Despite rumored interest in South Carolina and Georgia, a report via 247Sports.com on Monday has Notre Dame transfer quarterback favoring Florida State. “Barring a last-minute change of heart or any influence from elsewhere, [Florida State’s] where he’s headed,” Ryan Bartow wrote. Florida State is certainly an intriguing possibility for Everett Golson. Notre Dame played the […]
Big 12 Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday that the league will not start a new round of conference realignment, despite carrying just 10 members. The last era of conference realignment threatened the Big 12’s very existence, with members departing for the Big Ten and SEC, and Texas leveraging its clout to ostensibly take the […]
Conference meetings are afoot in Phoenix for both the Big 12 and Pac-12. For the former, this offseason is one of potentially pivotal decisions after its co-champions were both left out of the College Football Playoff. Big 12 Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby announced Wednesday that the league won’t make a hasty decision. Per George Schroeder […]
Which is the best SEC coaching staff? That’s how begin this week’s Q&A, so be forewarned: You are diving headlong into an open can of worms. Here’s my arbitrary ranking of the week. Tarantino-Directed Movies 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Django Unchained 3. Kill Bill Vol. 2 4. Kill Bill Vol. 1 5. Reservoir Dogs 6. […]
Heisman Trophy winner and three-year Oregon Ducks starting quarterback Marcus Mariota learned his NFL destiny Thursday, going to the Tennessee Titans second overall in the NFL draft. We won’t know the fate of Mariota’s vacant quarterback job until sometime before the season, but Jeff Lockie is off to a good start. Oregon head coach Mark […]
College Football Playoff expansion will not be among the high-priority topics discussed this week, when the committee meets in North Texas. So reports ESPN.com’s Andrea Adelson, who quotes ACC commissioner John Swofford as expressing a change of heart from last year. “Four is where we should be at this point,” Swofford told Adelson. “I made […]
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 […]
Money and sports: These are two institutions that a considerable portion of the American populace value over all others. The former is nothing new, and even a driving force in the formation of this as an independent nation. But the latter is a relatively recent phenomenon. Sports in general and football specifically are no longer […]
Eastern Washington head coach Beau Baldwin knows firsthand how much impact a transfer quarterback can have on a program. With SMU quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell guiding the offense, Baldwin’s Eagles capped the 2010 season by winning the Football Championship Subdivision national title. That was the last championship claimed by a program other than North Dakota […]
Harsh words were fired Thursday through media in one of college sports’ newer, albeit more bitter rivalries. No, I’m not referring to a deranged caller to the Paul Finebaum Show touting the strength of Alabama football’s signing class over Auburn’s — though surely that happened, too — but rather, Kevin Plank taking aim in the […]
National signing day is always teeming with surprises. This year, few are as fascinating as the success San Jose State had putting together its No. 58-ranked class. With wide receiver Kanya Bell, the Spartans boast more 4-star signees than BYU, Boston College and Kansas State, more 3-star prospects than reigning Mountain West and Fiesta Bowl […]
If you ever wonder why so many millions of college football fans follow national signing day so closely, surely some will tell you it’s for the drama. Really, it’s no different than The Real World — and this year, Roquan Smith and Byron Cowart are your proverbial Puck and C.T. Byron Cowart committed to Auburn […]
National signing day 2015 is upon us. It’s a most peculiar day in which legions of college football fans will call in sick to work so they can watch high school football players put on caps. The premise sure seems ridiculous when spelled out in such plain terms, but it’s become a lucrative business for […]
Say what you will about Katy Perry’s brand of pop music, but her Super Bowl halftime show was not short on entertainment. The frenetic energy of her performance at University of Phoenix Stadium provided a fitting intermission to one of the most raucous Super Bowls ever. After her outstanding showing on College Gameday at Ole […]
Bovada Sportsbook released its incredibly early, initial odds for the 2015 Heisman Trophy Friday, and one element jumping out is how light the top-half is on quarterbacks. Of the 15 of 31 candidates included, eight play quarterback. That’s still more than half, of course. But consider three of the eight — Braxton Miller, Cardale Jones […]
