Today is a sad day for Boise State, Hemet, and Emil Smith. Smith was a Boise State recruit set to play in 2011. His drive, passion, and skill was unquestionable. He was an 18-year-old linebacker out of Hemet, California. He'd received offers from the likes of Air Force, UTEP, Washington, and OSU before picking the Broncos.  Last night, all those dreams came to a sudden end. Smith and friend Dimitri Garcia were killed in a head-on collision between their Dodge ...

Larry Burton (Panama City Beach, Fla.) Rich Rodriguez is not a bad coach. He's actually a fine coach with an offensive philosophy that he swears by. The problem, however, is that he was trying to fit a round peg in a square hole at Michigan. It was as if her were trying to get his team to learn the playbook in German. They flopped miserably and this year may be his last to see it ...

Emil Smith, a 2011 recruit who verbally committed to play for Boise State, died in an automobile accident Saturday night. Smith, a weakside defensive end from Perris, California, was a passenger in a speeding automobile, and died approximately one hour after arriving at the hospital. Before committing to Boise State, Smith was entertaining offers from Duke, Air Force, and UTEP, along with Pac-10 schools USC, Oregon State, and Washington. Smith played high school football at Rancho Verde High ...

From ACC Blitz Every year, teams lose a star player and it presents an opportunity for the next guy in line to show what he's got. I've narrowed my list down to the top three players that bring the most to the table. If these guys were stocks, I'd be screaming BUY, BUY, BUY. 1)Anthony Allen, Georgia Tech 2009 Stats: 64-618 YDS, 9.7 AVG, 6 TD Who he replaces: Jonathan Dwyer Allen will have a tough act to ...

Mason and Miles Plumlee, Duke Almost all of the players from last season's championship team are back and ready to make another run for the title. With one of the top players in the recruiting class in Kyrie Irving coming in to play with transfer Seth Curry, it looks as if the Blue Devils will be in the Final Four again next season. However, if they plan to do so, the Plumlee brothers have to step up ...

LSU has a gauntlet of a schedule for 2010. They begin the season with a grueling stretch of games beginning with North Carolina and ending with Auburn. With a very young LSU team this year, injuries will likely be an issue during this stretch. There are several trap games on the schedule. The first will be West Virginia, the fourth game of the season. There are six teams on the schedule that are likely to be ranked when ...

One game. One game is all it takes to change a team. One play can turn doubters into believers. One season can allow a team to rise from obscurity to greatness. New head coaches have arrived at storied college football programs and others have departed. College football produced many upsets, images, and memories last year. This season will be no different as many high-stake, high-profile games will sweep the country from the beginning of the season until the BCS National Championship ...

Texas and Oklahoma have consistently been in the driver's seat of the Big 12 South, but could this be the year that the Aggies turn the table and run the show? Many are saying no, not this year. But the Aggies have the tools to get it done. The question is, can they use it their advantage? Here are some of the reasons that make it possible. Begin Slideshow

No one ever said that coaching the Notre Dame Fighting Irish was easy. Aside from the constant pressure, the recruitment to a school with aged tradition at a cold weather campus, and the legends you follow, Brian Kelly has another obstacle to overcome. College life. As the old saying goes, "Nothing good happens after midnight." At 1:52 AM early Saturday morning, South Bend Police responded to a call about a fight at a party. Of course, unsurprisingly at a college ...

The 2010 UConn Football squad is focused on one main goal, winning each and every game one step at a time. Their opener will be against one of the most hostile crowds in all of America: Ann Arbor, Michigan in the renovated big house that holds just under 110,000 fans.  Now that's a lot of screaming blue and yellow Wolverine fans surrounding you from every angle. Randy Edsall has never beat Rich Rodriguez but that changes this ...