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Ten college football coaches likely to end up in Canada

On Thursday breaking news shocked the college football world when it was announced that former Boise State and Colorado head man Dan Hawkins had been named the new head coach of the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes. Yes, the news was indeed shocking. Not so much in that Hawkins would continue his career North of […]

Accusations against Ole Miss come up empty

There’s an old saying that goes “to whom much is given much is expected,” and if the last few weeks were any indication, that phrase certainly holds true in college football recruiting. There are few places in sports where the stakes are higher, and where the vitriol from opposing fans, coaches and schools is more […]

Moms Gone Wild Vol. II: FSU Recruit wanted to go to USC

‘Tis the season… for mother’s across the nation to alter their son’s futures, apparently. That’s right, one week after the Alex Collins fiasco down in South Florida, we’ve got another case of Mom’s Gone Wild, courtesy of another top-flight recruit. This one’s name is Matthew Thomas, and for those of you who don’t follow recruiting, […]

Big Ten will no longer schedule FCS teams

Last week Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer sent shockwaves through the Big Ten, when he called out his fellow conference brethren for their week recruiting efforts following National Signing Day. In essence, Urban was unhappy with where the rest of his conference schools ranked according to the scouting services, and let them know publicly […]

Urban Meyer tells a story of Woody Hayes getting weird. Really weird

There are moments (which seem to happen more during the college football off-season, then at any other time) where stories come out that simply seem too good to be true. Or in some cases too bad to be true. Whatever the case, they’re so unbelievable, so outlandish, so ridiculous, that they really need to be […]

Four Alabama players arrested; football program will be fine going forward

Update No. 2 (3:00 p.m. EST): Nick Saban has released a statement, noting that all four players are suspended from the Alabama football team indefinitely. The statement reads in part: "The young men charged are indefinitely suspended as we continue to gather information and talk to the appropriate people," Saban said in an official release. […]

Evaluating College Football’s First-Year Head Coaches: Jim Mora

When Jim Mora was hired as UCLA’s head football coach in the winter of 2011, well, to be blunt, it created just about the same buzz in Los Angeles as the release of a new Pauley Shore movie might: Essentially, it created no buzz at all. For a program which had been living in the […]

Top high school junior receives 54 handwritten letters from Ole Miss

By now, you’ve pretty heard that the Ole Miss Rebels had a pretty darn good Signing Day. Hugh Freeze and his staff inked what most believe to be one of the top five classes in the country, and had an especially strong haul on Signing Day itself, getting commitments from three five-star players, including the […]

LSU has hired Cam Cameron as their new offensive coordinator

Update, 3:27 p.m. EST: According to CBS Sports' Bruce Feldman, it's a done deal: Cameron will be LSU's new offensive coordinator. It’s not often that a college football program wins 10 games in a season, and most fans still view it as a disappointment. Only at that’s the exact precedent Les Miles has set. At […]

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