Magnitude Matters

For over 100 years we have created divisions and categories for athletic competition. The original segregation for purposes of ability match...

In the subculture that is major college football, big news broke earlier this month that the championship playoff at the sport's highest...

[tl;dr - It is Ohio State, Alabama, and Oklahoma in the top 3 just about any way you cut it] As the spring semester starts so too does the o...

The evil empire known as the NCAA has now finally relaxed its rules on amateurism allowing college athletes to earn compensation off of thei...

Which will come first? Sensors in the NFL (determining touchdowns, etc.) or Artificial Intelligence Calling Balls & Strikes in the MLB B...

In late summer every football fan begins to dream about the season to come with aspirational hopes for one's team and general excitement...

I miss sports. All we have for the time being are reruns, what if fantasies, and arguing. Here is fodder perhaps for that third category: ...

Now that a season is behind us, let's dream of a better world. In this case I am limiting the thought experiment to the competitive stru...

(I love the mirror image below the bars hinting at the symmetrical negative to any observable outcome.) Consider the analogy of graphic ...

It is about time that I updated my previous work on ranking college football programs. Recalling the methodology from before, I am attemp...

The game of football has changed in the couple decades in a fundamental way. Nowhere is this more acutely witnessed than in the college game...

With two important cases working their way through the courts (Jenkins v. NCAA and Alston v. NCAA), I continue to be optimistic that we are ...

Seven months ago to the day a new era in the storied history of Sooner football began. I posted about it here . This first season has ended....

About nine months ago I began writing this post in rough form following a pair of painful and disappointing losses to begin the 2016 Sooner ...

This New Year's Eve is the opening round for this season's College Football Playoff . Oklahoma will play Clemson followed by Alabama...