Published on: 16th July, 2011
These days, the sports media has a way of singling out one college quarterback prospect every summer, and hyping him up to be the guy.Jake Locker, Brady Quinn and Matt Leinart are just a few recent examples of this. And now it seems it’s time for Stanford’s Andrew Luck to ...Published on: 1st July, 2011
In Geno Smith’s first year as a starting quarterback, we finally got to witness the fruition of the potential that we had been hearing about since Smith originally signed with West Virginia back in 2009 as a highly coveted recruit out of Florida’s Miramar High School. Smith’s vaunted arm strength ...Published on: 27th March, 2011
Auburn showed once again where the power lies in college football. Back in January, the Tigers claimed the conference’s fifth straight national championship with a win over Oregon out in Glendale, Arizona.Think about that. There have been five official BCS national championship games, and each time, an SEC team has ...Published on: 25th March, 2011
Will this be the year? Will the 2011 season mark the time when the ACC finally rises up and becomes one of college football’s true power conferences?The ACC has been down in the pecking order as of late, floating somewhere above the Big East but below conferences like the SEC, ...Published on: 8th February, 2011
The college football talent pool took a considerable hit when Georgia’s A.J. Green and Alabama’s Julio Jones, the two top wide receivers in the game, made the decision to go pro a year early. The announcement didn't surprise anybody, but the fact is, us college football fans will now need ...Published on: 13th January, 2011
Character concern—the two most dreaded words an NFL prospect can hear.Forget 40 times, throw the height and weights out the window: When it comes down to evaluating NFL prospects, character completes the picture. Character is the one factor, above all, that can drag a top-notch prospect down and cost him ...Published on: 20th December, 2010
Coming into the 2010 college football season, it was a bit of a mystery as to really deserved to be called the top senior running back prospect for the 2011 NFL Draft. The early declarations of the two best prospects in the class, Ryan Mathews and Jahvid Best, left a ...Published on: 17th December, 2010
The 2010 college football season hasn’t been a very kind one for predictions. All you have to do is look at this year’s championship game between Auburn and Oregon, two teams that were both ranked outside of the preseason Top Ten, as evidence of that. This year has had its ...Published on: 15th December, 2010
It remains to be seen just how next year’s looming NFL lockout will affect the upcoming 2011 NFL Draft, which will take place at the end of next April. But one thing’s for sure: the strength of the draft will undoubtedly be determined by how many underclassmen choose to declare. ...Published on: 8th December, 2010
Tomorrow night, ESPN will broadcast their annual college football awards show live from the Atlantic Dance Hall at the Walt Disney Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The ceremony, which kicks off at 7 p.m. ET, recognizes and honors some of the top performers from this past season with prestigious ...