Once again, Joe Paterno, the favorite at 7-2 odds, has continued to beat Death at his own game. While Paterno has survived, only 9 other coaches did as well. For those that liked the odds of 12-1 Terry Hoeppner, congratulations! You’ve taken Vegas’ age-old advice of ‘don’t bet against brain cancer’ to the metaphorical bank!
Can the Big 10 keep the 2-year streak of dead coaches, for lack of a better word, alive? What does Jim Delany have against former Miami of Ohio coaches? Does it have to be former head coaches, or will Jim Tressel be next?
2006-07 was another excellent year in the Golden Gopher’s program. Led by All-American Alex Goligoski, the Gophers used the strength of a 22-game unbeaten streak to take both conference titles, but once again couldn’t break out of the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. With returning lynchpin Blake Wheeler leading what’s sure to be yet another dominated offense in the Mariucci Arena…
Ah Vanderbilt. They’re not the football school that UT is. They aren’t the basketball team that Memphis is. They’re somewhere in the middle with a decent baseball team. So what are they? They’re the SEC East’s warmup game, sadly enough. They’re a pretty big school in the middle of Nashville, TN, and pretty much the only redeeming factor is the high quality of the females.
But what can we expect out of Vanderbilt in the 2007 season for football? They look to be very well off, returning 8 of 11 starters on both offense and defense, but unfortunately, they’re STILL Vanderbilt, and unless another Jay Cutler comes along, they STILL won’t finish higher than 4th in the east.
But like I said, the females…
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Life is good in Titletown, USA. The basketball team, led by the meanest housewife this side of the Mississippi (watch out Windy City!) is enjoying their second straight title. The football team embarrassed an overrated Ohio State team for a share of the national championship (look, we all know the REAL champions are Boise State). This Urban Meyer fella wrangled himself the top recruiting class in nation. Everything is topped by the full-time prospect of Tim “Jesus” Tebow performing at quarterback. Can the Savior bring another championship to the Swamp? Will Meyer continue his domination of the other Florida schools? However, the most important question is…
…Will this man get the grass mowed in time for summer practices???
It has been three years since the Washington Husky fan base has had anything to look forward to for the upcoming season. Coming off of a 5-7 season that followed two 10-loss campaigns, coach Tyrone Willingham looks to bring the Husky football program back to respectability and their first bowl game since 2003. Will the Huskies be able to overcome a very tough schedule? Will a redshirt freshman QB be able to handle the pressure and lead the team to a winning record? Will anyone west of the Rockies care what the latte drinkers do in their mid-major conference?
Here we find the lone Harris Poll voter to rank Washington #1 in the 2007 Preseason Poll.
For years now, Virginia Tech has been considered a team who fails to live up to its potential. Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine, shall we?
2001 - 6-0 start, followed up by losses to Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and Miami. The season culminated in a rematch against Florida State in the Gator Bowl, which ended up having pretty much the same result as the first matchup.
2002 - 8-0 start, followed up by losing 4 out of their last 5 against Pitt, Syracuse, WVU, and Miami. Resulted in VT squeaking past a service academy in the San Francisco “Rice-a-roni” Bowl.
2003 - 6-0 start, followed up by losing 4 out of their last 6 against WVU, Pitt, BC, and Virginia. Resulted in the ridiculous shootout against Cal in which a missed field goal by Carter Worley cost them the game 52-49. The vaunted Virginia Virginia Tech defense at work.
2004 - Two losses against the post-season #1 and #2 teams in the country in their first and last games, but sandwiched nicely in-between was a loss to mediocre Chuck Amato-coached NC State. It’s a veritable sandwich of suck.
2005 - 8-0 start, followed up by losing to Miami. However, this still would have been saved as a good season if not for going to the ACC championship and blowing the game against one of the, if not the, worst Florida State team in recent memory. In their defense, FSU did go on to play one of the most hilariously inept BCS bowl games ever against Penn State.
2006 - 4-0 start, followed up by a loss to Georgia Tech that was 21-0 at the end of the first quarter, and another loss against Boston College, ruining the mystique of Virginia Tech’s “Thursday Night Supremacy”. They rebounded back to win the rest of their games, only to turn a 21-3 lead against Georgia in the Peach Chick-Fil-A Bowl at halftime into a 31-24 loss.
Will this year break the trend? Probably not. But let’s preview the team anyway.
A candid photo of offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring sharing a candy bar with his son.Read the rest of this entry »
Eighteen years ago, the biggest star in Camp Randall was Mike Leckrone, the University of Wisconsin’s band director. The legendary 5th Quarter was enough of an excuse for 30000 alumni and students to get drunk and watch a throttling by whichever Big 10 team was contractually obligated to make an appearance. Fed up with drunk alumni egging his house, Pat Richter calls then-Notre Dame defensive coordinator, Barry Alvarez, who leads the Badgers to an exciting 1-10 season. Then to two equally exciting 5-6 seasons, followed by a Rose Bowl win, which was also exciting.
Another defensive coordinator has taken the reigns. Bret Bielema, Barry’s defensive coordinator found the program in much better shape. Cruising to a 12-1 record, and getting rid of the dreaded Rule 3-2-5, Bielema’s quickly made a name for himself on the national stage. But, will he keep the ball rolling? Or will the losses of All-American tackle Joe Thomas and QB John Stocco’s 29-7 record be too much to overcome? Will Bret find true love in the arms of Vickie, or will Rachel steal him away yet again? Find out, in As the Football Turns!
July is a very antsy month in Columbus, Ohio, between the high temperatures and the realization that training camp is just a few short weeks away. Of course in Columbus college football never goes out of season, but at least at this point of the year there can be actual discussion of football rather than just musing over what-could-have-been the year before and spending lonely March evenings watching your well-worn DVD of the 2003 Fiesta Bowl (on Mute, of course).
If you think the Buckeyes’ failure in the BCS Championship game would dampen our spirits this season, you’re wrong. If anything, it makes Buckeye fans even more eager to get that taste of losing out of their mouths. Fortunately they open at home against the Fighting Penguins of Youngstown State. Morgan Freeman is gonna be pissed after this one.
Last season, the Cardinals overcame injuries to star QB Brian Brohm and RB Michael Bush to win the Big East and defeat ACC Champion Wake Forest in the Orange Bowl. Not that there weren’t bumps along the way. Many watched their slugfest with West Virginia, but the Cards proceeded to fall victim to a trap game in New Jersey, losing their undefeated record and a chance at a National Championship. More bad news was to come, as Head Coach Bobby Petrino announced his departure to coach the Atlanta Vicks.
Looking forward to 2007 is rather strange for Rutgers fans. For years, we have had to stubbornly insist that our team actually had fans, never mind that Greg Schiano was just the guy who could reverse the losing of the Terry Shea era. After slow but steady progress, 2006 would hopefully be another 8 win step in the right direction. However, with a little luck, and a lot of cliched coaching metaphors, those neophytes from New Brunswick enjoyed a breakthrough season for the ages. In 2006 the team captured the attention of the greater New York City area and, before Boise State stole their thunder, the nation.
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