I walked into a restaurant in New York City after Syracuse’s win over Pittsburgh with joy and hope of getting to the big showdown with Georgetown the next night. Little did I know what would happen over the next 36 hours. As I sat at a table in a restaurant full of disappointed Pittsburgh fans, my parents thought out load “hmmm, I wonder if any of these Pittsburgh fans want to sell their tickets after a tou ...

With less than a month until Selection Sunday, here is my attempt at projecting the current tournament field using a S-curve model, more commonly referred to as Bracketology (a practice made popular by ESPN’s Joe Lunardi).   -Ratner ...

With Selection Sunday less than month away, college basketball now comes to the forefront of the sports universe. As we enter the final month of the regular season, here are my top 9 most intriguing (regular season) conference races, and my prediction for who will capture their league’s regular season titles: 9. Ivy League The Favorite: Harvard The Challenger(s): Harvard The Outsider(s): No one Summary: The ...

Out of the tunnel The Pac-12 determines divisional champions this week while the SEC takes a glorified bye week to lick its wounds. Looking for the big games? Don’t drift away from the West Coast. (1) Oregon hosts Stanford in the week’s premiere game. That contest will determine Pac-12 North and, as all Ducks games will until they lose, national championship implications. The Cardinal presents the most SEC- ...

I think it took 7 seconds for Gary Danielson to declare Alabama the best one-loss team and the only one-loss team that could play in the National Championship. Literally, the audience was still trying to digest how the Tide had lost and Danielson was already looking for the angle to get them back into the Championship Game. Although, to be fair, it probably is his job there in the moment as the voice of the ...

Out of the tunnel No. 1 Alabama is in for its toughest test of the regular season Saturday when it takes on No. 5 LSU in Tiger Stadium. The week of the (1) Alabama-LSU tilt seems like a good time to raise this question: If any combination of Oregon, Notre Dame and Kansas State meet in the BCS National Championship Game, would the nation be satisfied with the result? My guess is no. The Crimson Tide, good as ...

[caption id="attachment_9788" align="alignright" width="268" caption="via Manti Te'o for the Heisman facebook page"][/caption] At the beginning of the season, it was difficult to imagine that the October 27th matchup between the Sooners and the Irish would be the headline game of the weekend. Sure, it is a matchup of two of the most storied College Football teams in the country. Sure, Oklahoma started o ...