No college football team is in a better position to win the BCS National Championship this year than Florida, and there is no doubt in my mind that the Gators will hoist the trophy on Jan. 7 in Pasadena.   They are simply too deep, too fast, too experienced, and too well-coached.   Combine those factors with a favorable schedule, and it is tough to see how Florida could end up playing in any bowl game besides the national championship this ...

The University of Virginia, along with every other ACC team, released it's full men's basketball schedule earlier this week. Last season, the Cavaliers suffered through one of the worst campaigns in the last 40 years, only managing to win 10 games.  A putrid offense and an inconsistent defense left Virginia fans scratching their heads in disbelief at the performances being put forth. That amount of losing forced the resignation of coach Dave Leitao after just four years at ...

We all know what the opening weekend in college football usually brings. Excitement and hype for every team across the country that embodies fans and players alike.Lately, that first weekend has brought something else to fans who least expected it: Upsets. Appalachian State over Michigan? C'mon, who saw that coming. Alabama over Clemson by such a significant margin last season? A little more plausible, but still unexpected.Auburn Football has been on both sides of the ...

Even before the 2009 season gets underway, controversy and scandal has found its way back onto the Michigan campus. On Saturday, Michael Rosenberg and Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press reported that the Wolverines have "consistently violated NCAA rules governing off-season workouts, in-season demands on players and mandatory summer activities under coach Rich Rodriguez." According to six current or former Michigan football players, practice sessions typically exceeded limits set by the NCAA and that members of ...

College football coaches are always on the lookout for signs of complacency, real or imagined, by their teams. Football coaches always preach to their respective teams to never underestimate their opponent. Any Michigan fan can tell other college football fans what it was like to be upset by teams such as Appalachian State in 2007 or Toledo in 2008. Ohio State coaches have been stressing to the team that Navy has played ...

There's no point in talking about WVU's 2009 special teams without mentioning the most important moment of WVU's 2008 special teams: The game-opening, 102-yard-kickoff-return-for-a-touchdown by Cincinnati that was the deciding factor in the 26-23 overtime loss, eventually costing WVU a share of the Big East title and a trip to another BCS bowl game. That play was emblematic of WVU's atrocious kickoff return coverage last year. WVU was unfairly criticized for poor overall special teams ...

Gartrell Johnson is blessed and cursed at the same time. He went to Colorado State, a school known for their love of the running game, a blessing. “The Predator,” as he was lovingly called in Fort Collins, was the 2008 first-team All-Mountain West running back, and finished his career with the Rams with a 285-yard two-touchdown vintage Gartrell game against Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl last December. In the entire 2008 season, Johnson eclipsed the ...

The 2009 College Football season has yet to begin, and already the dearly devoted across the nation are chiming in about their take on how legitimate the Top 25 may (or may not) turn out to be. Every year a small constituency of teams manage to dazzle (Alabama, Utah, Ole Miss, Penn St., Oregon,) and disappoint (LSU, Auburn, West Virginia, Clemson, Wisconsin). 2009 should be no different. While there are still a lot of games ...

Turn your television on to ESPN, tune into a college football game, or listen to your local sports talk show and you'll here it. . .  You know, that historically misleading piece of information in regards to Tim Tebow. That piece of information of course is that Tebow is a two-time national champion. Ouch! I cringe every time I hear that phrase, it's like the nails on the chock board feeling. Maybe it is the same feeling LSU fans (or ...

There is one in every sport.  He's the kid who has better attributes than the hall of famer.  The one who will redefine the position.  "The chosen one".  In basketball it was LeBron James.  In baseball it was Ken Griffey Jr. In hockey it was Sidney Crosby.  Even golf had Tiger Woods.  So it seems odd that America's most popular sport, football, has been held without one for so long. Sure, there have been attempts to find one.  First it was Todd Marinovich.  ...