The moment you all have been waiting for is finally here! Kickoff! No more talk of lawsuits, arrest reports, or players hurting their ankles. We can finally talk football, and we may have been hoping for a few upsets today — but nothing really came as a shock. Let’s get right into the Top-25 to get caught up on this week’s …
College Football Nation: Rutgers Knows How to Party and Eastern Michigan Sees Gray
We are fewer than four weeks away from kickoff. Honestly, I am going to start grilling just so I can be ready for kickoff. Week 1 will be here before we know it, and we will have some amazing match-ups to look forward to. Even though no actual football games are going on yet, the football news is just pouring in. You have …
College Football Nation: It Pays to Cheat and “Roll Tide” Officer
Finally some more news to talk about thanks to the PAC-12, ACC, and BIG-12 all stepping up to the plate and holding their media days. We have commissioners telling us cheating is okay, coaches saying it is okay to steal and so much more. It was an eventful week. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby fired off at the NCAA …
College Football Nation: Bret Bielema Likes Big Butts and NCAA Decision Awaits
Media days are upon us. Of course, if you look at the news feed you will think that the SEC is the only conference to have one of them. Media day is the chance for coaches and players to answer a few questions and give fans something to look forward to in the fall. Sometimes you might even get a …
Oregon Football — What’s the ‘BIG’ Deal?
A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson Zach Okun isn’t the future of Oregon football — he’s the now. All 6’4″, 315 pounds of him. The Newbury Park, California, high school junior decided to end his recruitment process almost a year in advance of national signing day for the Class of 2015. In the time …
College Football Nation: Jameis Winston Staying Put and Nut Free Northwestern
In other news, the NCAA (court) trials are still making headlines. It looks like the NCAA’s chances took a huge blow when Jim Delany took the stand and pretty much ran wild with his ideas and backed up the plaintiff’s case. Right now the NCAA is just getting hammered with so many witnesses against them. Both this week and next, the NCAA …
College Football Nation: BIG 12 Likes 10 and the Joker is Out
If you are a soccer fan then you are just about in heaven right now. You will have your next couple weeks occupied and not realize all the college football action is happening in court rooms and police reports. I will put in my two cents about the World Cup and the NBA playoffs since that is really all there …
College Football Nation: O’Bannon v NCAA Begins and Auburn is All In
We might not have football games to enjoy, but get ready to tune into the court room as your new gridiron this week. O’Bannon v NCAA begins this coming week and is about to shake up college sports as we have never seen before. Andy Staples was kind enough to go over the Fact vs Fiction about the lawsuit …
College Football Nation: NCAA on Trial and Auburn’s Paint Job
As this off season drags on, we really have only the Conference Media days to keep us busy along with the NCAA going to court against everyone. The NCAA will be on trial for five different cases in the upcoming months. All cases will change the college football world dramatically, if won. With all this going on, the SEC …
College Football Nation: Thanks to Those Who Serve Our Country and ‘Free Soda University’
This weekend we will take a moment to thank our troops and all those who serve. Thanks to them, I am able to write this article. Thanks to them, you can read, comment, and argue about it all day on message boards about why the Pac-12 is the best conference … not the SEC! So, thanks to the American troops …
College Football Nation: Nick Saban Believes He IS College Football and the Big 12 is Eyeing More
Sometimes you have to just love the off-season, where the media tries to turn any little quote into a major breaking story. You have to be glad for that, since there is no actual football being played. Just ask Coach Nick Saban at the University of Alabama. As this off-season progresses I will slowly try to change my format for …
College Football Nation: The Vote and Penn State is Breaking Bad
When all you have to talk about from the past week of action is people arguing over uniforms, coaches trolling schools, and players apologizing for trash talk … then it’s a slow week. We did have one big thing, though, with Northwestern’s football players taking a private vote about whether or not to unionize. That story will be the main talking point …
