FBS Football

Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Atlantic Coast Conference

 

It has been an up and down season for Jim Grobe’s young team.  The season started with a crazy loss in New York to Syracuse.  Then they hit a four game winning streak before losing four out of five.  Their youth contributed to some inconsistent play, but this ...

Tulsa Golden Hurricane
Conference USA

 

Tulsa spent much of the 2011 season under the radar. First year coach Bill Blankenship deserves a ton of credit for keeping this team focused. The Golden Hurricane lost three out of their first four games and that made all of the publicity for Conference USA move toward Houston and ...

Toledo Rockets
Mid-American Conference

 

When a team loses a game 63-60 one Tuesday night and wins 66-63 the next Tuesday, the strengths and weaknesses are quite obvious. The offense can move the ball on just about anybody, but the defense is a non-existent much of the time. Another component to ...

Texas A&M Aggies
Big 12

 

Texas A&M had high hopes heading into the 2011 campaign, but a brutal schedule and some bad breaks led to a 6-6 regular season. This is a team that lost five games in either overtime or by four points or fewer. The only loss that the Aggies were never really in was the game was at ...

Temple Owls
Mid-American Conference

 

Temple has turned into a relatively steady team in the MAC due to their style of play. The Owls can stay in just about every game with their prolific ground attack and their stifling defense. This group also keeps the turnovers down. That is how Temple won eight games this year and ...

Stanford Cardinal
Pacific-12 Conference

 

The high hopes for a National Championship at Stanford may have come to an end against the Oregon Ducks on November 12th. The Cardinal were embarrassed by the Ducks on national television, and may have dashed the possibility of a Heisman Trophy win for quarterback Andrew Luck as ...

SMU Mustangs
Conference USA

 

SMU has been wildly inconsistent during the 2011 campaign. And this is team that is not doing what one would normally expect from a June Jones coached squad. Yet, the bottom line is the Mustangs are winning games more often than not and that is enough to get them into the postseason. Some of ...

Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Big East

 

Coach Greg Schiano has done a great job at Rutgers and could have left after the successful seasons in 2006 and 2007. But he stayed with the Scarlet Knights and suffered through a few disappointing seasons, culminating with a 4-8 mark in 2010. The expectations were low heading into 2011, ...

North Carolina Tar Heels
Atlantic Coast Conference

 

With all the North Carolina program has gone through in the offseason, perhaps it was a little too much to ask them to win their division this season.  Coach Butch Davis was fired and players were still suspended due to NCAA allegations.  Interim coach Everett ...

Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Independent

 

Notre Dame got off to a slow start, but then turned around their season and started beating the teams they should beat, and occasionally teams they probably should not have beaten. The end result was a good season for the Irish and a nice potential stepping stone to bigger things to ...