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...
Quarterback Vashon Winton ran for four touchdowns, including a six-yarder for the game-winner in overtime, as Delaware State edged Florida A&M 35-28 in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football Thursday night.
Iowa City, Ia. - Two former University of Iowa football players charged with sexual abuse should be tried together, the prosecutor said in a motion filed Thursday.
News reports about police converging on an apartment shared by Penn State football players turned out to be based on a pretty routine incident - police breaking up a loud party.
Winthrop center Andy Buechert will miss this season because of a knee injury. Eagles coach Randy Peele said Friday the 6-foot-9 Beuchert will have surgery next week to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament ...
Anderson, Kowal, Silas named captains; Patton named `Captain In-Training' NIU head men's basketball coach Ricardo Patton selected his 2008-09 captains on Friday.
Marcus and Markieff Morris will play for Kansas this season after all. Thursday, September 4th, 2008 Kansas coach Bill Self has fielded the same question hundreds of times over the past three months - ' When ...
Washington State University redshirt senior Taylor Rochestie will be put back on scholarship for the 2008-09 basketball season, WSU Head Coach Tony Bennett announced Thursday.