Texas head coach Charlie Strong couldn’t get a shot as a head coach for years, despite being one of the nation’s best defensive coordinators at Florida. A successful stint at Louisville turned into the head coaching at Texas, a huge opportunity for Charlie Strong and a major milestone for black coaches. As he told Matt […]
No season in the 15 years of the Bowl Championship Series become more of a tangled mess than 2008. Controversy was inherent with the BCS, which is why the College Football Playoff now exists — and, in fact, the College Football Playoff largely owes its existence to the 2008 BCS debacle. The push for postseason […]
Two high-profile arrests marred a weekend rife with spring games. UCLA’s 5-star running back prospect Soso Jamabo is not yet on campus, and his arrest on multiple charges early Sunday could prevent the highly coveted Texas blue-chipper from ever making it to Westwood. The Dallas Morning News reports Soso Jamabo drove with “total disregard for […]
Friday’s college football headlines tackle the dire LSU QB situation, which takes center stage in the Tigers’ spring game Saturday. Wisconsin is also scrimmaging this weekend, as the Badgers’ process of Melvin Gordon moves forward. LSU Spring Game: Five Things to Watch, David Ching, ESPN.com LSU hosts its National L-Club Game Saturday afternoon, and all […]
Regular readers (and listeners) of CFBHuddle.com know I’m very high on Ohio State quarterbacks Cardale Jones and J.T. Barrett. The preceding sentence probably reads similarly to a lede of “The sky was blue today,” but perhaps it’s not so obvious that Urban Meyer has the best quarterback situation in college football. At least, it’s not […]
Charlie Strong wants it. Kevin Sumlin says, “I think the Texas series will happen. I just don’t know when.” So just why in the world can’t the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry make a comeback? That’s a rhetorical question. The truth is, lingering hostility exists between Texas and Texas A&M suits over the former virtually taking the […]
Forget the Red River Rivalry; the real Big 12 border shootout in 2015 is fast becoming Texas and Oklahoma. Shots have been fired from both sides, but none more pointed than the below from Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong. Huge h/t to @BenKercheval for alerting me to the existence of this: Missed this earlier. In […]
As Alabama prepares to back up the Brinks truck to Gregg Marshall’s doorstep, per CBSSports.com’s Gary Parrish, the Sweet 16-bound Wichita State head coach has to ask himself if living in the long shadow of Nick Saban is worth $3 million a year. Money is rarely the sole motivator in a coach’s decision to take […]
ESPN.com’s Brett McMurphy reported Thursday that the SEC plans to give Army, Notre Dame and BYU power conference designation. Notre Dame comes as no surprise, considering the Fighting Irish enjoy such distinction for the sake of the College Football Playoff. However, the addition of BYU is a deviation from the league’s stance a year ago. […]
America’s love affair with football has the game’s decision-makers seeing dollar signs. That’s not a good thing, argues W. Scott Bailey, particularly in the case of Texas ticket prices for 2015. For San Antonio Business Journal, Bailey writes that the six-percent increase, coupled with more restrictive rules on reselling, puts college football on “a dangerous […]
Do you remember where you were the last time Texas had stability at the quarterback position? I was a senior in high school doing everything I could to maintain my 2.8 GPA – hey, I got A’s in English – while watching “the best days of my life” unfold like some bad Ferris Bueller’s Day […]
If the turmoil in which Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops and his program are in seems familiar, that’s because they’re beginning to feel very much like the end of rival Texas’ run with Mack Brown at the helm. Stoops and Brown are part of that exclusive college football club of coaches with national championships, and […]
It’s my privilege to welcome you to the first installment of my Super Sweet 16; and no, University Avenue has not purchased the distribution rights to that horrible, mid-2000s MTV monument to greed and teenage delusion. Though, it is worth noting, the intro of that atrocious show featured Louisville Cardinals fan Jennifer Lawrence. This particularly […]
I have no prior affinity for the Texas Longhorns-on the contrary. My dad grew up in San Antonio, went to Southwest (now Texas State) and cheered for A&M. He derisively calls Texas “the Teasips.”
Texas A&M Commerce came 14 yards shy of 1,000 yards and two points away from 100 points Thursday night against East Texas Baptist University. Shout-out to @TexasHSFootball for discovering this gem:
