Student Union Sports Super Bowl Predictions

Feb 12, 2023
Site Owner Liam Smith “This is a tough one for me. I don’t like the idea of Patrick Mahomes winning his second Super Bowl and potentially kicking off a decade of Chiefs’ dominance. With that...

Illinois Basketball: Healthy, Primed for March

Feb 7, 2022
When the Illini enter Mackey Arena in West Lafayette to take on the #3 Purdue Boilermakers on Tuesday night, the expectation is for a hard-fought battle between two of the best teams in the Big Ten. P...

Bears Have One Option Come Monday: Fire Everybody

Jan 8, 2022
Sunday’s matinee against Minnesota marks the likely end of the Matt Nagy era in Chicago. Unfortunately for a fanbase in limbo, nobody’s quite sure of the fate of failed general manager Rya...

Bad News Bears: Understanding The Whys

Oct 25, 2021
After a pummeling at the hands of a well-rested, better coached, better schemed, more talented — just better in every sense — Tampa Bay Buccaneers squad on Sunday, the Chicago Bears posses...

Ryan Pace & Matt Nagy Are Who We Thought They Were

Sep 15, 2021
…and ownership let ’em off the hook. The late Dennis Green was spot on in his assessment of the Chicago Bears back in 2006; he was simply fifteen years too early. Sunday night’s blow...

Speaking Into Existence: Russell Wilson to Chicago

Mar 8, 2021
July 22nd, 2021 Fresh air, warm breeze, blinding sun, and nothing but smiles surrounding the practice field at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Illinois. Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in Chicag...

Campus Cover Ep. 075: NBA Top Shot Mania

Mar 4, 2021
NBA Top Shot is blowing up on social media and we’re here to help teach you about it! Cody Goggin and Jonathan Terry give their experiences with Top Shot and answer questions around it while con...

JJ Watt Released: What’s Next?

Feb 12, 2021
In a surprising twist to the NFL offseason, the Houston Texans and all-world defensive lineman JJ Watt mutually agreed to part ways on Friday morning. Watt’s reign as one of the league’s m...

Campus Cover Ep. 074: Super Bowl LV Preview

Feb 7, 2021
It’s the Super Bowl! The big game deserves our biggest podcast of the season. We have prop bets, sides, totals, and everything in between for the last episode of the 2020-21 NFL season. The Camp...

Big Game Prop-aganda: Best Bets, Props for SBLV

Feb 2, 2021
When the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers compete for the 55th Lombardi Trophy this upcoming Sunday night, the game forever becomes emblematic of the season endured over the course of the p...

Lecture Hall 1/19: Moments in History Snake Draft

Jan 20, 2021
What’s up and welcome to Lecture Hall, hosted by Bryce Hopwood and Harrison Sillings and presented by Student Union Sports. This week we brought back the snake draft squad, Patrick ‘Patty ...

NFL Wild Card Weekend: Mayhem & Madness Awaits

Jan 9, 2021
The longest week of the NFL season is finally coming to a close. Of the fourteen teams qualified for the postseason, twelve match up on Saturday or Sunday. The reigning Super Bowl Champion Kansas City...

Wildcard Weekend: Campus Cover Episode 071

Jan 8, 2021
Pat and Cody preview NFL Wildcard Weekend action.  Give it as listen as the guys break down each game of the weekend! The Campus Cover is the best sports betting podcast out there (in our opinion at ...

Campus Cover Ep. 070: CFP Preview

Dec 31, 2020
After a few weeks off, Cody and Patty discuss the college football playoff, including analysis of both games and a look at the futures on BUSR. This week I also took a dive into the CFP odds to analyz...

Campus Cover: NFL Week 13 (Episode 069)

Dec 3, 2020
Pat and Cody preview NFL Week 11 action.  Give it as listen as they give their best bets for the week, moneyline parlays, and another teaser! The Campus Cover is the best sports betting podcast o...

Campus Cover Ep. 62: NFL Week 7 w/ Jonathan Terry

Oct 22, 2020
The Campus Cover guys welcomed back Jonathan Terry of the Not Gonna Lie Podcast to discuss the first third of the NFL season. Cody, Patrick and JT discussed the board heading toward the weekend, each ...

Hottest Seat in Town: Who’s Axed Next?

Oct 21, 2020
Dan Quinn and Bill O’Brien didn’t survive the winless beginnings for the Falcons and Texans. Who’s next on the list? Only one winless team remains in the league, but the list of cand...

Todd Haley & Arthur Blank: Match Made in Heaven

Oct 14, 2020
Todd Haley made waves on social media this morning when he posted a link to the Google search of his own name. While the common theory is a social blunder from an inexperienced Twitter user (Haley onl...

