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Oregon Ducks – Marcus Mariota Will Return For His Junior Year
Despite being projected as a top 5 pick in the next NFL draft, Marcus Mariota proved he is good for his word, deciding to stay another season with Oregon in order to get his degree and maybe lead Oregon a little further than he or anyone else has been able to for the last couple of years.
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NFL Playoff Picture – Week 13
Only one team so far has already clinched a playoff berth – the Seattle Seahawks, who in all likelihood will also finish as the champions in the NFC West and have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. The same goes for the Denver Broncos in the AFC West and also for the New England Patriots, but behind those three no one can really feel safe about where they are right now.
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Possible Scenarios For the National Championship Game
Heading into championship week which will determine what the BCS national title game will look like, it seems we’re down to five choices to fill two spots: Florida State as the clear favorite, Ohio State who’ll probably get in if all goes well, Auburn or Missouri representing the SEC and even Alabama, waiting for a turn of events that suits them just fine.
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Florida State Seminoles – Even Without Jameis Winston, Still Very Strong
It’s hard to measure, statistically, just how important one player is to a team. Jameis Winston is a big reason why Florida State are the number one team in the country, one win away from reaching the BCS national championship game. However, even without his touchdowns as a passer or running them in, it would still be a very good season for the Seminoles.
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South Carolina Gamecocks – Connor Shaw Finishes Career With Perfect Home Record
When Connor Shaw leaves the University of South Carolina and hopefully gets into the NFL via a very late pick or even undrafted, he won’t have a national or conference title to show. No BCS Bowls he played in. Nothing that really stands out. But digging deeper shows a remarkable collegiate career for a player that’s been injured quite a lot, and still made the most of what was given to him, highlighted by going 17-0 at home as a starter.
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Adrian Peterson is on Pace to Have The Best Post-2000 Yards Season Ever
It’s rare to have a running back who gets to 2000 yards in one season. Only 7 players in NFL history have managed that feat, all of them only once, with Adrian Peterson being the last player to do it, accomplishing it last season. This year he isn’t going to reach that mark, but he is on pace to finish with the most yards ever for a running back coming off a +2000 season.
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USC Trojans – Steve Sarkisian Leaving Washington to be Their New Head Coach
Programs usually look for former assistant and coordinators to take on head coaching jobs after they made their rounds. USC avoided a disastrous season thanks to Ed Orgeron, but decided to go in a different direction with the future of the football program, hiring Steve Sarkisian after he has spent the last five seasons rebuilding things in Washington.
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Seattle Seahawks – Russell Wilson, a Star on The Best Team in The NFL
The Russell Wilson show was in full effect as the Seattle Seahawks pulled off a very impressive 34-7 win over the New Orleans Saints that puts them on top of the NFC, almost clinching home field advantage throughout the postseason, and positioning themselves as probably the best team in the NFL right now.
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Tuskegee Golden Tigers Bring Segregation Back to College Football
We don’t usually see news from Division II NCAA Football making anything but local news. However, in the most recent playoff game between the North Alabama Lions and the Tuskegee Golden Tigers, a rare request made by Curtis Campbell, Director of Athletics for Tuskegee, shockingly accepted by the NCAA, pushed the sport and racial relations back into some very dark times.
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SEC – Texas A&M & Missouri Teaching Us It’s an Overrated Conference
It was hard to argue with the continuous brainwashing about the SEC being the best conference in College Football as they claimed six consecutive national championships, but the immediate success of Texas A&M and Missour over the last couple of years after coming over from the Big 12 as part of the huge conference realignment wave teaches us that it might not be as strong as some may think.