BCS Bowl Projections: The Fiesta Bowl Belongs to the Iowa Hawkeyes (We Hope)
Published on: 1st December, 2009
I'll begin by assuming that Texas will beat Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship game. This is maybe the second time all year I've vouched confidence in Texas, but the Aggies were probably their second-best win of the year behind Oklahoma State, considering the hostile crowd, the pressure, and the ...Report: Bobby Bowden To Retire from Florida State
Published on: 30th November, 2009
Word is in on the Bobby Bowden situation: Bowden has chosen to retire from the Florida State Seminoles on Tuesday . The Tallahassee Democrat reported today that Bowden was given two options by Florida State president T.K. Wetherell and the FSU athletic department: return to the team in a limited managerial ...Would Jimmy Clausen Stay Another Year With Bob Stoops As Coach?
Published on: 30th November, 2009
As other B/R writers have argued , Jimmy Clausen and Charlie Weis's fates have been inextricably intertwined since the beginning, and it ought to follow that Clausen will depart to the NFL a year early now that Weis is fired. At first, I thought Clausen would maybe consider staying, considering Stoops' ...If Bob Stoops Goes To Notre Dame, Who Replaces Him At Oklahoma?
Published on: 30th November, 2009
With the rumors that Bob Stoops will likely take over for Charlie Weis at Notre Dame flying around, the Oklahoma Sooners might suddenly find themselves without their Heisman quarterback and their national championship-winning coach in the same year. But this is Boomer Sooner we're talking about; all is never lost. Stoops ...Sources: Charlie Weis Fired as Notre Dame Head Coach
Published on: 30th November, 2009
Multiple sources are reporting that Notre Dame has fired head coach Charlie Weis after five seasons. There were rumors that Weis had cleared out his office prior to departing to Stanford to face the Cardinal on Saturday evening, and that Weis would not be recruiting on the West Coast following the ...The Worst Decisions Made By College Football Coaches This Year
Published on: 24th November, 2009
Here's the thing about a lot of awful coaching decisions: they're just great coaching decisions in unpleasant disguises. Most of the decisions on this list (except for the truly awful, clock-bleeding ones) would have looked ballsy and brilliant had they been executed properly, or just caught a little luck. But they didn't, ...Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart: Sizing Up the Two Best Backs in the Nation
Published on: 19th November, 2009
College football pundits have deemed 2009 the "Year of the Running Back." And why not? The top three passers coming into the year are either injured (Sam Bradford), inconsistent (Colt McCoy) or underwhelming (Tim Tebow). And therein is lesson number one of college football punditry—if your top three passers aren't throwing ...Why Adding a Bye Week Will Benefit the Big Ten Conference In 2010
Published on: 19th November, 2009
For the last two years, the majority of Big Ten teams have played uninterrupted seasons of football, kicking off in late August or September and not quitting until the weekend before Thanksgiving. That's meant playing without a bye week, a crucial period that provides time off for injured players to heal, ...Ranking Eight College Coaches Who Have Resurrected Their Programs In 2009
Published on: 19th November, 2009
A coach wears many hats: apologist, antagonizer, PR man, cheerleader, clarifier, defender of the faith. Sometimes, a coach has to don the hat of a shaman, and resurrect his program after many have left it for dead. These eight coaches have had the most difficult job of all: convincing their players, and ...Bad Blood in Tucson: The Ducks Will Avenge the Fall of Dennis Dixon
Published on: 18th November, 2009
Leading up to this weekend's game, Oregon fans are surely thinking about the last time the Ducks visited Tucson with Pac-10 title aspirations. The year was 2007. The Ducks had lost to Cal, but beaten USC (back when that still mattered) and Arizona State to claim a tentative Pac-10 lead. QB Dennis ...Featured Sponsors
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