September 9th Headlines following the first week of College Football’s return… ARKANSAS – Team works to clean up run game; LSU – LSU might reshuffle offensive line; MIAMI – Canes trying to simulate noise at Horseshoe; MICHIGAN – ND coach: It’s tough to prepare for Denard Robinson; NOTRE DAME – Going simple paying off for […]
Alabama 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Alabama (2009 Statistics) Head Coach Nick Saban is in his 4th year and coming off of a National Title win for Alabama in 2009. Saban also won a championship as head coach of LSU in 2003, but left shortly after that for a brief stint in the NFL at the Miami Dolphins (2005 and 2006). […]
Arizona State 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Arizona State (2009 Statistics) Dennis Erickson is in his 4th season as the Head Coach of the Sun Devils and coming off of a 4-8 season. Their offensive numbers have been down the past two seasons, but at least last year they had the excuse of needing to replace Quarterback Rudy Carpenter, whose 43 consecutive […]
Arkansas 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Arkansas (2009 Statistics) The quick summary of Head Coach Bobby Petrino (now in his 3rd year as head coach at Arkansas) is that he was extremely successful in his four years as head coach at Louisville, but left them in 2007 for a lucrative NFL job. He was just 13 games into his job as […]
Auburn 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Auburn Gene Chizik was not the popular choice to replace Tommy Tuberville as head coach at Auburn. After all, he had only won 5 games in his two years coaching Iowa State. To some people he proved himself worthy by going 8-5 in his first season last year. However, that record is consistent with recent […]
Boise State 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Boise State (2009 Statistics) This is Boise State’s final season in the WAC (Western Athletic Conference). In 2011 they will join the MWC (Mountain West Conference). Head coach Chris Petersen is in his 5th year as Head Coach. The Broncos return ALL but two starters from last year’s UNDEFEATED team. They have 9 Seniors and […]
California 2010
September 1, 2010 by
California (2009 Statistics) Jeff Tedford’s 9th year as head coach. Quarterback Kevin Riley (who began his career by filling in for an injured Nate Lonshore in 2007) is now a Senior. Last year Riley passed for just 2850 yards and a 54.7% completion rate. Those numbers will need to improve for Cal to improve upon […]
Cincinnati 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Cincinnati (2009 Statistics) Head Coach Butch Jones is in his 1st season. He was previously at Western Michigan, where he replaced Brian Kelly after Kelly left coach at Cincinnati. He now replaces Kelly once again as Kelly has left to coach at Notre Dame. Cincinnati was 12-1 last year under Kelly so it will be […]
Clemson 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Clemson (2009 Statistics) Lately this team keeps climbing up the ladder of success, but finds itself knocked back down. You could argue that they were successful in 2009 given their 9-5 record. But 4 of those 5 losses were really close games (decided by 5 points or less), which means they could have finished with […]
Connecticut 2010
September 1, 2010 by
Connecticut (2009 Statistics) Last year’s team was defined by the loss of Jasper Howard who was murdered just 6 games into their season. They were 4-2 at that point and lost the next three games (by a combined 10 points). It took two overtimes against Notre Dame (in South Bend no less) to finally get […]
