0 comments by Aaron Torres on 7/6/2012
Being an NFL hopeful running back in college is a delicate balance. You’re willing to take the hits and bashings to get every inch of yardage you can. It comes with the job. And while you may be piling up yards, touchdowns, and All-American lists, NFL teams are looking at what is, in my opinion, […]
0 comments by David Purdum
Vegas has spoken. Cantor Gaming became the first Nevada sportsbook to post college football season win totals Friday. Five teams are set at 10.5: LSU, Alabama, Southern Cal, Oregon and Florida State. UNLV had the lowest, with the Rebels projected with just 2.5 wins. Duke and Ole Miss were set at 3.5, and Kentucky at […]
After summoning the spirits last week to find out what will happen in week four of the 2012 season, my colleague David Purdum shipped the crystal ball to me for ths week. He even packed it in dry ice so that when I opened the package to take it out, it looked all mystical and […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Well, say this about the nation’s No. 1 high school football recruit, Robert Nkemdiche: The boy knows how the recruiting game is played. That’s because on early Friday morning, the Clemson commit shared some very, VERY interesting comments with Atlanta Journal-Constitution recruiting writer Michael Carvell telling him: “I am waiting on Clemson to offer Ryan; […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
It is not too often that an athlete will mouth off about the apparrel he is given to wear, but we will get to that later. First, some official business to address… Former Georgia running back Isaiah Crowell has successfully landed at FCS Alabama State. There he will be eligible to play immediately this season, […]
0 comments by David Purdum on 7/5/2012
Vegas doesn’t know as much as you think it does. Oddsmakers don’t have access to top-secret inside information, and some of them can’t even tell you who Oklahoma State’s quarterback is this season. That goes for so-called wise guys, too. They’re numbers guys, plain and simple. So the notion that the sports betting market is […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Former University of Georgia RB Isaiah Crowell has ended up at Alabama State, after being kicked off Georgia’s team for multiple violations of both team and university policy. Crowell’s history is well documented after coming into Georgia as a five star recruit. He was suspended once before for reportedly failing a drug test and then […]
Clear some space there, Slive. Commissioner John Swofford was talking like one of college football’s big shots Tuesday following the announcement that the ACC had inked a 12-year deal with the Orange Bowl: “There are five conferences that separate themselves to some degree in the FBS when you look at indexing from a marketplace standpoint.” […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
We hope you enjoyed your Fourth of July, and if you are one of the many making a five-day weekend of the holiday, we hope you enjoyed your Fifth of July as well! As you might expect, it was a relatively quiet day as far as college football news was concerned, but we managed to […]
0 comments by David Purdum on 7/4/2012
Disgraced ex-Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino ditched all his Razorback gear on his way out of town. Will current Hogs’ coach John L. Smith be next to hit the pawn shops? According to an Associated Press report, Smith may be facing bankruptcy due to a series of land investments gone bad. Smith ditched his alma mater Weber […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 7/3/2012
So where do you play the Super Bowl of college football? Does it have to be a warm weather site? In SEC country? How important is it to have a domed stadium. Those questions and many more will be answered between now and Jan. 12, 2015, when the new playoff system starts. So where do […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
With news of a college football playoff going official last week, we as fans did what we always do in situations like this… and overanalyzed the crap out of everything. We overanalyzed who the winners and losers in the new playoff format would be. We overanalyzed which teams, conferences, coaches and players that benefited the […]
