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) […]
The National Championship Game’s first half certainly delivered. Clemson and Alabama are deadlocked at 14-14 for the first national championship stalemate since Oklahoma and Florida went into the locker room deadlocked at 7 in 2009. We got ourselves a ballgame… Two more quarters to glory. Make it happen. #ALLIN https://t.co/cLxtXktBPQ — Clemson Football (@ClemsonFB) January 12, 2016 […]
Plenty of outlets are peddling a College Football Playoff championship preview, but only CFB Huddle can offer you a cold sixer to go along with your national title breakdown. The Saturday 6-Pack goes out in a blaze of Playoff glory before officially goes dormant until next September. Sad times here at CFB Huddle HQ. But […]
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 […]
Former Texas A&M quarterback and 5-star recruit Kyle Allen is headed to Houston, Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle first reported Tuesday. Allen will spend the 2016 season redshirting behind Greg Ward Jr., a 2015 dark horse in the Heisman Trophy race and early name surfacing for the 2016 award, giving head coach Tom Herman […]
When we last left off, the CFB Huddle Bowl Preview Bonanza dangled from thr proverbial cliff. Part IV began with the first of the four-game Tuesday slate, but ended there. That’s because the Armed Forces Bowl marks the exact midway point of the bowl season, thus making for a natural time to take an intermission. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
An AL.com column came across my timeline Thursday morning, positing this question: What happens to the "SEC is weak" narrative if the conference wins the games it's supposed to win this bowl season? https://t.co/T8OvFgJSU1 — AL.com sports (@aldotcomSports) December 17, 2015 Bowl season is the last hope for the SEC to salvage its reputation as […]
Three years ago this week, Johnny Manziel was named Texas A&M football’s first Heisman Trophy winner in six decades. The Aggies were 10-2, just a month removed from beating the eventual national champion on its own turf, and in another few weeks would dominate the kingpin of their former conference home. Three years ago this […]
Everything about Robert Nkemdiche’s last few days is peculiar, which fits right in line with Ole Miss football’s 2015 season. Nkemdiche was charged with possession of marijuana following a 15-foot fall from an Atlanta hotel window. Rumors of Nkemdiche using synthetic marijuana circulated, thanks primarily to Fox Sports’ Clay Travis — rumors Nkemdiche summarily denied […]
Saturday, one of either Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey or Deshaun Watson will join the most illustrious and exclusive club of college football as Heisman Trophy winners. For the runners-up, supports may well argue their inclusion on another roster comprised of some of the sport’s all-time greats: that of notable Heisman snubs. Each of this year’s […]
Without much (any?) prior indication, East Carolina fired head coach Ruffin McNeill Friday. Barring violation of NCAA rules or some other off-field incident — unlikely, given the matter-of-fact manner in which the decision was announced — this is a confounding move for myriad reasons. FBS football evaluates coaches on wins and losses above all else, […]