NFL Week 4: Campus Cover Ep. 059

Oct 1, 2020
Pat and Cody preview NFL Week 4 action. Last week each host went 1-2 on single best bets with Cody also getting a big 4-1 win on a teaser. Give it as listen as they give their best bets for the week, ...

NFL Week 3: Campus Cover Podcast (Ep. 058)

Sep 24, 2020
Cody Goggin (@CodyGoggin) and Patrick Norton (@pdnorton3) give their best bets for NFL Week 3. They include their three favorite bets of the week, two parlays, and a teaser of the week. If you enjoy t...

Running It Back: Giants @ Bears, Week 2

Sep 19, 2020
For the third straight season, the Chicago Bears find themselves staring down the barrel of a relatively uninteresting New York Giants squad. Led by Saquon Barkley, there’s hope for Daniel Jones...

NFC East Preview: Campus Cover Episode 050

Sep 2, 2020
On Episode 050 of the Campus Cover, Cody Goggin and Patrick Norton take a look at this year’s NFC East. We analyze the divisions, give our best bets, and maybe even reveal who one of us likes to...

AFC South Preview: Campus Cover Episode 049

Sep 2, 2020
On episode 049 of the Campus Cover, Cody Goggin and Patrick Norton cover the AFC South. In 2020 this division looks to have a wide open race at the top, but are there certain teams that they prefer to...

New England Patriots: 2020 NFL Preview

Sep 1, 2020
For the first time in a long time — twenty seasons — the offensive huddle of the New England Patriots is missing #12 Tom Brady. It’s a new era for the NFL’s 21st century dynast...

AFC East Preview: Campus Cover Episode 048

Aug 31, 2020
Give the 2020 AFC East Preview from the Campus Cover a listen. Cody Goggin (@CodyGoggin) and Patrick Norton (@pdnorton3) give their best bets for this NFL season. We look at Cam Newton, Josh Allen, an...

The Chicago Bears: A Look Inside the 2020 Season

Aug 31, 2020
After a troublesome 2019 season, the Chicago Bears are looking to rebound in a major way one year later. Quite possibly a much different looking offense, it’s the defense that must return to 201...

NHL Qualifiers: Six Elimination Games & Picks

Aug 7, 2020
Backs against the wall, Friday sets up as an exhilarating slate full of eliminators in the NHL Qualifiers. All six games today, starting with Florida-New York at 11 am (CST) in Toronto, could result i...

Heart Attack Hawks Return, Steal 2-1 Advantage

Aug 6, 2020
Even if just for one night, the magic returned. When the Chicago Blackhawks entered the NHL Western Conference bubble in Edmonton, Alberta two weeks ago, expectations weren’t high. A Stanley Cup...

Ivy League Cancels Fall Sports

Jul 8, 2020
Didn’t J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood and a few more people just sign an open-letter unironically canceling “cancel culture”? Yet, here we are. As some may remember, the...

Stanford Eliminating Eleven Varsity Sports

Jul 8, 2020
Stanford University announced Wednesday morning their plan to cut eleven varsity sports from the school’s athletics department budget. Programs facing elimination upon conclusion of the 2020-21 ...

First Annual Student Union Madden Tournament

Jun 8, 2020
Starting today we will beginning the first annual Student Union Madden Tournament. This will take place over the next couple of weeks and can be viewed on our Twitch channel as well as from links on o...

Josh Rosen and the Bears: Match Made… Somewhere

May 21, 2020
When the Arizona Cardinals selected Josh Rosen with the tenth selection in the 2018 NFL Draft, the UCLA quarterback didn’t hold back when barking about the newly found chip on his shoulder. The ...

Reliving The Last Dance… for the first time.

Apr 27, 2020
Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, I thought I understood the impact of Michael Jordan on the city, on the game of basketball and on the world. I was born in 1999, eleven months after the Bulls rea...

Kofi Cockburn Declares for NBA Draft

Apr 7, 2020
It’s Instagram official. Kofi Cockburn declared for the 2020 NBA Draft. The Big Ten Freshman of the Year is testing the draft waters, but leaving a return to the Illini starting rotation as an o...

Raise a Glass to Freedom: Coronavirus Survival Guide

Mar 18, 2020
We’re all reeling. Priority #1 is our health, but we can focus on our well-being while sulking about the effects on our daily lives. No sports. No restaurants and bars. Some of us are out of wor...

