Category Archives: NCAA Football

2008 NFL Draft Analysis: WRs – Speed? Size? These guys have it all, and then some.

There may be no Randy Moss or Jerry Rice in this year’s crop of wide receivers, but teams looking to upgrade their receiving corps should be able to find someone to fit the bill. This solid, deep pool of players has a good mix of speed and size to complement any NFL roster.

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2008 NFL Draft Analysis: RBs – McFadden leads a deep group of runners.

Perhaps the most exciting position to draft in the NFL is the all important position of running back. While some fans and media members clamor for high profile quarterback picks, it is consistently the running back position that is able to make an immediate and direct impact on an organization.

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Need for Speed: UH duo set sights on NFL

University of Houston weapons of fast destruction Anthony Alridge and Donnie Avery are 2 of the fastest players you’ll ever see on a football field.

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National Signing Day Recap: Tide roll to top spot.

Typically, Signing Day has been an oppurtunity for the rich to get even richer. While USC and Florida still reeled in top ten finishes, downtrodden programs such as Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami, all had some of the best recruiting classes of 2008.

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C-USA Recruiting: Southern Miss, Houston Top List

Often overlooked as just a weak non-BCS conference, the universities that make up C-USA have made changes recently that have started paying tangible dividends.  Schools like Southern Mississippi, Houston and Southern Methodist University all feel they have upgraded their coaching staffs while other teams like 2007 C-USA champions Central Florida have added state-of-the-art upgrades to their facilities.  These changes, among [...]

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Two of Houston’s QBs return to Texas.

The lone star state welcomes back two of its own, Vince Young, QB for the Tennessee Titans and Bobby Reid, former QB for Oklahoma State University. (Yes, the Bobby Reid whose love for the game was questioned in an editorial that sent Okla. State Coach Mike Gundy into a rant—”I’m a man, I’m 40!!”) High [...]

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LSU (12-2) 38, Ohio State (11-2) 24 – LSU wins BCS title.

Two national championships in a row for the SEC, two in five seasons for LSU, and for Ohio St., two straight years when they came into the national championship game #1 and looked far from it. The Tigers iced the game with a little under six minutes to play when Curtis Taylor picked off Todd [...]

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4th quarter: LSU 31, OSU 17 – Time running out for Buckeyes.

LSU’s up by two scores, but the Buckeyes aren’t dead just yet, though their pulse is starting to fade, with only nine minutes to play.

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LSU 24, Ohio State 10 entering the second half of BCS title game.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, well, you’re Ohio State right about now. Just like last year when they took an early lead on Florida and then the Gators turned around and blew them out of the stadium, we’re on that same road through 30 minutes of the BCS National Championship Game.

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