Heismanpundit

Bill Curry of ESPN.com goes against the grain in picking USC to fall short of its third consecutive national title.
To give Curry credit, his is probably the most well-thought-out piece on why USC may not win again. Most others who say so merely resort to vague generalities and can’t support their stand with specific [...]

Last week, we asked bloggers to describe their typical college football Saturday, among other things.
Our top prize for best recitation of the activities of that Holy Day goes to Michigan bloggers Straight Banging.
An excerpt:

I have watched a lot of Michigan football games, and not once have I avoided feeling chills as the team jumps up [...]

One of the tools I use to write this blog is Google Alerts. With this tool, I can get links to stories on any number of college football players.
Some players get more stories than others. Google doesn’t always get too precise, so sometimes a story about Drew Rosenhaus gets included in the search [...]

While it’s Paul Thompson at OU and Erik Ainge at Tennessee, California coach Jeff Tedford announced today that redshirt freshman Nate Longshore has won the Bears’ starting quarterback job.
Does anyone care to bet that either Longshore or his backup (for now) Josephy Ayoob won’t turn into a very good college quarterback?
After all, the last couple [...]

Here’s the link to my appearance yesterday on AOL.com’s Sports Blogger Roundup where I talked about the Heisman race.

Fresh off being named to the prestigious Heismanpundit preseason All-American squad, LaMarr Woodley of Michigan appears in this story in the Ann Arbor News.
Seems the talented junior end has gotten a lot stronger than last year, when he was Michigan’s best defender and hardest hitter.
Among Woodley’s notable smackdowns last fall was the blow he dealt [...]

Reggie Bush is No. 1 on the Heismanpundit Preseason Top 10 Candidate List for a lot of reasons. One big factor is his all-around ability, which gives him a chance to make an impact on a game in so many ways.
But now, according to the Daily Trojan, he’s the third-string punter for the Trojans.

Bush [...]

Here’s the link to my appearance yesterday on AOL.com’s Sports Blogger Roundup where I talked about the Heisman race.

While we think OU did the right thing in picking Paul Thompson as its starting quarterback, it looks like Tennessee is going with the wrong guy in picking Erik Ainge over Rick Clausen.
From what we saw last year, Clausen is just a better quarterback than Ainge, who nonetheless did some good things as a freshman. [...]

It’s officially game week, so it’s time to lay down a marker as to who we think will be the best players in the country this year.
This is our second annual All-American team. It’s a list comprised of athletes we think will be widely considered the best in the country by season’s end.
Per our [...]