National Signing Day Open Thread
Fanblogs Football - 02/03/10
It's upon us! National Signing Day is here! It's like a whole season unto itself! Will anyone top Florida and Texas? Will upstart Auburn out-recruit national champion Alabama? Some folks put a lot of stock into recruiting and some don't. We'll have updates along...
Anti-Trust Review May Accelerate Playoff Debate
NCAA Football - 02/03/10
Political Football Handoff or Fumble? Yeah, yeah, I know. We had our obligatory post-season playoff discussion just last week. But no sooner are the last comments made on that thread than the US Justice Department finally answers Senator Orin Hatch's request to consider anti-trust...
Non-BCS Conferences to Receive Record Revenue From Last Year's Bowls
BCS Poll Football - 01/25/10
In an announcement that is likely to impress squat outside the BCS conferences, the AP is reporting that the BCS will pay out a record $24M to the non-BCS conferences in shared revenue from the BCS bowls earlier this month, up from $19.3M a...
Runaway Lane
Tennessee Football - 01/19/10
Shocker!!! Lane Kiffin Back to USC After Only One Year at Tennessee
USC Football - 01/12/10
Turning the CFB world on it's ear, USC announced late today that Lane Kiffin will be named their new head coach. This change comes only 14 months after Kiffin replaced long time Vol coach Phil Fulmer. Wringing his hands both literally and figuratively at...
Pete Carroll Resigns, With Probable Jump to the NFL
USC Football - 01/11/10
After rumours had been floating around all of last week, Pete Carroll resigned yesterday as HC of the USC Trojans, a position he had had for the last 9 years. It is expected that he will be named head coach of the Seattle Seahawks...
Alabama to display National Championship Trophy Today at...Wal-Mart?
Alabama Football - 01/09/10
That's right, Crimson Tide Fans...The University of Alabama will have the ADT Waterford Crystal Trophy on display at the Tuscaloosa Wal-Mart SuperCenter. In other news, the owners of People Of Wal-Mart have called their ISP & their hosting company to tell them that they might...
Final College Football Poll Results
AP Poll Football - 01/08/10
AP Top 25 RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Alabama (60) 14-0 1500 2 Texas 13-1 1399 3 Florida 13-1 1370 4 Boise State 14-0 1366 5 Ohio State 11-2 1224 6 TCU 12-1 1163 7 Iowa 11-2 1126 8 Cincinnati 12-1 1060 9 Penn...
The Real Story of How Alabama Got Twelve National Titles
Alabama Football - 01/07/10
Just in time for Alabama possibly winning it's eighth legitimate national championship, we have this article from The Birmingham News that finally answers the age old question of how Alabama came to claim 12 MNCs. It is a subject that many have speculated on...
BCS National Championship Game Thread
BCS Poll Football - 01/07/10
By popular demand, it's time to discuss the last game of the season, the BCS national championship game between Alabama and Texas. Fanblogs correspondant Bama Babe has boots on the ground in Pasadena and we've asked her to send in some pictures to post,...
Tommy Tuberville to Interview at Texas Tech
Texas Tech Football - 01/05/10
After many rumors and a mini-campaign for the job, former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville arrived in Lubbock today and will meet with Texas Tech officials Wednesday about the head coach position made available after the controversial firing of Mike Leach. Although interim coach Ruffin...
Orange Bowl Open Thread
Fanblogs Football - 01/05/10
Sorry for the dearth of material the last week. After all, I am just a scrub blogger and I did take a trip down to Tampa to watch my boys survive a never-say-die Northwestern team. Now that all is right in the world (except...
Texas Tech's Leach Suspended For Alamo Bowl
Texas Tech Football - 12/28/09
Mike Leach has been suspended from all duties as head coach for the Red Raiders while an investigation is pending from a complaint filed by a player and his family. Ruffin McNeill, the defensive coordinator, will replace Leach this Saturday night in the Alamo...
The Top 20 Most Valuable College Football Teams
NCAA Football - 12/28/09
For those of you familiar with Forbes magazine, they have been publishing annual valuations of all the professional sports teams for years, but for the last two, they've put together the value of the top college football teams as if they were a capitalized...
Breaking: Meyer not retiring; will take leave of absence
Florida Football - 12/27/09
Despite text messages from his wife saying there was "no chance" Urban Meyer would reconsider his shocking retirement announcement, apparently he has done exactly that. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Gators coach Urban Meyer will take a leave of absence for an indefinite amount of...
Urban Meyer leaving Florida; Nick Saban responds, "I will not be the next coach at Florida."
Florida Football - 12/26/09
In what's sure to be a shocker to most college football fans, Florida Coach Urban Meyer has announced that he will be stepping down for health reasons. He will coach the Gators through the Sugar Bowl, & he will remain in Gainesville, & also continue...
Fanblogs Christmas Open Thread
Fanblogs Football - 12/24/09
Tis that time of the season--gift buying and crappy bowl games. But we have had some good bowl games so far--if you've been watching them at all. The Utah-Cal game was pretty good last night, but upsets have abounded on the rest of them....
2009-2010 College Football Bowl Game Television Schedule
Bowl Games Football - 12/22/09
Despite what you may hear from skeptics, there's no better season in all of sports than college football bowl season and the complete television schedule for the bowl games is right here on Fanblogs, brought to you by BangTheBook.com. About our SponsorBangTheBook.com your #1 online...
Gators On Target For Anticlimactic Sugar Bowl Showing Like Alabama's Last Year?
Florida Football - 12/21/09
Sure this is Florida's winningest senior class ever. It will be legend Tim Tebow's last game in a Gator uniform. They will be playing in the Sugar bowl, a BCS contest, against upstart undefeated Cincinnati. Yea, I know, it's not Pasadena. Many Gators fans...
Texas Faculty Upset Over Mack Brown Pay Raise
Texas Football - 12/17/09
Last week, the university of Texas' regents decided to make Mack Brown the highest paid coach in college athletics by bumping his salary $2M a year to $5M total, running through 2016. This week, the Texas faculty council voted for a resolution declaring the...
Big Ten Considering Expansion Again?
Big10 Football - 12/15/09
Big 10 commissioner Jim Delaney has consistently said that conference expansion was a "back-burner issue". Now it appears that the conference will get more aggressive about finding a 12th member in order to qualify for a conference championship game. A conference official said this...
Bowl Predictions
Bowl Games Football - 12/14/09
And now, regular reader Foster Keats gives his predictions AND renames the various bowls to his own anti-establishment liking: It’s bowl season, my friends. Time to put those novels down, send the wives & kids to bed, and hunker down with non-stop football every...
Mark Ingram Wins Heisman
Alabama Football - 12/13/09
Marking the third straight year for a sophomore winning the Heisman Trophy, Alabama's Mark Ingram takes CFB's top honor in the closest balloting ever, beating out the 1985 race between Auburn's Bo Jackson and Iowa's Chuck Long. Ingram received 227 first place votes, barely...
Fanblogs Open Thread
Fanblogs Football - 12/13/09
It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas here at Fanblogs--very little CFB news. So time to come up with your own!...
Tennessee Recruiting Hostesses Trigger NCAA Investigation
Tennessee Football - 12/09/09
The New York Times revealed yesterday that the NCAA is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into recruiting practices by the University of Tennessee. Specifically, they concern the use of recruiting hostesses from the school's Orange Pride organization, an ambassador-like club directly affiliated with the university...
