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Our Tuesday stroll around the league: Butch Jones has the Big Orange Caravan rolling and recruiting along, writes John Adams of the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Former Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner signs on with Pat Dye Jr. Derrick Thomas' Coll...

Who's ready for a popularity contest? OK, so it's not quite a popularity contest. But Twitter, in some ways, can measure individuals' Q rating, depending on how active and engaging they are on social media. The Tulsa World's Kelly Hines recentl...

2012 record: 4-8 2012 conference record: 2-6 Returning starters: Offense: 5; defense: 8; kicker/punter: 1 Top returners RB Jonathan Williams, WR Javontee Herndon, C Travis Swanson, DE Chris Smith, DE Trey Flowers, DT Byran Jones, CB Tevin M...

It's time for the Atlanta Falcons' Class of 2008 to move on past graduate school and get the most advanced of degrees. Almost a year ago, I wrote a column about how the members of that draft class were headed for a crucial season that could define...

Conference USA will add Western Kentucky and new coach Bobby Petrino at the same time the league's most recent football champion plans to leave.

In keeping with our March Madness theme, I decided to take a look at one area everyone loves about the Big Dance and translate it to the football field: upsets. We saw some good ones last year, like Louisiana-Monroe upending Arkansas, Texas A&M kn...

Defensive end/tight end Lloyd Tubman committed this week to sign with head coach Bobby Petrino and Western Kentucky, multiple sources report. Colorado State, Louisville, Miami (Ohio) and Alabama-Birmingham also recruited the 6-foot-5, 230-pound ju...

Bret Bielema guided Wisconsin to Big Ten championships and Rose Bowl appearances each of his last three seasons in Madison. But when Arkansas called, he was immediately interested and admits that there was a burning desire to see how he would fare...

Is there a direct correlation to highly ranked signees and wins in the SEC? Well, you be the judge. Over the past four years (2009-12), Alabama and Florida have tied for the most ESPN 150 prospects signed with 41 apiece. During that span, the C...

Coach Bobby Petrino and his staff have added several new commitments, according to multiple sources. The group includes Drew Davis (Madison, Ala./Bob Jones), Kylen Towner (Mobile, Ala./St. Paul's Episcopal), Demarcus Glover (Pensacola, Fla./Pine Fore...

While Bobby Petrino landed his future quarterback earlier this weekend, he lost his top offensive lineman slated to protect him. Three-star offensive tackle Chris Huhn (Pickerington, Ohio/Pickerington North) decommitted from Western Kentucky on Su...

Blog | January 20, 2013

Bobby Petrino hopes he found the quarterback he needs to run his high-scoring offense. O'Fallon (Ill.) senior quarterback Todd Porter committed to the Hilltoppers' new coach while on an official visit to Western Kentucky, his coach Brandon Joggers...

Blog | January 18, 2013

It's time to take a look at the season grades for the Arkansas Razorbacks: OFFENSE: Interim coach John L. Smith left the offense in Paul Petrino's hands, but the Hogs never looked like the same team that led the SEC in total offense and scoring in...

The track record of Bobby Petrino attracts a lot of players. Sunday afternoon, it attracted one Texas junior college defensive tackle. Raphael Cox (Athens, Texas/Trinity Valley Community College) signed a national letter of intent to play for West...

Blog | January 13, 2013

We've reached the end to another college football season, and yet again Alabama is on top. Nick Saban is the king of college football, and his Crimson Tide are looking down at the rest of the sport. So how does the rest of the SEC stack up? Well, ...

Western Kentucky will add another junior college prospect to its 2013 recruiting class, as offensive guard Brandon King (San Pablo, Calif./Contra Costa College) committed to head coach Bobby Petrino and will sign with the Hilltoppers next week. Ki...

Blog | December 27, 2012