Published on: 6th August, 2011
The USA Today coaches' preseason poll was released on Thursday with very few surprises. The conference breakdown of the Top 25 looks like this: SEC: EightBig Ten: FiveBig 12: FiveMountain West: Two Pac-12: TwoACC: Two Independents: One Big East: Zero Even though these contending teams are going to be tough to handle in both ...Published on: 16th July, 2011
College football starts again in a matter of weeks.Can I get a "Amen?" The 2011 season will no doubt be filled with fierce competition and some surprising finishes. And I don't remember a season where so many Big 12 teams were going to be led by unseasoned and inexperienced QBs. While there ...Published on: 15th July, 2011
The 2011 Dick Butkus Award Watch List came out on Friday.The ACC and SEC both have nine players on the list; the Big 12 has eight.Von Miller of Texas A&M was last year's Butkus Award winner.The following 51 college linebackers are the leading candidates to be named the 2011 Top College Linebacker: Emmanuel Acho, ...Published on: 13th January, 2011
After leading Auburn to a national championship and winning the Heisman Trophy, Cam Newton will forego his senior season and enter the NFL draft. Auburn released a statement Thursday night announcing the quarterback's decision "This decision was difficult for me and my family," Newton said. "It's been a blessing for me to be a ...Published on: 19th December, 2010
While there is much that is not official yet, a variety of reports suggest that Mike Leach will be announced as the new head football coach at the University of Maryland. First, university officials told the Baltimore Sun that Maryland is forcing football coach Ralph Friedgen out. Friedgen, in his tenth ...Published on: 12th December, 2010
How much can things change in a short period of time? Just ask Mack Brown, head football coach of the Texas Longhorns. For the first twelve years at the helm in Austin, Brown enjoyed as much success as any coach in America. During that span, his Longhorn teams won .825 of their games, and played every year in bowl games (winning ...Published on: 24th November, 2010
In an interview with the Associated Press, E. Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, says that TCU and Boise State do not play a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game. While many others have voiced the same opinion, this may be the first public statement like ...Published on: 17th November, 2010
Wins in the NFL in September are nice. Getting things figured out in October is very important. By the middle of November, we start to see which teams are most likely to make the playoffs. We also begin to figure out who is heating up at just the right time to make a run. The following ...Published on: 25th October, 2010
There’s still a lot of college football left to be played this season. Strange things can and do happen when the leaves start turning and the temperatures start dropping. But, going into the last part of this season, one detail is solid: Cam Newton ...Published on: 23rd October, 2010
While Defense might win championships, a high-powered Offense can do more than make things interesting! In fact, going into the Week 8 schedule, the Top 10 Total Defense teams are a combined 55-8 and the Top 10 Scoring Offenses are doing even better (58-6)…and half of those six defeats come ...