Archive for July, 2010
Finishing With Style: The SEC’s Easiest November Schedules
For an SEC team that has faced an absolute gauntlet of a schedule in the season's first two months, there's no quite like November.
For a few SEC teams, November is a time to set the cruise control and just enjoy the downhill ride to bowl season. For others, however, the heat lasts through the final second of the final fourth quarter of Thanksgiving month.
In these next few slides you will see which SEC ...
Tracking Greatness: Texas Tech in the NCAA FBS Record Book
The NCAA keeps a mind boggling number of statistics covering all facets of college football.
Everything from touchdowns scored on punt returns to most yards gained over two, three and four seasons is tracked and recorded in the NCAA FBS Record Book (which can be accessed through the NCAA website).
With the 2010 College Football Season a mere month or so away, all-time FBS records are reviewed to compile “watch lists” of individuals and teams ...
College Football 2010: BCS Bowl Projections Are an Inconvenient Truth
Welcome to the 13th season of the Bowl Championship Series, commonly known as the BCS.
The BCS system is designed to match the top two teams in the country, while allowing conference champions to continue a relationship with specific bowls.
From 1998 through 2005, the top two teams were pitted against each other in a rotation of sites among the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls.
Previously referred to as the "major bowls of college football," they are ...
Pre-Season Top 25: Ranking College Football’s Hottest Campuses
The 2010 College Football season is nearly upon us, which means it is time to start thinking about pre-season polls, Heisman Trophies, the BCS, and bowl games all over again.
It also means that it is time to start thinking about college girls again, and to try to figure out what college or university has the hottest campus in college football.
Let's have a look.Begin Slideshow
Simulating Alabama Crimson Tide’s 2010 Season: Will Virtual Be Reality?
Here is Alabama's 2010 season simulation on NCAA 11' (new college football game).
I simulated all of the games on SuperSim (play by play simulation) so I could see the individual plays happen. I recorded the player of the game for each game throughout the season.
All of the records and rankings of Alabama and its opponents are from the season outcomes as they happen week by week.
Alabama had a great season with a few great ...
The 15 Best Coaches Never to Win a National Title & Their 2010 Chances
Over the past decade or so, college football has produced some great programs, and accordingly, great head coaches.
Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio State, Florida, LSU, Alabama, USC...all programs with great coaching and national titles to show for it.
But there have definitely been some other programs led by great coaches that have made some noise in the college football world. The only thing missing is those coaches have yet to win the national title.
So, who are ...
2009-10 SEC Basketball Review: Snipers
We now move outside of the arc for the Minutes Per Three-Pointers Made category.
This group is fairly self-explanatory. Which players can fill up the basket from deep in the shortest amount of time. Coupled with a decent percentage, this can be telling for the future.
Interestingly, only one player in this group of 10 has graduated, which should provide for an entertaining 2010-11 for the SEC.
Another category, another dominating player. Find out who by reading on!Begin ...
2010 BCS Conference Profiles: Big East Conference
This is fourth in a series of conference profiles as part of BCS Know How’s season preview. Today’s conference is the Big East.
Conference: Big East Conference (Big East)
Active Since: 1979
Current Member Schools: Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, South Florida Bulls, West Virginia Mountaineers. (8)
Bowl Affiliations: BCS Bowl Bid, St. Petersburg Bowl, Champs Sports Bowl, Pinstripe Bowl, Car ...
Oklahoma Running Backs: A Jar That Is Never Empty
In the Bible, in the Book of 1 Kings, there is a story about the prophet Elijah and a poor widow and her son. In a time of intense famine, Elijah asked the widow to use the very last of her flour and oil to make bread for him. However, he promised that if she did this, the jar of flour would never be empty and the jug of oil would not run dry.
To make ...
Alabama’s Next Superstar: Cade Foster
Cade Foster could very well be the next superstar for the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Foster is from Southlake Carroll High School, the same place Greg McElroy played ball, and it's pretty safe to say that Cade is just as effective at kicking the football as McElroy is at passing it.
Cade Foster is not your average kicker. Most NCAA kickers are under 6' tall, and weigh less than 190 lbs.
Foster is 6'2"-220. Why so much larger? ...