Unsavory news emanating from the Baylor and Tennessee football programs recently is certainly unnerving, but unfortunately nothing new. Sports journalists have had to leave their posts in the Toy Department to report on matters much weightier than box scores for years. My first introduction to a more troubling side of the world colliding with the […]
Alabama football means different things to different audiences: rivals. SEC champion. National champion. Perennial power. College football’s standard bearer. To those within the USC football program, Alabama means something else for the next 4.5 months. “It is a special game. We all know that. We look forward to the opportunity,” head coach Clay Helton said […]
Jackie Robinson blazed a trail not only in sports, but for all of American society when he took his first at-bat with the Brooklyn Dodgers 69 years ago. Robinson ranks among the greatest baseball players of all-time, but his exploits as a member of four different teams at UCLA are still celebrated today. He played […]
Kevin Sumlin eschewed any lingering controversy this week, naming Trevor Knight his starting quarterback for the 2016 season. Folks with no skins in the game have different schools of thought on naming a starting quarterback in the spring. One thought asks why end competition almost a half-year before Week 1, while the other sees it […]
Pat Haden has experience passing things off to Lynn Swann. USC’s outgoing athletic director Haden quarterbacked the Trojans in 1973, the same year Lynn Swann capped his college career with an All-America performance. 714 of Haden’s 1,832 yards when to Swann that season, and nearly half of his touchdown passes — 6-of-13 — Swann caught. […]
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 […]
Spring football hits its home stretch at several offseason camps around the country. The 2016 season still doesn’t kick off for nearly five months, but that doesn’t mean we can’t examine which may be the toughest schedule in the season to come. That very topic leads off the CFB Huddle news roundup for Wednesday, April […]
For the life of me, I can’t understand why any Georgia fan is happy about Senate Bill 323. Before I break into the psyche of Georgia fans — fraught with despair and sadness — let’s back up a bit and examine this stupid, good-for-nothing law. New coach Kirby Smart managed to (successfully) lobby the state […]
The NCAA-ratified satellite camp ban, announced Friday, hurts college football’s programs that stand to benefit the most. Jim Harbaugh may have to wear his shirt more as a result of the satellite camp ban, but Michigan will soldier on. Harbaugh’s NFL resume and unorthodox yet winning ways combine with the Wolverines’ historical prominence to ensure […]
Jim Harbaugh’s latest target of Twitter derision surpassed the barbs lobbed when SEC coaches criticized Michigan’s satellite camps. But when Harbaugh responded to misinterpreted comments Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith made regarding the Wolverines’ spring break trip to Florida, the head Michigan Man’s retort went beyond playful pot-stirring. Harbaugh got personal and mean when […]
Quarterback competitions dominate springtime around college football. Though few quarterback competitions are decided until August — at least publicly — these are the stories that most intrigue fans and media during these 15-practice allotments. This week’s CFB Huddle Q&A fittingly opens with a question on quarterback competitions. Let’s get to it — but first, mandatory […]
The day Georgia AD Greg McGarity handed Mark Richt his walking papers was the day Georgia fans lost the high ground on moral authority. Perhaps they never had it, as the sausage-making process in college football is ugly even for those programs who try to avoid being heartless. One of Richt’s endearing qualities as a […]
Quandre Diggs subtweeted Mike Gundy, and all of Oklahoma State athletics. Welcome to the offseason. The actual tweet is embedded below, though a screenshot is included in case the original mysterious disappears. We can go to whatever conference we want, but them on the other hand… https://t.co/pTMYzvet16 — Quandre Diggs (@qdiggs6) March 22, 2016 CFB […]
Every March, the NCAA Tournament attracts casual fans whose sports interest typically resides elsewhere for the other 11 months of the year. For college football fans, some of the teams that made the 2016 NCAA Tournament might seem foreign. This year’s Field of 68 featured 14 universities with Football Championship Subdivision programs, including 2015 FCS […]
ACC basketball’s NCAA Tournament success, sending six teams to the Sweet 16, has fans of the conference swelling with pride. ACC basketball boasts success similar to SEC football, but the former’s collective fan base doesn’t have the same reputation. Perhaps all ACC basketball die-hards need is the forum. College football is in a dead period, […]