What started as a very strong outing for the Michigan Panther defense transformed into a 20-point win for the Tampa Bay Bandits and their high-octane Bandit Ball offense. Michigan built up a 10-0 advantage in the first quarter only to watch Tampa Bay go on a 33-3 run of scoring to catch and then race past the Panthers in the second half of Summer Bowl 2020. Both teams would finish the game with strong offensive numbers, Michigan gaining 435 yards, including 141 on the ground

It will be a battle of one seeds once again as the Tampa Bay Bandits and the Michigan Panthers prove they are the class of each conference and snag their golden ticket to Summer Bowl 2020. It will be quite a clash of styles as Coach McDermott’s defensive-minded squad, and the LeVeon Bell run game of the Panthers matches up against the high-flying offense of Dak Prescott and the Bandits. We will give you the 411 on how each team cleared the last hurdle to the league title game

The Wild Card weekend gave us four 1-score games, slim margins and some back-and-forth scores. Could the Divisionals provide the same, or would the 4 top seeds in the league roll through their Wild Card opponents? Well, we got a bit of everything in this year’s Divisional Round. Michigan built up a 13-0 first half lead and went on to win by that same margin. Atlanta and Tampa Bay gave us a shootout that was not decided until the 4 th  quarter. Houston gave us an upset, knocki

What a week of football! We had fans in the stands, max capacity in all 4 games despite the USFL playoffs matching up with the NFL opening weekend. We also had 4 games each decided by 6 points or less, including two lower seeds getting the “road” win against the higher seeded club. We had 300-yard passers, 100-yard rushers, big defensive stops, and one final drive to victory. It was pretty much what every football fan wants, real playoff football. Sure, it would have been nic

Put a pin in the 2020 USFL regular season, because it is done. The league wrapped up the most unique, offputting, and bizarre season in league history, completing 240 games in empty stadiums. But despite all the strangeness that accompanied the year, including all 30 teams living in hotels, all 240 games played in only 4 states with no team ever truly having a home game, regular testing and a special Covid-19 inactive list complicating roster management all season, the games

Tampa Bay locked up the SE Division crown and the 1-seed with a far more defensive-minded victory over Atlanta than most expected. The Houston Gamblers wrapped up the Eastern Conference playoff pool, locking in their spot with a big win over Pittsburgh on Saturday. The Blitz also secured the NE Division crown with their win over rival Washington, and now we are down to only 2 playoff spots left (with 5 Western Conference teams still in the mix) and one division title to be cl

Week 14 has Wrangler nation worried, the Machine Guild feeling good, and tensions high between fans of the Bandits and Fire as those two prepare for one of the biggest games of the year. It was a bad week for Denver, Oakland, and Orlando, but things are looking up for the Portland Stags and Houston Gamblers. In other words, it is end-of-season drama at its best. We will break down all the Week 14 results and their impact for the next two weeks and the postseason. We will also

What the who? Huh? How? What just happened? That was pretty much everyone’s reaction to a weekend that saw both unbeaten teams fall in the same week. Oakland took advantage of a nasty injury to Arizona QB David Carr and snapped the Wrangler win streak at a stunning 23 games (12 this year, 3 in the 2019 playoffs, and 8 to end the 2019 regular season). Only 4 hours later the Charlotte Monarchs, led by veteran backup Kyle Boller, knocked off the 12-0 Tampa Bay Bandits. It was a

Week 12 was a week of haves and have-nots, with blowout victories up and down the schedule, and only 1 team that was more than a 3-point underdog pulling out a victory. That team was Jacksonville, who we may need to start taking seriously after they downed Washington 10-3. The rest of the games saw favorite cleaning up, including a 31-point Bandits victory over New Jersey, Atlanta beating New England by 33, the Breakers cruising past Birmingham by 35, Houston topping San Anto

We did not get a huge wave of upsets in Week 11, nor did we get a ton of nailbiters. But, what we did get was our first two teams clinching playoff spots. To no one’s surprise it was the two unbeatens in the league, Tampa Bay and Arizona, both now 11-0, who locked up a playoff spot with 5 weeks left to play. They will now focus on securing the 1-seed and home field throughout the playoffs while the other 28 teams (26 actually, since 2 teams are now also eliminated) fight to l

As our Big Story this week will elaborate, Week 10 was a good one for the underdogs, we saw San Diego, Jacksonville, Charlotte, and New England all defy the odds and the oddsmakers by scoring surprising victories against teams with winning records. It was also a week for QB news as Kyle Boller gets a win in his first start at QB, Joe Flacco goes down to injury, which meant we got an Easton Stick sighting, and in Philadelphia another loss means we are going to see Ryan Lindley

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