Fanblogs of July Patriotic Open Thread
Fanblogs Football - 07/02/09
When all else fails, go to plan #2. This holiday always reminds me of the story of the dependency that had an uprising against it's colonial master, fought a bloody six year guerilla-style campaign against them and only finally won it's revolution with the...
Top Non-Conference Schedules and Games
NCAA Football - 07/02/09
The Sporting News came out yesterday with an article ranking the top 10 non-conference schedules and individual games for the upcoming season. As you may recall, Georgia was last year's winner in the OOC schedule category, and not much has changed for this year:...
Tennessee Lands Soft-Commit from 8th Grader
Tennessee Football - 07/01/09
In the news of the surreal this week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today that the 13 year old brother of Tennessee safety/hitman Eric Berry has 'committed' to Tennessee, telling Rivals.com that he intends to become a Vol one day. For obvious reasons, a school...
Place Your Bets: Teams Most Likely to Commit Major Rules Violations
NCAA Football - 07/01/09
Ray Melick of the Birmingham News commented Sunday on an online sports betting site that is now giving odds on who's the most likely program to get hit next with major NCAA rules violations. Relax, Alabama. You're not at the top of the list,...
What if the ACC has a monster year?
ACC Football - 06/26/09
What? Me talking about real football teams? Thats right. Occasionally I like to step outside my pigeon hole. This article raised some interesting prospects for 2009, but the title of this thread is one that I have been pondering for some time. Is the ACC...
Does Boise State have an in conference challenger?
WAC Football - 06/24/09
The WAC has sent more teams to the BCS than any other at-large conference over the last 4 years. Of the three at-large teams to earn a BCS berth two were from the WAC. One could argue that the WAC has earned bragging rights similar...
Who is the most overrated team this pre-season?
NCAA Football - 06/21/09
OU-Ron brought this question up, so I bring back this topic. For the analysis here I will use LSUFootball.net's compilation of numerous polls, with three more than where included for the last cycle. This is mostly a visceral reaction. I am sure the thoughts in...
Tennessee to face N.C. State in 2012 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game
Tennessee Football - 06/18/09
ATLANTA (June 18, 2009) – The University of Tennessee Volunteers will face the N.C. State University Wolfpack in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game to open the 2012 season in the Georgia Dome Chick-fil-A Bowl and ESPN officials announced today. Tennessee and N.C. State are a...
Fanblogs open thread
Fanblogs Football - 06/17/09
Got ideas on how to make Fanblogs college football coverage better, especially for the off season? Got any good tailgate recipes? Is there something worth discussing that has not been brought up in a thread by us? Now is your opportunity!...
Cha-ching: Top 10 football revenue schools
NCAA Football - 06/15/09
Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal unveiled the top ten football revenue schools for 2007-2008 and - not surprisingly - the list is dominated by schools in the South and Midwest... just as it has been every since we started blogging these results for 2003-2004. Top...
The thought that won't go away.
NCAA Football - 06/15/09
A few months back I presented a pithy college football structure in a comment that has grown more endearing to me at time has passed. I still stand by my primary proposal, but this concept is currently my #2 option. #3 would be an Australian...
Will 2010, 2012 be the years of mass realignment announcments?
NCAA Football - 06/14/09
According to the BCS Website's "Standards for Future BCS Automatic Qualification" the results of the 2008-2011 seasons will be used to determine if a seventh conference will earn a BCS spot for 2012 and 2013. If the current procedures are used after this, then the...
The Invasion of the Women
Fanblogs Football - 06/13/09
Apparently something has unusual has happened during my self-imposed Fanblogs sabbatical and, no, I'm not referring to the mid-major takeover in new posts. (I'm actually enjoying our content). For whatever reason, Fanblogs has been invaded by women. We've been fortunate enough to have several football-savvy...
Bob Kustra, President, Boise State University vs. the BCS
Boise State Football - 06/11/09
COMMENTARY ON BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES by Bob Kustra says it all. Here are a few of the highlights: There is considerable irony in the fact that in the highest temple of political correctness, American higher education, the BCS worships the false idols of monopoly, inequity...
Alabama Sanctions Finally In
Alabama Football - 06/11/09
Reprieve?? After being leaked yesterday, the findings of the NCAA investigation into the University of Alabama's self-reported textbook scandal are finally in. There are no scholarship losses or post-season ban in any of the 16 sports involved in the investigation, which centered around 200...
NCAA rule change
BYU Football - 06/11/09
I have never seen such an attempt to say something other than what you really mean than this presentation of why this rule is needed. The WAC, not MWC, proposed this rule regarding students participating in church missions longer than the one year requirement for...
Utah scheduling issues?
Utah Football - 06/08/09
How about discussing the issues that Utah is having scheduling ANYONE from BCS conferences following the Fiesta and Sugar Bowl wins? It would certainly highlight the extremes that the BCS schools and conferences will go to in order to lock out a non-AQ school. Utah...
Alabama Crimson Tide Shakespeare Festival Now Playing
Alabama Football - 06/08/09
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's play, Bear Country, about the life of legendary Alabama coach Paul Bryant and the last days leading up to his retirement, is coming to Birmingham later this summer after a successful run in Montgomery earlier this year. The play has...
Gator Hate and Facebook Fans
Florida Football - 06/05/09
Gatorhippy offers up the following: College Gridiron 365 blog; OS staff writer Iliana Limon gives us the the 12 college football teams folks love to hate. Not surprisingly, the Florida Gators top the list. "Could we list anyone besides the Gators first? It’s tough...
Big Televen Fantasy Expansion
Big10 Football - 06/04/09
Continuing with our Fanblogs Open Mic series, our own Clemson Joe submits his first thread, linking to recent chatter about a Big Ten expansion and also providing his own comments on the subject. Penn State's legendary head football coach Joe Paterno has recently stated...
Don't Tase Me Bro! -- Gainsville Style
Florida Football - 06/01/09
Sophomore cornerback Janoris Jenkins became the 24th Gators' player arrested in the last four years when he was involved in a fight over the weekend in Gainesville and charged with misdemeanors of affray and resisting arrest without violence, according to a police report. Apparently he...
Utah, Boise State in the Rose Bowl?
BCS Poll Football - 05/29/09
Could we see Utah or Bosie State in the Rose Bowl after the 2010 season? Apparently this may be part of the new ESPN contract. [tip on Rose Bowl link: OU_Ron] This would be welcome news on many levels. First, it would signify that the...
Will C-USA get their day?
Conference USA Football - 05/29/09
Back when the BCS started the WAC was splitting into two conferences due to over expansion and there was great uncertainty over the future of each. This left C-USA as the most stable and competitive conference without an automatic qualification. The loss of Louisville, Cincinnati...
Top 10 Things SEC Commissioner Mike Slive Told Lane Kiffin in Private
Tennessee Football - 05/28/09
From the home office in Atlanta, Georgia, and just in from today's SEC meetings, where the commish publicly warned all the kids to stop the jabber-jawing, tonight's 10 Ten Things Mike Slive told Lane Kiffin in private: 10) "Listen, may I call you Kiffykins?"...
SEC annual spring meeting and the AFCA did WHAT??
SEC Football - 05/28/09
The SEC met this week at Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa to discuss various topics of interest. Wait. The SEC, the premier conference in college football, is meeting 45 minutes from my home? What the heck, right? I got ideas, worse case nothing...
