The Red Zone Report

It’s close.  I can feel it. This is what Steve Spurrier must have meant when he consistently called Florida-Georgia the most important game on the Gators schedule.  The rivalry was so important to him, he obsessed over it.  The Ol’ Ball Coach became the first Florida coach to beat Georgia seven straight times.  Florida dominated Georgia [...]

I feel pretty safe in saying that the next few weeks of the college football season will go a long way towards deciding the winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy. With all due respect to the likes of Michigan State’s Javon Ringer or Missouri’s Chase Daniel, who was on many a preseason favorite list, [...]

As a head coach, no matter what job you take, at some point, you have to win games. If you don’t, you won’t be around after a while. Tyrone Willingham won’t be at Washington in 2009, as his official departure was announced on Monday. He’ll finish out the season, but that’ll be [...]

It’s been a little while since I posted up my BlogPoll ballot for all to dissect, but I thought I’d do it with the last one for October to at least make up for the sporadic posting throughout the month. I usually wait until the last minute to do my ballot, but I had [...]

Before August 30, everything looked to be cut and dry in the ACC. Clemson was the undisputed best team, and the Tigers were not only touted to be the class of the ACC, but also as a potential darkhorse national title contender, with Cullen Harper, James Davis, and C.J. Spiller leading the way. [...]

After a few weeks off, I’m back with my weekly college football picks for this week, and my return brings some changes to the picks section. Instead of picking all of the top 25 games and a few other goodies, I’ve narrowed it down to a lucky 13. Why am I doing that? [...]

If you’re a ranked team, and you’ve got a potentially dangerous Thursday night game left on your schedule this season, you should probably start doing all you can to petition to have your game moved. It’s been a season full of upsets so far, but little ol’ Thursday night has kicked off the upset [...]

It wasn’t that long ago that college football fans were anxiously awaiting the start of the 2008 season, and believe it or not, we’re already in the middle of what has thus far been a season full of The axe has fallen on one BCS conference head coach, as Tommy Bowden’s tenure at Clemson came [...]

You know how that old urban legend goes?Out of the blue, a woman feels a sharp pain in her left forearm.  Three thousand miles away, a brother she never knew she had slices his arm in a wood-cutting accident.  They simultaneously sense a connection and ultimately share a tearful reunion after discovering there’s a sibling [...]

I got a call yesterday from an old friend who was in a bind.  He currently lives out west, but used to work with me here in Gainesville back in the day.  He called to tell me that he recently tried to renew his drivers license, but was flagged for failure to pay child support, [...]