As the 2011 college football season inches closer, we'll take a look at who will be the NCAA's 10 best cornerbacks.Guys like Patrick Peterson of LSU, Prince Amukamara of Nebraska, Brandon Harris of Miami, Aaron Williams of Texas and Jimmy Smith of Colorado topped 2010's list. They all brought an incredible amount of talent to the position and terrorized opposing quarterbacks throughout the season.With all these players gone in the first two rounds of the ...

News out of Columbia today is that Bryce Sherman will not be returning to the football team.  The former 5'4", 157-pound USC track athlete known as 'Sherm the Worm,' joined the football team in 2009 after being kicked off of the track team. A rising junior, Sherman switched from Tailback to Wide Receiver during spring practice. Sherman was a two-sport star out of Carver High School in Winston Salem, North Carolina. According to Gamecock Central, South Carolina's Rivals ...

Note: With all of the NCAA investigation news, I figured it might be nice to look at the positive side of things. Oregon is stacked right now and ready to run the Pac-12, maybe even the FBS... pending investigation of course.17-1 in conference. 22-4 overall. Two Pac-10 Championships. One BCS National Championship appearance. That is what University of Oregon head coach Chip Kelly has accomplished since taking over two seasons ago. With Kelly at the ...

Every year Virginia Tech has one of the toughest defenses in college football. Head coach Frank Beamer prides himself on the way his team's plays defense and special teams. When either of these squads perform well, it is known as "Beamer ball". With defensive leaders like Rashad Carmichael and Davon Morgan moving on, Virginia Tech will have new defensive leaders in 2011. Here are the seven best defensive players on Virginia Tech heading into the 2011 season..Begin Slideshow

By now, word of Caleb King's ineligibility has made its way across from the rumor mill to the blogosphere and the sports pages before finally settling and leaving a pit in the stomach of Georgia Bulldog fans around the country. While Caleb King's career never quite panned out for the Dawgs the way so many had hoped, I have no doubt that King's status as the most seasoned man in the backfield will be missed.Looking ...

115 NCAA FBS quarterbacks have accumulated more than 9,000 career passing yards. Which schools have the most?Although the NCAA only started counting bowl games in 2002, some schools count all bowls in their official records. This list follows the NCAA rules for official stats and may not reflect each universities records.Source: www.fbsstatistics.com Begin Slideshow

All the focus on the West Virginia University Mountaineer football team seems to center on new head coach Dana Holgorsen and his offense. After all, Holgorsen’s offense has been among the nations leaders for the past three seasons, at two different schools no less, an unprecedented accomplishment to say the least. Here is another unprecedented fact about the 2011 version of Mountaineer football: at season's end, the defensive staff will have completed 75 years of coaching in ...

Yesterday, the Penn State football team competed in the ninth annual Lift for Life ™ sponsored by the Penn State chapter of Uplifting Athletes.Congratulations to all the Penn State football players who participated in yesterday’s Lift for Life.  Their website this morning states that they have raised $94,310.09. Since that number reflects online donations only, event organizers expect that other proceeds at the event itself will likely surpass last year’s total of $98,461.35. Nice ...

Larry Burton (Syndicated Writer) Mark Ingram wears his heart on his sleeve, and it was apparent Friday night when he stood in the Bryant Museum with his coach, Nick Saban, and many of his teammates as the Bryant Museum unveiled a painting that will forever more hang in the museum.The portrait was done by noted sports artist Steve Skipper and it is entitled, "Take It By Force."It was set up beside his Heisman Trophy and ...

Duron Carter is finally in Tuscaloosa.Yesterday he tweeted:"I'M HERE!!!!!!"That is good news for Alabama fans, who have been waiting for the problems with his transfer from Coffeyville Community College in Kansas to get ironed out. He is expected to be able to start classes next week and begin working out with his new teammates right away.Carter is just as excited to be on campus as the fans are to have him.Without even putting on a ...