Travis Etienne: America’s Running Back

Mar 3, 2020
Travis Etienne isn’t leaving Clemson. At least not this year, anyway. But that didn’t stop one of the nation’s best running backs from having fun with the life-altering decision. The...

Bet Against Us: February 19th, 2020

Feb 19, 2020
Success! 2-1 last night gets us back on track. But February 19th is a new day, so go ahead and bet against us. Dayton saved our asses and covered -3.5 against VCU last night with the help of some clut...

Ayo returns, leads Illini past #9 Penn State

Feb 19, 2020
When Ayo Dosunmu slipped and suffered a potentially devastating knee injury a week ago, nobody genuinely cared about the unfortunate outcome of the game. While the Illini dropped their home rematch wi...

Bet Against Us: February 18th, 2020

Feb 18, 2020
Things don’t always flow in our favor. A Notre Dame buzzer-beater victory over the Tar Heels devastated yesterday’s parlay. But it really hit the fan when Xavier and St. John’s decid...

Bet Against Us: February 17th, 2020

Feb 17, 2020
I own a career 5-14 record in online sports betting. I’m not good. I don’t claim otherwise. Don’t follow my betting advice. I did not know how to place a parlay bet until today. Knew...

Illinois Struggles: Blip or Major Malfunction?

Feb 9, 2020
After shocking the conference with a seven game win streak, things have cooled down quickly in Champaign. At a time, it seemed the Illini were the only squad capable of winning on the road in the Big ...

2019 Sun Bowl: Florida State vs. Arizona State

Dec 31, 2019
The 2019 Sun Bowl is moments away from kickoff in El Paso, Texas with the Seminoles set to clash with the Sun Devils. While both teams squeaked into postseason play, records don’t show the full ...

2019 Redbox Bowl: Cal vs. Illinois

Dec 30, 2019
One of the better stories of the college football season comes to an end today when the Illini (6-6) take on the Golden Bears (7-5) this afternoon in the 2019 Redbox Bowl. With bowl season in full swi...

Illinois Basketball: Certifiably Good

Dec 12, 2019
Things are clicking for the Illini. A big win in Champaign on Wednesday night gives the Illinois basketball program their first victory against a top-five ranked opponent since Tyler Griffey sealed th...

New! Schiano Reuniting With Scarlet Knights

Dec 1, 2019
Greg Schiano is reversing course and returning to Piscataway. A Rutgers program Schiano helped restore former glory at between 2001 and 2011 is less than a shell of its former self in its current stat...

How To: Write a Blog for Student Union Sports

Sep 17, 2019
Hello friends, it’s your friendly neighborhood Editor-In-Chief Patty Takes here. Today, we’re going to quickly dissect how to write a blog for Student Union Sports, things that must be che...

SU25: 2019 CFB Week 3

Sep 11, 2019
As we enter 2019 CFB Week 3, this is one of the final weeks we’ll see the Playoff caliber squads beating up on the cupcakes and FCS school. In case that’s your thing, don’t fret, Kan...

Dear Tennessee Volunteers & Phillip Fulmer, Hire Us.

Sep 11, 2019
The Tennessee Volunteers coaching staff has proven they’re incapable of doing anything right. They can’t beat a two win Sun Belt team, nor can they take down an Independent team that hasn&...

SU25: 2019 CFB Week 1

Aug 30, 2019
It’s that time of the year again: A bunch of college bloggers outsmarting the pros at other sites. It’s the return of the SU25: 2019 CFB Week 1 edition! Reigning champion Clemson Tigers fi...

2019 CFB Preview: American Athletic Conference

Aug 27, 2019
This is UCFs conference now. A few formidable FBS opponents, but the Knights own the headlines when it comes to the American Athletic Conference. The AAC is yet to receive respect in the eyes of the P...

2019 CFB Preview: Illinois Fighting Illini

Aug 7, 2019
The Kansas of the B1G, the Illinois Fighting Illini haven’t found much success for the better part of a decade. Entering year four of the Lovie Smith Experiment, which hasn’t yielded many ...

2019 CFB Preview: Kansas Jayhawks

Jul 30, 2019
In the year of our lord, two-thousand and nineteen, anticipation builds before students crowd Jayhawk Boulevard for the fall semester. For the first time in a long time, there’s genuine exciteme...

What In The World Is This: Instagram Algorithms

Jun 12, 2019
You’re scrolling through Instagram, still in bed trying to decide whether or not to head back to sleep for another hour or start your Saturday before noon. Then the biggest WTF moment of the day...

What Happened to The Jayhawks?

Mar 6, 2019
It’s finally over. Fourteen years stopped at a screeching halt. Oh well. For the 2018-19 Kansas Jayhawks, it’s time to learn and move on. No longer at the top of the Big XII mountain, doub...

