0 comments by Kevin Causey on 12/2/2013
Missouri is playing for the SEC Championship in just their second season in the conference. PHOTO: USA Today Sports When the season started most people immediately wrote in Alabama for another trip to the SEC Championship Game. From the SEC East, many expected Georgia or South Carolina to be their opponent. In the SEC West, […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
One of the best football players in video game history is none other than Bo Jackson from Tecmo Bowl. Jackson, of course, is an Auburn legend. So it may only be appropriate that one of the craziest endings in Iron Bowl, and college football, history receive a Tecmo Bowl version. The dedicated Tecmo Bowl fans […]
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0 comments by Josh Parcell on 12/1/2013
Would the playoff era have taken anything away from the 2013 Iron Bowl? Photo: USA Today Sports The BCS sucks. It’s true. We have spent more than a decade begging to get out of this mess. It has taken a small part of our souls away. It has taken years off our lives. We […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
UCLA defeated USC Saturday night in the Los Angeles Coliseum, winning 35-14. For the second straight season under Jim More the Bruins reign supreme in the local college football, and sports, scene. Of course, the Los Angeles Kings may have won the night when it comes to the social media game. It's not everyday […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Kick Six may have done more than to end Alabama's BCS title plans. It may have blocked the SEC. Photo: USA Today Sports Before the season started one of the questions that many had asked was whether or not there was anyone that could stand in the way of the SEC winning yet another BCS championship. […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton
The sun is definitely shining on Duke coach David Cutcliffe, as the Blue Devils are headed to Charlotte to face Florida State. Photo: USA Today On February 4, 2010, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe told Bruce Feldman (then of ESPN), this: Cutcliffe on his football program at Duke winning an ACC title in […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
That was the reaction of the Ohio State players after they found out Auburn had shocked Alabama. Rivalry week in college football is always fun and unpredictable and this week was no different. To start the day, the Ohio State Buckeyes and their rival to the North, Michigan, went toe-to-toe in a game that was […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
PHOTO: USA Today Sports Remember just two weeks ago when Auburn beat Georgia after two Georgia defensive backs batted a ball and it landed in Auburn's Ricardo Louis's hands and he raced for a game-winning TD? That play was dubbed the "Miracle at Jordan-Hare". That play might have been outdone in the Iron Bowl. Down […]
0 comments by Patrick Johnston on 11/30/2013
After Week 14 of the 2013 college football season, the picture has become really clear in The American. What we learned is that UCF has already claimed a share of the conference title and could win the AAC outright with a victory over SMU next week. Temple's win this week also ensured that no team […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
It's rivalry week and that means that everybody is fired up and on edge. During the second quarter of the Michigan/Ohio State game, things came to a fever pitch after an Ohio State kickoff return. Underdog Michigan had just taken a 21-14 lead on a great throw and catch from Devin Gardner to Jeremy Gallon. […]
0 comments by Tom Perry
As Marshall was putting the finishing touches on a 59-28 victory over East Carolina, let’s hope coach Doc Holliday took a few minutes to relish the moment. It took Holliday 30 years of coaching at West Virginia (twice), North Carolina State and Florida before he finally got his shot at running his own program. Holliday’s […]
0 comments by Kevin Causey
PHOTO: USA Today Sports Under Tom Osborne, the Nebraska Cornhuskers were a dominant program in the 1990s. Osborne coached the Huskers from 1973 to 1997 and won 83% of his games as well as three National Championships. That era seems like such a long time ago. Since Osborne hung up his clipboard, three coaches have […]
