Frank the Tank’s Slant Ballot – Week 4 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide – 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes – 3 Boise St. Broncos – 4 Oregon St. Beavers – 5 TCU Horned Frogs – 6 Nebraska Cornhuskers 2 7 Texas Longhorns – 8 Oklahoma Sooners -2 9 Wisconsin Badgers 1 10 Arkansas Razorbacks [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Frank the Tank’s BlogPoll Week 4 Ballot, Football Parlay and Open Thread – 9/24/2010
Posted: September 24, 2010 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, College Football, NFL Football, SportsTags: BlogPoll, Frank the Tank's Football Parlay
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Frank the Tank’s BlogPoll Week 3 Ballot, Football Parlay and Open Thread – 9/17/2010
Posted: September 17, 2010 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NFL Football, SportsTags: Frank the Tank's Football Parlay
Frank the Tank’s Slant Ballot – Week 3 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide – 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes – 3 Boise St. Broncos – 4 Oregon Ducks 7 5 TCU Horned Frogs – 6 Oklahoma Sooners 7 7 Texas Longhorns -3 8 Nebraska Cornhuskers -1 9 Iowa Hawkeyes -1 10 Wisconsin Badgers [...]
Big Ten Expansion Hits the Ice
Posted: September 17, 2010 in Big Ten, Illinois Fighting Illini, SportsTags: Big Ten Hockey Conference, College Hockey, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Penn State Nittany Lions
After around two decades of speculation and proposals, Penn State will be announcing today that it’s adding a Division I hockey program. Now, as someone that attended Illinois, which only has a club hockey team, I have a fairly rudimentary understanding the hierarchy of college hockey that’s a bit different than the worlds of football and basketball. [...]
Frank the Tank’s BlogPoll Week 2 Ballot, Football Parlay and Open Thread – 9/10/2010
Posted: September 9, 2010 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NFL Football, SportsTags: BlogPoll, Frank the Tank's Football Parlay
Frank the Tank’s Slant Ballot – Week 2 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide – 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes – 3 Boise St. Broncos 5 4 Texas Longhorns -1 5 TCU Horned Frogs 5 6 Florida Gators -2 7 Nebraska Cornhuskers – 8 Iowa Hawkeyes 1 9 Wisconsin Badgers 2 10 Miami Hurricanes 2 [...]
Frank the Tank’s Football Parlay and Open Thread – 9/3/2010
Posted: September 3, 2010 in Big Ten, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, SportsTags: Frank the Tank's Football Parlay
I’m bringing back my weekly parlay picks this year, where I pick 3 college football games and 3 NFL games each week against spread (always making a pick on the Illinois and Bears games, if applicable). Basically, it’s an ongoing experiment/validation that it’s a good thing that I don’t live within driving distance of Vegas and how [...]
Big Ten Division-palooza
Posted: September 1, 2010 in Big Ten, SportsTags: Big Ten Divisions, Big Ten Expansion
As we pull away from the images tonight of people burning Jim Delany UNC jerseys all across the state of Ohio and on a day that BYU officially declared its independence in football, joined the WCC for non-football sports and announced long-term deals with both ESPN and Notre Dame (with BYU killing off a self-termed “prenuptial agreement” [...]
