Allow me to welcome you to the first college football Saturday with a confession: I kinda love summer and I’ll miss it now that autumn’s creeping in. In the many months between the end of college basketball season — I’m as much a hoops junkie as I am football — I get accustomed to spending […]
Chosen Rosen, indeed. Looks like UCLA head coach Jim Mora’s motivational tactics resonated with 5-star freshman quarterback Josh Rosen. The “next Peyton Manning” begins his ascent as the Bruins’ Week 1 starter against Virginia. Mora announced the decision Wednesday. Josh Rosen beat out veteran Jerry Neuheisel, who will be at the ready should the freshman […]
Alabama head coach Nick Saban announced Monday quarterback Jacob Coker would miss “several days” due to a foot injury, perhaps throwing the Crimson Tide’s cloak-and-dagger quarterback competition into further flux. Saban’s comments were predictably cryptic, shedding little light on Jacob Coker or his place in the ongoing quarterback competition. For as much attention has been […]
Six months. That’s the duration between former Eastern Washington quarterback Vernon Adams announcing his intention to transfer to Oregon, and his clearing the final hurdle to actually do so. After an arduous process that precluded him from using Eastern Washington facilities in the spring, or working out with Oregon players in the summer, Vernon Adams […]
Voting for the Heisman Trophy can be confusing, if not downright frustrating. There are notable whiffs in the Heisman’s history, and more recent results suggest voters are stuck on a very specific profile: quarterback of a title-contending team. Nevertheless, I love tracking the award throughout the season. To that end, CFBHuddle.com will feature a Heisman […]
Auburn is still practicing without Duke Williams, arguably the best wide receiver in the SEC heading into 2015, and the unquestioned cornerstone of a restructuring Tiger offense. Should Auburn go into Week 1 without Duke Williams, currently resolving an unspecified disciplinary issue, it does so without: its three top receivers from a year ago (Williams, […]
After suffering some heartbreaking defeats in 2014 — namely late-season losses to Texas A&M and in the Iron Bowl to rival Alabama — Auburn is reloaded for a possible championship run in 2015. Auburn’s one of many programs opening fall camp this week, and third-year coach Gus Malzahn is already a veritable veteran on The […]
LAS VEGAS - One sentence uttered at Mountain West media days may best crystallize popular sentiment for College Football Playoff expansion. “All we want is a chance.” That’s how San Diego State head coach Rocky Long summarized the Mountain West’s place in the college football landscape, and Long said the only way it or any […]
Name-calling, exaggerated touting of records and unfettered spin: It’s not the presidential primaries…well, it IS, but such misbehavior also describes the college football season. In particular, Baylor’s Art Briles and Auburn’s Gus Malzahn used the platforms afforded them during the exposure extravaganza that is the annual ESPN car wash. Art Briles suggested despite its 11-1 […]
Auburn quarterback Jeremy Johnson is fast becoming the It Quarterback of the 2015 college football season. Johnson went from off the board of Bovada’s Heisman Trophy odds in May, to one of the award’s top contenders as of last week. Now, at SEC media days, Jeremy Johnson is fast becoming the buzz of reporters on […]
Dismissed Auburn Tiger Elijah Daniel found a new home over the weekend, heading to Football Championship Subdivision program Youngstown State. With Auburn officially parting ways with a player on one side of the line, the Tigers gain another in Texas transfer Darius James. The former high school All-American and 5-star prospect James enrolled at Auburn […]
Former Alabama defensive back Jonathan Cook will spend the fall of 2015 at Garden City College, but Michael Casagrande of AL.com reports the Crimson Tide may not have seen the last of the 2013 recruit. Jonathan Cook, who was dismissed last month under circumstances his mother told AL.com were “somewhat surprising,” apparently wants to land […]
The Laremy Tunsil situation took another unusual turn Tuesday when his stepfather — the stepfather Tunsil reportedly was defending his mother from in a domestic violence arrest over the weekend — alleged the Ole Miss offensive lineman was meeting with agents at the time of the incident. Riley Blevins of The Clarion-Ledger first reported the […]
An influx of offensive innovation following the SEC’s many coaching changes in recent years has made defense all the more important. The plodding, single-digit final scores may be a thing of the SEC’s past, but those teams capable of limiting the conference’s suddenly prolific offenses set the pace. No two teams hit the accelerator with […]
The Auburn Tigers came one drive shy of winning the 2013 season’s BCS championship, and my, wouldn’t some of the offseason narratives about the strength of the SEC be different if this was the first year sans title after an eight-year run? Well, if Ralph D. Russo’s bowl projections for the Associated Press come to […]
