Week 1 of the college football season isn’t yet in the books – we’ve still got Purdue-Marshall Sunday and the highly anticipated Ohio State-Virginia Tech rematch Monday to round out five consecutive days of action. However, Week 1 Saturday is a wrap, so you may proceed with the customary overreactions. Has any conference been eliminated […]
Allow me to welcome you to the first college football Saturday with a confession: I kinda love summer and I’ll miss it now that autumn’s creeping in. In the many months between the end of college basketball season — I’m as much a hoops junkie as I am football — I get accustomed to spending […]
A scary headline surfaced Wednesday, which would have put a serious damper on kickoff of the college football season. Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones was rushed to the hospital with “head pain.” You read head pain in football, and your mind likely goes to a very unpleasant place. Not that Cardale Jones’ actual prognosis was […]
Recruiting is a never-ending turf war between college football programs. Texas A&M’s announced Week 1 starting quarterback, Kyle Allen, is in the middle of a burgeoning rumble for territory between SEC and Pac-12 programs. The 5-star prospect Allen had offers from dozens of programs. A&M’s Week 1 opponent, Arizona State, was among them. In that […]
Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin offered USA Today‘s George Schroeder a morsel of optimism about his Aggies in 2015. “We’ve got a chance to be good,” he said. Considering how often coaches will downplay their teams’ strengths, Kevin Sumlin’s assessment can be interpreted as downright giddiness. After an up-and-down 2014, Schroeder contrasts the Aggies’ […]
Oregon’s Byron Marshall and Arizona State’s D.J. Foster both moved from running back to wide receiver, making way for bigger, workhorse ball-carriers. Don’t confuse either player’s reshuffling with demotion, however. Byron Marshall and D.J. Foster could both have an All-America caliber 2015, as they take on roles that are the new wave in offensive evolution. Before moving […]
Pac-12 Networks president Lydia Murphy-Stephans shouted out the popular College Football Twitter hashtag #Pac12AfterDark in her annual address at Pac-12 media days Friday. #Pac12AfterDark helped build national attention for the conference and became something of an identifying slogan for the league in its historic campaign. The University of Arizona athletic department jumped on the hashtag […]
Everett Golson’s transfer to Florida State from Notre Dame evidently did not come with any assurance of the starting job. At least, that’s the implicit suggestion of Golson appearing third on the initial Seminole depth chart, released Sunday ahead of ACC Kickoff. In the roughly six weeks before the Seminoles’ 2015 opener Texas State, the […]
Earlier today on TodaysU.com, I pointed to Alabama offensive line coach Mario Cristobal as standing on the cusp of being college football’s It Man once head coaching vacancies open at season’s end. A proven winner at FIU and an outstanding recruiter for Alabama, that Cristobal is entering his third season as an assistant and not […]
American Pharoah successfully completed the Triple Crown Saturday, the first time the hallowed feat was accomplished since 1978. Plenty of horses have approached that milestone in the past 37 years, winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, but the Triple Crown of the Belmont Stakes avoided one after another. The following college football records have stood […]
Nick Saban’s lamentations at this week’s SEC meetings that college football needs a more “level playing field” have been roundly and rightly criticized. Friend of the Site Josh Webb exposes the hypocrisy of Saban’s complaints from the perspective of Group of Five programs like Fresno State, Boise State and Marshall, via Scout.com. Webb’s thorough examination […]
Since his hire in December 2011, Arizona State head coach Todd Graham has touted building the program toward to its future while honoring its history. No one goes back further into Sun Devil — or Bulldog — history than 100-year-old Louis “Greg” Rappaport, and ESPN.com’s Kevin Gemmell chronicled Rappaport’s centennial anniversary, which included receiving a […]
Touring around college football’s headlines for Tuesday, April 21, Tennessee running back Alvin Kamara is after the opportunities that he couldn’t get at Alabama; the Oregon Ducks are chasing the champion they’ve yet to win; and a former Arizona State tight end is seeking his chance at professional sports stardom Down Under. Ducks Still Have […]
For former and current Arizonans such as myself, this is a time to rejoice: The Copper Bowl is coming back (sorta)! Per ESPN.com’s Brett McMurphy: Tucson (MW/C-USA) & Little Rock (AAC/SB) expect to apply for new bowls, sources told @ESPN. Would be 42 bowls in 2015 — Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) March 30, 2015 Only, the […]
Your brain could probably stand a break from college basketball for a moment. What better way to exhale from March Madness than reading on the triple-option, Shawn Oakman, breakout Pac-12 players and more? Oh, so much more, in fact. Friday Q&A is picking up momentum in its third week. Yes, I know how much most […]
