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★ Auburn Wins BCS National Championship

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1 year CFB_Observer Cam Newton and the Auburn Tigers outscored the normally high-octane Oregon Ducks to win the BCS National Championship. That makes five straight for the SEC. Who will win it all in 2011?

Alabama at Penn State, Notre Dame at Michigan... W2

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8 months CFB_Observer Which games are you most intersted in? It’s Week 2.  Already, the plot thickens. No. 6 Stanford at Duke – Saturday September 10 This could be a gentlemen’s contest between two of the country’s finest institutions of higher learning, but boys will be boys.  They’re going to slap each other around. One team plays a competitive schedule, is picked to finish favorably in its conference, and has an... Clickable...

Blackmon, No. 9 Oklahoma St. trounce Arizona

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8 months CFB_Observer Justin Blackmon went beastmode on AZ. Brandon Weeden connected with Justin Blackmon on two short touchdown tosses, Joseph Randle ran for two scores and No. 9 Oklahoma State used an early burst of offense to beat Arizona 37-14 on Thursday night in a rematch of last year's Alamo Bowl. Clickable text

Texas A&M Closer to Withdrawing from Big 12

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9 months CFB_Observer Texas A&Ms president, R. Bowen Loftin, sent a letter to the Big 12 board chairman notifying the league it will formally withdraw, very likely on Tuesday. Here we go again

Expansion Talk: When will the SEC Expand?

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9 months CFB_Observer With all the talk of expanding the SEC, conferences are bracing for another tumultuous season of uncertainty. It appears that expansion is predicated on whether SEC will invite 2 or 4 more teams to join there conference. The question then is, when will the SEC make it's move? This year, next year or will they hold their ground. There are a lot of attractive teams in the ACC and some in the Big 12 ripe for poaching... the hunt...

Al Goldern: Miami Awaiting Eligibility Decisions

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9 months CFB_Observer The fate of eight Miami players is now in the hands of the NCAA. Read more Could be a big blow to what was promising 2011 season outlook.

LSU WR Shepard suspended for season opener

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9 months CFB_Observer LSU receiver Russell Shepard has been suspended for the opener against Oregon on Sept. 3 and is expected to miss a number of games while the university seeks his reinstatement. Read more

South Carolina Football 2011: Football Team Improves

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9 months CFB_Observer Figured this would be a nice couterpoint to all the other issues this offseason. While South Carolina football has improved on the football field a great deal since the Lou Holtz and era, Spurrier has improved something else.  It happens to be off the field. According to Spurrier, academically, South Carolina's football team had more players with a 3.0 GPA than any other team in the SEC with 30. The 2010 team also set a record...

Girls of the SEC

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9 months Scott Is this why Texas A&M wants to join the SEC?

The 10 Douchiest Colleges in America

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9 months Scott Now that is a funny article!

Arkansas expects RB Davis to miss all of 2011

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9 months CFB_Observer Tough blow to a pivitol player for the Razorbacks. Arkansas junior running back Knile Davis, the SEC's top rusher in 2010, is expected to miss this season after sustaining a left ankle injury Thursday in practice, the team said Friday. Read more

Preseason College Football Top 25 Rankings

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10 months CFB_Observer What do you think about the USA Today Coaches' Poll for college footballs top 25? 1. Oklahoma (42) 2. Alabama (13) 3. Oregon (2) 4. LSU (2) 5. Florida State 6. Stanford 7. Boise State 8. Oklahoma State 9. Texas A&M 10. Wisconsin 11. Nebraska 12. South Carolina 13. Virginia...

Irish and Gamecocks reinstate Floyd& Garcia

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10 months CFB_Observer No too surprising. He is an amazing talent on the field... "Notre Dame senior wide receiver Michael Floyd has been reinstated to the team, Irish coach Brian Kelly announced on Wednesday." Read more Garcia reninstated

College Football: Top 50 Stadiums to See Before You

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10 months CFB_Observer Might as well start this season. "College football has become one of the nation's top sports, and like baseball or hockey, there are some locations that every fan should visit before he dies. Some stadiums are as important to the game as any location can possibly be. There's just something magical about walking into a stadium that once saw the shadows of some of the giants in the game: Knute Rockne, Bear Bryant, ...

Arnold Palmer - This is SportsCenter

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10 months CFB_Observer Good stuff, Mike. My favorite is Lee Corso's run in with the Oregon Duck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEGDo057lI8

Motivational Pregrame Speeches

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10 months mikew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA

Rashaan Salaam is auctioning off his Heisman ring

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10 months mikew "The current bid stands at $1,000 and the auction ends Aug. 9." However the article that the Yahoo news item links to states, "it is estimated to sell at a price between $15,000 and $25,000." I wonder how much bidders will attribute intrinsic value to the ring in the same way that some people value items worn by or that belong to celebrities. (E.g., Princess Diana's dress, J.F.K.'s tape measure. etc.)

Ex-Michigan QB Forcier to become a Spartan?!?!

