PHOTO: USA Today Sports In early December, Mark Richt said there would be no changes to his defensive staff this off-season. Over the last 48 hours, that has changed quite a bit. On Sunday, Louisville reached into their magic piggy bank and made then Georgia Defensive Coordinator Todd Grantham an offer he couldn't refuse. How […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide In seven years at Alabama, Nick Saban has won three BCS National Championships. With six straight double-digit win seasons, you can almost pencil in Bama for a BCS game every year as they've missed only one in the last six […]

Damien Mama talks with Ndamukong Suh; PHOTO: USA Today Sports We don't do a lot with recruiting here on Crystal Ball Run but it's getting to be that time of year with National Signing Day just around the corner. Teams are filling up quickly as most schools are over 20 verbal commits at this point […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The coaching carousel continues to spin and Sunday's surprising news involved Louisville backing up a Brinks truck (to the tune of $1 million per year for five years) for Georgia Defensive Coordinator Todd Grantham. Louisville AD Tom Jurich showed earlier this off-season that he wasn't afraid to take a risk when […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Early Saturday morning, Missouri WR Dorial Green-Beckham was arrested on drug charges. The original charges that were filed by the Springfield police are for " felony distribution, delivery, manufacture or production of a controlled substance". According to Dave Matter, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Springfield police department will not comment […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The coaching carousel got off to a ho-hum start at the end of the college football regular season, but it is revving up in 2014. First it was Charlie Strong heading to Texas which opened up the Louisville job where Bobby Petrino got re-hired after the Cardinals AD had a brief […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 8 LSU Tigers In nine years as head coach at LSU, Les Miles has double-digit wins in seven of those seasons and has led the Tigers to five top ten finishes. LSU will have to overcome the loss of four early entrants into the […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 10 Stanford Cardinal David Shaw has only been a head coach for three years but each year he's led Stanford to a BCS bowl game. With an overall record of 34-7 and a Pac-12 record of 23-4, odds are in favor of Shaw and […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The Florida State Seminoles knocked off the Auburn Tigers in a thriller on Monday night and now we have a long eight month wait ahead of us until the 2014 season. Recruiting season will kick off the off-season, then it's the NFL Draft and spring practice and then the long summer […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports On Monday night, the college football season will culminate as the top two teams face off to see who will hoist the crystal trophy. Florida State has run through the ACC like a hot knife through butter and their opponent Auburn is the hottest team in college football. Here are the […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Back in 2011, ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit quit Twitter saying "I just felt it wasn't for me". Herbstreit has now been back on Twitter for while (in full disclosure, I don't follow him so I'm not sure when he jumped back on board) and it looks like he's giving […]