stewart-mandel Stories - The Smoking Musket
Transitive Rankings Post Week 6: Look to the West
As every college football message board debater knows, winning football games is transitive. In other words, if Team A beats Team B and Team B beats Team C, the fans of Team A are perfectly within their rights to talk trash to fans of Team C. Obviously, Team A could have completely wiped the...
The Perceived MWC Drop-Off
This excerpt came from an article about the Mountain West Conference by Stewart Mandel at Sports Illustrated, and it got me thinking. "It's pretty clear at this point that the Mountain West has three very strong, nationally competitive programs in TCU, BYU and Utah. The one thing it's yet to...
Mandel's Coaches Rankings Up
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...Mack checks in at 4, and Ol' Stoopsie at 5. Somewhat surprisingly, TCU's Gary Patterson squeaks in at 10.And our favorite Dennis, Mr. Franchione, has his rightful place as 2nd worst coach, behind Al Groh.
Stewie Power Rankings Return!
My favorite college football writer, Stewart Mandel, has his updated Power Rankings after the conclusion of spring practices.Texas comes in at 8, followed closely by Oklahoma at 9. He says our spring star was Chykie Brown, one of the many talented but unproven defensive backs. Here's hoping he's...
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