Bradley Hohulin

In the world of sports, bandwagon fans receive slightly less admiration than your average war criminal and slightly more respect than your average Oklahoma defensive back. Needless to say, you don’t want to be accused of hopping aboard a hype train long after it’s left the station.

College football, at its worst, is predictable. The same handful of teams in the Playoff, the same conference champions, pretty much any third-down call by the Iowa offense. But then something unexpected occurs. Cincinnati cracks the top four, Michigan wins the Big Ten, Iowa still calls the same thing on third down but fails in ...

It’s the Monday following Week 4 of college football in 2022. As several top-25 teams showed us Saturday, it’s cool to be soft. Vulnerability, in many ways, is a strength.

College football fans are simple creatures. We have only one question: is my team any good? We’re like an overly attached boyfriend with deep-seated self-esteem issues. We just want to be told we’re enough, that we’re worthy of praise and affection. Today, let’s examine a handful of Power 5 squads we didn’t expect to be ...

By now, I think we all understand the top 10 is a social construct. Every week, the Associated Press ranks college football teams for the chief purposes of adding weight to games and, perhaps more importantly, blatantly disrespecting your favorite team. Therefore, it doesn’t really make sense to react strongly when a top-10 squad loses. ...

Let’s circle back to the storyline that dominated the early offseason — all those new head coaches. After a single game of action, how do their fan bases feel? Yes, it’s definitely way too early to form any rational thoughts about these guys. And? Last I checked, rationality had no place in college football. Let the rampant, unfounded speculation begin.

We all reach points in life when we have to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask ourselves who we are deep down. I had one such moment Saturday afternoon when I felt a knot in my stomach that could only be attributed to a deep, incurable sickness of the mind and ...

Ahhh. What a nice, relaxing offseason that was. At least, I assume so. I sort of unplugged after the National Championship and spent the majority of the last three months working a corporate internship, honing myself into a value-extracting weapon of capitalism the likes of which your freshman-year econ professor could only dream. But all ...

After the glorious fever dream that was the 2021 college football season, every major program is looking to ascend like the Georgia Bulldogs. Here’s what the nation’s top 10 teams must do this offseason to delude its fans into believing it will be next year’s breakthrough champion. 10. Oklahoma Construct a large barricade around the ...