Week 4 along 29S etc

 Nearly neighbors JMU visits LIB in Lynchbirg. Vashko , the JMU QB, will be the difference for JMU in a 21-19 nail-biter W

UTSA steals won 24-23 at CSU led by R.Henry(480yds 6TDs rushing).

Raynor, the Ark St  QB, does enough for a 24-17 win at Kenn St.

Undefeated UNLV  travels to MOH. Colandrea tosses 2 TD passes  for the Rebs in a 27-20 win.

Delaware surprised UConn but won't defeat Kejon Jones(322 rushing yards and 4 TDs )and FIU. FIU 28 DEL 21.

Sept 21, 2025

So-so week in picks.  Correct on JMU, UNLV, UTSA

Wrong on Ark St, FIU

UTSA survived 17-16. Another great week for R.Henry  21 CAR 144 YDS, 2 TD, 2 REC 76 YDS, 2 TD

Can't deny that the AAC is having solid season> MEM upset ARK(SEC),Tulsa knocked off OK St(Big12), and  UTSA  survived CSU(MWC) who failed on a 2pt conversion in the final minute of the game.

The Herd scored 42 on MTSU in a W.

Gotta admit I didn't foresee KENN St and DEL getting off to decent starts in the CUSA

Sept 22, 2025

APPY  was off this weekend after the spanking from USM  and  plays @ Boise St

Sept 23, 2025 

Golesh (USF) or Silverfield (Memphis)  would UCLA be a step up? Not at this moment.

Mixws bag week 3 O5 picks

 MEM 20 Troy 19 : Troy gave Clemson a scare, but Memphis has enough O to survive.

Appy 27 USM 23:  Swann outduels Braxton

BUFF 28 Kent St 19: Roberson tosses 2 TD passes for the Bulls

USU 23 AFA 17: Barner , USU QB, has a solid game for the Ags.

FIU 16 FAU 13:  Tough guess at Pitbull. FIU ekes it out at home

Sept 14, 2025

Memphis 28- Troy 7:  SSmith 113yds , 2TDs rushing for the Tigers in the W.

USM 38 APPY 22:- Only wrong pick Braxton tossed two TDs for USM.

BUFF 31 Kent St 28 : Nip and tuck the entire

USU 49 AFA 30: B. Barnes passed for 17/22, 287 YDS, 2 TD for the Ags

FIU 38 FAU 28: Owens 19 CAR 173 YDS, 2 TD for FIU

Big surprises: The size of NTX blowout  of Wazoo and UNM blowout of UCLA.

Slightly surprised that DEL(CUSA) edged UConn.

Sept 15, 2025

Random  MAC thoughts. Toledo  has a decent D. Ohio beat West Virginia, BGSU is getting most of the hype as MAC conference play starts this weekend

SW flavor picks week 2

 TX St 30 UTSA 27: Another good week for Brad Jackson, Bobcats QB

Tulsa 24 NMSU 17: Dominic Richardson will lead a decent rushing attack to the W.

NTX 28 WMU 20: Mestemaker tossed 3TD passes for the Mean Green

MRSHL 23 MOST 19: Both teams are coming off huge losses to big time programs. Herd keep it mostly on the ground in a 23-19 win

LIB 24 Jax St 21: this one goes down to the final minute.

Sept 7, 2025

Correct on TX St, NTX. Wrong on Tulsa, Herd, and LIB.

TXST won a shootout: Sparks 5rec 155yds 1TD

Tulsa lost to NMSU 21-14. All but 3 points were scored in the second half.

Makenzie McGill II rushesd for a 3 yard TD to give NTX the W.

MOST went ahead late in 21-20 win on Jason Clark TD . Clark   threw for 359 YDS and 3TDs

Lberty stumbled to a loss vs Jax St. Cook rushed for 195 yards and 2TDs for JAX St

Sept 8, 2025

Clay Helton, GASO HC, returned to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday and was booed. Riley ain't been that much better.

