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Oregon Suspends Masoli and James

Posted by: mwmbaseball23 on: March 13, 2010

Oregon football coach Chip Kelly announced on Friday that quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has been suspended for the entire upcoming season after pleading guilty to second-degree burglary. He stole a pair of laptops and a guitar from a campus fraternity. Masoli, a potential Heisman candidate, threw for 2,147 yards and 15 touchdowns last season. He also [...]

Brian Kelly to Notre Dame

Posted by: charliekennedy on: December 15, 2009

Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly, or I should say former head coach, left Cincinnati last week to become the next head coach at Norte Dame. This all happened after Cincinnati defeated Pittsburgh 45-44 to win the Big East title and they got a bid to play in the Sugar Bowl against Florida. Kelly will not coach [...]

Ingram Wins Heisman

Posted by: mwmbaseball23 on: December 13, 2009

Alabama sophomore running back Mark Ingram won the 2009 Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to college football’s most valuable player. In the closest vote in Heisman history, Ingram beat out Stanford’s Toby Gerhart by 28 points to capture the award Saturday night. They were followed by Colt McCoy, Ndamukong Suh, and Tim Tebow. Ingram rushed for [...]

Championship Week

Posted by: dillonmoyer on: December 4, 2009

This week is one of the most important weeks in college football. It is a time when rivals duke it out for bragging rights for the next year. A lot of the games are between in-state rival universities. The most important games are being played to name the conference champion. To start off the week [...]

Bowl Games

Posted by: lrogersimg on: December 2, 2009

  Coming up in the middle of December there are going to be 20 or more bowl games being played. In theses bowl games there are going to be over 40 teams playing for pride or even the national championship game. The five major bowl games are the: cotton, rose, orange, sugar and national championship. [...]

College Weekend Review

Posted by: lrogersimg on: December 1, 2009

Charlie Weis, the coach for Notre Dame was fired, because they didn’t think that he was making any progress as head coach of the team. But he doesn’t know what he is doing wrong, the Notre Dame school doesn’t want another losing season and fans are mad at the coach. The football team had ended with four loses in a row. Bobby [...]

Kiffin Has 3 Players Arrested

Posted by: jhill2010 on: November 18, 2009

This past summer, Lane Kiffin was hired as Tennessee’s head football coach. He started off great by bringing in the best recruiting class Tennessee has ever had which included 5 star safety Janzen Jackson and 5 star receiver Nu’Keese Richardson. Both players started all of Tennessee’s games this season and both were improving every week [...]

SEC Finals

Posted by: lrogersimg on: November 9, 2009

The SEC finals is one of the biggest games of the college football session, and the two teams that are going to play in the SEC championship is The University of Florida and the other team is the University of Alabama. Florida is 7-0 and Alabama is 6-0, Florida is in the east side and Alabama is in [...]

Hesiman Watch

Posted by: lrogersimg on: November 6, 2009

This year in the Heisman watch of 2009 there are six football players that are in the race to be called the best player of the year in the college football league. The six players that are in the race are: Mark Ingram (RB) for the University of Alabama, Tim Tebow (QB) for the University of Florida, Jimmy [...]

USC Trojans

Posted by: lrogersimg on: October 16, 2009

USC team Over the weekend the USC Trojans lost to the Oregon Ducks which was an upset that no one thought would have happened. The Oregon Ducks are 7-1 in their record  and they are also 5-0 in there conference which is a pretty good record for a team that had lost their first game against Boise state ( no.14 ). The Oregon [...]

Gators vs. LSU

Posted by: cbizzle23 on: October 15, 2009

  A major game that many die hard fans have been waiting for. Two major schools going neck in neck, LSU vs Gators. Tebow being recovered from his injury and playing was amazing. Although was a couple scares in the first quarter of him might hitting his head, he was fine. This wasn’t heaven sent [...]

Tim Tebow Suffers Concussion

Posted by: cbizzle23 on: September 30, 2009

  Tim Tebow Suffers Concussion As thousands and thousands people watched, one of the most well known college football players fell to his feet. Tim Tebow got hit hard in the head by Kentucky defensive player named Taylor Wyndham. Slowly trainers helped Tebow to the side line. Results of his condition were not announced. But shortly after [...]

Big Game at the Horseshoe

Posted by: dillonmoyer on: September 11, 2009

This weekend many college football fans are very excited to watch the feature game of the week. The number three ranked team in the country, the USC Trojans, travel to Columbus, Ohio to play the number eight ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. Fans have been very anxious to see this game ever since the schedule came [...]

ACC Rivalry

Posted by: dillonmoyer on: September 8, 2009

This holiday weekend was the first weekend of the college football season and it was a very exciting one. There were many upsets with highly ranked teams and the usual first game blow outs. On the other hand, there were some very good, bowl type atmosphere games. One game stood out in particular. This game [...]

Tebow Not up for Combat?

