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GRIDIRON BRACKETOLOGY, Part 3: How College Football’s New Tournament-Playoff Saved The Bowls

GRIDIRON BRACKETOLOGY, Part 3: How College Football’s New Tournament-Playoff Saved The Bowls

July 12, 2012 No Comments

The King is dead. Long live the King. As outlined in Part 2 of the Gridiron Bracketology series, fans were ready yesterday for a 16-team, college-football playoff-tournament. So when it was announced that college football voted to abolish the old “bowl-and-poll systems” that crowned national champions in the FBS division, in favor of a new ...

GRIDIRON BRACKETOLOGY, Part 2: Case To Expand College Football’s New Playoff-Format Tough To Dismiss

GRIDIRON BRACKETOLOGY, Part 2: Case To Expand College Football’s New Playoff-Format Tough To Dismiss

July 5, 2012 No Comments

Almost as soon as officials in charge of college football announced a historic agreement to discard the BCS system and implement a new, 4-team tournament-style, playoff to decide an annual national champion at the highest-level of college football (I.e., the FBS, Football Bowl Subdivision), fans and media immediately began clamoring for an expansion of the ...

GRIDIRON BRACKETOLOGY, Part 1: Ramifications of College Football’s New Playoff-System Are Huge, Far-Reaching

GRIDIRON BRACKETOLOGY, Part 1: Ramifications of College Football’s New Playoff-System Are Huge, Far-Reaching

July 2, 2012 No Comments

On Wednesday, June 26, 2012, a group of 12 college presidents announced that a proposed tournament-playoff system for the NCAA’s largest division of college football was officially “passed into law” and would begin with a 4-team tournament to crown a champion for the 2014 season. This means that the BCS system, the end-of-year polls, the ...

Oklahoma State Selects AstroTurf For New Training Facility

The Oklahoma State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has selected AstroTurf to provide two state-of-the-art fields at its nearly-completed...

Training Equipment That is Taking Every Player to the Next Level

Explosive speed, vertical jump and lateral speed are three essential physical attributes every player needs to be successful on...

Fundamental Skills: Lower-Body Flexibility

Flexibility refers to the ability to move a joint in its full range of motion. Flexibility is controlled by...

BSN Sports To Merge With Herff Jones

Sporting-goods equipment and team sports uniform distributor/marketer BSN Sports signed a definitive merger agreement with Herff Jones, whereby BSN...