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Missouri joins Alabama as the only two SEC football programs recognized by the NCAA for ranking in the top 10 percent in the nation in Academic Progress Rate (APR) for the 2011-12 academic year. The NCAA Division I Public Recognition Awards were a...

The 2014 recruiting classes around the SEC are starting to take shape. The latest class rankings by ESPN has five SEC teams in the top-10 nationally and seven in the top 15. Obviously, it's going to change over the next several months. But right ...

The ESPN recruiting folks released their early class rankings last week for the 2014 class, and five SEC teams were in the top 10. Florida was No. 2, followed by Texas A&M at No. 3, LSU at No. 4, Tennessee at No. 7 and Ole Miss at No. 9. Ag...

Now that we've examined who's bringing back what defensively in the East, let's take a look at the schools in the West. It was a mixed bag on defense in the West last season. Alabama and LSU both had top 10 defenses nationally. Texas A&M ha...

Happy Thursday and happy linking: Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron says he would have stayed for his senior season even if he were projected as a top-10 pick. Andrew Gribble of AL.com breaks down the Alabama quarterback situation heading into sp...

Texas A&M offensive tackle Luke Joeckel had been weighing the possibility of returning for his senior season, but the reality that he will likely be a top-10 pick, and possibly even a top-5 pick, was too much to pass up. Joeckel announced Tues...

At this rate, there could be five SEC teams ranked in the top 10 two weeks from now, which makes it impossible to predict the bowl lineup. But here's the way we see it after Week 4: Discover BCS National Championship Game, Jan. 7: Alabama Allst...

Lost in all the chatter about South Carolina not looking like a top-10 team on Thursday night in its 17-13 escape at Vanderbilt is the fact that just maybe the Commodores are going to be a tough out for everybody they play this season. In fact, I ...

The SEC has five teams in the 2012 preseason polls, and three of those same five teams are in the top 10 of ESPN's latest recruiting rankings . The rich just keep getting richer. USC is No. 1 overall in ESPN's recruiting rankings for the 2013 c...

The SEC has announced the lineup for SEC media days on July 17-19 in Hoover, Ala., and the big news is the number of star players who won't be attending. In fact, if you came up with a top 10 or top 15 list of the SEC's biggest stars for the 2012 ...

As part of "College Football Live's" 100 Days Till Kickoff countdown, we'll take a look at the top-10 players in the SEC heading into the 2012 season. Keep in mind that these are the guys we project to be the 10 best college football players this ...

The SEC had seven players selected among the top 15 picks in last year's NFL draft, and ESPN's Mel Kiper is projecting a similar haul for the SEC in 2012. Kiper has four SEC players going in the top 10, led by Alabama running back Trent Richardson...

You've seen my list, and you've seen Edward's list. We both took our shots at ranking the top 10 individual performances in the SEC this season. Now it's your turn in our SportsNation poll. We've selected four choices for you, but we also in...

ESPN's Todd McShay has four SEC players going in the top 10 picks of the 2012 NFL draft, but Alabama running back Trent Richardson isn't one of them. McShay has Richardson going No. 11 overall to the Seattle Seahawks in his latest mock draft. Here...

College football analyst Phil Steele has an impressive track record when it comes to predicting the Associated Press' preseason top 10 for that next season. He's nailed nine of the 10 teams teams each of the past three years and has already unveil...

Somebody asked recently about the correlation between postseason All-SEC selections and top 10 recruiting classes. The results from the last two years are pretty interesting. Take Florida, for instance. The perception when Will Muschamp took...