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Michigan Announces Future Games with Utah, Colorado, and Oregon State
The Michigan Wolverines announced the completion of their 2014 and 2015 nonconference schedules on Wednesday. There are some familiar names on the docket, as well as several that Michigan fans don’t often have a chance to see, in person at least. The Wolverines will play a home-and-home series with Utah, now a member of the [...]
TweetRound One Goes to Ryan Lochte at Olympic Swim Trials
Ryan Lochte had never beaten Michael Phelps in the 400 IM. That is until Monday night. Lochte edged out the biggest name in swimming finishing a body length ahead of the guy who has 14 Olympic gold medals to his name (including two in the 400 IM) finishing in a time a 4:07.06 just ahead [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Iowa has Huge Recruiting Weekend
Less than two weeks ago, the Iowa Hawkeyes‘ recruiting class stood at eight members and the Hawkeyes hadn’t received any new verbal commitments in nearly a month. Fast forward nine days and Iowa’s 2013 class is nearly full after receiving seven new commitments with six of those coming over the past four days. The Hawks [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Baylor Reaping Benefits of 10 Win Season on Recruiting Trail
There’s little question the Baylor Bears have shown major improvements on the field since Art Briles took over as head coach prior to the 2008 season. If you’re in need of any evidence, look no further than last year’s 10 win season that also included the school’s first ever Heisman trophy winner. Winning 10 games [...]
TweetBig Ten Football APR Scores Looking Good
The NCAA released its latest round of APR scores on Thursday and as for how the Big Ten’s football teams fared, everything looks to be on the up and up. For those unfamiliar with the APR score, it stands for Academic Progress Rate and is intended to be a way to measure the eligibility and [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Top Penn State Recruit Adam Breneman Suffers Knee Injury
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania tight end, Adam Breneman, gave his verbal commitment to Penn State back in March despite having offers on the table from nearly every major college football program in the country. Alabama offered. So did Auburn, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida, Nebraska, and Florida State. Breneman’s commitment was a great sign for new [...]
TweetWho Spends the Most in the Big Ten on Football Recruiting?
Without looking, take a guess at who spends the most money on recruiting in the Big Ten. If you said Michigan, you’d be right on the mark. Not a huge surprise there. If you said Ohio State, however, you’d surprisingly be a ways off. While Michigan spent the most money scouring the country looking for [...]
TweetMichigan’s David Brandon Sees Another Round of Expansion
Conference expansion has once again dominated the offseason headlines in college football the past several months. Things have cooled off just a bit these last few days, however, as conferences and schools wait to find out exactly what playoff format will soon be adopted. Until more facts are known on that front (possibly by late [...]
TweetBig Ten to Distribute $284 Million for Fiscal 2011-12
On Monday’s conference call with the media, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany announced the league would distribute $284 million to its 12 teams at the end of the current fiscal year. Not bad, not bad at all. That is up from the $251.9 million it paid out to its 11 members for the 2010-11 fiscal [...]
TweetSEC Standing Strong on Playoff Stance
College football’s conference commissioners are set to gather in Chicago on June 20th with one rather important item on the meeting agenda; the future of college football’s playoff system. “We’re going to do a playoff, a four-team playoff, with the top four teams, and the semifinals in the bowl system and the championship (game) bid [...]
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