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Air Force (6-4) at No. 19 BYU (8-2): An Air Force Upset, Or a BYU Blowout?
I thought this sign (held up by a BYU fan at an Air Force game in a previous year) was hilarious.
On paper, this game looks like it will be a tough close game. Air Force has one of the best defenses in the country, and one of the best rushing ...
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NCAA Football
Bronco Mendenhall
Five Coaches Who Have What Notre Dame Football Needs
When Bob Davie took over for Lou Holtz before the 1997 college football season, nobody knew it was effectively the end of Notre Dame's reign amongst the nation's elite college football programs.
With Holtz leading the Fighting Irish, success was a ...
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NCAA Football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Charlie Weis
Bowl Championship Series
Breaking News: Georgia Tech and Paul Johnson Agree to Contract Extension
CPJ will remain at Tech through at least 2016.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that Paul Johnson has signed a one-year extension at Georgia Tech, meaning his contract with the Institute will now run through 2016.
What does this ...
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NCAA Football
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Paul Johnson
Friday Night College Football Predictions: No. 6 Boise St.-Utah St. and Others
Hey everyone, it's CFF coming back to BR after nearly a year-long hiatus. I just thought I'd have some fun and make a few predictions for tonight's games. I'll probably make an article for tomorrow's set too.
Akron (2-8) vs. Bowling Green ...
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Mark Mangino's Attackers Are as Soft as His Midsection
I'm a little confused. No, I'm a lot confused.
One minute, these high-octane athletes are gladiators, soldiers, or any manner of rugged testaments to perseverance in the face of physical duress incapable of being understood by mere mortals.
The ...
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 College Football Games To Watch in Week 12
Time to change things up a bit. I’ll still have my top 10 games of the week, but with a few bonus games to keep an eye on.
Before we get to that, how about the Thursday night game in the Big XII? No. 12 Oklahoma State pulled out a win against a ...
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Is Mark Mangino's Kansas Controversy Ready for Jerry Springer?
It's hard to believe that just a week ago the primary conversation in Lawrence about Jayhawks football involved Kansas' upcoming game against the Cornhuskers.
Beginning on Monday with Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins's bizarrely ...
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Arizona State VS. UCLA: The Preview
Well, the decision that fans in Tempe were waiting anxiously for, has been announced. Sophomore quarterback Samson Szakacsy will be under center in his home state of California, with one job in mind: leave the Rose Bowl with an Arizona State Sun ...
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The Five Questions That Will Be Answered This Week In College Football
Outside of the PAC-10, there are not any big games in college football this week. Even the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is not demanding the attention its commanded in past years, due to a struggling Michigan team. Although your eyes may not be glued ...
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NCAA Football
Ohio State Buckeyes
Michigan Wolverines
Stanford Cardinal
C.J. Spiller
Tim Tebow
Charlie Weis
UT-Kansas, ND-UConn, and the Rest of the Week 12 Preview
(Aaron Torres is a journalist whose work has been published by Sports Illustrated and syndicated by USA Today, AOL.com and Slam Online. To read all of his work, as well as the rest of his Week 12 picks and his thoughts on Ohio State-Michigan and ...
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College Football Weekend: Week 12 Preview and Predictions
One of the biggest story lines entering the 2009 college football season was whether or not USC was on the verge of an uncharacteristic down year.
The Trojans had lost a significant part of last season’s Rose Bowl team. They would be forced to ...
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NCAA Football
Ryan Mallett Is the Best Quarterback in the SEC, Not Tim Tebow
Across the nation you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who is not familiar with Tim Tebow.
Tebow has been part of two national championships for the Florida Gators and has won a Heisman Trophy. He has already been immortalized by the University ...
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Tim Tebow
Ryan Mallett
Arkansas Razorbacks
To Right The Ship This Week There Are 5 Basics That Michigan Learn
Two-a-day practices in August, offseason conditioning, the basics. What do they have to do with this week's Ohio State-Michigan game? Simple, Michigan must do the little things correctly. With six straight conference losses an a bowl birth on the ...
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NCAA Football
Michigan Wolverines
Ohio State Buckeyes
The Florida Gators Are Poets of Destiny: A Fan's Poem
The Florida Gators are poets of destiny because they have defined recent times through actions and results translated into words.
The Florida Gators are poets of destiny because they have defined recent times through principles and standards ...
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NCAA Football
Florida Gators
Urban Meyer
Tim Tebow
UCF—Tulane Football Preview
The UCF football team did something last Saturday it hadn’t done in 22 tries; beat a ranked team. After a historic 37-32 win over No. 13 Houston, the Knights are bowl eligible and face Tulane Saturday with an outside shot at the Conference USA title. ...
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NCAA Football
For All The Marbles: Nebraska Takes on Kansas State for North Supremacy
Most Nebraska players and fans knew that the Big 12 North would come down to this.
All of us figured at the beginning of the season that a match-up between a Kansas school and Nebraska would decide the Big 12 North.
Just not this Kansas School.
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The OSU – UofM Rivalry: Rooted in History, Only Getting Better
The late 1960’s and early 1970’s marked the heyday of what would become the ultimate showdown in college football—appropriately referred to as “the game".
