Feel better, USC fans? Less eager to see Kevin Sumlin exit College Station or Charlie Strong leave Austin, Aggies and Longhorns? Chip Kelly really isn’t making his return to college football — not for at least another few years, pending the particulars of his new contract with the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers announced Chip […]
Throughout the 2015 season, starting in August, CFB Huddle gauged the temperature of the Heisman race every week leading up to the award’s selection. The 2016 Heisman Top 10 forecast kicks off early, as there’s no shortage of media outlets and voters offering up projections Two things to bear in mind for those new to […]
The furthest thing from my mind as I strolled the golf course doubling as Rose Bowl Stadium’s parking lot on New Year’s Day 2016 are TV ratings. I navigate through throngs of Iowa Hawkeye fans. The black-and-gold clad masses, be they acquaintances or total strangers, toasted each other all around the Brookside Golf & Country […]
Defensive coordinator for Dan Mullen’s Mississippi State Bulldogs has been a stepping stone to more prominent positions of late, which makes it a natural career decision for reported new hire Peter Sirmon. #MissState hires #USC LB coach Peter Sirmon as defensive coordinator a day after he interviewed for the job. https://t.co/wceJsXo1Jv — Lindsey Thiry (@LindseyThiry) […]
It’s a new year, and USC football heads into 2016 with a new head coach, new starting quarterback and largely new staff. Joining host Josh Webb to discuss the state of USC football is Paolo Uggetti, sports editor and USC beat reporter for NeonTommy.com. Josh and Paolo break down USC’s outlook for the coming season, […]
Coordinators operate as college football programs canaries-in-the-coal-mine, or Uncle Elmer’s trick knee just before a tornado. Abrupt dismissal of a coordinator often suggests impending trouble, or damage control amid ongoing turmoil. The relatively short shelf-life of most coordinators is reflective of today’s win-now college football landscape, albeit at warp-speed. This week alone, four programs coming […]
The Associated Press did a nice job with its All-Bowl Team. Seriously! No one included on either offense or defense jumps out as an egregious selection. The AP includes highlights for each of its selections at its home site, but here’s a brief snapshot: ALL-BOWL TEAM OFFENSE • QB Bram Kohlhausen, TCU • RB Leonard […]
This is a college football website, so Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver blaming his NBA franchise’s woes on “millennial culture” seems a bit out of place here. And, because this is a college football website, I’ll refrain from harping on how Robert Sarver’s failed tenure heading the Suns is a disaster, bound for its sixth […]
College football coaches have never been under greater pressure to win more, and win sooner, than ever before. Last decade, the grace period for building a winning program was roughly four-to-six years, depending on the situation a head coach inherited. That’s enough time for a recruiting cycle to play out, from signing day to Senior […]
The proliferation of bowl games that facilitated 5-7 postseason participants (2-0, suckers!) accelerated in the last five years. However, it began with a creep at the turn of the millennium. Before various pre-Christmas bowls surfaced in the early 2000s, this week between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 was the appetizer ahead of the New Year’s […]
College football’s decision-makers should do with the missed Indiana field goal attempt what officials in Saturday’s Pinstripe Bowl couldn’t: give it a long, thorough review. The attempt, which would have sent the Hoosiers and Duke to a second overtime, was met with controversy on the field. Clips of the kick show different outcomes. Indiana's game-tying […]
Now that Christmas is past, the bowl season kicks into high-gear. For college football fans, the coming week is akin to the various post-Christmas sales retailers offer immediately after Dec. 25. For bargain-hounds, the holidays are just beginning. It’s the same for football junkies, who have a deluge of games now through New Year’s to […]
Various college football conspiracy theorists should have a field day with the Associated Press selecting Stanford utility-man Christian McCaffrey as its 2015 National Player of the Year. Since the award’s inauguration in 1998, 14 of its 18 recipients also won that year’s Heisman Trophy. The general consensus between Heisman and AP voters for the last […]
From Clay Helton at USC, Mike Norvell at Memphis and D.J. Durkin at Maryland, this year’s head coaching carousel netted numerous first-timers jobs. In fact, per CBSSports.com’s Dennis Dodd, 69 percent of the FBS head-coaching hires in 2015 are newbies. The influx of fresh faces into the coaching fraternity will yield the sport’s next generation […]
It’s OK, Steve Harvey. It’s easy to understand how a broadcaster could announce the wrong winner during a live event. But imagine, if you will, a college football world wherein the most spectacular finishes got the Steve Harvey treatment. On second thought, why imagine when I can give you just that! “Fourth-and-five, the national championship […]
