Whether you love or hate the SEC, you have to admit the last decade has been very, very good for the conference from a football perspective. But all things must end. We’re on the cusp of seeing the SEC’s dominance cycle out for a while. For just how long is the great unknown, but a…
Kellen Winslow Sr. changed football dramatically, or at least help establish a direction for the game, in his senior season at Missouri. A tight end two-to-three decades ahead of his time, Winslow set the standard for pass-catchers at the position. Stars like Miami's Jeremy Shockey and his son, Kellen Winslow II; UCLA's Marcedes Lewis; Arizona's…
How close the Big 12 Conference was to full implosion six years ago this month, the world may never truly know. So many conflicting accounts surfaced at the time, and still leak out today, it's difficult to parse reality from fiction. Colorado was the first to go, leaving for the former Pac-10 on the 10th.…
Right now might be the best and worst time to be a fan of college sports. On the one hand, college sports are ubiquitous and unrelenting. On the dominant hand, the problems associated with college sports seem to be even more ubiquitous and more unrelenting. It’s as though each sport comes standard with 99 problems. The issues…
Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller's Super Bowl 50 MVP is now to college football what 1986 train-wreck Cobra is to cinema. The dreadful Sylvester Stallone actioneer was loosely based off a novel by Paula Gosling entitled Fair Game. Upon Cobra's release, Warner Books wanted the book rereleased to capitalize on the film's box office success.…
Stick to sports. Three simple words that every writer in this industry will hear at least once in their life. The instructions are as simple as the people issuing them: You’re free to use your own Twitter account for anything, so long as it involved sports. Having an opinion is totally acceptable, but it has…
Feel better, USC fans? Less eager to see Kevin Sumlin exit College Station or Charlie Strong leave Austin, Aggies and Longhorns? Chip Kelly really isn't making his return to college football -- not for at least another few years, pending the particulars of his new contract with the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers announced Chip…
Welcome to Black Friday, the unofficial inspiration for such dystopian fiction as the Mad Max series or The Purge. America's chaser for a day spent gorging itself on food is a day manically chasing discounts on products. No, you haven't stumbled upon an anti-consumerist manifesto; this special, Black Friday edition of the CFB Huddle Saturday…
The SEC East is bad. No compelling argument exists to counter the reality cruelly evident Saturday. FCS Playoff-bound The Citadel outplayed thoroughly outplayed South Carolina. There was nothing fluky in the Bulldogs' option offense rolling up 350 rushing yards en route to a 23-22 victory -- even if a penalty negated a would-be, fourth-down game-winning…
Tributes are rolling in for Missouri's Gary Pinkel and Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer, and they're well deserved. Two of college football's elder statesmen are coaching their final home games on Saturday and saying goodbye to the programs both ostensibly built. .@VT_Football is going all black in Frank Beamer's final home game, with a helmet patch…
Independent of anything that may or may not surface about Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel's abrupt resignation, announced Friday, college football loses a true legend. MUTigers.com reports Pinkel will finish the 2015 season, his 15th at Missouri. In those 15 years, Pinkel transformed a thoroughly up-and-down program into a model of consistency. After I got…
Earlier this week, as the first reports from the Mizzou student protest began trickling into the national consciousness, I decried the all-too-prevalent practice of hate-clicking. News as an industry is in dire straits, as Timothy Egan perfectly describes in Friday's New York Times. The knee-jerk reactionary tone free from reporting, context or curiosity fosters the…
I've held off writing about the Missouri strike, which came to a head Monday morning with the resignation of the University of Missouri systems president Tim Wolfe. The Mizzou Family stands as one. We are united. We are behind our players. #ConcernedStudent1950 GP pic.twitter.com/fMHbPPTTKl— Coach Gary Pinkel (@GaryPinkel) November 8, 2015 I haven't offered an…
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the infamous "Fifth Down" game between Colorado and Missouri (h/t @ESPNStatsInfo); arguably the most notorious and impacting officiating blunder in college football history. 25 years ago today- The “Fifth-Down Game” … Five things you should know about that game: http://t.co/e0Sm38RxgD pic.twitter.com/wKxdlOV5xJ— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 6, 2015…
#Karma. Ready as they may be to spin it, neither Paul Finebaum nor Clay Fratbaum nor Bret Bielema – especially Bret Bielema – can spin the ugly of the SEC’s Week 2. There’s no putting any lipstick on the Hogs losing at home to the Mid-American Conference’s Toledo Rockets. The 16-12 result coming the same…
