How could this go wrong? (Photo: USA Today Sports.) The Charlie Weis era at Kansas didn't start off with the same kind of bluster heard when he was introduced as the head coach at Notre Dame eight years ago. Remember all that bravado about the Fighting Irish's "decided schematic advantage" in every game? The big […]

Bill O'Brien welcomed an opportunity to coach at Penn State amid turmoil and a cloud of uncertainty, but after one year on the job there is now a ray of sunshine starting to peek through in Happy Valley. A community torn and shaken by the fallout of a disturbing scandal and a continuing search for […]

Last week Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer sent shockwaves through the Big Ten, when he called out his fellow conference brethren for their week recruiting efforts following National Signing Day. In essence, Urban was unhappy with where the rest of his conference schools ranked according to the scouting services, and let them know publicly […]

Yesterday we began our series of looks into the first-year coaches that populated the college football landscape with a look at the magician that was Jim L. Mora at UCLA, today it's Urban Meyer's turn in our CBR hot seat. Was there a more intensely scrutinized or anticipated first-year from a head coach than that […]

There are moments (which seem to happen more during the college football off-season, then at any other time) where stories come out that simply seem too good to be true. Or in some cases too bad to be true. Whatever the case, they’re so unbelievable, so outlandish, so ridiculous, that they really need to be […]

Update No. 2 (3:00 p.m. EST): Nick Saban has released a statement, noting that all four players are suspended from the Alabama football team indefinitely. The statement reads in part: "The young men charged are indefinitely suspended as we continue to gather information and talk to the appropriate people," Saban said in an official release. […]

When Jim Mora was hired as UCLA’s head football coach in the winter of 2011, well, to be blunt, it created just about the same buzz in Los Angeles as the release of a new Pauley Shore movie might: Essentially, it created no buzz at all. For a program which had been living in the […]

Well folks, welcome to the college football off-season, a magical place where relatively mundane news all-of-a-sudden turns into the Earth-shattering and overanalyzed variety that we’ve all come to know and love. That happened on Monday morning,