#college football
Happy Halloween! The Coogs took care of business last night at TDECU Stadium for the black-out game vs SMU. Then they topped off the night with a KICK-6 for the win!!
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Sources: Johnny Football and Mike Evans will leave Texas A&M early.
Will either player experience SUCCESS in the NFL?
http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-football/2013/12/30/johnny-manziel-mike-evans-will-leave-texas-am-aggies-early-for-nfl/
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Jordan Lynch laid an egg against the Utah State Aggies last night.
Was he, in fact, OVERRATED?
http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-football/2013/12/27/late-season-collapse-proves-heisman-finalist-jordan-lynch-was-overrated/
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AGREE/DISAGREE: Gus Malzahn DESERVED to be named Coach of the year.
http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-football/2013/12/23/gus-malzahn-more-than-deserving-of-ap-coach-of-the-year-award/
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Lindsay Duke, girlfriend of UCF QB Blake Bortles, is looking like a solid darkhorse candidate for Hottest College Football WAGs.
http://www.rantsports.com/clubhouse/2013/12/16/hot-pictures-of-ucf-qb-blake-bortles-girlfriend-lindsey-duke/
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Every September Playboy Cover | Playboy
Denise Michele, Hope Olson and Lisa Sohm, September 1977
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There are only two factors preventing an individual team from finishing undefeated in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
One is statistics: The odds of perfection decrease as more games get added to the road to the national championship — and as illustrated by Alabama in 2016, the last game is always the hardest.
The second is history. In the past decade, just four Power Five teams have completed a perfect season: Alabama in 2009, Auburn in 2010, Ohio State in 2012 and Florida State in 2014.
But finishing the regular season unbeaten? Maybe that’s another story.
ThePreseason Amway Coaches Poll is out!
The time to stop talking about college football and actually start watching it is now less than a month away. But in the meantime, talking will have to do, and the preseason Amway Coaches Poll is always a good place to initiate discussion — or arguments, but we prefer to keep matters polite.
Alabama will enter the campaign with the No. 1 ranking, just as it did a year ago. The Crimson Tide were picked first by 49 of the 65 coaches on this year’s panel. Alabama has been ranked in the top five in every preseason poll since 2009.
From top to bottom, it’s hard to find a more talented roster — maybe at Alabama, but nowhere else. The expectations are high for a reason. But with Urban Meyer, a fifth-year senior quarterback and a change in offensive style, the Buckeyes seem ready to notch yet another College Football Playoff berth.
Biggest games
►Vs. Oklahoma, Sept. 9
►Vs. Penn State, Oct. 28
►At Michigan, Nov. 25
Three players to know
1. CB Kendall Sheffield. The junior-college transfer certainly looks the part of Ohio State’s next first-round defensive back.
2. WR Campbell. While more will be asked of Campbell in the passing game, don’t sleep on his major impact as the Buckeyes’ primary returner
3. DE Nick Bosa. The younger Bosa brother — after his older brother, Joey — is the program’s next all-everything defensive end.
“Body By Wisconsin” - a “dummy” in a footballer’s uniform laid out in a wicker casket with a banner below reading, “Body By Wisconsin”. Just a bit of antagonistic pre-game rivalry between Northwestern Univeristy, Illinois and Wisconsin University. Photo, c. 1920s.
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Happy New Year!
Gerald Ford began 1935 by playing in the East-West Shrine Game in San Francisco on January 1. Played annually since 1925, this college football all-star game helps raise money to support Shriners International’s charitable activities, including Shriners Hospital for Children.
Although voted most valuable player on the 1934 Michigan squad, Gerald Ford was far from a household name. He received national recognition when he was invited to join the East Shrine Team. Ford later recalled his experience in a July 1974 article for Sports Illustrated:
The Shrine signed two centers for the East, a boy from Colgate named George Akerstrom, and me. On the train ride from Chicago to California, Curly Lambeau, the coach of the Packers, went from player to player, plying the good ones about their pro football interest. He ignored me. Then in the first two minutes of the game Akerstrom got hurt. I played the rest of the way – 58 minutes, offense and defense.
Ford’s performance certainly got Lambeau’s attention. He received an offer to play for the Green Bay Packers, which was also matched by the Detroit Lions. Ford would go on to play in another All Star Game in Chicago in August 1935, but he ultimately opted to go to law school rather than to pursue a professional football career.
Images: Program from the Tenth East-West Shrine Game, 1/1/1935, from the Ford Scrapbooks Volume 1A
1935 East Shrine Team Photo, ca. 1/1935 (Ford Scrapbooks Photograph AV82-18-0030)
Join us in cheering on the Michigan Wolverines as they take on the Georgia Bulldogs! Here we see Gerald Ford on the football field at the University of Michigan in 1933. (Image H0035-03)
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