The National University Holiday Bowl, which will be played on December 27th at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, will pit the USC Trojans (8-4), who finished 24th in the last AP Poll, against the Nebraska Cornhuskers (9-3). While USC’s offense normally receives most of the attention from the national media, defensive lineman Leonard Williams […]
Read moreHP’s Preseason Top 10 Teams
1. Texas 2. Miami 3. Alabama 4. Boise State 5. Ohio State 6. TCU 7. Arkansas 8. Florida 9. Oklahoma 10. Stanford Just missed the cut: Virginia Tech, Auburn, Oregon, Cincinnati, Nebraska, Florida State, Wisconsin, Georgia, Houston, Notre Dame
Read moreThe NCAA has an Institutional Control Issue of Their Own
More photos » Reed Saxon – AP Browse more photos » We have discussed numerous time how the punishment the NCAA handed down doesn’t fit the crime. I know it comes off as whining as my friend Pete Holiday has said numerous times over at Roll ‘Bama Roll…yeah well we all have our own crosses […]
Read moreTop 10 Running Backs for 2010
HP’s preview of the 2010 season continues with a look at the top 10 running backs. See the top 10 receivers here and the top 10 tight ends here. 1. Ryan Williams, Virginia Tech–It looks to me like Williams is the complete package. He’s got size, speed, vision, toughness and a nose for the end […]
Read moreBig 12 name remains, but logistics change for slimmed-down league
There’s still much to be hashed out over the nuts and bolts of the new 10-team Big 12, beginning with the name. (Unlike, say, the 100-year-old cachet of the Big Ten, there’s nothing particularly hallowed about "Big 12," and, well, "Big Ten" is already taken. I prefer the "Diet 12," or "Big 12 Jr," or […]
Read moreTexas Holdout: What the Hell to Do With the Pac-11?
The Pac-10’s invitation to six of the Big 12 teams was designed to bring in the powerhouse markets of Texas and Oklahoma. Everything seemed to go as planned with Colorado accepting the Pac-10’s invitation and Nebraska, likewise, accepting an invitation from the Big Ten. The Big 12 was as good as history, right? Wrong. The […]
Read moreHeadlinin’: Colorado bound for ‘Pac-11’ as expansion dominoes fall
Making the morning rounds. • We don’t know, but we know, you know? Officially, Nebraska regents continue to deny reports of any decisions concerning leaving the Big 12 or joining the Big Ten, mainly on grounds that there hasn’t been an official vote of any kind ahead of Friday’s meeting of the university’s Board of […]
Read moreSource: Pac-10 poised to invite 6 Big 12 teams
With Nebraska apparently headed to the Big Ten, the Pac-10 is poised to become the Pac-16. Colorado already has received an invitation, while five other invitations will be extended to Texas, Texas A&M, OU, OK State and Texas Tech, according to a source.
Read moreHeadlinin’: Their old SEC home is on Seminoles’ radar, just in case
Making the morning rounds. • Unconquered, but still open to a good deal. The possibility is still "remote" at this point, but the notion of joining an expanding SEC in the coming game of Conference Expansion Dominoes has at least crossed Florida State’s mind, according to coach Jimbo Fisher, who told reporters at the ACC’s […]
Read moreExpansion and the ‘superconference’: A very long love story
The Big Ten and Pac-10 both want to expand — the Big Ten is beginning to sound very, very certain about it — and when they do, certainly you have been made aware by now that Things Will Never Be the Same. If you’ve followed the sport for the last two decades, of course, you’re […]
Read moreEastern Washington literally seeing red over new turf
Boise State has its infamous "Smurf Turf," and Nebraska has what it likes to call the "Sea of Red" to describe the vast crowd inside Lincoln’s Memorial Stadium. As of next fall, though, neither of them will have anything on I-AA Eastern Washington, which announced plans Wednesday to install an actual field of red: Taking […]
Read morePac-10 teams of the decade
Yes, there are lots of USC teams in our list of the “best Pac-10 teams of the decade.” Not sure how you get around that. From 2002 to 2008, the Trojans finished ranked in the nation’s top four. During that span, no other conference team topped the Trojans in the national rankings. One team not […]
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