THE Play

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Just in case you have never seen THE PLAY, click below. One thing to note is how amazing the drive led by John Elway was to put Stanford ahead. Faced with a fourth and 17 on the Stanford 13-yard line, Elway hits his receiver for a 29-yard gain. He eventually leads the Cardinal to what [...]

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The Round Up

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Some odds and ends…. –An NFC scout talks in circles about Brady Quinn to Yahoo’s Charles Robinson, comparing him to–of all players–Kyle Orton. Some people are going to look at his production, with the field all spread out, and if they don’t like his arm, they’re going to say there’s inflation. Going into [his senior [...]

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The Blog Family Tree

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CFR has a creative post that fleshes out the college football blog family tree. In the sport of kings—thoroughbred horseracing—the majority of, if not all modern horses can trace their origin to just three ancestors. They are the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk. Thanks to superior qualities within those horses (speed, [...]

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Fouts Moves To Play By Play

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USA Today’s Michael Hiestand talks college football in his latest sports television column. The big news? Dan Fouts will become a play-by-play announcer after 19 years as an analyst. It’s all part of a big shakeup at ABC following the retirement of Keith Jackson and the loss of Lynn Swann and Aaron Taylor to other [...]

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The Case Against Eloping

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…you won’t get to have a cake like this: The press box has a creamy filling Wedding cakes modeled on college football stadiums…I think there could be a market for it–even outside of Texas.

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The Top Plays Of All Time

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Sports Illustrated lists its top 15 plays in college football history in its photo gallery today. The magazine’s No. 1 play? It’s the ‘Bush Push’ from last year’s USC-Notre Dame game. I have to say that I am hard pressed to find a better play than THE PLAY from the 1982 Cal-Stanford game, though. I [...]

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Here’s the third in an ongoing series by HP that will look at the top players in the country at some of the key positions. So far, we’ve broken down the running backs and quarterbacks. This week, we’ll take a look at the receivers, all of whom measure at least 6-3 in height. The era [...]

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The Round Up

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What’s happening…. –CFR has has this well-written piece on programs in trouble. His point: Most top programs have some bad guys in it and their issues will sometimes come to light. I don’t find it noteworthy that some schools have ‘different’ reactions to problems in their football programs. Those reactions themselves are to the incidences [...]

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Maisel’s Top 25

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Ivan Maisel of ESPN gives his post-spring top 25 here. Some surprises: Oklahoma No. 2, FSU No. 5 and Clemson No. 11.

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Troy Smith, The Challenger

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Dennis Dodd of CBS Sportsline tabs Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith as the main challenger to Brady Quinn for the Heisman. I like Smith–he’ll probably be No. 3 on my list heading into the fall–but I still think people are making a mistake to overlook Adrian Peterson. One issue Smith will have to deal with [...]

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