It’s easy to make the argument that the 2009 Air Force football season—to date—has been a disappointment. All you have to do is look at the Falcons’ record (4-4) and note that three of the losses could have been wins if just a few things went differently.  So, yeah, when you’re a handful of plays from 7-1 and a probable Top 25 ranking, there’s plenty of reason to be disappointed about being 4-4. It’s also easy to ...

Casual college football fans throughout the country are going to be asking the same question Saturday night: why is Notre Dame playing a home game in San Antonio, Texas? Because Charlie Weis is the most dynamic and innovative recruiter in the nation.  Nobody has figured out how to reach recruits in the far hinterlands of national recruiting and then convince said recruits to come to South Bend, Indiana more successfully than ...

Like any typical diehard SEC football fan, I have defended my favorite conference’s honor many times.    I grew up thinking that the national media didn’t like us southerners when it came to anything, especially sports.   There was a West coast bias, an East coast bias, and a northern bias.  Southerners always got the short end of the national media stick. The SEC has long been the greatest football conference in the land.  ...

Sometimes a team just needs a win.  Arkansas was riding back-to-back wins headed into the Florida game and was feeling pretty good about themselves.  Now, they're riding back-to-back losses. And it's not just the losses but the way that they lost.  First, it was two consecutive road games which, in the SEC, are always tough environments.  Then there was "referee-gate" that was the difference in the Florida game.  And a combination of hangover from the Florida ...

The SEC commissioner, Mike Slive, has been forced to issue a statement basically saying; Lane Kiffin, either shut up or you may be watching your next Tennessee football game on television! The statement was issued on Oct. 30, 2009 and will most likely be dubbed the "Lane Kiffin Rule" by the media in honor of Tennessee's loose canon head coach's inability to keep his mouth shut as far as criticizing SEC Officials, fellow coaches, and the SEC's front ...

The 2009 Heisman Trophy race was supposed to be one to remember with Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, and Colt McCoy all coming back to lace up their cleats on Saturdays, but it has turned out to be the opposite. Reigning Heisman winner Sam Bradford injured his shoulder in Oklahoma's opener, which turned out to be a season ending injury after he re-injured it against arch rival Texas. Colt McCoy has ...

The Ole Miss Rebels have the one thing the ailing Auburn Tigers don't need to see as they attempt to rectify the issues that have helped plummet Auburn from an exhilarating 5-0 start to the confounding 5-3 record the team sports today: a strong defense. On second thought make that a defense of any kind. Over the last three weeks Auburn's offense has regressed. It flopped on the road at Arkansas, failed to generate any pop ...

The bye week is here—or, as it is better known, the worst week of the year for any college football fan.  While Brigham Young football fans will be depressed that there is no game this weekend, the bye week came at the right time for the BYU players. The Cougars are fighting off nagging injuries, and they are also awaiting the return of the deep threat receiver McKay Jacobson. BYU will also use the bye week to ...

From virtually out of the race for the conference championship, the UCF Knights now have a chance in their quest for a C-USA Championship run. After defeating Rice definitively last weekend, the Knights hope to build on that momentum this Sunday in a nationally televised game against Marshall. Marshall is 3-1 in the East Division while UCF is 2-2. With a win this weekend and a loss by Southern Mississippi (who plays Houston this weekend), UCF can ...

It's a common joke amongst fans of many Southeastern Conference schools that SEC Commissioner Mike Slive is favorable to certain schools, namely Florida and Alabama. Some word it different ways, my personal favorite is in this story from Loserswithsocks.com. This joke is now taking on a notoriously solid form, and it's really not all that funny anymore.   Every season, all eyes are on the SEC as it's constantly referred to as ...