In Week 2, both the University of Florida and Michigan State University posted huge, shutout victories. The Spartans shut down Florida Atlantic’s offense, limiting them to just one first down. The Gators blew the University of Alabama-Birmingham out with in a 39-0 win. These wins don’t just speak to offense over defense, but to a […]

The Oklahoma Sooners have been college football’s top-ranked team in the Associated Press poll from the preseason on this year, but Saturday marked their first real chance to live up to the hype. Week 1’s 47-14 win over Tulsa was impressive, but it was the Week 2 road clash against No. 5 Florida State that […]

Northwestern University head football coach Pat Fitzgerald is intense. At least, that’s what his players say. His program is run his way and players are expected to deal with it. From the program’s academic goals (he expects his players to succeed as students at one of the premier academic universities in the United States) to […]

One of the most unique things about college sports is the schools themselves have the power to remake their environment, and that’s led to the chaotic round of conference realignment we’ve seen lately. The recent decisions by Nebraska and Colorado to leave the Big 12 for the Big 10 and the Pac-12 respectively, while noteworthy […]

For much of the last decade, the AFC North has been dominated by the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers have been the more prominent of the two, claiming division titles in 2007, 2008 and 2010, advancing to the Super Bowl in 2010 and winning the Lombardi Trophy outright in 2008. But while […]

To the casual observer, it would look as though the Jacksonville Jaguars came full circle when they released David Garrard last week and replaced him with Luke McCown (not to mention first-year Blaine Gabbert). After all, it was Garrard who had taken over the Jaguars’ starting QB position just days before the beginning of the […]

This NFL preseason had too many storylines to name after a lockout took away most of the offseason. One of them featured one of the NFL’s top running backs, Chris Johnson, holding out from the second-to-last year in his contract with the Tennessee Titans. After his selection as a first-round pick (24th overall) in 2008, […]

One of the most intriguing stories of the summer in college football didn’t focus on player movement, conference realignment or institutional scandal, but rather a journalist’s treatment by his employer. Renowned ESPN journalist Bruce Feldman’s apparent suspension for editing the Swing Your Sword book (by former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach), that included troubling comments […]

One of the clear perils of the No. 3 and No. 4-ranked teams facing off in a season opener is that one of them has to lose. This past week, that was the case with the third-ranked Oregon Ducks, who fell 40-27 to the depleted but still dangerous fourth-ranked LSU Tigers in their first game […]

When Kerry Collins announced his retirement as Tennessee Titan in early July, it wasn’t a big surprise to most. At 38 years old and after playing 17 seasons in the NFL, Collins was basically at the end of his career and didn’t feel that he had the “willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to […]