The Red Zone Report

This weekend’s college football schedule was pretty light, but there was no shortage of action. There weren’t any earth-shattering upsets, which is why the top half of the new polls are mostly intact heading into next weekend, which will see several big games (Oklahoma-Texas Tech, Penn State-Michigan State, Cincinnati-Pittsburgh, Central Michigan-Ball State). I’ll [...]

All things considered, this has been a season of minimal frustration for Florida State fans up to this point. After being decimated by suspensions to start the season and committing seven turnovers in an embarrassing home loss to Wake Forest, the #19 Seminoles (7-2) have won six of their last seven game. FSU is still [...]

Less than one week ago, with what appeared to be three easy games remaining in their conference schedule, experts penciled in a then undefeated Penn State team into the national championship game.  After all, how could the mighty Nittany Lions lose to either Iowa, Indiana or Michigan State. Well, they did.  To Iowa.  And that’s [...]

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. [...]

The Shuffle certainly has an appropriate name this week, doesn’t it? Instead of doing the usual Saturday Shuffle tonight, I thought I’d devote tonight’s shuffle to all of the shuffling and shaking up that there’ll be in the upcoming polls thanks to an upset-filled week to cap September. Every college football season, there seems [...]

Many might consider Missouri’s Jeremy Maclin as the biggest all-purpose weapon in the country, but it looks like North Carolina senior receiver/returner Brandon Tate is trying to give him a serious run for his money. In North Carolina’s 44-12 road rout of Rutgers last night, Tate had four catches for 138 yards and a [...]

Florida State came into 2007 with a lot of promise, as the Seminoles were ranked in the top 20 heading into the season. But, FSU lost their season opener at Clemson, which knocked them out of the rankings. They did rebound from that loss with four victories to get back into the rankings, [...]

Last season, Clemson just missed out on winning the ACC’s Atlantic Division title, as a heartbreaking 20-17 loss to Boston College in their conference finale saw the Tigers finish a game behind the Eagles. After finishing the regular season with a 9-3 record, Clemson came up short of a 10-win season, as a 23-20 [...]

There's a new man under center at Boston College, as Chris Crane takes over for Matt Ryan.

While doing a search for information for another upcoming article, I found a piece by Chick Ludwig of the Dayton Daily News, rating the six BCS conferences from top to bottom.