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CBR’s ‘Way Too’ Early 2013 Top 10: No. 3 Texas A&M Aggies

Quick question: Had anyone told you one year ago that Texas A&M would win 11 games during the 2012 season, produce a Heisman Trophy winner and enter 2013 a near-unanimous Top 5 team, how would you have responded? My guess is that there would’ve been some kind of bad “Mayan apocalypse” joke mixed in there […]

Baylor ushers in a golden (helmet) era

Things have been going pretty well for Baylor in recent years. The entire sports department has been experiencing success at levels rarely seen before at the school. Of course we all remember the impact Robert Griffin III had on the football program recently and judging by last season it appears Baylor is not exactly taking […]

CBR’s ‘Way Too Early’ 2013 Top 10: No. 4 Stanford Cardinal

In the last three years, only two schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) have equaled or surpassed Stanford's 35-5 record and two BCS bowl wins. One of them happens to be Alabama (also 35-5), which just happened to win a pair of national championships in that period. The other is Oregon, which came within […]

Te’o tells his side, denies involvement in dead cybergirl hoax

Star Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o finally surfaced late Friday night for the first time since a report was published revealing that his dead girlfriend never died – or even existed. (Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my own personal hopes.) Not surprisingly, Te'o denied any involvement in the hoax during the interview with ESPN.com's […]

Q&A: With Former NFL Head Coach and ESPN Analyst Herm Edwards

CARSON, CALIF.,– Simply put, there are few figures in the sport of football who elicit more “I LOVE that guy” response from fans than Herm Edwards. I mean honestly, if you don’t like Herm Edwards, you’re basically admitting that you also don’t like puppies, apple pie and Les Mile press conferences. It’s essentially impossible. Anyway, […]

Grading the Coaching Hires: Gary Andersen and Wisconsin

In an offseason with a lot of shocking moves being made in the coaching world, the move of Bret Bielema from Wisconsin to Arkansas has to rank right up there on the shocking meter. However, what's one man's past is another's future and the Badgers went out and hired a coach they knew a lot […]

Wanting the worst from Manti Te’o

I hope Manti Te'o is a liar. I hope he's a con artist. I hope he's more full of shit than a shithouse rat. I hope that when he finally does address whatever was going on with his fictitious lost love, he tells us that he has been in on it all from the start. […]

Brodrick Brown goes from ESPY Nomination to NFL Draft Hopeful

CARSON, CALIF.,— If you’re a fan of college football, chances are pretty good you know Brodrick Brown. Granted, you might know his name, but if you watch this sport- even just a little- then you’ve seen his game on full display. Brown was part of four nine-win teams over his five seasons at Oklahoma State, […]

Grading the Coaching Hires: Dave Doeren and NC State

Gone is the venerable Tom O'Brien as athletic director Debbie Yow looks to improve all of her programs from mediocre at best to annually competitive at the top of the ACC. So, in steps one of the hottest names in college coaching, Dave Doeren, who led the Northern Illinois Huskies to their first ever BCS […]

CBR’s ‘Way Too Early’ 2013 Top 10: No. 5 Ohio State Buckeyes

CBR's Way Too Early Top 10 No. 5 Ohio State Buckeyes No post season play, no problem for Urban Meyer in year one of his reign in Columbus. They may be the least talked about undefeated team in college football history because of the post-season ban and being out of the collective consciousness of the […]

Report: Manti Te’o got Catfished, or something (Updated Again)

The story of Manti Te'o and his girlfriend passing away during the college football season grew into one of those Hallmark moment stories that seemed to get mentioned any time someone with a microphone was talking about the star Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman Trophy runner-up. In easily one of the most insane pieces of […]

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