In a decade which signified Bo Schembechler’s initial head-coach season at Michigan in ...
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Nebraska Eyes Big 12 North Championship on Senior Day Against Kansas State
This is the reason why they play the games, correct? You play all season long to get to the point where you have that one game that defines your season. Win and you are playing for the Big 12 championship. Lose and you are left pondering all the ...
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Alabama Versus Auburn; My 10 Favorite Iron Bowl Jokes
This is Iron Bowl week in Alabama.
The Iron Bowl is the yearly rivalry game between the University of Alabama and Auburn University.
It is the annual brother versus brother, sister versus sister, husband versus wife, father versus son, mother ...
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NCAA Football
Auburn Tigers
Alabama Crimson Tide
Gene Chizik
Penn State Still BCS Bound?
With one game remaining in the regular season, at this point every Penn State fan has one thing on their mind, and that is what bowl game will their Nittany Lions end up. When the season begins, every college football team has the same goal, and that ...
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NCAA Football
Bad Advice, Bold Prediction and Something Else: Bye Week Edition
(Without Chan Gailey, Tech never lands Morgan Burnett. Think about that.)
Ah, rivalry season. It's the greatest time of year.
The Jackets will spend the first weekend of this wonderful stretch on their first real bye week (it's sort of fair to ...
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NCAA Football
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Paul Johnson
Virginia Tech: Senior Day For Players and Students
On Saturday, Virginia Tech will be hosting NC State in Lane Stadium for what will be the last home game played for some of the Hokies top players. Cody Grimm, Kam Chancellor, Sergio Render and Stephan Virgil are among the group, and are looking to ...
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Anthony Dixon Relishing Final Days As a Mississippi State Bulldog
I love my job, but not to the point that I’m shooting out of bed at the crack of dawn with a big smile on my face. Just ask my wife, she of the sharp elbows. Perhaps I should take a cue from Anthony Dixon, Mississippi State’s irrepressible senior ...
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Georgia Tech Football: Awards, Injuries, and Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate
Uga VII. Rest in peace, buddy.
Before I get to some Georgia Tech news, let me first say that it breaks my heart to see Uga VII pass away at such a young age.
He was only four years old, and all indications are that he died of a heart attack at ...
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Notre Dame Football on, Yawn, NBC...Try To Stay Awake
Since Notre Dame signed the contract with NBC to broadcast every Irish home game to the entire nation in 1991—yes, it’s been that long—these games have become marathons, usually lasting well over three hours and sometimes approaching the four-hour ...
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NCAA Football
The Next Great Offense of College Football
Hey you remember that old play that the teams of the 80's used to run? You know that play where the quarterback would turn like he's going to give the ball to the fullback and then sprint down the line with it, and then he would either keep it or ...
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Did Florida State Create a Monster In Bobby Bowden?
With one comment earlier this season, Bobby Bowden made it clear.
When asked about him stepping down, he responded: "What would I have to gain by stepping down?"
Not, "What would the team have to gain by stepping down." And with that one ...
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The 10 Wealthiest and Most Recognizable Teams in College Football
In addition to using statistics from two sources, I will use my own perception of teams' national image to rank the top 10 wealthiest and most recognizable brands in college football.
The two sources I will compile important statistics from include ...
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Ohio State Buckeyes
Southern California Trojans
TCU-Wyoming: Can the Cowboys Lasso the Horned Frogs?
Wyoming is a huge (31.5) home underdog to TCU on Saturday for a very good reason.
TCU is the only team in the country in the top 15 in both offense and defense.
Wyoming, under first-year head coach Dave Christensen, has an underachieving ...
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Creature Vs. Creature: Indiana Faces Purdue in the Bucket Game
After an extremely up and down season for both teams, Purdue and Indiana finish their seasons this Saturday at 3:30 PM in Bloomington, Indiana.
Indiana began the season winning their first three games, but they have lost seven of their last eight ...
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NCAA Football
Indiana Hoosiers
Purdue Boilermakers
Madison Reflections: Wisconsin Has the Big Ten's Best Fans Outside of Michigan
Upon my arrival to Madison, Wisconsin, I was skeptical. Stories of an Ann Arbor-esque city, beautiful campus, and scenic downtown seemed a bit overzealous.
My first stop was the University of Wisconsin Union Building to pay a visit to the “Der ...
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NCAA Football
Ohio State—Michigan: Best Rivalry in All of Sports
By JOHN P. WISE One Great Season
No clever lead in here. I'll just get right to the point. The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is the best in all of sports.
Yankees-Red Sox? Sorry, they play 18 times a year, which means unless it's September or ...
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Auburn Football: Undergoing a New Moon Phase
With Auburn's off week so late in the season, one can start to see how the next season will develop as players will leave to either pursue NFL aspirations or continue their careers in other areas of life.
As is so often mentioned by this writer ...
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NCAA Football
Auburn Tigers
25 Suggestions to Make NCAA Athletic Programs More Profitable
With the lingering economic downturn, NCAA division I members are cutting athletic programs to keep their athletic programs afloat.
