Top 25 Breakdown: Week Nine
Throughout the season, Gator Country will give you a weekly preview on the games featuring the Top 25 teams in the country every Wednesday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Top 25 Breakdown
Throughout the season, Gator Country will give you a weekly preview on the games featuring the Top 25 teams in the country every Wednesday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Top 25 Breakdown
This story originally appeared in the October 2011 issue of Gator Country Magazine . VIP subscribers to GatorCountry.com receive the magazine in the mail every month, and copies are available throughout Gainesville
As conference expansion talks have seemingly locked in on Missouri, West Virginia and Louisville , BYU — an early favorite in projections to the Big 12 — has been left out in the cold.
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
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.
Adjusting to the weekend’s new realities. • Where everyone’s a champion
Adjusting to the weekend’s new realities. • Where everyone’s a champion
Notes on the Game of the Century of the Year. Alabama is 8-0
Clemson 59, North Carolina 38 • Oklahoma State 45, Missouri 24. There’s a standard shorthand for talking and writing about up-tempo, pass-happy attacks like the ones at Clemson and Oklahoma State , which tends to boil down to “Prolific Quarterback + Prolific Receiver = Prolific Offense.” It’s not hard to see why, when each of those individual elements is true: By any measure, Tajh Boyd and Brandon Weeden rank easily among the most productive passers in the country, and their top targets, Sammy Watkins and Justin Blackmon , come as close as anyone in college football to being legitimately “uncoverable.” Accordingly, the Tigers and Cowboys rank easily among the top offenses in the country
A weekly primer. GAME OF THE CENTURY OF THE WEEK WISCONSIN (-7½) at MICHIGAN STATE • 8 p.m
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