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Oregon certainly didn’t go into Corvallis on Saturday with any other agenda other than to knock the rival Beavers around a bit in the state's Civil War. Of course, dethroning Oregon State from Pac-10 champion-elect in a 65-38 rout was just the glaze on top of the doughn ...

During the 2008 college football season, the Auburn Tigers posted a dismal 5-7 record. Worse, they were 2-6 in the SEC. In other words, this was a terrible year for a rather talented club, and the blame for such a thing must always fall on the head football coach first ...

One thing’s for certain: Beating the South Carolina Gamecocks has job implications at Clemson. Just as it saved ex-coach Tommy Bowden’s job countless times, Saturday’s dominant 31-14 Tiger win over the hated instate rival South Carolina may very well give interim skipp ...

Goodbye to Sylvester Croom: Five years ago, the Mississippi State Bulldogs made a good move in hiring Croom, the first African-American SEC head coach, to try and guide their team to a winning future. Though Croom’s bunch took quite a negative turn this season which pr ...

No matter how the fallout from the firing of Syracuse University football coach Greg Robinson eventually settles out, chances are offensive coordinator Mitch Browning will land on his feet. Somewhere. A competition for Assistant of the Year among Big East coaches could ...

Clemson will likely announce a new head coach next week for the first time in forever. While former coach Tommy Bowden never won a title of any kind at Clemson in 10 years, he put the Tigers on a rickety perch, as the program is poised to either win ACC titles now or pl ...

Just when the Mountain West Conference was gaining some serious cred, three of its head coaches are being replaced…New Mexico’s Rocky Long stepped down on his own, citing that he thought the Lobo program needed a new direction. Wyoming gave Joe Glenn the boot after six ...

The Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn on Saturday not only will feature teams going in opposite directions, but coaches doing the same. Alabama’s Nick Saban has become the darling of Tuscaloosa as the second coming of “The Bear” as in Paul “Bear” Bryant. If he loses ...

Ole Miss is making waves: On Saturday, the Rebels smoked the LSU Tigers 31-13. So Houston Nutt leaves Arkansas under a lot of heat, arrives in Oxford, and manages to score victories over the Florida Gators and LSU in his first season at the helm. Talk about a Cinderel ...

Texas survived the BCS poll. If Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma bring home victories this weekend, the trio will tie for the Big XII lead with 7-1 records. In that case, the right to play in the Big XII title match belongs to the school with the highest BCS ranking. P ...

Last week, a main theme centering on Clemson’s offense was its supposed improved after the Tigers' blowout win over Duke. However, this past weekend's performance against Virginia in a 13-3 win showed that Clemson's 'O' still has a long way to go. Clemson struggled to ...

Oregon entered this college football season with not one, not two but three Jim Thorpe Award nominees in Patrick Chung, Walter Thurmond III and Jairus Byrd. Somehow, though, the Ducks' pass defense is 105th in the nation, ranked last in the Pac-10. With all that suppos ...

Utah 48, BYU 24 BYU team grade: C-plus You would think that with a score of 48-24 in favor of the Utes, BYU’s team grade would be worse, but were it not for Max Hall’s fumble and five interceptions Saturday, the Cougars very likely would have won. Four of Hall’s six t ...

Well, it’s here. Just like most of us envisioned three months ago. The BYU Cougars and the Utah Utes are heading into the final game of the regular season with the MWC title on the line and a potential BCS invitation looming on the horizon. Never before in the history o ...

To most college football fans, including Barack Obama, the title of this article is blasphemy. It is the equivalent of bringing White Castle to a fine steakhouse. It is bringing your 1998 Geo Metro to a classic car show. It is a title that is not supposed to exist. ...

There is no other sport like college football in its potential for fan disappointment. All team sports wend their way toward a single champion at the end of the season, but most of them allow a margin for error. A college basketball team can start off poorly, recover t ...

Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp was recently named the successor to Mack Brown as the Longhorns head coach when the latter decides to retire. The move shows the kind of confidence that the program has in Muschamp, its fiery assistant. When Muschamp left his D ...

Common football theory suggests that the team that wins the turnover battle will win the game. With ACC front-runners Maryland and Miami having negative turnover margins this season, perhaps some adjustments need to be made to the hypothesis. It doesn’t do a team any ...

Like a dagger to the heart, many Clemson fans were a bit despondent earlier this week over news that Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp signed a coach-in-waiting deal with the Longhorns. This effectively took him out of the head coaching prospect pool for not onl ...

Confirmed from reliable sources, Michigan freshman running back Sam McGuffie will not be playing against Ohio State this weekend and will transfer to another university. McGuffie will be home this weekend in Cypress, Texas, with family to attend a funeral, but lack of ...