Tag Archives: SEC
College Football’s Surprise Teams of 2009: Arkansas Razorbacks
This is the first installment in a look at five potential surprise teams of the new college football season. Next up – Baylor. The first season of the Bobby Petrino era in Fayetteville saw the Razorbacks finish 5-7, have close shaves at home with Western Illinois and Louisiana-Monroe, their worst loss to Texas since 1916, [...]
Who could be the Big Ten’s 12th team?
A couple of days ago, I discussed comments that Penn State coach Joe Paterno made about the Big Ten expanding to 12 teams, and I came to the conclusion that changes, in some way, do need to be made in order for the conference to return to being a real power on the national stage. [...]
No reason for Paterno to be scared of the big bad Delany
A few weeks ago, Penn State coach Joe Paterno made a call for the Big Ten to follow the path of the SEC, Big 12, and ACC to expand to 12 teams in an attempt to help the Big Ten be a bigger factor on the national stage. But last week, Paterno took a much [...]
2009 NFL Mock Draft (Updated: Feb. 20)
The combine gets underway in earnest this weekend, with drills upon drills upon drills taking place from Saturday to Tuesday, starting with the offensive linemen tomorrow and ending with the defensive backs on Tuesday. I thought I’d squeeze in an update ahead of the important stuff, but it goes without saying that what happens over [...]
Score one for the little guy? Utah proves they’re worthy of the big time
Four years ago, Utah was a team led by a hotshot young coach, with a cute gimmicky offense and a future #1 pick in the shotgun. The Utes rolled through their schedule and slid up the polls through the season, and when all was said and done, they became the first ‘BCS buster.’ The reward [...]
Florida-Oklahoma championship showdown headlines BCS matchups
There was a small chance that the BCS could’ve went a little nutty and spit out an Oklahoma-Texas rematch for the national championship, but after the coaches’ poll revealed Oklahoma and Florida to be 1-2, there was little surprise as to who would be playing for the national title. Of course, even Urban Meyer probably [...]
Florida-Oklahoma – One for the Ages?
And now the waiting game begins. Florida and Oklahoma both took care of business in their respective championship games, and while the crazy BCS machine could punch out an Oklahoma-Texas rematch, we appear to be headed for the SEC vs. Big 12, juggernaut vs. juggernaut BCS national title game matchup that we’ve been expecting. Both [...]
Tuberville out at Auburn, Leach or Calhoun next?
In a move that almost all of the college football world saw coming for the majority of the season, Tommy Tuberville stepped down at Auburn today. The last time Tuberville was on edging towards the furnace, the Tigers went 13-0 the following season. Unfortunately, there was no escape this season, and there are only so [...]
Another Gator Title: So Close And Yet So Far Away
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 [...]
Fulmer’s ouster at Tennessee painful, but justified
I was actually planning on doing a piece on Monday on who the next college football head coach to get that masking agent known as a buyout, but before I could get it hammered out, across the wire comes the news that Philip Fulmer is done at Tennessee. There was also the announcement that Toledo’s [...]
