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Nick Saban is "the devil himself." Those are the words of Tim Davis, Florida's offensive line coach, at a Gators booster club meeting Tuesday night. Davis is not alone in believing the Alabama head coach is the Prince of Darkness. Vanderbil...

Big 12 football > SEC football. That's the implication made by Bob Stoops. The Oklahoma Sooners head coach seems to believe the Big 12 is where it's at and alluded to as much to the Tulsa World. "So [the SEC has] had the best team in colleg...

Louisville-Michigan was perfect. Everything about it. Perfect. We witnessed by far the best NCAA title game of recent memory, and that's not even a typical modern media, hyperbolic, complete lack-of-context opinion. (Probably.) Perfect, per...

The NCAA tournament title game is finally here and, with it, sweet merciful death for your tournament bracket. As the athletes competing tonight are student-athletes, many of whom will one day work for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, let's keep the theme of t...

Florida Gulf Coast University is the first 15-seed to reach the Sweet 16 in NCAA tournament history. If you plan to jump on the bandwagon and pretend to have been there from the start, you need to sound like you know what you're talking about. H...

The key to winning your NCAA tournament bracket is nailing your upset picks. It's no secret. So how do you pick your Cinderella teams? By using the knowledge you've gained from watching hours and hours of college basketball all season? Ha. No. ...

College basketball conference tournaments have started. It's time for casual college basketball fans to get informed about the season because one week from now we'll all be filling out our NCAA tournament brackets and pretending we know stuff. D...

The NHL has proposed a realignment plan that would give the league four divisions instead of six. Yet while radical realignment has some detractors -- those who are really into the current Southeast division's Winnipeg-Tampa Bay rivalry, for exam...

The Johnny Football backlash has begun. Six months ago, only the most die-hard college football fans had even heard of Mr. Football. Then he set about destroying every team in his path and became a celebrity. Then people started to wonder is he ...

America's great day of faxing is over and the recruit rankings are in. Some programs did well, others whiffed -- and those programs know who they are. See if you can match the post-national signing day quotes below with the coach who said it. Y...

The national signing day tradition of putting a hat on is tired. Recruits can do better. If they want to really stand out and make a name for themselves during 11 hours of signing coverage, they need to start being more creative. They need to conside...

Here are 28 thoughts on Alabama's 28-point blowout of Notre Dame in the BCS title game. 1. Nick Saban owns college football. He hasn't thought just moves ahead of his contemporaries, he's games and seasons ahead. Every detail is mapped out. And ...

Bowl season begins on Saturday, Dec. 15. If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that there are not enough bowls. There are only 34 bowls between now and Jan. 7, when the one bowl that means anything is played. Why cap it at 34? We can do ...

It's true: Notre Dame will play for the national championship. For many people, this seems vaguely familiar. For others -- those you may affectionately call GramGram or PeePaw -- Notre Dame being one of the best college football teams in the country ...

Grinnell College's Jack Taylor set an NCAA scoring record on Tuesday night by putting up 138 points in a 179-104 win over Faith Baptist Bible. It's the kind of thing that inspires a movie. Since Hollywood shockingly has yet to tarnish "Hoosiers" with...

The Downtown Athletic Club. New York, N.Y. Moderator: Welcome to the 2012 Heisman Trophy debate - the first and only debate among the top Heisman candidates before voting commences and the award winner is announced Dec. 8. Tonight we are jo...