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Archive for 'August,2009'

Simply The Best…

…is the name of Cal’s new web site promoting tailback Jahvid Best for the Heisman. It’s a rather straight-forward site with a very cool video interview of Best, who as usual comes across as nice and [...]

Buzzworthy Football Programs

Check out this link that ranks the top 25 programs with the most buzz on web social networks. One noteworthy exclusion:  Tennessee, which of course EVERYONE was supposed to be talking about thanks to Lane Kiffin’s [...]

Heisman Preview

Here’s what  some of the main Heisman contenders have to look forward to this week: Colt McCoy–His Longhorns take on Louisiana-Monroe.  This one should obviously be a laugher.  I doubt he plays past the third quarter, [...]

The First Round Up: And So It Begins

The race for the 75th Heisman is just about underway.  Here’s some items of note as we begin this year’s journey: —Looks like Jeff Demps is going to start at tailback for Florida against Charleston Southern.  [...]

Heisman Day At SI.com

All kinds of cool stories and features on the Heisman over at SI.com today. I’ll comment on some of the stuff there later. [...]

Is Tebow Already The Best Ever?

Stewart Mandel breaks it down. I think this is a subject that won’t be fully resolved until season’s end. I’m of the mind that Tebow will have a case to make for this, but I think that [...]

Swine Flu Heisman

I’m starting to read more and more about the swine flu affecting college football players (H/T: The Wiz).  Could this potentially alter the course of the Heisman race at some point?  Hmmm. [...]

Barkley Named USC Starter

I find it a curious decision, but USC has decided to go with true freshman Matt Barkley in its opener against San Jose State.  He’ll be the first true frosh to start a season opener at [...]

Mailbag

From a reader: What are your thoughts on the USC-Ohio St. game week 2?  Oddsmakers have made USC a slight favorite but I can’t get over the QB matchup in this one.  SC probably going to [...]

Jevan Snead’s Chances

Broken down over at the Ole Miss blog. I still say Snead’s shot at the Heisman begins and ends with Ole Miss winning the SEC.  If that doesn’t happen, it won’t matter what he does statistically.  But [...]

More on the South and The Heisman

It’s been a while since I’ve gotten into a good old-fashioned blog back-and-forth, but I thought I’d mix it up today with the nice fellows over at Georgia blog Get The Picture.  Naturally, they took offense at my reasoning [...]

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The South and the Heisman Trophy

Check out this story by Darren Everson of the Wall St. Journal on the South and the Heisman Trophy. The problem with the notion that Southern teams have somehow been ‘screwed’ out of the Heisman is that [...]

Heisman Pic of the Day

Ricky Williams, the 1998 winner, courtesy of SI’s Vault: [...]

Riley Named Cal Starter

California head coach Jeff Tedford announced Kevin Riley as the starting quarterback for the Golden Bears’ season-opener versus Maryland on September 5 during a post-practice session with media at Memorial Stadium on Monday. “Kevin Riley is [...]