Posted by: shaaz on: March 18, 2009

Lil Wayne was recently a part of the show “1st and 10”- a popular show found on ESPN. Skip Bailey plays the flagrant devils advocate who has a counter for every opinion. Dominic Franks in a press conference ranked Tim Tebow as the 4th best quarterback in his conference and Lil Wayne (Weezy) shared his [...]

Myron Rolle

Posted by: jnguonly on: January 13, 2009

Florida State University safety Myron Rolle is forgoing the NFL draft in order to study at Oxford University in England. The star safety was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship earlier this year and many questions arose about his future. Rolle has now decided that he will attend Oxford University to study medical anthropology for a year. [...]

BCS is No Good

Posted by: xeniya on: December 3, 2008

With no surprise the BCS screwed up again. Finally after twelve weeks of decent and reasonable voting outcomes the BCS screwed up college football. This week Texas slaughtered cross-state rival Texas A&M 49-9 and was number two in the BCS standings and many of the other polls across the nation. Oklahoma played their rival Oklahoma [...]

The Rivalry Continues

Posted by: hannahshulla on: November 21, 2008

This Saturday one of the biggest rivalries in college football will have a chance to compete. Michigan and Ohio State will meet this weekend for the 104th time. The first game that was played between these schools was in 1897. There is a nervous excitement atmosphere for Ohio State and Michigan fans because they know [...]

Barrack Obama’s Love for Sports

Posted by: trubino on: November 19, 2008

Barack Obama the new presidential elect likes to watch his sports. He is from Chicago so some of his favorite teams are the Chicago White Sox, the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Bears. He likes to play basketball and he likes to watch college football. He made a very clever proposal for the college football [...]

ESPN Taking Over

Posted by: trubino on: November 19, 2008

ESPN just announced that they will be taking over the BCS football games starting in 2011-2014. With ESPN in over 98 million peoples homes in America, the contract seems to be good for everyone. ESPN being the most well known sports TV station in the world, will get plenty of television views from hosting the [...]

BCS Round Up

Posted by: jnguonly on: November 13, 2008

This week the bowl predictions for the BCS have gone airy once again. With the loss of the, Penn State, the polls were shaken once again. There are plenty of one loss teams that should be considered for the national title. Five teams including Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and Alabama are the front runners [...]

Walker’s BCS prediction

Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 9, 2008

This year’s race is very close. There are about five teams that could win it all this year. These teams are Penn State, Texas Tech, Florida, Texas and Alabama. One of the SEC teams, Alabama or Florida, are going to win that conference and that will probably push them up to one of the top teams in [...]

BCS is Dumb

Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 9, 2008

This week the highly controversial BCS polls were released after a week of great games and upsets. Number one Texas was knocked down by then number six Texas Tech. With the Texas loss Alabama moved up from number two to the top spot while Texas Tech moved into the number two spot. This result raised [...]

BCS college rankings

Posted by: sallywatson on: November 5, 2008

This could confuse anyone including one of the greatest college coaches of all time, Pete Carroll. The thing that confuses us is this BCS system ranking. To me it’s horrible, and to about every die hard college fan to. Everyone hates it. In the finals you want to see the best two teams because they [...]

Heisman Ranking

Posted by: hannahshulla on: October 30, 2008

The first BCS rankings came out recently and with that the members of the media could not resist to also make Heisman Trophy rankings while we are still in the season. To no ones surprise Colt McCoy of Texas leads the way. He has had an absolutely amazing year. He has lead the Longhorns to [...]

Runnin’ Utes Still Rolling

Posted by: shaaz on: October 22, 2008

  NCAA college football is now into it’s eighth week of heart pounding tackles; last second wins; rising underdogs; and amazing feats of athleticism. It’s hard not to turn on the T.V. every Saturday afternoon, and not find yourself engulfed in the intensity of the college gridiron. You will always see big schools like Texas, Florida, and Georgia, but what [...]

College Football Update

Posted by: sallywatson on: October 15, 2008

This weekend was a very interesting week for college football as there were many surprises. The Texas Oklahoma game, for example. This game was a back and forth game the whole time until the middle part of the fourth quarter when Texas started to take control of the game by coming up big on defense [...]

Tommy Bowden

Posted by: sallywatson on: October 15, 2008

Tommy Bowden, the coach of the Clemson Tigers football team, has reportedly just been fired. He was on a high coming into the beginning of the 2008-09 football season with a preseason ranking of 9 in the college polls. This soon changed as the Clemson Tigers lost to Alabama in there season opener, as well [...]

Red River Shootout

Posted by: xeniya on: October 15, 2008

Every year Oklahoma and Texas meet at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas to take part in the Red River Shootout. This is the biggest game of the year for these two teams, because most of the times the winner of this game ends up winning the Big 12 and goes on to a BCS [...]

The Heisman

Posted by: jnguonly on: September 18, 2008

It is too early to tell who might have a chance at winning the Heisman this year. The only person who has a good chance of winning it this year is the Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow. He was the Heisman winner last year.  Since he came back this year, he has a really good [...]



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