Poggi, Michigan's associate HC ,who was the head coach at Charlotte(AAC) for a few seasons, will coach the Wolverines this weekend against Central Michigan and then on Sept. 20 at Nebraska.

Sept 9, 2025

UNLV nearly lost to Idaho St in week 0 but Mullen's guys are 3-0 including last week's win over UCLA. Corey Dennis, UNLV OC, is an assistant who may land an HC gig next season

He 's Urban Meyer's SIL

Hot USF faces Canes next.

Salter left Liberty(CUSA) for Colorado, and it appears Staub will be the starting QB for Colorado this week

Sept 24, 2025

Neon Deion turns back to Salter after Staub stumbled. Revolving door goes on. Wonder if Salter regrets leaving Liberty U.

Five O5 picks week 1 in 2025

 It's tough in week 1 to keep it only O5 teams but here's a few guesses. 

BSU led by Madsen wins by 4 at USF led by Brown

Appy wins by 7 at CHAR. The Albin days start off slow in Charlotte.

CMU loses by 2 at SJSU. Eget does enough for the Spartans

Temple falls at the buzzer by a point at UMass. Brandon Rose has a good start for Minutemen

Rice falls by 6 at ULL. Perry and Davis tandem have solid games for the Cajuns.

Aug 29, 2025

BSU blown out by USF, man I got that wrong. Brown rushed for 2TDs for USF in a 34-7 W.

In defeats Jax St hung with UCF, ECU with NCST, Ohio with RUT.

Aug 30, 2025

Wrong on SJSU who lost by 2 to CMU. Right on Appy who beat UNCC 34-11. Swann, APPY QB, (31/46, 368 YDS, 3 TD)

1 for 3 so far

Aug 31, 2025

Rice edged ULL, UMass got rolled by Temple.  1-4 for the weekend,

Surprised N Dakota gave Kansas St a scare and Fresno St pounded GASO. Not surprised Retzlaff and Tulane handled NW.

Sept 1, 2025

Big regional game on 9/20/25 . JMU visits Liberty. Vasko/Barnett QB battle.

It has me thinking about my road trip to Chapel Hill last summer.

I noticed JMU stadium on 81S about an hour before I saw the LU stadium on 29S. 

Week Zero O5 1A matchups

Initial thoughts picks may be revised prior to game day

Fresno St.16 @ Kansas 31:  Healthy Jalon?

Sam Houston 23 @ W. Kentucky 24:   KC Keeler left SHSU for the Temple job

Stanford 22 @ Hawaii 15: Reich time

Aug 8, 2025

Former Wisky QB Mettauer re-united with OC Phil Longo at SHSU. Can he take the job from Hunter Watson. Plus, they face TX on 9/20/25

Aug 16 2025

Cards will likely dare the Rainbows run and shoot to run the ball on the 23rd

Aug 20, 2025

 SHSU Kats have 55 new players on the roster this season and HC Longo hasn't named the starting QB.

If I played spreads, KU covers 12.5. Stanford getting 2.5 obviously yes.. SHSU  + 10.5, yes

AUG 24, 2025

Stanford scored a DTD early to lead 10-0 and found a way to lose to Hawaii 23-20

Jalon and Jayhawks O looked good in a 31-7 win over Fresno

WKU took control in the 2Q on the way to a 41-20 win

I went 2-1 straight.  1-2 if I played the spread which I don't do.

Non P5 NCAAF rivalries

 Battle of the I-10 rivalry of two current CUSA teams , UTEP and NMSU. Last season UTEP rallied for a 42-35 W at Las Cruces.  UTEP holds the series lead at 59–38–2.

UTEP moves to the MWC in 2026 so the frequency of the matchup may be staggered.

UTEP hosts the Aggies on 11/22/25

Rumors of Ohio U being courted by the SBC and CUSA. Will the Battle of the Bricks be affected?

 Miami OH holds a 56–43–2 edge  over Ohio U.

