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With offensive tackles Chris Hairston and Landon Walker coming back, the Clemson Tigers would seemingly be set up for a good year at a very important position. But if you look closely enough, you'll come to realize that only seniors Corey Lambert and Jamarcus Grant are ...

The Clemson Tigers football team has not lived up to expectations over the past several seasons. There has been no questioning their talent. In fact, last season they were considered a very strong team before once again falling far short of their potential. Under suc ...

With all the talk on how well the Auburn Tigers and new head football coach Gene Chizik are doing when it comes to recruiting, the fact that they're also losing players isn't gaining as many headlines. Earlier this season, Tray Blackmon, Chris Slaughter, Raven Gray and ...

College football season starts in under 70 days; so, unless you’re in a lot of trouble, the depth charts are somewhat set. The final analysis of each position must be completed so that we can see how overly optimistic we are about our teams’ chances. Until Western Mic ...

At the University of Texas, free soft drinks for employees have disappeared. Printers often sit silently, and thermostats register temperatures on the fringe of the comfort zone. However, these cost-cutting measures signal just the tip of the iceberg. Although Longho ...

Auburn Tigers football fans are a highly dedicated bunch and deservedly so. After all, the Tigers have a rich history that includes some great players having suited up for them. Moreover, they've had clear success in the toughest football conference in the land, the S ...

The North Carolina Tar Heels featured one of the most potent wide receiver corps in the ACC in 2008. Even with starting quarterback T.J. Yates missing half the season with an injury, the passing game hardly dipped. The opportunity to throw to Hakeem Nicks, Brandon Tat ...

In order to get highly touted high school football prospects to commit to your school, it usually takes the possibility of early playing time. Not a promise to start, mind you, but the promise of a chance at starting. That said, we all know few freshmen, no matter how ...

Most college football experts will tell you that claiming victory in the recruiting battle in your state is important if you want to field a team capable of winning conference championships. Do all teams subscribe to that philosophy? No. Nevertheless, enough do that ...

John Currie made the right first move. But Kansas State donors won’t fill the athletic coffers until Bill Snyder puts a winning football team on the football field Last week, the Wildcat athletic director toured the Sunflower State and came clean with KSU fans regardi ...

For the past couple of college football seasons, the Auburn Tigers have just not looked like themselves. First, the running game hasn't been as stellar as it usually is. Part of the problem has been an almost complete lack of passing ability that has allowed defenses ...

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are going to run the ball. A lot. Head coach Paul Johnson isn’t afraid to tell anyone the game plan because all his opponents already know what’s coming. And yet, they often can’t stop it. Georgia Tech amassed the fourth-best rushing ...

This time of year in college football, there's little to write about when it comes to the upcoming season. So, recruiting often becomes the rave. Such is the case with the Clemson Tigers, obviously barring a desire to speak of the quarterback situation. Not this time ...

As college football recruits face the increasing loss of scholarship offers because of off-the-field transgressions, the criminals and miscreants of the game can take heart in the fact that Mississippi head coach Houston Nutt will never turn them away. As everyone know ...

Joe Paterno was kidding, right? "Everybody else is playing playoffs on television," the Penn State football coach said last month. "You never see a Big Ten team mentioned. So I think that's a handicap. "I've tried to talk to the Big Ten people about, 'Let's get a 12 ...

At Texas A&M, political football has supplanted the gridiron variety. After only 18 months on the job, Aggie president Elsa Murano resigned under pressure on Sunday. Her recent revelations about athletic debt may eventually cost head football coach Mike Sherman his jo ...

We tend to think of defensive and offensive players on a football team as apples and oranges. At the University of Cincinnati, though, they're more like mixed fruit. After winning the Big East title last year, Bearcat coach Brian Kelly found himself with a surplus of g ...

Depending on whom you talk to, playing a rough nonconference schedule in college football either helps your BCS chances immensely or makes them DOA before the meat and potatoes of the season even starts. For instance, if you speak with Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, t ...

As embarrassing as it was for Alabama to run afoul of the NCAA, it could have been worse. The Crimson Tide could have lost scholarships instead of past victories. It also could have been banned from postseason play. Both penalties had been imposed before, although neit ...

Last season, Clemson wide receiver Jacoby Ford caught 55 passes for 710 yards and four touchdowns, which was a major improvement over his 2006 (16 grabs, two scores) and 2007 (17 catches, four TDs) campaigns. Ford capped off a great year by pulling in five passes for 1 ...