Archive for September, 2016

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: USC at UTAH Two teams out of the Pac 12 South hook up Friday night as 1-2 USC travels to 3-0 No.24 Utah for a late Friday night weekend primer. The schedule makers didn’t do USC any favors in 2016 as the Trojans play arguably the toughest schedule in college football…. Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: GEORGIA at OLE MISS Saturday’s 12:00 noon EST action kicks off with an SEC feature matchup between Georgia and Ole Miss. The Bulldogs are 3-0 under new head coach Kirby Smart but have used up three of their nine lives that last 21 days with escapes vs. North Carolina, Nicholls State… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: HOUSTON at NEW ENGLAND After just two weeks of play in the NFL, just seven of 32 teams remain unbeaten. Two of these square off in the Thursday night prime time game on CBS as the Houston Texans travel to Foxboro to meet the New England Patriots. The Texans are 2-0… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: CLEMSON at GEORGIA TECH Thursday night’s college football ESPN offering features a pair of 3-0 teams meeting in a key ACC inter-divisional game in Atlanta as the Clemson Tigers meet Georgia Tech. Clemson, the preseason No.2 ranked team in the country led by the early Heisman Trophy leader Deshaun Watson has… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: PHILADELPHIA at CHICAGO This week’s Monday Night Football offering introduces Carson Wentz, the second overall pick in last April’s NFL draft, to the world. The 6’5″ 230 pound Wentz out of North Dakota was impressive (22-37, 287, 2-0) in his debut albeit at home and versus the awful Cleveland Browns. Wentz… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: NEW ORLEANS at GIANTS The Saints and Giants reprise last year’s 52-49 shootout at the Super Dome in what figure to be Week Two’s high on entertainment value matchup. In last year’s game, Drew Brees and Eli manning combined for 855 yards and 13 touchdowns through the air. Brees threw for… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: USC at STANFORD One of the hottest rivalries in the Pac12 renews on Saturday with USC traveling to Palo Alto to take on Christian McCaffrey and the Stanford Cardinal. Stanford had won four straight in the series at the height of the Harbaugh years before the Trojans were able to break… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: OHIO STATE at OKLAHOMA In arguably the most highly anticipated football matchup of the 2016 college football regular season, the No.3 Ohio State Buckeyes travel to Norman, Oklahoma to face the No.14 Sooners. The game has lost some of it’s luster in that Oklahoma didn’t keep it’s end of the bargain… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME PREVIEW: MICHIGAN STATE at NOTRE DAME Michigan State and Notre Dame renew an old rivalry Saturday as the No.12 Spartans travel to South Bend to face the No.18 Fighting Irish in prime time. The teams meet for the first time after a two year break but the teams gave played frequently over… Read More

JEFF ALLEN GAME  PREVIEW: OREGON at NEBRASKA After a very pedestrian schedule in Week Two of college football, the hits just keep on coming in Week Three including a marquee prime time Pac 12/Big Ten matchup between the No.22 ranked Oregon Ducks and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Both teams are 2-0 but were not all that… Read More