Trevone Boykin’s play for TCU might drop your jaw, raise your eyebrows, quicken your heart-rate. If you’re West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen, all you can do is just give the quarterback props. For the first time in several weeks, LSU running back Leonard Fournette is not in command of the CFB Huddle Heisman Top […]
October attrition starts to whittle down college football’s contenders. The legitimate competitors for conference supremacy and individual honors are revealed as schedules start tightening up. Don’t be surprised when several of the CFB Huddle October Superlatives honorees are in contention for national awards by season’s end — and that includes the Heisman Trophy. Trevone Boykin […]
I love this sport. It never ceases to amaze me how just about every Saturday in the fall, I’m left incredulous by at least one moment, game or performance. So much of the residual activity surrounding college football is exhausting. Some NCAA regulations are archaic, the modern concept of amateurism evolves at a glacial pace […]
Of the many vacancies already opened this hiring cycle, and of those still to come, the UCF coaching search may well be the most difficult. At the very least, it’s the most unique. Finding a successor for George O’Leary would always be a challenge, which I posited well before the Knights started 0-9 with a […]
Happy Halloween and welcome to Week 9 of the college football season. To celebrate the intersection of my favorite sport with one of my favorite holidays, I employed the Silver Shamrock Company to manufacture one college football team’s helmets. Alternate uniforms may be passe, but an alternate helmet that turns wearers’ heads into snakes and […]
Welcome to the Group of Five Top 10, where it’s more American than 1980s Hulk Hogan draped in the Stars and Stripes riding a bald eagle on the Fourth of July. Teams from the American Athletic Conference occupy four of the top five spots in the Top 10 through Week 8, including each of the […]
Injury may be the single most defining trait of the 2015 college football season’s overall outlook, and it took further toll on the national landscape in Week 8. This time, it had a possibly profound impact on the Heisman Trophy race. Baylor quarterback Seth Russell, gaining ground as the Bears’ schedule tightened and his statistics […]
The Thursday night football offering this week is perhaps the best since a loaded Week 1. On tap: a classic trap game; a possible de facto conference championship game; and a surprising upstart facing a one-time favorite now on the brink. Undefeated Temple kicks off Thursday night football, and I have just one thing to […]
Utah State’s blowout of Boise State threw much of the Group of Five picture into flux, but not for at the top. The American Athletic Conference has consistently looked like the cream of the Group of Five crop, and Week 7 only furthered that perception. Memphis’ 37-24 defeat of Ole Miss scored the entire Group […]
Heisman Trophy front-runners Trevone Boykin and Leonard Fournette continued along in Week 7 at the same remarkable pace each has been on through this season. But the gap between Fournette, Boykin and the field isn’t widening. On the contrary: Playmakers from various, emerging Playoff contenders used this week to strengthen their resumes. Baylor quarterback Seth […]
The Bowl Championship Series came back from summer break upgraded to College Football Playoff and had become too good for the American Athletic Conference. Since their break-up, the American loaded up with great coaches, began maximizing the potential of some of its programs, and has come back smoking hot. The Playoff didn’t know what it […]
Greg Ward Jr. had a pretty typical game Friday for undefeated Houston: 77 yards rushing and three touchdowns, another 222 passing yards and a score through the air. For plenty of quarterbacks around college game, that would be a spectacular outing. But, again: pretty typical of Ward. The longer Greg Ward Jr. continues to make […]
So…that was an eventful week. A Top 10 team lost its quarterback, a preseason College Football Playoff pick lost its head coach and one of the game’s all-time coaching legends abruptly retired. Oh, yeah! There are still games to be played, too. The chaos with which Week 7 began carried over in its first game, […]
The coaching carousel spins more like a Gravitron than a merry-go-round in 2015. Openings in the SEC, Pac-12 and two in the Big Ten promise more reshuffling than 2011 — and it’s only Oct. 12. Steve Spurrier’s immediately retirement from South Carolina Monday, first reported and by Sports Illustrated, makes five vacancies opened since the […]
Week 6 is college football’s last on the incline of the curve. After this Saturday, it’s all downhill on the race to the postseason. The legendary Beano Cook once quipped on the ESPN college football podcast that each season felt like Casablanca: You start it, and next thing you know, you’re at the airport. In […]
