Snakes In My Pants

…and I feel fine.
According to the New York Times: “Irish Rethinking Football Independence”

It’s on Bob, oh it’s on. And by on, I mean the Syracuse/Boston College college football matchup that ended in 2004 when those dastardly Eagles fled the Big East for the deeper pockets of the Atlantic Coast Conference (yes yes, academics, blah, blah…). The game will be at the Carrier Dome on November [...]

An article published in Forbes today makes the argument that Doug Flutie’s years at Boston College ushered in “in a whole new era of growth for [college football], helping to drive the marriage of a newfound East Coast audience, drawn to the college game by an unlikely star, to a burgeoning television presence led by [...]

Pulled this from Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician – this is the new intro played in the Dome before home football games. Nice…

Mike Poorman is a senior lecturer in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism in Penn State’s College of Communications. He has covered Nittany Lion football for the Collegian, the Centre Daily Times, the Associated Press and Blue White Illustrated. In his column today he retells JoePa’s telling of how Eastern Football came apart at [...]

Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick, referring to Boston College, tells the South Bend Tribune “We have talked about another home-and-home, which I think is likely to happen.”

According to Donnie Webb of the Syracuse Post-Standard, Syracuse HC Doug Marrone has done the inevitable and named former Duke PG and current Orange grad student Greg Paulus as his starting QB. He replaces redshirt freshman Ryan Nassib who had been the de facto starter while Paulus’ eligibility issues were finalized.

While this isn’t surprising [...]

2009-2010 College Football Season Preview
 
Today is June 26, meaning the college football season kicks off in 62 days!  Here is my annual season preview with a look at the 15 best games of the year, my Heisman watch list, and my pre-season top-25.  Just by way of reminder, my top-25 is based on where (today) [...]

It’s official – Greg Paulus, the former Duke guard, will use his last year of eligibility to play quarterback close to home at Syracuse for the Orange football team:

“I grew up there. There are great opportunities there,” Paulus said. “My gut and my heart tell me the opportunity to play football at Syracuse and have [...]

One “columnist” thinks it makes sense (although this reads more like a blog – ZERO rationale whatsoever!).  And while there are good arguments for B.C. in the Big East, the revenues for B.C., Miami, and Virginia Tech are up sharply since the move, and asking any of them to take a major cut to move [...]