BYU rose to No. 1 of the CFB Huddle Group of Five/Independent Top 10 last week with its second straight nail-biter win in as many weeks. The Cougars learned the harsh reality of landing on the other side of such a finish this week when UCLA rallied from down two scores in the second half […]
Tag: Temple Owls
Group of 5 and Independent Top 10, Week 1: Temple Rising
Temple and BYU represented college football’s Group of Five and independents well Saturday, each scoring a historically significant win. The Owls dominated Penn State for their first win over the Nittany Lions since 1941. By virtue of its impressive performance, Temple jumps from just out of the Top 10 in my preseason Group of Five/independent […]
Four Downs Week 1: New Season Brings New Hope
Week 1 of the college football season isn’t yet in the books – we’ve still got Purdue-Marshall Sunday and the highly anticipated Ohio State-Virginia Tech rematch Monday to round out five consecutive days of action. However, Week 1 Saturday is a wrap, so you may proceed with the customary overreactions. Has any conference been eliminated […]
Week 1 Saturday Six-Pack: Alabama-Wisconsin Headlines First College Football Saturday
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 […]
Aug. 15 News: How Long Will Jim Harbaugh’s Honeymoon Last?
Michigan faithful are gaga over Jim Harbaugh, and why not? The Wolverine alum has tweaked the SEC, catered to high-level recruits and even attracted the interest of Michael Jordan. Seriously. Michael Jordan. Big House. Big plans. Welcome to #TeamJordan @umichfootball. #GoBlue https://t.co/elqGkDowH6 — Jordan (@Jumpman23) August 13, 2015 Harbaugh has yet to coach a game, and […]
CFBHuddle Group of Five All-American Team: Defense and Specialists
On Monday, CFBHuddle.com unveiled its picks for the preseason Group of Five All-American team. It’s the defense and special teams turn, and one thing is abundantly clear: I think highly of the defenses at Boise State, Louisiana Tech and Utah State. Not coincidentally, all three are teams capable of competing for their respective conference championships, […]
Spring Game Roundup: Leah Still Stars at Temple
In the last full Saturday of college football until September, the undisputed star was Leah Still. Leah, daughter of former Penn State and current Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Devon Still, became a national inspiration last year as Devon kept the nation apprised of her fight through social media. Saturday, she was an inspiration to the […]
Arkansas and Tennessee Lead Potential Surprise Teams of 2015
April Fools’ Day is founded on the basic premise of surprising the unsuspecting, so it seems like a perfect opportunity to unveil teams built to surprise in the 2015 college football season. Last season was the first with a slightly restructured postseason format, and newly designated top tier of bowl games — the “New Year’s […]
Friday Q&A: Conference Expansion, John Calipari to the NBA
Welcome to another edition of CFBHuddle.com’s Friday Q&A, the weekly column that lazily tasks you, the reader, with generating my content for me allows you, the reader, to sound off. With the NCAA Tournament in its second weekend, it’s only fitting that one of this week’s Qs take on the most prominent figure of the […]
March Madness: Finding Success in Football and Basketball
You’ve probably heard the labels “Basketball School” and “Football School” applied to various college athletic programs. However, on the eve of March Madness 2015, an examination of the 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament and the performance of each university’s football counterparts reveals that success in one can coincide with success in the other. Twenty-seven […]
An Oakland Raiders Move to San Antonio Would Harm Growth of UTSA
As chatter of an Oakland Raiders move to San Antonio emanates, there is an important number to keep in mind: 56,743.