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Early Test for FSU

Florida State has a pretty comfy conference slate this year in the ACC. They avoid Virginia Tech and North Carolina out of the Coastal Division and get Miami and North Carolina State at home. This is a team that has enough talent, if they can pull it all together, to go undefeated in the ACC.

However, after a couple of cupcakes to start off the year, the Seminoles will ...

Boise State: Different Conference, Same Results

There was a time when it seemed exciting that Boise State was headed to the Mountain West. The MWC is certainly a better conference than the WAC. They were last year, they will be this year and they certainly will be next year when much of the WAC will join Boise State in the MWC.

But what does this really add for this season? Instead of a big ...

The Schedulers Present Oklahoma State with a Challenge

Oklahoma State has never had an easy schedule playing in the Big 12 South. They always had to face Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Oklahoma. The Big 12 South does not exist anymore with the departure of Nebraska and Colorado leaving the conference with ten teams, but the Cowboys easily have the most difficult schedule of any team in the conference.

How is that possible now that every team plays every other team? It comes down to who you get to play at home and who ...

Texas A&M BCS Bound?

With the new look Big 12, Texas A&M will have a great shot at a BCS game. This is the best team the Aggies have sported since the late 90s and the schedule makers were relatively kind. At least they give Coach Mike Sherman five conference home games and four road games.

But it all starts with the talent on the field. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill, wide receiver ...

Could Ohio State Suspensions Actually be Good for the Program?

Everyone has heard or read by now about the scandal at Ohio State.  Sports Illustrated did a feature on it, ESPN has been all over it, and it dominated Sports Center for at least a week straight. In the end, the effects on this year’s team were the loss of four players to suspension for the first five games, Heisman trophy candidate Terrelle Pryor bolting to the ...

Arkansas has Faith in Coach Petrino

Atlanta Falcons fans do not think very highly of Bobby Petrino. NFL aficionados in general do not have the fondest memories of Coach Petrino. However, Bobby Petrino is a Pete Carroll, a John Calipari; he is a masterful college football coach and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

Right now the Arkansas Razorbacks are heading into a ...

Arizona State Faces Make or Break Year

Coach Dennis Erickson was supposed to come in and change the culture at Arizona State. The talent has been there, the expectations have certainly been there, but the wins have been harder to come by. In his four years with the Sun Devils, Coach Erickson has just a 25-23 overall record. In conference play he is just 17-19 and 10-17 in the last three years. That does not sit well for any ...

Enter Virginia Tech

I am not a music savant or critic. I can hardly be called musically literate for that matter. I played the saxophone for a few years in middle school and I can play the chorus to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” on a piano for some reason.

I am not really a fan of rock or metal. My knowledge of the genre stems from nothing more than reading Chuck Klosterman ...

The New Offense at WVU

Now that the awkward transition from Coach Bill Stewart to Coach Dana Holgorsen has passed, it is time to get down to football. Holgorsen was going to be the offensive coordinator in 2011 and the head coach in 2012, but the West Virginia brass opted to just move forward and promote Holgorsen to the head job for 2011. Thus, the new offense was going to be in place either way, but now it should be an all-out attack through ...

Relf Key for Mississippi State

Chris Relf is a dynamic player who can make plays with his arm and his legs, but he is in his third year as a starter so the Bulldog’s senior quarterback needs to be more efficient. Mississippi State is coming off of a great 9-4 season with losses only coming at the hands of Auburn, LSU, Alabama and Arkansas. It is hard to figure that the team should have won any of those games, but they need to win those types of ...