FoxBusiness reports:
“PLANO, Texas, Aug 20, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Dr Pepper is kicking off the college football season by going back to school — literally. A long-time supporter of college football, Dr Pepper has joined forces with Heisman trophy winner and College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Doug Flutie to give students around the country [...]
2008 College Football Preview
By Anthony Stalter
With the amount of turnover most college football programs face from year to year, it doesn’t make much sense to try and figure out which program is better than the next. So what college football preseason polls essentially convey is …(Google Alert)
Pretty cool!
You can view, print, download and subscribe (RSS) to helmet schedules for any FBS (I-A) or FCS (I-AA) school.
http://statsheet.com/cfb/schedules
NBCSports.com reports…
“NCAA bans horse-collar tackles in football - Wire Services …
Aug 20, 2008 … The NCAA banned the horse-collar tackle from college football. Following the lead of the NFL and acting on a proposal made by its Football …”
For other info or commentary on the ruling try a Google Search.
Baltimoresun.com’s Matt Bracken offers commentary on each ACC team’s 2009 recruiting class. Of course he begins with Maryland…
“Two-a-days are under way for college and high school football programs across the country, shoving recruiting to the backburner for most prospects.
With this unofficial break in action, now’s a good time to take a look around the Atlantic [...]
Joseph Morgan, a columnist for The Bleacher Report.com offers commentary on the 2008’s ‘Five Sure Bets’:
“…Many fans wonder, how good is our new recruiting class? Will Coach (insert name here) finally deliver on his championship promise? Is it too early to make flight reservations for Miami in January?
There’s no need to worry, college football fans. I [...]
Vintage College Football Programs .com is a great college football history blog. It is affiliated with the Collectable Ivy.com store.
Here is a brief intro to the 1913 ‘Stanford vs. California’ game:
“What is curious about this game and program is that it is actually for a Rugby game. Between 1906 and 1914 the “Big Game” was [...]
Terry Bowden of Yahoo! Sports.com wrote on Rivals.com:
” College football 2007 became known as the Year of the Upset…
“On any given Saturday anybody actually could beat anybody. It wasn’t just that the reduction in the scholarship levels years earlier had finally impacted the game. The answer also had its foundation in this new [...]
Kristofer Green of “The Bleacher’s Report” said,
“The recent release of the 2008 USA Today Coaches Poll got me thinking. Why do the coaches get to vote for the best team, but the players don’t get to vote for the best coach? I would love to see a weekly ranking of the best coaches in college [...]
SI.com’s Stewart Mandel says,
“At his conference’s preseason media event last month, SEC commissioner Mike Slive stood before a room full of reporters and rattled off his league’s impressive list of recent accomplishments…”
“College football’s Great Conference Debate has been a heated subject among college fans for years, but it reached a boiling point…” > http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com