Nov 4, 2025 matchup will be at Ohio U in Athens , Ohio.

July 11, 2025

Battle for the Bell (Southern Miss(SBC)–Tulane(AAC)) is not an annual game. USM leads the series 24-10 and they'll play in 2026 and 2027

Bell is 3' tall

July 12, 2025

La Tech holds a 48–33–6 lead in the series with ULL(SW LA) that started in 1910.  They played nearly every year from 1924 to 2000. It stopped when the Bulldogs' transitioned to the WAC and the Ragin' Cajuns' to the Sun Belt Conference. They have met four times since then and are scheduled for H&H series (2026, 2029).

I forgot about LA Tech being a WAC member from 2001-15

July 13, 2025

I dig the name, "Battle for the Golden Screwdriver", for the Hawaii/Fresno St pigskin rivalry. FSU leads the 30-25-1 in the series

In 2026, Fresno moves to the PAC12. Hawaii  remains in the MWC.

July 17, 2025

Another divorce takes effect in 2026. WyomingMWC)–Colorado State(PAC12)

Colorado State leads the Border War with Wyoming 60-51-5 .First Meeting was Nov. 30, 1899

 They play for Bronze Boot, which was established in 1968 from the boot worn in Vietnam by Dan Romero, a CSU ROTC instructor.

They play this season on August 30 then the series will resume in 2028, with games scheduled through 2035. The two-year gap in the series (2026 and 2027) is due to both teams not having open  non-conference slots in those years.

July 19, 2025

The winner of the Battle of the Bones is awarded a 100-pound bronze rack of ribs trophy. UAB leads the football series against Memphis 10-7. There is also a barbecue contest between the fans. Next series game is at UAB on 10/18/25

I miss the Marshall/Ohio rivalry. They haven't played since 2019. Next meeting 9/11/27. They're only 81 miles apart. 

Byron Leftwich, two-time MAC MVP at Marshall(22-4 record over two seasons) joins Deion's staff  at Colorado(Aug 1) Last gig was with TBay in the NFL.

 July 24, 2025

Black and Blue Bowl: Southern Miss, 40–22–1 in a series with Memphis. They haven't played since their CUSA days ended in 2012 and are slated for games in 2027 & 2030.

July 29, 2025

CMU leads 64–32-6 in the rivalry series with EMU,which started in 1902. Charlie Batch, the EMU QB, had great games in 1995 and 1997in this series. These MAC teams meet next on 9/27/25.

Aug 25, 2025

I75 rivalry :A one-ton rocket that sits in the NE corner of Toledo’s ‘Glass Bowl’ is pointed 25 miles south toward BGSU and it's it’s angled to land on the 50 yard line of Doyt Perry Stadium .

Now a billboard of Eddie George  on Dorr Street , a few minutes from Toledo’s campus. 

Oct 4, 2025

AFA flies into Annapolis, MD to play Navy. Air Force has been been slowly improving after a rough start but Navy has too much O. Navy 31 AFA 20 in one of the games for the CIC trophy.

Navy Pigskin Record  vs Air Force from Oct 15, 1960 - Oct 5, 2024: 23 wins 34 losses.

Non -power conference NCAA baseball 2025 playoffs

 Conway regional:

#2 Florida (38-20) vs. #3 East Carolina (33-25)

#1 Coastal Carolina (48-11) vs. #4 Fairfield (39-17)

ECU finished strong winning the AACT. It would shake things up to see the Pirates facing CCU for the ticket to Omaha. Dixon Williams 13 HR, 46 RBI , 22 of 25 in SB attempts for ECU.

May 31, 2025

Good day for AAC: ECU beat Florida and UTSA beat KST. . Other upsets: Stetson beat NCST and Murray St beat Ole Miss. UVU beat Oregon. SMC beat Oregon St.