Is Bill Self On The Hot Seat?

Mar 5, 2019
Nope. Carry on. While you’re here, check out why I think Illinois has a shot at an auto-bid this March....

Illinois Basketball: B1G Tournament Champions

Feb 12, 2019
Speak it into existence. Brad Underwood’s squad is trending upward, and while they sit at 9-15, an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is up for grabs in March. The path to the madness is far f...

#SU25 Basketball: Week (1)5!

Feb 6, 2019
Football season is over, but there is some good news: The Patriots can’t win March Madness. But the Patriots of college basketball find themselves atop our first #SU25 rankings of the regular se...

Silvio De Sousa, Kansas Hosed by NCAA

Feb 2, 2019
Well, that’s that. Silvio De Sousa banned from the NCAA until 2020-2021. Held out for all of the 2018-19 season this point, hope remained with the Jayhawks that they might get their big back bef...

2018(19?) Playoff Final Preview

Jan 5, 2019
Monday night, the culmination of the entire college football season, but what year is Monday’s College Football Playoff Final taking place in? Is this the 2018 Natty or the 2019? I’ve had ...

2018 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic Preview

Dec 29, 2018
Folks, the College Football Playoff is finally here, and we’re just hours away from the first semifinal. This year’s Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic is sure to excite when two undefeated squa...

Kyler Murray Wins Heisman

Dec 8, 2018
After one of the longer Heisman presentation shows of recent memory, this time filled with awkward segments and enough missed jokes to make you think a Kansas quarterback was making them. Where was I?...

Les Miles to Kansas: Wave the Grass?

Nov 16, 2018
Ever since the announcement was made that David Beaty would not be returning for the 2019 season, rumors began flying around Lawrence regarding the next head football coach. But today, sources to Spor...

Campus Cover 043: Blind Resume Test

Nov 7, 2018
The Campus Cover is the always off-topic, sometimes correct college football gambling podcast presented by Student Union Sports. Not only do we have your picks of the week, but PJ and Cody give you en...

#SU25 Basketball: Preseason

Nov 6, 2018
It’s that time of the year again! The college basketball season tips off tonight with the Champions Classic taking place in Indianapolis. The Kansas Jayhawks take on the Michigan State Spartans,...

Fight On: Ranking The Best College Fight Songs

Nov 6, 2018
Call ’em the best, most memorable, most recognizable: fight songs become ingrained in your mind, even if you can’t remember the associated school. When you listen to this list, there’...

Beaty Fired, It’s Basketball Season

Nov 5, 2018
After four years of David Beaty football in Lawrence, new AD Jeff Long announced the football program would be moving in a different direction come season’s end. Beaty will exit the scene with t...

College Hockey is About to Get B1Gger.

Nov 2, 2018
The legitimacy of the account is in question without a blue checkmark and some questionable posts in the past, but this tweet is certainly getting plenty of attention in the college hockey universe. W...

College Hockey: Postgame Presser Week Four

Oct 23, 2018
We are about a month into the season and there is not much time left before conference play gets fully underway. All two of our pollsters (myself and Patty Norton) have our say after an action-packed ...

SU25: Week 7

Oct 9, 2018
We’re halfway through the 2018 college football season and our rankings are starting to take tremendous form. More confidence in Michigan and Texas in actual rank, but not too much change in the...

Heisman Watch: The Year of the Back

Oct 9, 2018
Quarterback, that is. Remember before the season began when everybody assumed the college quarterback landscape was weak and that any of the talented running backs would be a shoe-in for the coveted t...

Marching Bands: College Football’s Secret Weapon

Oct 9, 2018
The age-old debate about whether the NFL product is better than the NCAA’s commodity is easily settled: the NFL lacks marching bands. The Baltimore Ravens and Washington Redskins escape blame he...

Land of Lincoln: Norman, Oklahoma

Oct 9, 2018
Well that’s that. The Stoops family is no longer when it comes to the staff of the Sooners. This is Lincoln Riley’s team now. Has been for a year and now he’s shocked the nation in h...

LSU Punts Away Perfect Season

Oct 7, 2018
Noooo! Not like this, Coach O! Florida? LSU’s defense has been so good all year, but it was a pick-6 that finally ended the Tigers’ perfect season bid. Joe Burrow couldn’t get it don...

By God, Texas IS Back.

Oct 7, 2018
They actually did the damn thing and took down #7 Oklahoma! After losing to B1G powerhouse MARYLAND(!) in the first game of the 2018 campaign, it seemed as though Texas was on it’s way to anothe...

