I will be updating my Top 25 rankings every week throughout the season. Here goes the preseason rankings, less than a week before college football kicks off. 1. Florida Gators It's hard not to put Florida in this spot, as was evident by their record number of first place votes in the AP poll. The Gators return all1 starters from an outstanding defense, and Heisman candidate, quarterback Tim Tebow. With an easy schedule to go along with ...

Special thanks goes to Ryan Faller, whose top 25 of a similar nature inspired me to post mine written a few weeks ago on a personal blog site. The students are back on campus, bars are full once again, and soon stadiums across the country, whether they hold 10,000 or 100,000, will be inundated with tailgaters on the outside, and screaming ticket holders on the inside. Streets will be closed, car flags will fly on the ...

Been through therapy. Been to counseling. I’m drug-free. Been known to go out on a limb from time-to-time; sometimes I'm dead-on. Other times I'm dead wrong. Oklahoma State will win the National Championship in 2009. Not the University of Oklahoma. I said Oklahoma State.  There. I said it. A huge weight has lifted off my shoulders. Oklahoma fans will key my vehicle if they find me.  Oklahoma State will open the season with a convincing victory over Georgia ...

The upcoming basketball season for North Carolina will display a front court that is very deep, very tall, and very versatile. Opposing teams will face a large amount of difficulty down low with this Tar Heel team. North Carolina returns an experienced senior in Deon Thompson, red-hot Ed Davis returning from a head turning freshman year, and 7-foot sophomore Tyler Zeller. Deon Thompson will be the leader and the crutch these young Tar Heels will lean on when ...

Every team feels like they have something to prove going into a season. For some it can be mean something more however. Whether it is a bitter taste in their mouth from the last game, or the commencement of a journey to traverse the mountain top they have fallen off of, these teams have a little more at stake than the other programs. Whether perception or reality, all of these teams have some work ...

Draft Day 2012 The camera pans to Matt Barkley sitting with his family in Radio City Music Hall. Matt sits there with a nervous look on his face. Todd McShay and Mel Kiper Jr. debate what attribute is Barkley's best. Is it his arm strength, or his accuracy, or his suave blonde hair that is sure to bring him many endorsements? Kiper thinks it's the hair; McShay says his quarterback IQ is what makes him special.  After ...

Some coaches just don't get it. Some can only create negative headlines. Some don't care about anything but winning. Lloyd Carr was not one of those coaches. Rich Rodriguez is. Forget for a moment the fact that Rodriguez just coached the worst Michigan team in the programs 100-plus year history. Forget that over a dozen players on the team have transferred out to other programs, trashing Rodriguez in their wake. Despite all of that, Rodriguez's success can't be denied. He's ...

With the start of the college football season upon us, hope abounds with every team and all fans. No one has a loss. Every team, in the competitive ACC, has a chance to win the conference. The fans of each team are speaking of why they will win. There are special players on each team and new coaches with great ideas. Everyone has that "big" game circeld on the ...

Last spring, Ohio State's Jim Tressel spoke at the invitation of a local church. The topic: "Hope for the 21st Century."   Tressel is, by all indications, a humble man, and his lessons were clear. BE RESPECTFUL:  During the National Championship trip to New Orleans, the pilot, stewardess, hotel manager, and banquet server all stopped the coach at some point and basically said, "Your team is the most respectful group we've ever hosted." To Tressel, those words ...

Ole Miss Guard Chris Warren Location: Oxford, MS Nickname: Rebels Conference: Southeastern Last Year’s Record: 16-15   Why they’ll make it: Last season, Ole Miss lost two of its top players early on with season-ending injuries. Chris Warren and Eniel Polynice are back and have had plenty of time to recover. Those two, along with highly touted freshman, Reginald Buckner, will provide a much needed boost for a program that’s moving in the right direction. In addition ...