Of all the off-season coaching buzz, not a whole heck of a lot seems to be centered around Bill O’Brien. While Urban Meyer is a home run in Columbus, Mike Leach is intriguing in Pullman and folks in College Station are excited about Kevin Sumlin’s arrival, no one is quite sure what to make of […]

LaVar Arrington, shown right in his playing days, is as close to an ideal Penn State football lifer as you can find. After leaving for the NFL following his junior year, Arrington later returned to complete his degree and has been a vocal supporter of Penn State football through thick and thin, including the darkest […]

Bowl games are weird animals. The stakes are relative for their participants. So often the outcome hinges on motivation. The coaching carousel can throw teams out of whack as well, too. Even so, bowl game records tend to be a fallback at this time of year for measuring conference strength. (Why everyone cares about conference strength […]

Tom Bradley took his headset off with under a minute to play in the 2012 TicketCity Bowl, with his Nittany Lions trailing 30-14 and unable to prevent the inevitable. It may have been the last time Bradley, a long time face inside the Penn State football program, put on Penn State blue and white on […]

New Era Pinstripe Bowl Rutgers Scarlet Knights vs. Iowa State Cyclones December 30, 3:20 p.m. EST Yankee Stadium (Bronx, New York) TV: ESPN Line: Rutgers -1.0 The Big East and Big 12 will clash on the diamond known more for Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez as Rutgers and Iowa State meet in the second annual […]

The Military Bowl has not been kind to college football’s service academy teams. Four years after Navy dropped the inaugural Military Bowl to Wake Forest, Air Force’s efforts came up just short against Toledo. Air Force’s two-point conversion attempt with under a minute to play failed to catch Toledo off-guard, and  ultimately cost the Falcons the game as […]

Casey Pachall’s 42-yard touchdown pass to Skye Dawson with 4:26 remaining gave TCU their second straight bowl victory on the west coast as the TCU Horned Frogs found a way to win against an upset-minded Louisiana Tech, 31-24. TCU started off slowly and Louisiana Tech took advantage. Louisiana Tech out-gained TCU in the first half, […]

You know Tom Brady. One of the top quarterbacks in NFL history, with a couple of Super Bowl rings, golden boy looks and charm and all around winner on and off the field. Honestly, who wouldn’t want to be Tom Brady just for one day? On Tuesday, Marshall’s freshman quarterback Rakeem Cato, a Miami native, […]

Perhaps Ohio State should have followed in the foot steps of Miami. While the Hurricanes did their own dirty work in skipping out on postseason play this year, Ohio State walked up to the soup bar in their fashion and confidently asked for postseason play. The NCAA responded with “No postseason for you, one year!” […]

Beef O’Brady’s Bowl Florida International Golden Panthers vs. Marshall Thundering Herd Dec. 20, 8:00 pm ET Tropicana Field (St. Petersburg, Florida) Website: http://stpetersburgbowl.com/ TV: ESPN Line: FIU -4 It’s Sun Belt Conference vs. Conference USA in the Beef O’Brady’s Bowl as Florida International looks to pick up their second straight bowl victory in as many […]

Steve Addazio took one year to do something his predecessor at Temple, Al Golden, could not accomplish in five seasons. But don’t take that as a knock on Golden, who certainly turned this desolate football program around. Addazio led the Temple Owls to their first bowl victory since the 1979 Garden State Bowl, as Temple […]

The following is an excerpt from a public letter Todd Graham released to Pittsburgh players, fans and family on January 12, 2011. Two days earlier he had accepted the job offer to become Pittsburgh’s head coach. It is an honor and privilege to be your football coach at the University of Pittsburgh! As I write […]