2010 Record: (4-8, 3-5 in MAC)
Head Coach: Pete Lembo (1st year at BSU, 79-36 All-Time)
Last Bowl Game: 2008 Season GMAC Bowl: lost to Tulsa 45-13
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Schedule
9/3: Indiana
9/10: at South Florida
9/17: Buffalo (2010 result: won 20-3)
9/24: Army (2009 result: lost 24-17)
10/1: at Oklahoma
no commentsEach week during the off-season we will be doing this feature that will simply be called "This Week In College Football". We will cover the biggest news and stories of the past week and give some opinions and analysis. In addition to covering the weekly happenings we also have started our Pre-Season Previews and we have several up already. The five three most read so far are Central Michigan, Troy, Houston, Wyoming and FAU. There was a lot going on this week so let's go ahead and get right to what happened this week in college football:
ANOTHER UNTIMELY DEATH ROCKS THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL WORLD
It was just two weeks ago when the Alabama Crimson Tide and the sports world lost OL Aaron Douglas. Now it's the Oklahoma Sooners and the college football world that are mourning the loss of rising senior Austin Box. Box was a young man who was the starting MLB at Oklahoma, had just graduated and seemed to have his whole life in front of him. An autopsy is still to be done but an overdose on pain pills is what most are pointing to as the cause. This is a horrible tragedy. The only thing I will add is that college football coaches need to get their players together and have a serious discussion about the use of drugs (legal and illegal) and how they can affect them. This is a very serious issue and it is the coaches and administrators responsibility to step in and help to educate these young men before we see more of this happening.
BOBBY PETRINO KICKS PLAYERS TO THE CURB AND SIGNS A CONTRACT EXTENSION
Alright Arkansas fans, it's time to talk Petrino. In case you don't remember I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan that for some reason still believes that Petrino left the Falcons the wrong way (you know the whole tell your owner you are in it for the long run then bolt town during the season in the middle of the night without telling your players or coaches you are taking another job). It was a big week for Petrino. Petrino is an open-proponent of over-signing, which as you should know is signing more players than you have room for. Petrino gets his class down to the NCAA limits by using spring evaluations to decide who gets their scholarships renewed and who gets to look for a new home to play college football. Recently WR Lance Ray, K Eddie Camara, LB Austin Moss, TE Ryan Calendar, and OL Cam Feldt have all been "granted their release" from the Arkansas program. Petrino says that oversigning is fine as long as coaches are forth-right about it. Hmmmm...Bobby Petrino being forth-right about something. I'd peg that at about 50%. In his defense he says "I don't see it as a bad thing unless you're being dishonest or waiting until the last minute, which eliminates their visit opportunities with other schools." The main question I have is when are the players told about the evaluations? Is it during the initial recruiting practice before they are on campus or after they get on campus and have been in the program? That's a huge difference to me. If Petrino is going to run his program like this then he must be up front with the recruits before he brings them in. Another point is that if all coaches ran their programs like Petrino and oversigned then their wouldn't be anywhere for them to go after they were released. Petrino is taking advantage of a flawed system and that needs to be fixed by the NCAA. To be fair and equal about Petrino, since I know I will get some love mail from the razorback faithful, here is another view of the razorbacks "oversigning" from a pro-Arkansas source.
2010 Record: (7-7, 6-2 in C-USA)
Head Coach: June Jones (92-64, 16-23 at SMU)
Last Bowl Game: 2010 Armed Bowl Bowl: lost to Army 16-14
CFBZ SMU Links
College Football Roundtable: Conference USA Edition
Schedule
9/4: at Texas A&M
9/10: UTEP (2010 result: lost 28-14)
9/17: Northwestern State
9/24: at Memphis
9/30: at TCU (2010 result: lost 41-24)
no comments2010 Record: (5-7, 4-4 in Sun Belt)
Head Coach: Todd Berry (5-7 at ULM, 34-67 All-Time)
Schedule
9/3: at FSU
9/10: Grambling State
9/17: at TCU
9/24: at Iowa
no comments2010 Record: (8-5, 5-3 in C-USA)
Head Coach: Larry Fedora (22-17, 14-10 in C-USA)
Last Bowl Game: 2010 Beef O'Brady's Bowl Bowl: lost to Louisville 31-28
CFBZ Southern Miss Links
College Football Roundtable: Conference USA Edition
College Football Roundtable: March 4th Edition
Schedule
9/3: Louisiana Tech (2010 result: won 13-12)
9/10: at Marshall
9/17: Southeastern Louisiana
9/24: at Virginia (2009 result: won 37-34)
2010 Record: (8-5, 7-1 in MAC)
Head Coach: Tim Beckman (13-12 overall, 10-6 in the MAC)
Last Bowl Game: 2010 Little Caesars Bowl: lost to FIU 34-32
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Schedule
9/1: New Hampshire
9/10: at Ohio State (2009 result: lost 38-0)
9/17: Boise State (2010 result: lost 57-14)
9/24: at Syracuse
10/1: at Temple (2009 result: lost 40-24)
10/8: Eastern Michigan (2010 result: won 42-7)
no comments2010 Record: (6-7, 5-3 in Sun Belt)
Head Coach: Rick Stockstill (33-30, 25-12 in Sun Belt)
Last Bowl Game: 2010 Season GoDaddy.com Bowl: lost to Miami (OH) 35-21
Schedule
9/3: at Purdue
9/10: Georgia Tech (2010 result: lost 42-14)
9/24: at Troy (2010 result: lost 42-13)
10/1: Memphis (2010 result: lost 24-17)
no comments2010 Record: (8-5, 6-2 in Sun Belt)
Head Coach: Larry Blakeney (161-82-1 All-Time)
Last Bowl Game: 2010 Season New Orleans Bowl: beat Ohio 48-21
Schedule
9/3: at Clemson
9/17: at Arkansas
9/24: Middle Tennessee (2010 result: won 42-13)
10/1: UAB (2010 result: lost 34-33)
no commentsSo far in our journey to the 2011/2012 National Championship Game we've ventured into the SEC six times, the Big 12 four times and we've visited the ACC, Big East, Pac-12 and Mountain West once. So where is the Big Ten? The Big Ten has been absent from the last three Championship Games but Ohio State made the game in 2006 and 2007. I think there are three teams in the Big Ten that have an outside chance at getting to the big game this year. They are Nebraska, Ohio State and Wisconsin. Ohio State by virtue of their talent, Wisconsin by virtue of their style and Nebraska by virtue of their defense and schedule. The seventh game we feature in this series is when Ohio State goes on the road to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Ohio State Buckeyes at Nebraska Cornhuskers
When: October 8th
Where: Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska
This will be one of the biggest games in the Big Ten this year and could have an impact on the National landscape. Of course, if Ohio State is pelted by the NCAA and banned from the post-season and Nebraska falls to Wisconsin on October 1st then this game will take a much different meaning. But let's pretend for a minute that the NCAA drags it's feet and Nebraska pulls off a victory at Wisconsin. If Ohio State survives it's early tussles with the Hurricanes and the Spartans then we've got a meeting of two historic teams that will play a game of smash-mouth football.
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