Let the chorus of SEC haters come out with their "I told you so's" today as the NCAA announced penalties to SEC member Mississippi State for a host of infractions related to a now ex-assistant coach, a booster, and a recruit.They are on probation and have had two scholarships taken away for the next two […]

New look logo, new look conference, but could results be the same in 2013? Last season the Sun Belt was tight, so tight that four teams were all within a game of each other in the conference race. Fast forward to 2013 and three of those four teams are still in the new look Sun […]

Can ECU win C-USA Title in last go around? Justin Hardy will figure prominently in that. (Photo courtesy USA Today Sports) As Kevin said in our look back at 2012 yesterday, this is a sneaky good conference. Well, at least it was until it was raided and will be raided again by The American. Despite […]

Ault leads Nevada before his final game after 28 years at the helm in 2012. (Photo Courtesy – USA Today Sports/Mark Rebilas) We're in the midst of "Mountain West Preview" week here at CBR so it's perhaps only right that the news breaks out of Reno, Nevada that the Wolfpack will honor coaching legend and […]

It's Mountain West week, you know, the conference that's home to eternal underdog and BCS buster Boise State. Yesterday we gave you a look at what went down in the conference last season. One could say it will it be hard to top the craziness that happened in 2012 for the Mountain West to say the […]

Could more neutral site games be in future of MAC/Big Ten relationship? (photo courtesy: USA Today Sports/Anthony Wells) We've talked a lot about the term "MACtion" this week and rightfully so, you know… since we're previewing the conference and all, but there's another term, one that the MAC would like us to forget and that's […]

The Final Keg of Nails game could be the most important ever as we enter 2013.  Photo: USA Today Sports It's a new era and a new makeup for the now former Big East football playing schools and for some it's their last go-round in their old home before Rutgers and Louisville are off to […]

Did you know that Tommie Frazier wasn't in the College Football Hall of Fame? Me neither. It begs the question exactly what it takes to make it to this elite group of the .002 of the college football players to ever play the game. However, that travesty of all travesties is about to come to […]

Drip… Drip…. Drip, no that's not the leaky faucet in the non-existent CBR break room. That sound you are hearing is the slow leak of information coming out of the College Football Playoff powers that be. The latest of which is the announcement of the rotation and dates for the semi-final hosts and remaining bowl […]

Yesterday the less than inspired news of the new college football playoff name… you know, "College Football Playoff" was announced and then it was followed by a website launch and the introduction of a fan vote for the logo of the new College Football Playoff. While there wasn't much controversy in playing it safe with […]

The phrase "round and round it goes, where it stops no one knows" seems to be about the only thing to accurately describe what the conference realignment merry-go-round ride of the past four or five years felt like. However, that may all be coming to an end thanks to the most unlikely of characters and […]