Category: College Football

Ever since I returned to New York after graduating from Arizona State, I have been trying to convince people to start watching the Pac-10. Pac-10 games are rarely on TV on the east coast and when they are they are on later in the evening – nonetheless the conference is worth watching when the games are aired.

Why did Reggie Bush’s parents sign-off on an ill-fated lease agreement?  

Why not?

The Nebraska Cornhuskers have always been known as a football school, in fact a powerhouse. As the third winningest college football program of all time, Nebraska has had its share of high points. You could mention the five national titles, the three Heisman Trophy winners, or the the 270 straight sell outs at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Nebraska has a great tradition and is usually one of the top programs in the country every year.

The Huskers have also had their troubles though. I will tell you about this decade of football in the Husker Nation!

I think that people in this country truly do not grasp the fourteenth amendment.

Like any other survey on racial equality in collegiate sports, the University of Central Florida is attempting to dictate NCAA policy. According to “Professor” Richard Lapchick’s study, minorities make up less than 20% of presidents, athletic directors, and head football coaches at Division 1-A universities, including a decade low in number of head football coaches. And this is all true.

After watching the four BCS bowl games this past week, I was left speechless. I was left speechless at how unbelievably nerve-wracking, exciting, entertaining, and deeply emotional these games were. Each game was close up until the very end with the exception of the ND- Ohio State game that could have easily gone the other way with one call (Ohio State fumble). I was very proud to be a college football fan.

Congratulations to the Houston Texans, winner of the number-one overall pick in the April 29 NFL draft. Though they may have earned it by throwing half of their games, the Texans now have the awesome power to choose their favorite player among one of the most talented draft classes since even before Maurice Clarett knew how to rob people at gunpoint.

The present structure of Division I-A college football is no stranger to criticism.  Even Congress joined the parade of those questioning why big time college football can not have a playoff to determine its champion.  Now anything that Congress questions has a pretty good chance of being restructured in the future, but the best ammunition for adopting some sort of playoff system still can be found by examining the bowls.

By Sean Quinn

Vince Young’s game-winning 9-yard touchdown run with 19 seconds left in the game wasn’t just great, it was clutch. That run, though, as impressive as it was, didn’t win the game for the Longhorns. Young’s game, which accumulated in a BCS game record 467 yards of total offense, only contributed to Texas’ 41-38 win over USC in the Rose Bowl. It was USC’s unprecedented unforced errors and coaching that snapped the Trojans’ 34-game winning streak and gave the Longhorns’ lone star the brightness of sunny Pasadena.

Continued from “We Are Penn State Football – Part III”

– Coach Gary Gaines, “Friday Night Lights”

Early Wednesday morning Penn State Football proved to the College Football world they were a team who were about as perfect as one can get.

I’m not a huge College Football fan.  I didn’t go to a big school.  (In fact, it wasn’t even a club sport until the year I graduated.  But I digress…) Right now, I’m flipping back and forth between the AT&T Cotton Bowl, the Capital One Bowl, and the Toyota Gator Bowl.  I include the full name because, well, they paid for it.  But that’s just the point.  These sponsors and alumni have to be the only ones who really care about these bowl games.