Memphis & Kansas To Start Football Series

The Kansas Jayhawks have announced a home-and-home series against the Memphis Tigers. 
Kansas will host Memphis at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 12, 2015 and will travel to face the Tigers at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on Sept. 17, 2016. The two schools, which have never met in football, finally inked the agreement that began as a verbal back in January.

Nice to see continuing improvements to the Tigers football schedules.

Lynyrd Skynryd Postponed, Football

News from the Live at the Garden concert series: Due to potential for severe weather conditions, tonight's Lynyrd Skynyrd concert has been rescheduled for September 12th. Updates will be posted to liveatthegarden.com as information becomes available.

A new era begins tomorrow at the Liberty Bowl, when  Justin Fuente leads the Memphis Tigers on the field to play against visiting Tennessee-Martin. Memphis should win the came against, but Tigers shouldn't overlook the FCS Skyhawks. MTSU did that last night and eventually lost to the FCS McNeese State.

Here's the picks for this week.

Season: 0-0 (0%)

North Carolina State over Tennessee-Knoxville
Michigan State over Boise State
Notre Dame over Navy
Memphis over Tennessee-Martin
Alabama over Michigan
Oregon over Arkansas State


Weekly Liberty Bowl Projection: SMU vs Tennessee-Knoxville

Memphis Lagniappe's Fabled College Football 2012 Pre-Season Playoff Predictions

Memphis Lagniappe's Fabled College Football Playoff Predictions will return for another college football season. Now its seventh published season, click here to see last season's final mock playoff field.

Memphis Lagniappe's Fabled College Football Playoff Predictions are published weekly on Monday afternoons to show a possible college football playoff format. Similar to the NCAA basketball tournament, 11 conference champions receive automatic bids. 5 additional spots are available for at large bids.

Round 1 games would be hosted by the higher ranked seeds. Rounds 2 - 4 would incorporate the bowl system with host cities/bowls bidding to host the games. The "Big 4" BCS bowls would be permanent playoff hosts on a round-rotating basis (Championship, semi-finals and 1 round 2 game).

The pre-season playoff field for the 2012 season is:

1. USC (PAC 12 Champion)
2. LSU (SEC Champion)
3. Alabama (At Large SEC)
4. Oklahoma (Big 12 Champion)
5. Oregon (At Large PAC 12)
6. Florida State (ACC Champion)
7. Georgia (At Large SEC)
8. Michigan (Big 10 Champion)
9. Arkansas (At Large SEC)
10. South Carolina (At Large SEC)
11. Boise State (Mountain West Champion)
12. Louisville (Big East Champion)
13. Houston (C-USA Champion)
14. Louisiana Tech (WAC Champion)
15. Ohio (MAC Champion)
16. Florida International (Sun Belt Champion)

Number Of Teams by Conference:
SEC (5), PAC 12 (2), ACC (1), Big 10 (1), Big 12 (1), Big East (1), C-USA (1), MAC (1), Mountain West (1), Sun Belt (1), WAC (1), Independent (0)

Match ups round by round assuming higher seeds win.

Round 1
(16) Florida International at (1) USC
(9) Arkansas  at (8) Michigan
(12) Louisville at (5) Oregon
(13) Houston at (4) Oklahoma
(11) Boise State at (6) Florida State
(14) Louisiana Tech at (3) Alabama
(10) South Carolina at (7) Georgia
(15) Ohio at (2) LSU

Round 2
(8) Michigan vs (1) USC
(5) Oregon vs (4) Oklahoma
(6) Florida State vs (3) Alabama
(7) Georgia vs (2) LSU

Round 3
(4) Oklahoma vs (1) USC
(3) Alabama vs (2) LSU

Championship Game
(2) LSU vs (1) USC

2012 Memphis-area College Football

Football season is already upon us. NFL pre-season is almost over and college football's regular season begins on Thursday. Here's a quick look at the two Memphis college football programs for the 2012 season.

Under the leadership of new coach Justin Fuente, the Memphis Tigers can only expect to improve over last year's 2-10 campaign. Another win or two would be nice for program. Most of the pre-season magazines are picking the Tigers to finish last in C-USA East and until we actually see improvement on the field, it will be hard to disagree with the prognosticators.

The often forgotten college football team in Memphis is at Rhodes. The NCAA Division III Lynx, should be competitive in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference under second year coach head coach Dan Gritti and with 2nd Team Pre-season All-American wide receiver Jack Lartigue.

2012 Memphis Tigers Football Schedule
Best Home Game - Central Florida (Saturday, October 20)


2012 Rhodes College Lynx Football Schedule
Best Home Game - Millsaps College (Saturday, October 20)

Belgium Beer Dinner @ Cafe Society, Chick-fil-A Day, Pastner Not Happy With Big East

Spots are still available for Cafe Society's Belgium Beer Dinner to be held on Thursday, August 2nd at 7:00PM. $40 (plus tax and tip) gets you a 4-course Belgium themed dinner with Belguim beer pairings.

Call 722-2177 for reservations.

 

Apparently today is Chick-fil-A Day nation-wide. Traffic was a little more hectic than usual near the restaurants on Poplar and Union. The only time I've noticed that Union location being busier was on its grand opening day.

Memphis basketball coach Josh Pastner isn't too happy with the Tigers' new conference. It looks like the Big East has committed at least two men's basketball out of conference games beginning in 2013. As part of the agreement, Memphis will have to play Big East football only members Boise State and San Diego State. This combined with planned and rumored Big East departures may start to prove "the grass in not greener on the other side" argument. Out of conference focus should be put on keeping the Tennessee-Knoxville series going and establishing/reviving series with regional rivals like Arkansas, Mississippi and Vanderbilt.