In every football season, there is always that one defining moment or game that determines if the year will be judged as a success or failure. Often times heartbreaking losses send a team into a downward spiral. For teams who can battle back from that adversity, it shows the toughness and resilience of a solid program. Recently, moments like Tim Tebow's speech following the loss to Ole Miss or Terrence Cody's blocked kick against Tennessee have ...

Despite making the 2009 BCS national championship game, Texas again came in behind the Sooners in Big 12 revenue. In 2008, the Sooners led the Longhorns as well, but it made much more sense then. Texas' big games were early with OU and Texas Tech, and it was not until after the game that Texas tried to erase from history, a 39-33 loss to Texas Tech, that the nation get truly interested in the 2008 Big ...

So where does Clemson go from here? The Tigers got as close to a conference title as they have since 1991 last season. All-everything running back C.J. Spiller will now be playing in the NFL, and starting quarterback Kyle Parker could be playing professional baseball this Fall. Many Tiger fans already anticipate his departure and expect redshirt freshman Taj Boyd to fill his role. Boyd has a strong arm with better mobility than Parker, but it ...

It seems as though every article I read, every prediction I see, and every chance a commentator gets, they all mention that 2010 is a make or break season for Rich Rodriguez.  They say the upcoming season is not just a matter of wins and losses, but a matter of fired or retained.   People refer to the coach's stay in Ann Arbor as the "Rodriguez experiment", as though Michigan is similar to Frankenstein with the ...

After Georgia AD got caught drunk driving and backup quarterback Zach Mettenberger was booted off the team for sexual battery, you would have thought that any members of the Bulldogs team would want to keep their heads down. Well, no. Following up the early week arrest of cornerback Jordan Love's  for obstructing a police officer after the cop came along to investigate accusations ...

Last season, the SEC had two Elite Eight teams in Tennessee and Kentucky who fell just short of making the Final Four. This season, the success will continue as the SEC will be a top heavy conference. With that said, here are my top five SEC teams entering the 2010-2011 season.   1. Kentucky Say what you want about the way Calipari recruits, but he will have loads of talent next season, and they will be at the top of the SEC ...

With the mess of conference realignment behind us, it is good to be able to focus on the field once more and see what everyone is saying about the Big 12 South race. It seems that no one seems very confident of the outcome of this year's Big 12 South division. Whether you're looking through your favorite preseason magazine or at the Vegas odds, the Sooners and the Longhorns appear to ...

Believe it or not, the one-and-done rule has gotten under a lot of people's skin. The one-and-done players are usually the players that do not belong in the college game at all. These are the players that could have gone straight from high school to the NBA.   However, since the rule has incorporated, we have bad student-athletes, speculations, recruiting violations and more. If you ask me, I think the one-and-done rule should be ...

Could the Fighting Irish compete in one of the six BCS football conferences?  Could they play four conference road games, handle a tougher schedule, and still be in the race in late November? While it's impossible to predict the future—in 2010 the Irish could win four games, or they could make it to a BCS game—if we look at the past five to ten years, maybe we can explore some of these hypothetical questions. For a long time ...

In college football people tend to classify schools as the have's and the have nots. South Carolina was a have not for quite some time, but have never been considered a have.  The closest was when Joe Morrison had the 1984 Gamecocks finish at #13 in the AP poll. The Gamecocks suffered a 21 game losing streak in 1998 and 1999 and were as low as a team could possibly get. Lou Holtz finally turned them ...