Austin Irby had 4 RBI for ECU. Taussig knocked in 3 runs for UTSA

June 1, 2025

ECU got blown out by CCU and gets FLA again. UTSA(2-0)  came back to win 9-7 after trailing the Longhorns  6-1 .

Cal-Poly eliminated ORE. USM knocked Bama out. Wright St(Horizon) came back to beat ETSU.

June 2, 2025.

ECU beat FLA again but fell to CCU due to a passed ball. Wright St knocked out Vandy then lost to LOU. UTSA advanced by eliminating TEX.

June 3, 2025

Murray St eliminated Ole Miss with 19 hits in a 12-11 win. USM fell to Miami Fla and Ark-LR lost to LSU.

Super Regional 16 is set.

June 4, 2025

UTSA has to go to LA to play UCLA. Norris McLure: How about  some RBI s and SBs for the Roadrunners.

June 7, 2025

Bodine (3) and Pado(4) knocked in all the runs for CCU in a 7-6 win over AUB.

June 8, 2025

CCU is CWS bound after beating AUB. UTSA and Murray St lost. Decker went 4-5 with 2RBI for the Racers in the loss to Duke.

June 9, 2025

UTSA was swept by UCLA. Murray St scored 9 runs in the 7th in a comeback 19-9 W over Duke to stay alive. Decker and Vierling each had 4RBI in the game for the Racers.

June 10, 2025

Props to Murray St (MVC)) who gets UCLA in the CWS. TAUKEN's RBI  triple knocked in VIERLING with the game winning run. CCU faces Zona.

June 13, 2025

 First matchup between CCU and Zona since the 2016 CWS finals. today 2pm

June 14, 2025

CCU scored three runs in the eighth inning for a 7-4 lead, and Carbone shut down Zona in the ninth.

Beavers beat the Cards.

June 15, 2025

UCLA played the infield back in the 8th, and the Racers scored twice on ground-outs but that was it. UCLA 6 MSU 4

LSU 3 ARK 1 in the other game.

June 16, 2025

Gavin & Talt homered helping CCU send the Beavers into an elimination game with Louisville.

Murray St plays Ark in an elimination game

June 17, 2025

Murray St gets No -hit eliminated by Gage Wood of ARK.  He hit Bermeo with a pitch  in the 9th inning with a pitch, but it was ruled a K due to the assertion that the batter leaned into the pitch.

F4: CCU opens against Louisville

ARK/LSU is the other matchup.

June 19, 2025

CCU(8-0) in this year's NCAAT. UCLA in 2013 was the last team to go undefeated in the NCAAT.

Eikhoff, Riley got the W for CCU in the 11-3 win over LOU.

While we wait for CCU/LSU final to start tonight, SDSU replaced ex HC Shaun Cole with Kevin Vance, an Asst with Zona  , who helped in the development of closer Terry Pluta.

June 22, 2025

Pitching was stellar, tough 1-0 loss for CCU. Kudos to Kade Anderson of LSU.

June 23, 2025

Tigers roared to a 13-3 W in GM2.   Chants couldn't get the MO back after two coaches were ejected early. Hoping the SBC gets a little more respect next May.

June 29, 2025

JB Middleton, RHP — USM(SBC) and Tyler Bremner, RHP - UCSB(Big West) may go in rd1 of the MLB draft

July 14, 2025

Pick 2: Angels Tyler Bremner, RHP from UCSB

Pick 30: Orioles Caden Bodine, C from CCU. Is Adlee R on the trading block

Pick 45: Colorado Rockies, JB Middleton, RHP from USM

July 15 , 2025

White Sox scouted the SBC: 

Riley Eikhoff, Coastal Carolina (9th, 256th)

Kaleb Freeman, Georgia State (16th, 466th) 

Landen Payne, Southern Miss (18th, 526th)

Nick Weyrich, Marshall (19th, 556th) 

July 20, 2025

Will the Halos ,who have a fast-tracking history, rush Bremner, RHP  from UCSB, to the majors this season?

Or will the White Sox rush somebody up?