With Alabama’s 45-40 defeat of Clemson in Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship game, we can reflect on a phenomenal season full of ups, downs, highlights, and lowlights.
It is the ultimate week of the season for college football fans. The days between Christmas leading to New Year’s Day are full of some of the most intriguing matchups of the season including the College Football Playoff.
From its start on Tuesday with the First Four, the 2015 NCAA men’s basketball tournament has not disappointed. Just like the tournaments of the past few years, this year’s edition provided plenty of upset action as the Second Round got underway on Thursday and Friday.
For every superstar multi-million dollar player in the NBA there are tons of young players just trying to get out on the court. Working day in and day out, these players strive for their chance to go up against these All-Stars and make a name for themselves one day.
Another of college basketball’s greats, Jerry Tarkanian best remembered as the head coach at UNLV in the 1980s and early 1990s, passed away this week. Tarkanian amassed 706 wins in 31 years of coaching winning 20-plus games in every season but two.
This was a week that saw the passing of one of college basketball’s greatest ambassadors. Legendary former North Carolina head coach Dean Smith passed away on Saturday at the age of 83.
It marked a changing of the times in college football. The 2014 season was the first in the new College Football Playoff era and what it a season it was. Here is a recap of some of the highlights as well as the lowlights from 2014