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Adding post-season bowl game with SEC a brilliant move by Big XII
This time last season, college football fans and media were writing off the Big XII conference as all but dead and gone. In just two years, the conference lost four schools to other conferences; the Nebraska Cornhuskers ran off to the Big 10 and the Colorado Buffaloes, perhaps afraid of being left out, left for [...]
TweetWest Virginia to Open 2014 Season Against Alabama
How does Dana Holgorsen’s offense meeting up with Nick Saban’s defense sound? You can now put it on the calendar. West Virginia and Alabama will meet to kick off the 2014 season in Atlanta as part of the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game on August 30th. It will be the first ever meetings between the two schools [...]
TweetAround College Football: Top Stories From May 17th
West Virginia‘s athletic department mired through a year of forcing their way out of the Big East to join the Big 12 and then listened to rumors that the man who led that transition might be wanted in Palo Alto. Problem solved as Oliver Luck intends to remain the athletic director in Morgantown rather than [...]
TweetAround College Football: May 16th’s Top Stories
Police breaking up college parties happens daily and students being arrested does as well so when another athlete mouths off to an officer, it’s not breaking news. What is news is when a charge of “intimidation” is dropped on a linebacker for telling the cops slapping handcuffs on him, “my people will get you.” That’s [...]
TweetAround College Football: The Top Stories Of The Day
As conference commissioners and Notre Dame‘s athletic director continue their clandestine meetings throughout the summer, college football‘s four-team playoff is starting to take shape. And it doesn’t seem likely to include campus semifinal games. That’s courtesy of Michigan State’s athletic director Mark Hollis and a conclusion that seemed inevitable. Like everything else related to college [...]
TweetFlorida State University to Big 12 Rumors Beginning to Gain Credence
We’ve been hearing the rumors and whispers for months…Florida State University is thinking of abandoning the ACC for a move to the Big 12. Until recently, these rumors were quickly dismissed by most in the know, but now a statement from Florida State Board of Trustees chairman Andy Haggard has given these tales a little [...]
TweetFormer Nebraska RB Aaron Green Headed to TCU
Former Nebraska running back Aaron Green said two weeks ago he planned to transfer from Nebraska to be closer to home and play in a system he felt better fit his skill set. Mission accomplished on at least one of his objectives. Green announced via twitter on Friday he has decided to finish his career [...]
TweetCould the Big 12 Add Florida State University as a Member School?
Recent rumblings in the media suggest the Florida State Seminoles may be considering a move to the Big 12 Conference, assuming, of course, there is mutual interest from new Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby and his staff as they continue the push back to 12 teams. The previous party line under interim commissioner Chuck Neinas [...]
TweetFour Oklahoma Sooner Football Players Suspended
Four members of the Oklahoma Sooners football program have been suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules. The players in question are three wide receivers: Jaz Reynolds , Trey Franks, and Kameel Jackson. Defensive back Quentin Hayes is the fourth member of the program to be suspended. Reynolds, a junior wide receiver, was expected [...]
TweetACC-ESPN Television Deal Won’t End Realignment Rumors
Completing a 15-year, $3.6 billion television deal with ESPN that pays each member school in the ACC $17 million annually should be cause for celebration, but even at those figures, it won’t quell the sentiment that the conference heavyweights have wandering eyes. By signing away their Tier 1, 2 and 3 rights, ACC institutions have [...]
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