First it was in the Box, now across Nicholson Avenue under the lights on Saturday night. Chad Jones has done nothing but amaze fans since his arrival on campus at LSU. Chad Jones is a 6'3", 231-pound junior who plays both baseball and football for the LSU Tigers. Lately, Jones has put his focus more on football, though he did make many appearances in the 2009 college baseball postseason for baseball coach Paul Mainieri. You know ...

From college football message boards to ESPN college football analysts, Boise State undergoes constant ridicule for their lack of strong opponents. In each of the past four seasons, the Broncos, ranked fifth in the latest AP poll, have only played one team from a BCS conference during the regular season. Along with this lone marquee game, Boise State schedules pancake games with FCS schools (Weber State, Idaho State) and mediocre teams from weak conferences such as ...

I'm usually an optimist concerning most things. I'm the guy who sat in front of the television every Saturday afternoon during the 2007 football season yelling obscenities and screaming that the football team wasn't playing as well as I thought they should. They weren't playing up to my expectations, even though the expectations I had for the team were founded in wishful thinking rather than sound logic or reason. I had deluded myself into imagining ...

Date: Oct. 3, 2009Time: 8 p.m. ESTVenue: LandShark Stadium (Miami)Vegas Line: OU -7 Obviously, Sam Bradford's status has monopolized all the talk leading up to Saturday's showdown between OU and Miami. I don't think it makes as much of a difference as the college football punditry would have you believe. Here's what to watch on Saturday night when the Sooners and Hurricanes square off at LandShark Stadium: 1. Who's Playing Quarterback for OU OU coach Bob Stoops has continued ...

For the third time in as many weeks, the BR Big Ten Pollsters have named a new number one team. After quieting the "White House" in State College, the Iowa Hawkeyes vault up the rankings, supplanting Ohio State and Penn State as the top dog. The Hawkeyes, down 10-0 at the end of the first quarter would rally behind a suffocating defense, powerful running game, and brilliant special teams to score 21 unanswered points (16 of which ...

The No. 18 Miami Hurricanes face their fourth consecutive hard-hitting game this season when they host No. 8 Oklahoma this weekend. When these two teams meet, it once again revitalizes a rivalry that is in need of a boost.  The last meeting between the ‘Canes and the Sooners came in 2007 when Oklahoma defeated Miami 51-13 in Norman.  Saturday’s match-up is the seventh between two traditional powers; the series is tied at three.  Both coaches said ...

  Before the 2009 season began, I picked up on a trend from the prior year involving ACC teams which played consecutive Thursday night games. Upon looking at my team's 2009 schedule, I was concerned and for a good reason. Apparently, as Georgia Tech lost to Miami. But before I get ahead of myself, let’s take a look at the trend I’m referring to. Simply put, ACC teams which play two consecutive Thursday night games tend to ...

The Arkansas Razorbacks and Texas A&M Aggies first met on the gridiron way back in 1903 when the fledgling Arkansas football program was only nine years into its existence. The UA team was still known as the Cardinals as this was six years before Hugo Bezdek's "we played like a wild bunch of Razorback Hogs" speech following a landmark victory over LSU in 1909.  Some Hog fans say there are no "traditional rivalries" for the Hogs in the SEC. Tell ...

For those of you lucky enough (or unlucky for how bad the broadcast was) to see the Washington-Stanford game last Saturday, you got to see Washington lay its first egg of the season. Coming off the win against USC, it is easy to imagine the optimism that existed in the hearts of Washington players, fans, and coaches. They can downplay it all they want, it existed. The game proved that Stanford can be a legitimate contender in ...

From Shawn Jefferson to Daunte Culpepper, electrifying Knights football players have made their way to the NFL. Some were successful, others weren't; some are long gone, but many still play on pro turf today. There are a few UCF players that I call the “Big Five” right now—players that are of recent (and often dear) memory to Knights fans, and that are making an impact on their respective teams. Here are the present members of ...