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10 months CFB_Observer No not those Spartans! Former Michigan quarterback Tate Forcier said Tuesday he will attend San Jose State. Seems like an odd choice given the other schools he was looking at were Hawaii and Nevada. [url=http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6806435/former-michigan-quarterback-tate-forcier-attend-san-jose-state?campaign=rss&source=NCFHeadlines][Clickable textRead more/url]

Can Bronco lead BYU Cougars to an Undefeated Season?

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10 months CFB_Observer With TCU, Texas, and Ole Miss on their schedule I doubt it, but there are some reasons to believe. Actually, nine reasons... Nine reasons BYU could go undefeated

Reasons College football kicks NFL butt!

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10 months CFB_Observer Rivalries should be added to the list as well.

Will Notre Dame get a BCS Bowl bid in 2011?

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10 months mikew 2011 Schedule for ND Sept. 3 SOUTH FLORIDA Sept. 10 at Michigan Sept. 17 MICHIGAN STATE Sept. 24 at Pittsburgh Oct. 1 at Purdue Oct. 8 AIR FORCE Oct. 22 USC Oct. 29 NAVY Nov. 5 at Wake Forest Nov. 12 Maryland (at Landover, MD) Nov. 19 BOSTON COLLEGE Nov. 26 at Stanford Kelly coached them to a respectable 8-5 last season. Nine or 10 wins this year could...

NCAA hits LSU with 1 year probation, sanctions

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10 months CFB_Observer The hits keep coming with Willie Lyles tape for LSU being deemed of no recruiting value. Read more

ITB's SEC Expansion Fantasy Camp

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10 months CFB_Observer Will expansion talks ever end?!?! "Last year was the "Summer of Expansion" as we saw enough rumors to fill the dead period with excitement; who should take the lead in expansion, why would the SEC want to expand, and of course the terrifying move of six Big XII teams to the Pac-10 (complete with Sophie Ellis Bextor clip!). This offseason scandal has been the new expansion as UNC, Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia Tech and...

Homage to Keith Jackson

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10 months CFB_Observer Any favorite memories you'd add to the list? Read more

The Longhorn Network Is Coming To Your CITAAAAY!

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10 months CFB_Observer It will be interesting to see how all this pans out. "We're just over a month away from the Longhorn Network making its official debut as a property of ESPN. The initial broadcast schedule is laid out. The studio and on-air personalities are prepped. All they're waiting on is for the lights, camera, action moment to get this thing off the ground. They're going to be showing Texas football, other Big XII football games, Olympic...

Ouch! NCAA puts Georgia Tech on 4 years' probation

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10 months CFB_Observer "The NCAA's Committee on Infractions has placed Georgia Tech on four years' probation, vacated its 2009 ACC championship game victory and placed limits on official men's basketball recruiting visits after citing the school with rules violations." Clickable text

Will NCAA investigation of Auburn strip title?

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10 months CFB_Observer The NCAA has said that the investigation continues. If anything turns up, it will be interesting to see if the crystal ball is stripped from Auburns record books. What do you think will happen? "An NCAA official told Auburn coach Gene Chizik that it is not done investigating the Tigers' football program and the recruitment of Cam Newton, The New York Times reported Wednesday." Clickable text

Predicting the First Loss for Every Top 50

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10 months CFB_Observer The best part about the opening week of the college football season is that every program starts with a clean slate and has the belief that this will be the year its team goes undefeated and heads to the national championship. As week after week ends another team's dream, the pool of undefeated teams becomes smaller and smaller. Some teams will make a serious run at an undefeated season while... Predicting First Losses of 2011

College Football's Top 200 Players for 2011

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10 months CFB_Observer This is quite a list... "We’ve all had that debate. You’re sitting at the bar with your friends, watching some games, making small talk and the inevitable "NFL or College Football, which is better?" argument arises, and it ends up occupying an hour or so of your time. Now don’t get me wrong, I really like the NFL, but for me, there’s no other sport that can compare to college football... Read more

WVU LB, son of ex-WWF heel charged in armed robbery

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10 months CFB_Observer Wow. I guess Morgantown isn't just about burning couches any more. "It's been a quiet month or so in West Virginia since the sordid summer soap opera in Morgantown ended with Bill Stewart's resignation as head coach on June 10. A little too quiet, apparently, for linebacker Branko Busick, who broke the lull Monday night by getting himself arrested for armed robery" Clickable text

Ex-Tech coach Leach details firing in new book

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10 months CFB_Observer Some juicy stuff in here. Anybody read this book yet? Former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach is offering up details of what he says was happening behind the scenes around the time he was fired. Read more

Vrabel to coach OSU raises questions

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10 months CFB_Observer Good points. Not the highest profile postion in the football program so Vrabel wont shoulder much blame. On the recruiting front he'd have to be considered a positive for OSU.

Howard Schnellenberger's is still coaching

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10 months mikew Ha - that's great. ESPN's 30-for-30 "The U" which features Schnellenberger is also great.

Records: Cal, LSU also bought Lyles' scouting

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11 months CFB_Observer The plot thickens... The scouting-service owner at the center of an NCAA investigation into the Ducks' football program also had California and Louisiana State as a client, according to The Oregonian. Read more

College Coaches/Programs Avg. Football Rev.

