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So far in the “Unsolved Mysteries” segments I’ve covered teams from the Big 10, Big 12, SEC, ACC, and PAC-10.  I’d like to close by featuring a team from the Big East: South Florida.  Right now the big story surrounding the university is whether or not head coach Jim Leavitt physically assaulted a player.  But […]

If you’re a big college football fan, chances are you were watching the first game of the season, a Thursday night match-up between Boise State and Oregon on the blue turf.  It became famous not so much for the beat-down the Broncos put on the Ducks but for the post-game incident where Legarrette Blount punched […]

College bowl season officially starts tomorrow, which means the football season is that much closer to being over.  Only 34 games left.  Some of them feature some great match-ups between conferences, something we’re seeing less and less of during the regular season due to teams not wanting to hurt their BCS chances.
But to be honest, […]

 Dictionary.com defines swagger as “to boast or brag noisily.”  But this is one of those cases where I think Urban Dictionary would be better suited to explain things.  Among the 40-odd definitions it gives for the word, one says “to obtain instant attention”; “to captivate others in a negative or positive way.”
And I think that […]

Two former offensive coordinators at USC (who were complained about in the past but would be welcomed back with open arms right now) were hired as head coaches prior to this season.  One was Washington’s Steve Sarkisian.  The Huskies didn’t win a game last season, so any improvement would be good and there was literally […]

Nebraska wouldn’t have been a BCS Buster in the traditional sense, but their appearance in the Fiesta Bowl would have been a surprise to all.  And they were only one second away from doing it by defeating #2 Texas.  This, despite the fact that their offense set an ALL-TIME low for total yards.  Their QBs […]

Now that the regular college football season is officially over, we’re in that lull before bowl games begin.  Sure, those start Saturday, but that’s a long five days.  So until then, I’d like to spend some time addressing questions that popped into my mind during the year that I never got around to talking about.
Your […]

Tomorrow a football player will be awarded a small statue of a man holding a football and pushing at an invisible defender.  It’s not a great indicator of how someone will do in the pros, but it’s not designed to be.  It’s also not so much of an indicator of how well someone did during […]