Snakes In My Pants

This Friday night in Chattanooga, the Appalachian State Mountaineers will face the University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens in the NCAA FCS (formerly Div I-AA football championship.) This is the same Appalachian State that beat University of Michigan shocking the ranked Division I football world. As they finish the season against UD, they [...]

So check this article out from the Wilmington News Journal (DE): Former Blue Rock a hit with Salukis
Byron Gettis is a 27-year-old sophomore playing for the SIU Salukis against University of Delaware in the I-AA/FCS Football Semifinals today.  He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1998, and actually played in MLB for 21 [...]

“We were beaten by the best quarterback in the nation.” Clemson coach Tommy Bowden
I am taking a page out of Mike’s book to bitch about ACC football. BC beat Clemson last night, and locked up a trip to the ACC title game. (Rooting for the Cavs to make it.) However, earlier in the [...]

 Disappearing duds: 4 Hokies jerseys missing
ATLANTA (AP) — Sean Glennon started at quarterback for Virginia Tech with his name written on the back in magic marker.
Upon closer inspection, it was apparent that Glennon was wearing the black and gold of Georgia Tech instead of the maroon and orange of the Hokies.

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At 1-3, the New York Jets are done as surely as are the choke-artist New York Mets. It’s time for the fellows in green and white to look to the future. Chad Pennington’s time has come and he must be gone.

According to reports in the Detroit Free Press and the South Bend Tribune, Demetrius Jones said he was stung by Charlie Weis’ comments that freshman Jimmy Clausen was Notre Dame’s top quarterback all along but was not named the opening game starter because he was recovering from surgery to remove a bone spur from his [...]

Year Three of the Football Expansion Era is off to an abysmal start for commissioner John Swofford’s Atlantic Coast Conference. As SI.com’s Stewart Mandell notes, the ACC may be the worst big-time college football conference in the nation:
[T]he ACC is simply hideous. A year after going 6-16 against BCS-conference foes, the nation’s preeminent basketball-conference-masquerading-as-a-football-league [...]

It’s usually me not Mike who doesn’t mention the name of That School In Indiana but yesterday l’universite du Notre Dame du lac seemed to embody the cowering spirit of it’s founders’ home nation of France rather than the “fighting” resilience of it’s adopted heritage of Ireland.
Let’s see what one sportswriter had to say about [...]

Below are two articles discusing Big East football.  Both articles are informative and positive, but I think they are a bit myopic.  First, they draw a lot of conclusions from only two seasons of Big East and ACC football.  Second, they ignore the fact that the ACC has an advantage in terms of geography in that the [...]

It is only 64 days until kickoff of the 2007 college football season.  With the upcoming season, the shelves of your local bookstore will soon (if not already) be stocked with dozens of prediction and preview magazines.  We are probably only about 35-40 days from the first AP and Coach’s Poll top-25 rankings as well.  [...]