The Florida Gators are one of the NCAA's most successful collegiate sports teams. They have multiple titles in multiple sports and are generally regarded as an elite program. The rabid fanbase, ever seeking the next tidbit of Gators news, created an entire segment of journalism devoted solely to covering Gators sports. Unfortunately for all of those writers, this has not been a good week. Like, literally nothing has happened. In response to the borefest, and seeking to not lose ...

As the game of football has evolved, more teams have shied away from the traditional ground game and have concentrated on developing pass-oriented offenses. However, old-school fans (this writer included) still enjoy a relentless, smash-mouth running attack. In this slideshow, we will take a look at 20 teams whose rushing offenses should be among the best in the coming season. If you think that rankings like this can be silly and subjective, you're not alone. Often times they ...

You’re coming off back-to-back 13-1 seasons, in which most of your fans believe that you were a healthy quarterback and a tick-of-the-clock shy of two national championships.  Your record setting, two-time Heisman finalist quarterback is leaving the 40 acres.  And in the upcoming season, you’ll be breaking in a new quarterback for the first time since 2006. But if you are Mack Brown, you aren’t answering the what-ifs of past seasons, or questions about your new ...

Successful coaches know the key to maintaining a top program is through recruiting. Coach Sarkisian learned this lesson well watching his mentor Pete Carroll awaken the echoes of a powerhouse in Los Angeles. Sarkisian’s first recruiting class at Washington was considered small, and average. With previous coach Tyrone Willingham giving up on recruiting, knowing he wasn’t going to be back, Sarkisian had to work to ...

This has been an extremely rough offseason for the Oregon Ducks to say the least. There have been enough arrests for the men in green to fill a county drunk tank. The worst of all is Jeremiah Masoli's 2010 season-long suspension. So now the question is what will, and should, happen to his career at Oregon? Many have been saying that he should just transfer and forever leave the state of Oregon in order not to ...

While I'm sure it is easy for many to throw out such names as Tim Tebow, Colt McCoy, Sam Bradford, and Toby Gerhart, I'm not sure those teams will feel much fall, if any, due to the departure of their particular talents as players.  What I'm looking for are guys and/or coaches that left in 2009 who will most likely have a very serious impact on the wins and losses of their team because they are ...

This week, Alabama started spring practice in helmets, jerseys, and shorts—and a few surprises. The grass may be rising along with eyebrows as head coach Nick Saban opens this year's version of the Crimson Tide. Some were surprised to see former receivers Brandon Gibson and Kendall Kelley working at defensive back in an effort to put a little more depth at that position. Working out at linebacker—a spot where the Tide was thought to have plenty of depth—was ...

Friday, March 12 was one of the darkest days in the recent history of the Oregon athletic program. Two current stars and one former player were all in court to plead in their various court cases. Quarterback Jeremiah Masoli and running back LaMichael James both pled guilty to their respective charges, as did former wide receiver Garrett Embry. While James received a one-game suspension from head coach Chip Kelly (a very reasonable suspension after reading the ...

While the Big Ten's talent level has been questioned over the past few years, few have ever questioned the conference's linebacker strength, as its top teams, Ohio State, Penn State, Iowa, and Wisconsin, routinely develop the best linebackers in the country. But this year, the Big Ten is looking at a very different scenario. While most of the conference should be strong, the linebackers will be relatively unproven after the graduations of 2009's top linebackers, Iowa's ...

Is Big East football already dead and we just do not know it? Is it really just a zombie thrashing around for a little while until it is dismembered? In a recent interview with a local television station in West Virginia, West Virginia coach Bill Stewart discussed the end of the Big East conference. He envisioned a Big Ten expansion killing the Big East conference and leading ultimately to an end of Big East football. Coach Stewart ...