With just over a week until signing day, Rivals’ top five recruiting classes are as follows: Alabama, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Tennessee and Florida State.
Here’s sort of an amusing thought: Florida and USC meet in a championship game...at MetLife Stadium, just as another one of these blasted polar vortices bears down on the New York metropolitan area.
We’re still over two weeks from signing day, and there are still plenty of players yet to commit and others who will flip their existing verbal commits to other schools.
Citing a desire to try to influence the College Football Playoff selection committee, the coaches’ poll won’t go away despite losing its power with the end of the BCS.
Texas coach Charlie Strong will earn $5 million his first year in Austin, then receive a raise of $100,000 his next four years to bring the total value of his contract to $26 million.
Long before Frank Thomas hit 521 home runs and was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he was a tight end at Auburn under longtime Tigers coach Pat Dye.
It’d be surprising if Vanderbilt athletic director David Williams was right about this, but he anticipates James Franklin to be coaching the Commodores for their season opener against Temple later this year.
Texas booster Red McCombs apologized to Charlie Strong for calling the coach’s hiring a “kick in the face,” according to the San Antonio Express-News’ Mike Finger.
Capitalizing off 1,816 rushing yards, 23 touchdowns and status as a Heisman Trophy finalist, Auburn running back Tre Mason is taking his talents to the next level.
