The club of active head coaches with national championships is quite exclusive: Alabama’s Nick Saban (2003 at LSU; 2009/2011/2012 at Alabama); Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops (2000); South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier (1996 at Florida); Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher (2013); LSU’s Les Miles (2007); UT-San Antonio’s Larry Coker (2001 …
Nothing about the University of Massachusetts’ decision to move up from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Bowl Subdivision made sense to me. The Minutemen reached the FCS Championship Game in 2006, then made the Playoffs the next year, but failed to reach the postseason every season thereafter. This wasn’t Appalachian State or Georgia Southern, …
Studies on the fastest growing cities in America explain why college football’s conference realignment has shaken out as it has, and also offers possible insight into the sport’s future landscape. Using two recent such studies, one via the Washington Post and the other from Forbes, the future of conference realignment could be mapped out. At …
Oregon drop-end Tony Washington made a terrific play to sack Arizona quarterback Anu Solomon on third down midway through the fourth quarter of Thursday’s Pac-12 Conference affair. The Ducks scored the last 10 points to tie the Wildcats at 24, and their successful red-zone stand would force a field-goal attempt that would hardly have been …
UPDATE: In one of the worst decisions ever made by mankind, Justin Hardy has been left off the Biletnikoff Award semifinalist list (a group of 10 players), which is handed to the nation’s top wide receiver. “He’s not!? That’s the most idiotic thing I have ever heard in my life that they would not put …
The landscape of college football has been littered with interesting and powerful stories this past week. On the heavy side of things, Texas Monthly’s report on Baylor and Art Briles’ silence over Sam Okwuachu’s sexual assault was an in-depth examination of how the culture of football …
Washington Huskies defensive back Kevin King understands the nature of positive buzz surrounding his team this offseason. “The hype train comes, and the hype train goes,” King said at Pac-12 Media Days last week in Hollywood. Seattle’s the latest stop for that locomotive, and it’s come barreling in for the Huskies. Entering head coach Chris …
The Showcase of the Immortals owes its main event to the Granddaddy Of ‘Em All. WrestleMania 30, World Wrestling Entertainment’s biggest event of the year, is less than three weeks away and features a main event of villainous champion Randy Orton, recently returned Batista and fan-favorite Daniel Bryan (assuming Bryan beats the company’s storyline Chief …
College basketball takes center stage every March, but by the final note of “One Shining Moment,” college sports fans are left with a void. Football–real, meaningful football with university programs pursuing a championship–can fill that space. And the Football Championship Subdivision is the perfect candidate. Football becomes ever more entrenched in the fabric of American …
“Let’s get an Emmy.” UCLA head coach Jim Mora concluded his statement at Monday’s launch event for The Drive, the Pac-12 Networks’ documentary series, with a joke. At least, it may have been a joke—Mora has been so resolute in making UCLA football a winner in other phases, an Emmy may very well have been …