Atlantic Y-Florida State Seminoles 11-2 (9-0) In seven years as the head football coach of the Florida State Seminoles, Jimbo Fisher has been able to build off of the success that his predecessor Bobby Bowden was able to achieve. Fisher is 78-17 as a head coach, while the Seminoles have finished in the top 25 [...]
East X-Miami (Ohio) Redhawks 7-6 (6-3) X-Bowling Green Falcons 6-6 (5-3) X-Ohio Bobcats 6-6 (3-5) Akron Zips 3-9 (2-6) Buffalo Bulls 2-10 (1-7) Kent State Golden Flashes 1-11 (0-8) West Y-Toledo Rockets 10-3 (7-2) X-Western Michigan Broncos 8-4 (6-2) X-Central Michigan Chippewas 6-6 (5-3) Northern Illinois Huskies 5-7 (4-4) Eastern Michigan Eagles 4-8 (3-5) Ball [...]
Mountain Y-Boise State Broncos 9-3 (7-1) Through the first seven games of the 2016 college football season, the Boise State Broncos appeared to be the team to beat in the Mountain West Conference, while also having a chance to make a New Year's Six bowl game. The Broncos were 7-0, but they would lose two [...]
X-BYU Cougars 9-4 After the departure of longtime head football coach Bronco Mendenhall who moved on to become the head football coach of the Virginia Cavaliers, the BYU Cougars were expected to take a step backwards in 2016. But in typical BYU fashion they were able to rise to the occasion and prove their detractors [...]
Y-Oklahoma State Cowboys 12-1 (9-1) When Bob Stoops shocked the college football world by retiring as the head football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners this past June, there was sigh of relief that was released in Stillwater from the folks who support the Oklahoma State Cowboys. In 18 years as the head football coach at [...]
East Y-Georgia Bulldogs 11-2 (7-2) Consistency has been the name of the game for the Georgia Bulldogs. The Bulldogs have made a bowl game in each of the last 20 years, while winning a pair of Southeastern Conference Championships. However as consistent as the Dawgs have been, they've never been able to take that next [...]
X-Appalachian State Mountaineers 10-2 (7-1) Y-Arkansas State Red Wolves 7-5 (6-2) Y-Troy Trojans 8-4 (6-2) Y-Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns 6-6 (5-3) South Alabama Jaguars 5-7 (4-4) Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 5-7 (3-5) Georgia Southern Panthers 4-8 (2-6) Idaho Vandals 4-8 (2-6) Texas State Bobcats 2-10 (1-7) Louisiana-Monroe Hawks 1-11 (1-7) New Mexico State Aggies 1-11 (1-7) Georgia [...]
1. Alabama Crimson Tide The 2016 college football season saw the Alabama Crimson Tide fall just short of winning their second consecutive national championship, but don't expect this team to be falling off of the map anytime soon. The Tide must replace seven starters from a defense that was the top ranked unit in the [...]
Hugh Freeze When Hugh Freeze was named as the head football coach of the Mississippi Rebels in 2012, he was tasked with turning around the fortunes of a program that had sunk to the bottom of the Southeastern Conference. In 2011, Ole Miss went 2-10 which led to the termination of Houston Nutt [...]
When the Big 12 Conference was formed in 1996, it immediately became an elitist league for college football with the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Colorado Buffaloes, and Oklahoma leaving the Big 8 Conference, while the Texas Longhorns left the Southwest Conference to help form the new league. From the first day of existence, the Big 12 provided [...]