Kansas Football: At Least We Have Volleyball

Oct 7, 2018
Well, you can’t win ’em all, and luckily for the Jayhawks, they have two wins already in 2018, so they won’t lose ’em all either. Another fantastic defensive outing washed away...

Notre Dame: Legit Contender. No! Don’t Hang Up!

Oct 7, 2018
A big victory on Saturday night against #24 Virginia Tech once again proved to the nation that Notre Dame is not messing around in 2018. With wins over Michigan to begin the season, now two consecutiv...

#SU25: Week 4

Sep 17, 2018
Alabama (10) Clemson (2) Georgia Ohio State Oklahoma LSU Stanford Washington West Virginia Notre Dame Auburn Penn State Mississippi State Virginia Tech UCF Oklahoma State TCU Oregon Wisconsin Michigan...

KANSAS FOOTBALL IS GOING BOWLING

Sep 15, 2018
Cancel the Rutgers Scarlet Knights’ football program IMMEDIATELY. 55-14? Are you kidding me? KU just put up 55 points on a team that only allowed 52 to THE Ohio State. Urban Meyer on the hot sea...

Dear Vanderbilt University, Please Hire Jay Cutler.

Sep 11, 2018
After the news out of Vanderbilt that athletic director David Williams would be resigning, Clay Travis dropped into the conversation with an absurd suggestion for the university’s next man up: ...

What Could’ve Been: The Jim Harbaugh/Kansas Saga

Aug 7, 2018
Everybody’s favorite milk-drinking, red meat-devouring, chicken-avoiding, khaki-wearing football coach resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he belongs, but Jim Harbaugh’s journey to the Bi...

Student Union CFB Preview: Kansas

Aug 6, 2018
The Jayhawks have one of the most negative outlooks you can find in the game. With new Athletic Director Jeff Long in the building, the writing is on the wall for head coach David Beaty. With three w...

Student Union CFB Preview: Illinois

Jul 30, 2018
The Fighting Illini have been in the rebuild stage for what feels like an eternity. Their games have been hard to watch with glaring issues on all three phases, but it’s all developmental and w...

The Wicked Witch Is Dead

May 22, 2018
Praise the lord, Sheahon Zenger isn’t in Kansas anymore, and from the looks of it, David Beaty doesn’t appear to be far behind. University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod sent out a sta...

Oklahoma Sucks, Nothing Is Real, This is Bullsh*t.

Mar 11, 2018
I quit. I just left the Student Union Sports Slack channel. I am a rogue writer right now. This is RIDICULOUS. Besides “5+ turnovers per game” Trae Young, how in the WORLD did Oklahoma mak...

Apply to Become Pitt’s Head Coach Today!

Mar 8, 2018
Only a few hours removed from Kevin Stallings’ release, the University of Pittsburgh is working on finding a new head coach for their men’s basketball team through… the internet? If ...

SU25: Basketball Edition

Feb 26, 2018
“We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball teams isn’t necessarily one of them.” – Me, Patrick Norton, four weeks ago. Conference tournament...

National Lampoon’s College Vacation

Feb 20, 2018
Did somebody say… VACATION? With all of this talk of vacation out of South Bend, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, I can’t help but dream of a warm beach somewhere with the waves crashing ...

SU25: Basketball Edition

Feb 19, 2018
“We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball teams isn’t necessarily one of them.” – Me, Patrick Norton, three weeks ago. “…Basket...

SU25: Basketball Edition

Feb 12, 2018
“We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball teams isn’t necessarily one of them.” – Me, Patrick Norton, two weeks ago. After Villanova, Virgi...

SU25: Basketball Edition

Jan 29, 2018
*extreme Pitbull voice* “We’re bringing it, we’re bringing it, we’re bringing it back.” We’re a blog of many talents, but ranking the top 25 college basketball team...

Five Takeaways from Oklahoma’s Win Over Kansas

Jan 23, 2018
#12 Oklahoma played host to #5 Kansas in a Tuesday night Big 12 match with potentially serious implications on the conference’s standings. After KU held a lead for much of the second half, an in...

It’s Time for Notre Dame to Move On

Nov 27, 2017
After a great start to the 2017 season, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have fallen apart at the seams once again. Just last year, the Fighting Irish finished a dismal season with a 4-8 record. In 2017,...

Dear Patrick, Is Alabama Overrated?

Oct 31, 2017
The short answer? Yes. The long answer? Yes, absolutely. Thanks to fellow Student Union writer Cody Goggin, we publish a Top 25 College Football Poll every week compiled of our picks and rankings amon...