The
Armchair QB: 2008 College Football Season Preview
I look at my calendar,
it says Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Just over three weeks away until I get to sit
down and watch the 2008 season get underway. When I last left, LSU won the Bowl
Championship Series crown, thumping Ohio State by fourteen points. Since then,
the Tigers lost Ryan Perrilloux because he can’t behave himself, Michigan have a
new coach in Rich Rodriguez, the usual amount of players getting arrested for
fighting in a bar, carrying a gun, or smoking weed. In short, your typical
college football offseason that reminds me of those trashy television daytime
talk shows... more
The best College Football play of
all time.
Trinity, a DivIII Texas college had the below play
to end a game with a win. The play was 46 seconds of craziness with 15 laterals
and 7 players involved in the play. It started as a simple play, a short pass
over the middle, and we are all used to seeing a couple of laterals on a play
like this, but nothing like this has ever happened. Just watch the video to see
what we mean, we can't really even begin to describe what happened.
Pretty nondescript weekend in college football, eh? Thursday
doesn't count towards the weekend, lads. Yeah, the Big East may have been
decided, the Big Two had minor scares, and some old guy got mugged on the Penn
State sideline. Oh, wait. That was Joe Pa. My bad. But I will say that had to be
the most unintentionally funny moment involving a senior citizen and a collision
since Bob Dole lost his battle with gravity in California in 1996...
College basketball is back, as a
quick check of Tuesday's schedule shows
two games being played in College Park,
Maryland, as the Coaches vs Cancer
Classic tips off the 2006-07 college
basketball season. Florida, last year's
national champs, will begin this season
No.1 in both the AP and Coaches'
preseason polls...
Waco, TX (Sports Network) - Riley Skinner went 27-of-36 passing for 220 yards and three touchdowns to lead 23rd-ranked Wake Forest in a 41-13 romp over Baylor in the season opener for both schools.
Columbia, SC (Sports Network) - Mike Davis ran for 101 yards and a touchdown to lead the South Carolina Gamecocks to a 34-0 victory over the NC State Wolfpack in non-conference play.
There's more than a few Miami players who'll freely acknowledge not knowing many specifics about Charleston Southern, including where the school is located or the names of some key Buccaneers.
Art Briles keeps saying it's not about him. But all eyes will be on the Baylor coach when the Bears usher in a new era by playing host to Wake Forest at 7 tonight at Floyd Casey Stadium.
Indiana defensive end Greg Middleton, who led the nation with 16 sacks last season, and three other players have been suspended for one game for undisclosed disciplinary reasons.
Throughout the storied history of the Georgetown basketball program, much has been written about the Hoya legends that return to the Hilltop to work out with each year's current group of players.
Continuing to re-write Cal State Fullerton men's basketball history, sixth-year Head Coach Bob Burton will take the Titans to British Columbia this weekend for the first international tour in the program's Div.
University of Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey has announced that sophomore guard Ty Proffitt has left the basketball program, withdrawn from the University and will transfer to another school.
