From the man who brought you a "borderline erotic" kneel-down, Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Bret Bielema is bringing sexy back to SEC media days. Play that saxophone! On the cancellation of a scheduled nonconference game against Michigan: "I know Michigan-Notre Dame sounds sexy. I think Michigan-Arkansas sounds sexy." On the Razorbacks' identity compared to that…
The 2016 season marks the 10-year anniversary of the last Big Ten Heisman recipient. Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith won the 2006 edition of the award in a landslide, beating out Arkansas running back Darren McFadden 2,540 votes to 878. It stood as the Big Ten's biggest rout of the SEC all the way until…
Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher both came out in favor of a college football commissioner; a figurehead who could bring a level of uniformity to the sport. Recent news underscores the value of universal governance, from the benign -- the flap over satellite camps, for example -- to the serious, like coach-imposed transfer restrictions. A…
CFB Huddle Q&A; returns with a bang. Big kudos to this week's respondents, who served up some fun questions, starting with the worst uniform in sports history. From worst to best, Q&A; also takes on the best sequels in film history, and gets a little bit more into the David Shaw satellite camp comments. If…
To label college football recruiting an inexact science is patently false. That said, even the soundest of sciences have outliers. Recruiting journalism was met with a level of skepticism in its early days – I suspect largely because it was based almost entirely online, and the media old guard seemed to view the internet as…
Exasperated doesn't quite describe Wisconsin linebacker Jack Cichy's reaction to the three sacks on three consecutive plays he accrued in the Badgers' 23-21 defeat of USC at last month's Holiday Bowl. "Honestly, this year was my second sack even through high school," a smiling Cichy said on the field of Qualcomm Stadium. "It was awesome.…
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…
USC transfer quarterback Ricky Town is not waiting long to scout potential destinations, per syndicated radio host Bo Mattingly. Recruiting Update: Multiple sources say USC QB transfer Ricky Town is on Arkansas campus for a visit and will be at practice tonight.— Bo Mattingly (@SportsTalkwBo) August 19, 2015 Should Town become a Razorback in time…
Ohio State's 59-0 drubbing of Wisconsin in December's conference championship game summarized the current dynamic between the Big Ten East and Big Ten West. The Big Ten East returns the first College Football Playoff champion in Ohio State, a viable title contender in Michigan State, the most talked-about new head coach in Michigan's Jim Harbaugh,…
Alabama opens its 2015 college football season against Wisconsin, but Nick Saban and Co. are battling with another Big Ten West foe on the recruiting trail. Both Alabama and Nebraska are vying for running back Jordan Stevenson, per Sam McKewon of the Omaha World-Herald. Stevenson was originally committed to Wisconsin, but denied admission there. He's…
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…
Full disclosure: though I'm a college football junkie, I absolutely love summertime. There's no question autumn is the best time of year, but working in college football media, it's also the busiest. Summer -- and specifically, summer between Memorial Day weekend and before media days get rolling in late July -- is an opportunity to…
Jim Harbaugh has yet to coach a Michigan Wolverines game, but he's already one of the most talked-about coaches in college football. Sports Illustrated's Michael Rosenberg chronicles how Jim Harbaugh is measuring hype with reality in Ann Arbor, where college football's winningest program hasn't won a Big Ten championship in 11 years and it's been…
Over the new few weeks, CFBHuddle.com is rolling out some predictions for the 2015 college season. The following is a projection of each conference championship game, from the inaugural American Athletic, to the one that started it all: the SEC. AMERICAN ATHLETIC Saturday, Dec. 5 | Location: High seed's home field This year marks the…