BEST OF TIMES : A snapshot of teams, coaches and players at their peak… Tommy Tuberville. Tubs has spent the better part of two years at Texas Tech toiling in the long, unforgettable shadow of his swashbuckling predecessor , much of it based on the simple fact that Tuberville is not, nor ever will be, Mike Leach.
For the second consecutive week, Vanderbilt has to explain itself regarding an incident that occurred after their football game.
USC coach Lane Kiffin is trying to quash his team’s public verbal bashing of Notre Dame after several of his players publicly accused the Irish of giving up after during the fourth quarter of the Trojans’ 31-17 win in South Bend on Saturday night. Kiffin said today he called Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly and also issued a public statement in an effort to paper over the mini-controversy
For the second consecutive week, Vanderbilt has to explain itself for an embarrassing postgame incident. The university issued a statement Tuesday apologizing to “all of the men and women who attend and work at the United States Military Academy, their families, all graduates of USMA and their fans” for leaving the field and blasting music over the PA system during the playing of Army ‘s alma mater.
Now in its seventh year, the College Football BlogPoll is a weekly effort of dozens of college football-centric Web sites representing a wide array of schools under the oversight of SB Nation. As always, this is an ever-evolving snapshot meant to judge teams exclusively on their existing resumés
At the conclusion of day two at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in Windemere, Fla., the No. 10 Florida men’s golf team wrapped up the day with a second round team score of 17-over (305), good for ninth place
The first rule in conference realignment is, Nothing is a done deal until it’s a done deal, a lesson we’ve learned the hard way two years in a row. At the moment, though, everyone with the slightest interest in the subject — up to and including the power brokers of the schools and conferences in question — is working on two assumptions that appear very, very certain
Cal coach Jeff Tedford has told his players that whatever happened between UCLA and Arizona should stay between those teams and not have a bearing on the Bears’ game against the Bruins this week. That’s good in theory, but it’s hard denying that six UCLA players , including three of the team’s top four receivers, will be suspended for Saturday’s game after last Thursday’s bench-clearing brawl during the Bruins 48-12 loss to the Wildcats.
Making the morning rounds. • Hokie Hokie hurt.
For those of you keeping track this summer — and there were a lot of you — Oregon cornerback/return man Cliff Harris ‘ driving record produced even more eye-popping stats behind the wheel than last year’s All-America campaign on the field: 118 mph on a suspended license, $8,500 in fines for at least 11 outstanding citations, a one-game suspension for arguably the biggest game of the year and finally six more games in depth chart limbo , where he’s remained since being pulled over back in June. As of Monday, “limbo” would be a step up: Harris added three more lines to the box score in the form of fresh citations for driving with a suspended license, driving while uninsured and failure to wear a seatbelt.
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