There are plenty of weeks on The Far End of the Bench when I tell you that we have a historic weekend to discuss. Sometimes I'm trying to get everybody excited about what's coming. Sometimes I'm just trying to make sure you stick around long enoug…
College Football Chaos: Georgia Falls, Bama Breaks & Ohio State Survives | The Morning After Week 7 Benchwarmers, apparently being ranked number one in college football now comes with an expiration date. Last week, Texas went down and Georgia took…
The Eagles left the door open, the Broncos won without settling much, and Niko somehow gained ground on me when I went 3–1. Welcome to another completely normal week of football. Episode companion: This article reflects our October 13 recording. …
There are Saturdays where college football makes perfect sense. The better teams win, the rankings hold up, and everybody goes to bed feeling pretty confident about what they just watched. Then there are Saturdays like this one. The No. 1 team in …
There are weeks where we have to look around sports and figure out what deserves to lead the show. This was not one of those weeks. Colorado football basically looked at us and said, “Don’t worry, we’ve got two hours of content for you.” CU went …
There is a point every college football season where we have to stop talking about what we think teams are and start paying attention to what they are actually showing us. I think we hit that point this weekend. September is fun because everybody …
Hockey is back. That sentence alone makes this one of the best times of the year. For months we’ve had football Saturdays, football Sundays, Monday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and then a whole lot of wondering what the hell we’re suppo…
College football continues to prove that the second you think you have figured out what is going on, Saturday shows up and punches you directly in the mouth. Week 4 gave us just about everything. Oregon went into the Coliseum and beat USC, but the…
Sometimes schedules just don’t work. Niko and I normally find a way to sit down on Wednesday or Thursday, fire up the cameras and give you a full episode of The Far End of the Bench. This week, that wasn’t happening. While the Atlanta Falcons were …
Saturday gave us the games. Sunday morning, we deal with the consequences. And Week 3 gave us plenty to deal with. We had a team somehow lose a football game it had basically already won. We had one of the most anticipated revenge games of the ent…
Football Chaos Is Here: Texas Stuns Ohio State, Oregon Crashes & Denver Gets Humbled Football is officially back because we have reached the part of the season where nothing makes sense anymore. You spend an entire offseason convincing yourself yo…
College football did what college football does best this weekend: it made a bunch of us look stupid. That is why I started The Morning After in the first place. Instead of sprinting to the internet five minutes after a final whistle and pretending…
We waited eight months. Eight months without meaningful football, only for the football gods to apparently decide that one ending wasn’t enough for Michigan and Western Michigan. Why end the game once when you can end it twice? Episode 289 of The…
College football fans have never had a problem forming an opinion. The final whistle blows and within seconds the internet has decided your quarterback is a Heisman winner, your coach needs to be fired, the officials are corrupt, and whatever happe…
There are certain weekends on the sports calendar that just feel different. Opening Day. The first Thursday night of the NFL season. The first real weekend of March Madness. And then there is the first full weekend of college football. I don't ca…
Football season is officially close enough that every prediction feels reasonable, every fan thinks their team fixed everything in the offseason, and every fantasy roster looks like a championship team. At least until the games actually start. Epi…
Six years. When Niko and I first sat in his kitchen trying to figure out what the hell we were going to call this show, I don't think either of us could have realistically pictured Episode 286. We definitely couldn't have pictured everything that w…
Sometimes the schedule writes the show for you. Episode 285 of Far End of the Bench was technically supposed to fall right around our seven-year anniversary. Seven years since Niko and I sat down in his apartment, came up with the name Far End of t…
Sometimes taking a week off is exactly what you need. We took one in the middle of the summer, came back, and suddenly there was enough chaos for about three episodes. LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er. Oklahoma City decided to play with Stan Kr…
There comes a time in every successful season when the journey changes. The opponent no longer sees your name on the schedule and wonders whether it belongs on the same field. It studies your weaknesses, memorizes your mistakes and spends the entir…
There are only 32 starting quarterback jobs in the NFL. That sounds simple until you really sit with it. Thirty-two. That is not just a depth chart number. That is a career-defining reality. Every quarterback in the league is ei…
The World Cup is over, and I am not handling it well. For more than a month, there was always a game on. I could wake up, turn on the television and watch countries that may not even agree on where their borders are try to kick each other into inte…
Charlotte reminded everyone champions can bleed. Rice reminded everyone they're still champions. By Frankie "The Horn" Calderón There is an interesting thing that happens when greatness becomes routine. People stop appreciating…
There are 32 starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Ask any fan, coach, or general manager, and they'll tell you it's the hardest position in sports. Every throw is dissected. Every loss lands on your shoulders. Every contract is debated. Every intercep…