Michigan-Michigan State: “The Blue Ox” Brandon Minor Will Stampede
Published on: 29th September, 2009
On Saturday the Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State Spartans will meet in East Lansing for their annual rivalry game for the Paul Bunyan Trophy, the largest and ugliest trophy in all of college sports. Between the injury to Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier and the quizzical play of the Michigan State Spartans ...Comeback Kid: Brett Favre’s Ten Best Moments
Published on: 28th September, 2009
Brett Favre is back, for good or ill. Once again, Favre's late game heroics have propelled him to the forefront of the NFL - maybe not as a fantasy option, maybe not as a statistics darling - but as the gutsy, gritty game-winner we've known him as for the past 17 ...15 College Teams That Have “Bought Into The System”
Published on: 27th September, 2009
In an earlier slideshow, I mentioned a theory I have that college football teams tend to absorb the personality of their coach. This is another way of saying they've bought into a system. In spite of the players recruited or the teams played, programs either succeed or fail based on how ...In Defense Of Peyton Manning, The Best Quarterback In The NFL
Published on: 22nd September, 2009
A disclaimer: I acknowledge that arguing for Peyton Manning as the best quarterback in the NFL might be a complete no-brainer. After all, the stats are there. I'm not the first to say it. And his only realistic competition for the title would be Tom Brady, who probably either repulses ...The 11 Best Leaps In College Football
Published on: 21st September, 2009
Any college skill player will tell you there's no more exciting way to the endzone, or to the ESPN Top Ten Plays list, than finishing off your big play with a bigger leap. Necessary or not, good ups add a vertical dimension to your game. The opponent must respect it, and ...The 10 Most Painful USC Losses Under Pete Carroll
Published on: 21st September, 2009
It must be nice to be Pete Carroll, a coach for whom losing is so rare, it shakes the foundations of college football when it happens. Or maybe it was nice a week ago, when the USC Trojans, ranked third in the country, have lost again to an unranked PAC-10 opponent ...Looking For Daylight: The Ten Best (And Worst) College Announcing Teams
Published on: 20th September, 2009
Week three has come and gone, and the early returns on ESPN's college football announcing teams have begun to take shape. After the reshuffling that took place in the offseason, it was going to be interesting to see who would benefit from having new partners, and who would seriously have to ...Pardon My Reach: The Top Fifteen Stiff-Armers In The NFL
Published on: 17th September, 2009
Ladainian Tomlinson once said that the stiff arm was his "revenge" on the defense, his only chance at hitting back after getting hit all day. After all, today's running back has only so many defenses at his disposal, and the juke move, though effective, has yet to actually break someone's ankles. But ...Reckoner: The 10 Best Revenge Games in College Football History
Published on: 16th September, 2009
This weekend has rightly been dubbed revenge weekend for fans and followers of college football. Tennessee looks to defend the fighting words of its coach, while Florida looks to avenge them. Texas faces the team that likely knocked them out of contention for the national championship last year. Kentucky and ...Ranking the College AP Poll: Why Florida Should Not Be No. 1
Published on: 14th September, 2009
There's a revolution going on among sharp critics of the AP ranking system for college football, and it bears out some interesting results. More and more observers of college football are ranking teams not by what they did last year, or by how powerful they "might be", but rather, by who ...Featured Sponsors
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