A Jersey Guy: March MADNESS is coming
Mike Tranghese is a college basketball junkie. As a young man, Tranghese was part of Dave Gavitt's inner circle which created the Big East basketball conference. He was part of history in 1985 when the Big East earned an unprecedented 3 spots in the Final Four. He has served as ...read more
Mr. CFB & Friends. Can Georgia Three-Peat?
Georgia's 65-7 win over TCU in the CFP national championship game confirmed that the Bulldogs have the best program in all of college football. But can they do it again in 2023? Where does Stetson Bennett rank among the all-time great quarteHasrbacks? Has Kirby Smart passed Nick ...read more
The Gould Standard: Big Ten Needs to Hire Phillips While Warren Moves on to Mission Impossible.
Two columns for the price of—well, never mind the price. First, Kevin Warren. Second, Jim Phillips. Intrepid leader that he is, Kevin Warren is leaving the Big Ten commissioner’s job to be president and CEO of the Bears. This is where he should be. Now he is back to tracking ...read more
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The Gould Standard: Georgia, and the SEC, on Everyone's Minds.
Georgia's Bulldogs put on a performance for the ages on Monday when they stampeded TCU’s underdog Horned Frogs 65-7. It was the second straight national championship for the Dawgs, who are 33-1 in their last 34 games, including 29 wins the last two seasons. Kirby Smart is now ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Georgia on my mind (again)
INGLEWOOD, CA.--They started to roll into town on Thursday night, coming from all sections of the state, the Southeast and well beyond. Georgia fans. They envelope the place with their numbers, their enthusiasm--How bout them Dawgs?"That is what Georgia fans do to a football ...read more
The Gould Standard: Davey & Goliath... TCU's Slingshot Would Be a Big Story.
Back in the day, when Villanova upset Georgetown for the 1985 NCAA basketball national championship, someone—I can’t remember who—wrote one of my favorite leads: ``Snowball 1, Hell nothing.’’ Great line. Wish I’d written that. That’s kind of the scenario for this TCU-Georgia ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Five Reasons TCU will beat Georgia
The pundits say it is not time for Cinderella in the college football season. And indeed it seems unlikely that TCU will spoil the dreams of Dawg Nation in Monday night's CFP national championship game. But....never say never and we give you five reasons why TCU will knock off ...read more
Mr. CFB: Five Reasons Georgia Will Beat TCU
The boys in Vegas have installed Georgia as a 12 ½ point favorite in Monday’s CFP championship game with No. 4 TCU. That point spread seems a little rich for a national championship game but you never know when the teams are this explosive. Remember that TCU leads the nation with ...read more
Mr. CFB: Win Or Lose Monday Night, Georgia's Kirby Smart Has Built A Dynasty
LOS ANGELES--Kirby Smart always knew he was born to coach. His father, Sonny, was a very successful high school coach in the state of Georgia. And the unwritten code of becoming a coach is that you take a job—any job—that will help you refine your craft. And so it was that in ...read more
A Jersey Guy: How high can Duggan and TCU climb?
LOS ANGELES--The story has all the necessary elements: health issues, lack of respect, perseverance and, in the end, what? A year ago in the College Football Playoff national championship game, Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, a former walk on for the Dawgs, came all the way ...read more
Mr. CFB & Friends, Championship Edition
Can Georgia repeat as national champions? Can TCU pull off the shocker? We break it all down right here on our TMG Podcast. Enjoy!!! To continue, click right here: ...read more
Mr. CFB: Is Stetson Bennett The Greatest Quarterback In Georgia History?
If you’re a Georgia Bulldog fan, here is one of those big-picture questions to ponder: I’m sure that we can agree that Stetson Bennett IV, based on his performance to date, is one of the Top 10 quarterbacks in Georgia football history. He enters Monday night CFP national ...read more
A Jersey Guy: College football indestructible
Greg Sankey, the astute commissioner of the Southeastern Conference knew two years ago when Covid-19 was threatening to shut down everything. The message the SEC and Sankey made clear from the start was that even if the SEC had to play by itself, there WOULD be a college football ...read more
Fab Final Four Shows That Expanded Playoff Will Be a Whole New Ballgame
Be careful what you wish for, College Football Edition. . . From a drama standpoint, the two semi-finals were top-notch. . . Great theater. . . Great fun. In a sport that has it all, this pair of showdowns was as good as it gets. But if ever there was a year where the old way ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Cinderella is going to the dance
It makes sense doesn't it, this business of TCU playing in the final game of the 2022 college football season? Where else could you find a script which had the Horned Frogs as 200-1 odds to win the national championship in August, a status befitting their No. 7 (out of 10) ...read more
Mr. CFB: After A Season With Little Drama, Georgia Rallies To Beat Ohio State 42-41
ATLANTA--If there is one thing that holds true for Georgia's 2022 college football season it is that for the most part it has been devoid of drama. Oh, there was that night in Columbia, Mo. when a flat Georgia team trailed Missouri by double digits in the first half was still ...read more
Mr. CFB & Friends, Playoff Edition
Mr. CFB & the gang break down the College Football Semifinals for Saturday, Dec. 31. If you want to join us please click here: ...read more
A Jersey Guy: Harbaugh has right stuff-again
In an era when Nick Saban and Bill Belichick are the standard bearers for college and professional football, where analytics have become part of game plans and where there are fewer and fewer regulations regarding eligibility and how to compensate college football players, we ...read more
Mr. CFB: Georgia Will Miss Coach Dooley, Other Legends, vs. Ohio State
It is an image that will stay with me forever. Georgia had just beaten Alabama 33-18 in Indianapolis to win the CFP national championship. It was the Bulldogs’ first national title since 1980. Embracing on the field were the head coach of Georgia’s newly-minted national champion, ...read more