A year of transition for Louisville brings many questions. Photo: USA Today Sports It has been quite a year and a half for Louisville athletics. The 2012 season saw Louisville capture the Big East crown and smash Florida in the Sugar Bowl, and that was later followed by a men's basketball national championship and great […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports In early December, Mark Richt said there would be no changes to his defensive staff this off-season. Over the last 48 hours, that has changed quite a bit. On Sunday, Louisville reached into their magic piggy bank and made then Georgia Defensive Coordinator Todd Grantham an offer he couldn't refuse. How […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide In seven years at Alabama, Nick Saban has won three BCS National Championships. With six straight double-digit win seasons, you can almost pencil in Bama for a BCS game every year as they've missed only one in the last six […]

Cornell quarterback Jeff Matthews is one player getting more attention at the Shrine Game practices than NIU's Jordan Lynch. Photo: Cornell Athletics There is no denying the impact quarterback Jordan Lynch had at Northern Illinois the past two seasons, smashing school records and becoming the face of the school and the MAC in leading the Huskies […]

Damien Mama talks with Ndamukong Suh; PHOTO: USA Today Sports We don't do a lot with recruiting here on Crystal Ball Run but it's getting to be that time of year with National Signing Day just around the corner. Teams are filling up quickly as most schools are over 20 verbal commits at this point […]

CBR’s ‘Way Too Early’ 2014 Top 10 No. 4 UCLA Bruins Remember those newspaper ads when Rick Neuheisel took over the UCLA program? It looks like they were a bit premature, as the Bruins didn’t officially stop the football monopoly in Los Angeles until Jim Mora arrived. Mora has been a fresh air for the […]

CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 5 Oregon Ducks Entering 2013, it was hard to think of a more intriguing team than the Oregon Ducks. They were just about the only team we’ve seen in recent memory which entered with a returning All-American under center and true National Championship aspirations…coupled with a brand new […]

South Carolina's Connor Shaw headlines the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl roster. Photo: USA Today Sports The NFLPA Collegiate Bowl tends to fly under the radar when discussing college football all-star games. Played on the same day as the more established and long-standing Shrine Game and a week before the Senior Bowl, the NFL's only officially licensed […]

Northern Illinois legend Jordan Lynch gets one last chance to lead his team to victory after a two-game losing streak to end his career. Photo: USA Today Sports College football lives on this weekend, sort of, with the kickoff of the 89th annual East-West Shrine Game in St. Petersburg, Florida. While the Senior Bowl in […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The coaching carousel continues to spin and Sunday's surprising news involved Louisville backing up a Brinks truck (to the tune of $1 million per year for five years) for Georgia Defensive Coordinator Todd Grantham. Louisville AD Tom Jurich showed earlier this off-season that he wasn't afraid to take a risk when […]

Braxton Miller returns to Ohio State in 2014, can he lead them to a Big Ten title? Photo: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State's unbeatable run under Urban Meyer may have been snapped in the form of a two-game losing streak but if you think […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports Early Saturday morning, Missouri WR Dorial Green-Beckham was arrested on drug charges. The original charges that were filed by the Springfield police are for " felony distribution, delivery, manufacture or production of a controlled substance". According to Dave Matter, of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, the Springfield police department will not comment […]