At long last, Joe Paterno has emerged to speak about the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal that cost him his job and rocked Penn State as a whole.Paterno went on the record with Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, saying once again that he believes he did the right thing by reporting the details relayed to him by assistant coach Mike McQueary up the university's chain of command. He also reiterated that he never ...

The Michigan Wolverines coaching staff is no longer recruiting 4-star defensive back prospect Yuri Wright (Ramsey. NJ) and his previously scheduled official visit to Ann Arbor this weekend has been canceled. Wright's high school coach Greg Toal spoke with TheWolverine.com Thursday afternoon about the status of his star cornerback's visit to Michigan. "I can't really say exactly why," Toal said. "I just know that he's not going." There has been no official comment from Wright about the sudden change in status with Michigan, but ...

When a high school football player signs his letter of intent to attend the university of his choice, he does not anticipate losing 21 games in his college career. Alas, most of the 23 players who enrolled at Notre Dame in 2008 closed their career with a 29-21 record. By Notre Dame standards, the record is subpar, especially for a class ranked second in the country by Rivals.com. However, remember that these kids took a ...

West Virginia is ranked No. 7 in Mark Schlabach's ESPN 2012 preseason football poll, five spots higher than CBS ranked them in their preseason poll. Schlabach's Way-Too-Early Top 25 has LSU, USC and Alabama in the top three spots, Oregon, Oklahoma and Georgia Nos. 4-6, and West Virginia at No. 7. Florida State, Michigan State and South Carolina fill out the top 10. The Mountaineers return nine offensive and seven defensive starters from 2011's Orange Bowl Champion. WVU (10-3) put ...

South Carolina grabbed a huge pickup yesterday with the announcement of Mike Davis coming to Columbia to play for the Gamecocks. This 5'10", 200-pound back is ranked as the sixth-best running back in the class according to Rivals, and is a four-star prospect.  As a senior, he rushed for 1,923 yards with 21 touchdowns.  He picked South Carolina over Georgia.He is the brother of ex-Clemson tailback James Davis, who was a star player for the Tigers. Mike ...

Following Week 2 of the 2011 college football season, the LSU Tigers took over the No. 1 spot in my National Top 25 rankings. From that point on, the Tigers held the top spot in the rankings for 13 straight weeks. Their brilliant run lasted for almost the entire season but came to an end in the season’s final game, with a 21-0 shutout loss to Alabama in the 2012 ...

College football is built on tradition and passion. Fan support is everything. There is a reason that Saturdays in the fall fill multiple 100,000-seat stadiums. The NFL may have the TV viewers, but the atmosphere and passion of an NFL stadium cannot match the college game. Whether we like it or not, the annual debates also make college football special. Not many like the BCS, but without it would there be hours and hours of college football ...

While everyone knows that Coach Brian VanGorder is headed to Auburn as their new defensive coordinator, it is still unclear to some if this is a good match. Many college football fans do not know what type of defense VanGorder prefers and what talent is necessary to carry it out. Other interested fans of college football wonder if the correct type of talent is at Auburn to carry out his defensive scheme. The one factor ...

The college season has come to a close with Alabama mopping up LSU to win the BCS National Championship. The game was more lopsided than a see-saw with Justin Bieber on one end and Clay Matthews on the other. LSU was not the formidable foe as predicted on the field, but what about off the field?Represented by a ferocious tiger, it seems pretty safe to say that this beast would ...

Ohio State's recruiting class for 2012 is already rock-solid, as the folks at Rivals.com have it rated as the No. 7 recruiting class in the country.New head coach Urban Meyer deserves a lot of credit for this, as he has stepped in and drawn recruits to Columbus at an impressive rate. You would never know that the program was just punished by the NCAA.But Meyer's not done yet. In fact, he has a legit chance ...