(Editor’s Note: The air may still be thick with the chill of winter’s last vestiges, but college football programs around the country are already gearing up for spring practices. Throughout the next few weeks, CBR will help you get a handle on what to watch as teams hit the field to work out some of […]

  Update: Just moments after posting this story, it was announced that Davonte’ Neal has chosen to attend Notre Dame. With Signing Day 2012 now nearly a month into our rearview mirror, you’d have thought that the stream of goofy recruiting stories would’ve come to a halt by now. Well friends, you thought wrong. Because […]

Call them the “Five Stages of NCAA Investigation Grief.” A college sports scandal breaks implicating a star player on the take. Amateur Jack McCoys looking through alma mater-colored specs start trying to punch holes in the incriminating evidence with straw man arguments. Fans move on to (rightfully) bitching about the NCAA’s nonsensical rules. Probation is […]

Blame Realignment. Or Derek Dooley. Or maybe Will Muschamp. Phil Fulmer? Actually, maybe it’s Lane Kiffin. Yeah, let’s just blame him. Whoever’s to blame, history will likely be made in next year’s Tennessee-Florida game, and unfortunately it’s not the good kind. That’s because for the first time since CBS picked up SEC broadcasting rights back […]

Welcome to this week’s edition of “Case of the Monday’s,” where we start by promising you… 1. No matter what happens, we will not discuss Jeremy Lin. We will not make any off the cuff remarks about his race. We won’t mention his Ivy League education. Nor will even mention his crazy basketball skill, which […]

Since the start of the 2009 season, it seems like the Florida and Texas football programs have been mirror images of each other. Both were at the top of the world in 2009. Both suffered embarrassing 2010 seasons. Each has seen major coaching turnover. And both needed some positive momentum to quell a growingly disenchanted […]

Time to wrap up the week with one more look at one of the best games of the 2011 season. To do so we head out to the state of California, where one BCS contender stayed alive and another program showed they were up to the task to take on the best of the best. […]

We’ve already given you the biggest off-season storylines in the Pac-12, ACC, Big XII, Big Ten, SEC and Big East. Our look around the country concludes with the non-AQs. (We’re including the independents in that group for expediency’s sake.) 10. Tulsa retools. By just about any measure, Bill Blankenship’s first season at the helm of […]

The hard-hearted Big East “terminated” West Virginia on Valentine’s Day. The move freed up the Mountaineers to officially move on to the Big 12, a conference that has seen its own fair share of break-ups in the last two years. Since the conference expansion ball got rolling, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas A&M and Missouri have all […]

It wasn’t a Game of the Century, but Michigan State and Wisconsin met one night in October and put together one of the more memorable performances of the fall. Before we continue with a look back at the Baylor’s big win, and in case you have missed any of the previous segments, here are the […]

It’s not like we didn’t know who West Virginia would play when it finally joined the Big 12. It became official Tuesday and the conference released the league schedule. Yet, there was something that left me speechless for awhile when I saw WVU’s schedule. Hey road trips to Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Iowa […]