The 2016 season marks the 10-year anniversary of the last Big Ten Heisman recipient. Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith won the 2006 edition of the award in a landslide, beating out Arkansas running back Darren McFadden 2,540 votes to 878. It stood as the Big Ten's biggest rout of the SEC all the way until…
Tulane unveiled sharp, new throwback helmets Tuesday, with make use of a classic Green Wave logo. Though it's a look that's been done before, the buzz generated around college football social media and websites demonstrates the love fans have for a good, old-school look. The following programs should follow Tulane's lead with a regular throwback…
Notre Dame announced Friday head coach Brian Kelly signed a contract extension through 2021. Realistically, the university could have issued a press release declaring Cyborg Brian Kelly will coach the 3021 Fighting Irish season opener against Galilean Conference powerhouse Io State, and it would hold the same value. The likelihood Brian Kelly is still Notre…
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…
A month of the 2015 campaign is complete, and it went by faster than a Leonard Fournette touchdown run. College football's season is the shortest of any major sport's, and September's end is a harsh reminder. We're now a third through the season, when it seems just yesterday Montana and North Dakota State were just…
Randy Edsall is 20-30 through his first four seasons as Maryland Terrapins head coach, and has yet to finish above .500 in conference play -- though last year's 4-4 debut in the Big Ten was an improvement on three sub-.500 finishes in the ACC. Just a year ago, Randy Edsall's was a common name in…
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…
I write this commentary on alcohol sales at college football games on a picturesque, California Saturday. It's just below 80 degrees, perfect to drink a beer on the beach. The only problem: alcohol of any kind is banned on the beaches of Southern California, the local municipalities' response to beachgoers getting wasted and acting the…
Michigan football has not had the kind of positive buzz emanating from it that head coach Jim Harbaugh is generating since the week leading up to the "Game of the Century" with Ohio State in 2006. Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News writes that Jim Harbaugh is "The Most Interesting Man in College…
The University of Maryland's official athletic department Twitter account broke the news -- quite literally; it has a BREAKING tag and everything -- that quarterback Daxx Garman is transferring into the football program, via Oklahoma State. BREAKING: QB Daxx Garman will join the Maryland Football team for the 2015 season after graduating from Oklahoma State.…
Russell Wilson set the standard for graduate transfer quarterbacks in 2011, helping Wisconsin to a Big Ten championship and performing at an individual level worthy of Heisman consideration. Whenever a graduate transfer from a Power Five program, like current "free agent" Everett Golson, popular opinion seems to dictate he can step into a new lineup…
Rivalries can't be forced into existence. A conference may schedule two teams to face Thanksgiving weekend, and self-serving politicians might introduce trophies into series, but a rivalry can only happen organically -- and the Penn State-Maryland rivalry is fast developing into a legitimate one. Maryland scored a major victory over Penn State this week, landing…
FCS upsets of FBS opponents contribute to the annual drama that is college football season. FCS upsets of Power Five Conference foes are especially exciting. Appalachian State and Armanti Edwards vaulted into public consciousness in 2007, christening the Big Ten Network with their upset of Michigan. In seasons since, Jacksonville State has taken down Ole…
Harsh words were fired Thursday through media in one of college sports' newer, albeit more bitter rivalries. No, I'm not referring to a deranged caller to the Paul Finebaum Show touting the strength of Alabama football's signing class over Auburn's -- though surely that happened, too -- but rather, Kevin Plank taking aim in the…
Two of the nation's premiere freshmen headline the slate of college basketball games to watch for Thursday, Jan. 29. GAME OF THE NIGHT NO. 16 MARYLAND at OHIO STATE WHEN: 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT TV: ESPN D'Angelo Russell is on a tear. The Ohio State freshman phenom scored 27 points in a loss at…