East Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 10-3 (8-1) Marshall Thundering Herd 10-2 (6-2) Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 6-6 (4-4) Old Dominion Monarchs 6-6 (3-5) Florida Atlantic Owls 3-9 (2-6) Florida International Panthers 3-9 (2-6) Charlotte 49ers 1-11 (0-8) West Rice Owls 8-5 (7-2) Louisiana Tech Bulldogs 7-5 (5-3) Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles 4-8 (3-5) UTEP Miners 3-9 [...]
Atlantic Florida State Seminoles 9-4 (6-3) Over the past three years, the Florida State Seminoles have a combined record of 39-3 and thus they've once again established themselves as the most dominant team in the Atlantic Coast Conference. From 1992-2005, the Seminoles won or shared the ACC Title 12 times and after a bit of [...]
1. Ohio State Buckeyes Life has been good for the Ohio State Buckeyes under head football coach Urban Meyer. In three seasons under Meyer, the Buckeyes are 37-3 and they won the inaugural College Football Playoff. And thus Ohio State will enter the season as the defending national champions. But for the Buckeyes they will [...]
Jim Delany A few months ago Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany sent shock waves when he suggested that freshman should be ineligible to participate in football and men's basketball. Delany called for a "year of readiness" to the college lifestyle for incoming freshman. Delany was attempting to get other conference commissioners from [...]
Would it be the right move for the Big 12 Conference to add a conference title game?
It would be a slap in face if freshmen would be deemed ineligible to participate in collegiate athletics.
The landscape of college athletics has been changing since the 1970's as school have been switching their conference affiliations. But in the past few years, conference shifts have become so commonplace that some conference have ceased to exist altogether. The Southwest Conference ceased its operations in 1996 while the Big East and Western Athletic Conferences [...]
Urban Meyer In 2005, Urban Meyer began his reign as the head football coach of the University of Florida Gators and when he arrived in Gainesville he was looked at as a savior. In the three seasons before Meyer at Florida when Ron Zook was the head football coach there, the Gators were [...]
The Big 12 Conference saw two of their schools passed over for the College Football Playoff as not having a conference title game hurt them.
When the NCAA levied sanctions against the Penn State Nittany Lions football program in 2012, there wasn't much joy in Happy Valley. Penn State had to pay $60 million in fines to the NCAA along with a reduction of football scholarships and a four-year bowl ban in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky Scandal. Penn [...]