Let's face it, when Notre Dame faces off against the Arizona State Sun Devils in their full hellfire attire, the Irish will be facing off against one of the best offenses that they will see in all of 2013. As Bayou discussed yesterday, they have put on quite a show throughout most of their season. And I'm going to give the Sun Devils a load of credit here, they've looked pretty damn good doing it too for the most part. And with Arizona State favored by 6 at the time of this writing, it's ...
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Friday Roundup: The “Empty Gestures” Edition
The SEC, Big Ten, and PAC 12, have all made their stand for their student athletes. They will no longer be a part of EA Sports NCAA Football video game series. Yes, what a fantastic gesture by these conferences. It's a move that draws a clear line in the sand that amateurism and student athletes matter. Except for the minor detail that EA Sports has separate agreements with the schools and they don't need conference approval anyways. Even if these dominoes are falling due to the O'Bannon ...
Friday Roundup: The “Moving On” Edition
The calendar has finally flipped over into August, a month with actual football. Notre Dame's camp opens on Monday, preseason polls are out, and it time to put the offseason nonsense behind us and get back to focusing on actual football once again. Yes, this also means closing the book on the Eddie Vanderdoes situation. ...
NCAA ’13: Complete ND Ratings & 2012 Season Simulation
As the clock struck midnight on July 10th, EA Sports released NCAA 2013, yet another signal that the long college football offseason is drawing to a close. Last month, Twibby took a look at some of the leaked ratings for Notre Dame to whet our appetite. With the game's release though, we now have the full ratings and EA's projection of depth charts as well. Inspired by Adam Kramer's (you may know him as @KegsNeggs) annual simulation and summary of the entire 2012 season, I decided to run ...
NCAA Football 2013 – EA Sports Player Rankings Leaked
A special shout out to the guy that snuck a video camera into the E3 gaming convention and recorded himself going through the NCAA Football 2013 selection screens to get all of theĀ team ratings and player ratings for the next version of the college football gaming dynasty. He may have filmed the 16 most boring minutes on YouTube, but he gave us college football fans and gamers some golden offseason fodder to argue about. Starting with the overall team ratings, Notre Dame is given a 97 ...