Chris Hengst
College Football and MLB Blogger
I work in oil & gas. I have an unhealthy affinity for college football and baseball. I eat my PB&J sandwiches with cheese on them.
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Gene DeFilippo, ESPN And The Back Room Of College Football
Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo‘s retirement announcement might not reverberate the plates of college football but his conference realignment comments nearly did. Last October, DeFilippo casually told the Boston Globe ESPN “told us what to do” before the ACC extended invites to Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Presumably, the executives at the World Wide Leader pegged [...]
Tweet2012 Big 12 Football Previews: Past, Present And Future Of The Oklahoma State Cowboys
Past: Oh not much, just a Big 12 championship, a Fiesta Bowl victory, an upset in Ames away from an appearance in the BCS National Championship and busting through the stranglehold of Big 12 bullies, Texas and Oklahoma. T. Boone Pickens is a bit blustery for a pseudo-athletic director at times but there’s no denying [...]
TweetPreviewing The Schedule: Week Six In College Football
October 4th (Thursday) Arkansas State at Florida International One of the better, if not the best, Sun Belt games in 2012. Gus Malzahn and Mario Cristobal may not be coaching these two squads next year so enjoy them while they’re only worth six-figures. USC at Utah The Utes provide the stingiest opponent in the Pac [...]
Tweet2012 Big 12 Football Previews: Past, Present, And Future Of The Kansas Jayhawks
Past: 2-0 on September 10th, averaging 43.5 points per game and fresh off wins over traditional powerhouses like McNeese State and Northern Illinois, the 2011 Jayhawk season offered a chance at respectability not seen since Todd Reesing graduated. I wish I could tell you Kansas fought the good fight and the Big 12 let them [...]
TweetPreviewing the Schedule: Week Five In College Football
September 27th (Thursday) Stanford Cardinal at Washington Huskies The victor is an Oregon Ducks upset away from grabbing the Pac 12 North by the throat. If Steve Sarkisian is to move from potential mastermind to coveted leader, he needs to start winning games like this. September 29th (Saturday) Arizona State Sun Devils at California Golden Bears Todd Graham, [...]
TweetLane Kiffin Lied, Got Caught, Won’t Vote In USA Today Coaches Poll
In a selfless move, devoid of any underlying motivation or kick-in-the-pants action from father Monte, Lane Kiffin relinquished his vote in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Long a bastion of morality, humility and basic human decency, the younger Kiffin realized the folly of a head coach ranking 25 teams weekly while working one hundred hours [...]
Tweet2012 Big 12 Football Previews: Past, Present And Future Of The Texas Tech Red Raiders
Past: Sitting at 5-2, fresh off a monumental upset of Oklahoma in Norman and well on their way to appeasing those still clamoring for Mike Leach, the Red Raiders enjoyed late October with the notion that they might be one of college football’s surprises. Then, Paul Rhoads happened and five consecutive losses later the questions [...]
TweetTyrann Mathieu and Morris Claiborne: Former Teammates Heading Opposite Directions
Tyrann Mathieu‘s dismissal leaves the LSU Tigers secondary in a bit of a lurch on the field but the larger and obviously more important question to those commenting on it, is what the hell to do with polls and preseason All-American lists and Heisman prognostications? Did the Honey Badger consider any of that when he [...]
TweetArkansas Hires Nick Holt In The Role Made Famous By Jessica Dorrell
When we last saw Nick Holt on a college football sideline, the defense he oversaw at Washington casually allowed the Baylor Bears to gain 777 yards. This happened in one night, during an actual game on a regulation-size field. Sixty-seven points later, Huskies head coach Steve Sarkisian fired his buddy (along with linebackers coach Mike [...]
Tweet2012 Big 12 Football Previews: Past, Present And Future Of The TCU Horned Frogs
Past: Between conference realignment and the drug scandal that rocked the Fort Worth campus, the fact that TCU posted an 11-2 record in their final Mountain West campaign failed to generate the same headlines. A 50-48 loss in the opener at Baylor, where Robert Griffin III announced his Heisman candidacy, did little more for the [...]
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