but it gets going full speed today with ESPN’s first annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon, which technically started last night when Memphis took down UMass 80-58 in a game that started at midnight (Eastern Time at least).
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Everyone ballyhooed the USC/Ohio State “Collision in the Coliseum” (yea, naming individual games is dumb) as perhaps the biggest and best game of the year.

Whoops! Yea, not so much. Let’s try Georgia/Florida or Oklahoma/Missouri.

Another whoops involving the Pac-10: The conference went 0-4 against the Mountain West in Week 3 including Arizona State losing any title hopes.The Sun Devils must have been looking ahead to their impending game against Georgia this Saturday. How in the world did they lose to UNLV?

Another week means another re-evalution, and thus, we give you our new The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25 after Week 3. Some things to note from this week’s rankings:

* The last four teams are all joining the Top 25. Utah and Vanderbilt make their first appearances while Clemson and Virginia Tech both rejoin the rankings.
* Biggest gainer: South Florida gained 6 spots after a come from behind victory over Kansas on Friday night.
* Biggest loser: While the Bulls leaped up 6 spots, Ohio State, who is currently tied at #12 with South Florida, fell 6 spots after being thrashed by USC.

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Every Saturday, after a hard week’s work, I just want to be able to sit on the couch and flip back and forth through college football games for the entirety of the day. Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be able to do so.

I watched several games that were televised throughout the day on Saturday (as well as Friday night’s game), and unlike last week there were some big matchups and some true battles. Here are my observations about certain players and teams from the games I was able to see:
Kansas v South Florida (USF 37, KU 34)

* South Florida cornerback Jerome Murphy missed multiple tackles because all he was concerned with was loading up and using the hit stick on ball carriers. He made a couple of good hits but the few “Ooohh”s he’ll get in the film room won’t make up for the coaches’ yelling that is due him for his missed tackles.

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East Carolina shocked the nation. After upsetting Virginia Tech in Week 1 using BeamerBall against coach Frank Beamer’s own squad, the Pirates thoroughly dominated the West Virginia Mountaineers just physically manhandling the preseason Big East front runner.

East Carolina’s quick start makes them the leading candidate to be the BCS buster this season and could potentially make the Conference USA championship game a battle of unbeaten squads between the Pirates and either Tulsa or Rice.

What if Utah or BYU also goes undefeated in the Mountain West Conference? What if Fresno State or Boise State goes undefeated in the Western Athletic Conference? If there were three undefeated BCS busters, what would the BCS do? The system might explode like a time bomb. Well, we’ll have to wait and see.

Another week means another re-evalution, and thus, we give you our new The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25 after Week 2. Some things to note from this week’s rankings:

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The first week of the collegiate football season offered some intrigue as we got our first look at most of the teams and were able to get our first true idea of who could be contenders this season and who was nothing more than a pretender (Clemson, Pittsburgh).

After being able to evaluate some of the teams better than we had in the preseason, we give you our new The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25 after Week 1. Some things to note from this week’s rankings:

* After being just outside our Top 25 last week, Alabama springs into the Top 25 and all the way up to 13th after their dismantle of Tommy Bowden’s Clemson Tigers.
* Joining the rankings for the first time with the Crimson Tide: Alabama, Fresno State & UCLA.
* Dropping out are Rutgers, Pittsburgh, Oregon State & Tennessee.

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Starting at 4 o’clock today, 12 college baseball teams will attempt to stave off elimination and extend their seasons for at least one more week.

While Miami, Arizona, North Carolina State, Wichita State, North Carolina, Coastal Carolina, UC-Irvine, LSU, Rice, and Arizona State have already solidified their spot in next weekend’s Super Regionals, today there will be 12 other squads fighting to join them.

Coaches will have to make tough decisions as almost every team is running low of quality arms at this point in a regional tournament. One of the biggest decisions is whether or not to bring back the ace of the staff on only two days rest, especially if you are a team such as the San Diego Toreros or the Tulane Green Wave, who have two of the top starters in college baseball (and two first round draft picks) in Brian Matusz and Shooter Hunt.

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