tommy-bowden Stories - From The Rumble Seat
College Football's Biggest Under- and Overachievers of the Last Decade
One of my favorite stats is Pythagorean expectation. It looks at a team's points for and points allowed, and then estimates what we should expect that team's winning percentage to be. If you then look...
Afternoon Links
Get yer BlogPoll heah! The BlogPoll is out. Florida is still at the top with 69 first place votes, but Alabama comes in a strong No. 2 with 20 first place votes (including this blog's). Other SEC team...
A First Look at the Top Ten Teams on My Preseason BlogPoll Ballot
What Ted Williams said about hitting a baseball applies to the summer for a college football blogger: "Wait wait wait then quick quick quick." All of a sudden, the season is upon us. My seatbacks are ...
Monday In-Class Update 10/13/08
Ok, I'm not really in class. In fact, I'm on 'vacation' back in wonderful Warner Robins, Georgia. However, I did get to watch some football this weekend, and it was fantastic.EXCEPT FOR OUR GAME. What...
Bye-bye Bowden, guess we'll always care
Sir, the feeling is mutual.After years of taking some of the nation's greatest talent, dropping it in the crapper, taking a wicked deuce, and flushing it all away, Tommy Bowden of the Clemson Tigers i...
Your RBR Word of the Day: gravid
gravid \GRAV-id\, adjective: Being with child; heavy with young or eggs; pregnant. After a 34-10 whipping at the hands of the Crimson Tide, doomed Clemson coach Tommy Bowden could merely sit back and...
Cheer Up: Fun with Clemson
Alright, Gamecocks. Time to cheer up. Sure, it's tough that we didn't make the NCAA tournament and the weekend baseball series was pretty bad. But when your rival is Clemson -- well, there's always so...
Gator Bowl: Nebraska vs Clemson - It's Official
It's official, the Nebraska Cornhuskers will play the Clemson Tigers in the Gator Bowl on January 1, 2009 at noon CST. This will be Clemson's ninth Gator Bowl, more than any other team. Nebraska has n...
Croom Resigns -- Early Thoughts
Over the last five years, the fans in the SEC have had a lot of fun at Sylvester Croom's expense. After all, his teams were usually awful: 3-8 in 2004, 3-8 in 2005, 3-9 in 2006. Then came the 8-win, ...
FIVE REASONS: South Carolina vs. Clemson
Go to the Game Thread to leave your thoughts about the battle of Good vs. Evil and Well-Done Color Scheme vs. Eye-Bleeding Monstrosity. 1. ACC vs. SEC. I kind of made fun of Ron Morris for his...
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