Michigan State is coming off a 28-14 victory against the Michigan Wolverines where Sparty looked every bit the part of a dominating Big Ten team. Their defense shut down Al Borges’ offense and kept the talented junior Denard Robinson in check. This week the Spartans take on another talented quarterback of moving the ball with […]

This weekend the Florida Gators lost their third game of the year, falling on the Plains 17-6 to an Auburn team that isn’t quite in the same stratosphere as the Gators’ previous two losses, Alabama and LSU. Saturday was a game that Florida needed to win. A game that they needed to stay in the […]

The Virginia Tech Hokies are the longstanding class of the ACC since the league’s expansion in 2004, and after dropping their conference opener to Clemson a few weeks ago, people were starting to question if they would remain atop the ACC. VPI played a tough offensive shootout against the Hurricanes where the Hokies emerged victorious […]

The Illinois Fighting Illini host the Ohio State Buckeyes this weekend and back in August if you’d have said one team would be undefeated and the other would have three losses the easy money would have been on the Zooker’s team to be the 3-3 team. However, tables are turned and while folks anticipated Ohio […]

Surely you’ve heard by now: Stephen Garcia, the oft suspended quarterback of the South Carolina Gamecocks is now dismissed from the team. Not benched for Connor Shaw. Not suspended indefinitely. He’s gone. Packed up and probably back in Tampa with his family by now following the official decision that came a day ago. No way […]

Guys we’re five weeks into the 2011 season and we still have a lot of unbeaten teams. Some, like the top 6, were expected while others were not. We’ve got some low ranked teams boasting undefeated records and a couple Non-BCS squads in the ranks as well. My question to you all is simple: Who […]

Previously on “The Drive” we’ve discussed individual moments in team’s failures including my own North Carolina Tar Heels’ last five plays in their fruitless effort to tie the game at Georgia Tech and the Mississippi State Bulldogs coming up just short of taking Auburn to overtime. This week though, we’re expanding “The Drive” from just […]

Wisconsin hosts Nebraska in this week’s match up of Top 10 teams. Two opponents meeting for the first time 1974. Old school Big Ten versus the newest addition to the now twelve team league. Bret Bielema matching up against Bo Pelini. The Leaders taking on the Legends. A game that many folks, myself included, believe […]

If you don’t realize I’m a Tar Heel I’m not sure that you’ve been following closely. I love my Heels, that’s where I spent the best years of my life and where I learned so much about football that I can be considered an “expert” at this game. As we saw last week with Auburn […]

So far this year we’ve got you all sorts of caught up on what to watch for in games across the south, this week we’re going to take a little trip up north to Pennsylvania as the Pitt Panthers play host to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Pitt enters this game at 2-1 coming off […]

Given the weekends antics I was unable to get to The Drive that I wanted to but one thing that has stuck with me as we got into the week, amidst all the conference expansion drama, has been a couple of truly boneheaded special teams plays I saw on Saturday. Before we get into them […]

Two weeks in a row we’ve talked defensive line; starting with the LSU big boys against the Oregon blocking scheme followed by Auburn’s glaring need to defeat blocks and make a play. This week we’re off the line and we’re also out of the SEC. The biggest game of the weekend draws this guy’s eyes […]