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11 months CFB_Observer 2003 - 2009 Coach Team Years Avg. Football Revenue 1 Mack Brown Texas 7 $68,559,884.00 2 Gene Chizik Auburn 1 $66,162,720.00 3 Nick Saban Alabama 3 $64,620,511.00 4 Urban Meyer Florida 5 $61,618,057.00 5 Charlie Weis Notre Dame 5 $61,618,057.00 6 Jim Tressel Ohio State 7 $59,296,706.00 7 Mark Richt Georgia 7 $59,184,075.00 8 Rich...

Ohio State Plans Scandal Response to NCAA Today

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11 months CFB_Observer I guess this means the Spartans should have won the Big Ten last year...

Wow! Georgia tailback King ineligible for 2011

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11 months CFB_Observer Georgia's depth chart at tailback has taken another hit as senior Caleb King is academically ineligible for the 2011 season. To bad for Caleb... Clickable text

Heisman Trophy Odds for 2011

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11 months CFB_Observer LaMichael can flat out fly in the "get up and go" Duck offensive attack. The only downside I see from Luck's perspective is that his head coach left him...asuming that doesn't trip him up he'll be fine. I bet someone will emerge and it might not be any of the guys listed above.

Keeping it Real College Park Maryland

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11 months mikew Yikes - "The Terps opened the 2010 season with 37 scholarship sophomores and juniors, but just 24 remain as the 2011 season approaches." I wonder if Randy Edsall knew what he was getting himself into.

College Football Preview: No. 18 Mississippi

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11 months mikew Yeah - not a big deal to be the underdog in 1-2 games over the course of a season but to be the underdog in every game in such a competitive conference makes the above prediction unlikely.

Standing room Oregon-LSU tickets cost more Cowboys

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11 months mikew Cowboys Stadium seats 80,000. I'm surprised the game sold so quickly. Then again Oregon-LSU is *such* a longstanding and storied rivalry and preseason polls are always so accurate...

Coaches Guide to Breaking NCAA Rules

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11 months CFB_Observer Coaches and administrators have forgotten how to cheat. These things used to be taken care of with a few hundreds rolled into a handshake and a job for mom at the tractor factory down the road from the school. Now, it's amateur hour. This isn't rocket science, people. The NCAA has what amounts to subpoena power over current athletes and current university employees. That's it. The NCAA's rules don't apply to anyone else. That...

Ex-UNC player sues school for reinstatement

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11 months CFB_Observer McAdoo, a former North Carolina football player has filed a lawsuit against the school and the NCAA, seeking reinstatement after being declared permanently ineligible for academic misconduct. What are the chances the NCAA would be forced to allow reinstatement? And even if they do, how swiftly could McAdoo be able to return? McAdoo Sues UNC and NCAA

QB Wilson's Arrival Raises Stakes for Badgers

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11 months CFB_Observer To fans, Russell Wilson might be Wisconsin's ticket back to Rose Bowl or even more. Wisconsin has to be the favorite to win the BIg Ten with Russell stepping in as the QB. Russell Wilson Raises Stakes for Badgers

Newton bypassed by SEC for top annual honor

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11 months mikew Cam Newton is no Rafael Nadal. But then, neither is Tennessee's John-Patrick Smith, selected by the SEC's athletic directors as the year's top male athlete in the... Clickable text

Is it time for playoffs?

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2 years CFB_Observer TCU blew out Utah, but apparently beating the #5 team in the BCS does not vault you into the #1 or #2 spot in the BCS standings. Is it time for playoffs

How many pushups did Oregon's Duck do?

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2 years CFB_Observer The Oregon Ducks look impressive against USC, taking the Trojans down 53-32. Meanwhile, the Auburn Tigers were exerting their own offensive dominance in a 51-31 win over Ole Miss. These two teams will sit atop the polls tomorrow, but what we really want to know is how many push-ups did the Oregon Duck do tonight?

Auburn leaps to BCS #1 ranking

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2 years Scott Cam Newton and the AU Tigers toppled the LSU Tigers leaping to the top of the BCS and establishing Cam Newton as the heisman trophy frontrunner? Can Auburn avoid the fate of the last three #1 teams that lost the past few weeks when it faces Ole Miss?

Week 7 Matchups, Kickoffs, TV Schedule

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2 years CFB_Observer What a Saturday! A record 103 points were scored in regulation of an SEC game. Auburn beat out Arkansas 65-43, Wisconsin beat #1 Ohio State 31-18, Texas stifled Nebraska 20-13, and Dan Mullins Miss. St. beat mentor Urban Meyer 10-7. What a day!

FSU vs. Miami Matchup 8PM on ABC

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2 years AGNole Watched this game at Bar Louie in Tampa, where the Tampa Bay Seminole Club has its watching parties. Electric atmosphere. The place was going nuts. The Rays winning earlier in the afternoon and the Gators losing to LSU only fed the frenzy. Awesome game.