This is happening in a time when the NCAA has imposed a moritorium on classification upgrades while they reviews ...
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Where the 2009 Hawkeyes Rank Among Iowa’s Best College Football Seasons
The 2009 Iowa Hawkeyes football season has been something special. The team started off with a nine-game, memory-making win streak to go down as the best start in Iowa football history.
The team currently sits at 9-2, with an outside chance at a BCS ...
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ND-UCONN Has Me Torn Apart
Firstly, let me just say that I will be happy if either team wins (BLASPHEMY!), given what happened to UCONN this year.
With the dawn of the UCONN game roughly 24 hours away, I can say that I am nervous about this one. UCONN fields a very ...
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Connecticut Huskies
Stanford Cardinal
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Pittsburgh Panthers
Ohio State Football: Why Chris Spielman Is My All-Time Favorite Buckeye
Ohio State football fans admire and respect players for various reasons. Attend any Ohio State game and you will see fans wearing the jersey numbers of current players such as Terrelle Pryor and Dane Sanzenbacher, as well as former players such as ...
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NCAA Football
Ohio State Buckeyes
Duke-Miami: Opportunites Dwindling for Blue Devil Seniors in Last Trip to Miami
When seniors go to Miami, they tend to retire there, but when Duke's seniors head to Miami Saturday, they will be hoping to extend their football careers.
The Blue Devils' current group of seniors has seen a lot of ups and downs in Durham—mostly ...
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NCAA Football
Who's Bad? Mark Mangino's Old School Ways Clash with New Generation
From the beginning of his tenure as head coach at the University of Kansas, Mark Mangino has had many obstacles to overcome, most importantly turning the fortunes of a perennial loser.
For starters, he inherited practice and game facilities that ...
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NCAA Football
Mark Mangino
Kansas Jayhawks
Boston College Eagles Have Them Right Where They Want Them
It's become a seemingly annual rite of passage for the Boston College Eagles to be counted out before the season has started. Each season, the preseason polls are taken and the (alleged) ACC cognoscenti pick them to finish anywhere from middle of the ...
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Coaching at Stanford Can Only Limit Jim Harbaugh
It is not a matter of if Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh will leave the Cardinal.
It is a matter of when.
That reality is sad for the few passionate college football fans in the Bay Area who are desperate to see the local media cover college ...
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Jim Harbaugh
Stanford Cardinal
Florida Gators March to Atlanta and the Season of Dread
The feeling of dread is almost unbearable.
Florida is perfect this season, while playing imperfect ball. The wins haven’t been pretty enough. The offense isn’t sexy. Defense is the star of the show...but defense just ain’t sexy.
As each week ...
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LSU Tiger Athlete Spotlight: Trindon Holliday Is the Big Man on Campus
Trindon Holliday is one of the fastest men in the world, and is a dual athlete for Louisiana State University. Holliday takes part in both football and track at LSU, and excels in both. Trindon is the Fighting Tiger athlete under the spotlight this ...
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Boise State Not Overlooking Utah State: Nevada Wolfpack Is Next
Many of the college elite football teams are playing soft games this week. Florida is playing their rendition of the Boise State-Cal Davis game. The Gators are playing Florida International or something close to that.
The end result should be a ...
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Boise State Broncos
Utah State Aggies
North Carolina State Wolfpack
Florida Gators
SEC Football: Kevin Bacon-Style
SEC fans have made the ACC, and every other conference for that matter, the butt of their jokes. Ask any SEC fan and they’ll tell you that their conference is supreme. Whether they pull for Kentucky, Ole Miss, LSU, or Tennessee, the theme will ...
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Big 'Dog Colorado Buffaloes Poised To Cover?
The Colorado Buffaloes see themselves set as 17.5-point underdogs for tonight’s game against the No. 12 Oklahoma St. Cowboys.
Watch Tonight's Live Game— Colorado Buffaloes Vs. Oklahoma St. Cowboys
In Colorado’s last nine games when listed as ...
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Michigan on Verge of Epic Collapse; Few Seasons Compare
Michigan heads into Saturday afternoon's game against Ohio State hoping to get a second win in the Big Ten. Losing the game would make this the third-worst conference record in Michigan history, one that can only be rivaled by the '30s.
We can look ...
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NCAA Football Week 12 Preview: Continuing to Hope For an Upset
Maybe Oklahoma State needing its third-string QB to make sure Colorado didn’t pull the upset late Thursday night was a good sign.
At least, that’s what we’re hoping for.
Truth be told, this season has been full of close upset possibilities ...
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Like Old Times, Nebraska Hosts Kansas State for Trip to Big 12 Title Game
At the beginning of the season, many around college football wondered if the 70-year-old Bill Snyder could somehow resurrect the Kansas State football program the same way he did when he took over the program 20 years ago, in 1989.
Back then, ...
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No. 12 Oklahoma State 31, Colorado 28: Buffaloes Can't Hold on in Stillwater
Nov. 19 @ Oklahoma State: No. 12 Oklahoma State 31, Colorado 28
For the second time in 2009, Colorado held a 14-10 lead, on the road, against a ranked conference opponent. As with the Texas game in October, however, the Buffs could not hold the ...
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