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2014 College Football Season – Week 9 Rankings
The only significant in the top 25 after week 9 games have come and gone is Ole Miss falling from number three to number seven due to losing against LSU. Mississippi State and Florida State remain as the top two teams, while two other SEC West teams complete the Final Four at the moment, Auburn and Alabama. Oregon are back in the top 5.
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2014 College Football Season – Week 8 Rankings
This is an SEC West world with four teams in the top 5: Number one Mississippi State, followed by Ole Miss, Alabama and Auburn, with number two Florida State ruining the sweep. Oregon are the top team from the Pac-12 at number 6 following their win over Washington, Notre Dame didn’t take too much of a hit from their first loss while the Big 12 has just one team in the top 10 with a one loss TCU representing.
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College Football – 2014 Week 7 Rankings
A change at the top as Mississippi State can no longer be ignored, beating Auburn and moving up to the number one spot while Florida State, still undefeated, and moving down one spot. Ole Miss remain at number three, while Baylor and Notre Dame rise one spot each as they remain undefeated and keep on winning. UCLA got knocked out after two consecutive losses, while Clemson and USC are back thanks to narrow victories.
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Georgia Bulldogs – Todd Gurley Gets Himself Stupidly Suspended
From being the leading Heisman candidate and THE most important piece on offense for Georgia this season, Todd Gurley finds himself suspended for an alleged violation of NCAA rules, which in this case happens to be signing memorabilia and getting paid for it.
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2014 College Football Season – Week 6 Rankings
A weekend of upsets shook the rankings ans the top 25, with Florida State a rock of stability, remaining in the number one spot and gaining strength, while Auburn, Ole Miss and Mississippi State are the big movers for the SEC, joined by Baylor and Notre Dame among the undefeated contenders. On the flip side, USC and LSU fell from the rankings while Oklahoma, Oregon, Alabama, Texas A&M and UCLA took a serious nosedive due to their losses.
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2014 College Football Season – Week 5 Rankings
Voters punished ranked teams that lost as both South Carolina and Arizona State were taken out of the top 25, while the only movement a bit higher up the poll came in the form of UCLA, climbing to number eight, while the first seven teams, some of them not playing, stayed where they were, including defending national champions Florida State after another hard earned victory.
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College Football – Getting Closer to the Day Players Start Making Money
The NCAA might be non-profit organization, but we’ve seen how much the NFL, another non-profit, cares about making money. But it seems like the words coming from Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and West Virginia athletics director Oliver Luck about paying college athletes getting paid in the near future mean that the structure and landscape of college sports is about to change.
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Kentucky Wildcats – John Calipari Staying For a Very Long Time
Good College Basketball coaches work through rumors of the NBA trying to get them. John Calipari might know how that’s like better than anyone else, but his new contract that keeps him in Kentucky until 2021, with a salary that makes him better paid than most pro head coaches, was put in place to deny any suggestions of him going anywhere else.
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College Football Realignment – SEC Threatening NCAA With New Division
College sports are changing, and in a way that will start bringing in money to the athletes. Now is a time of meetings and big decisions, with SEC, probably speaking for the five power conferences, threatening the NCAA with a split that will form a new division in college sports or at least football, as the affects of big money move from realignment to what possibly might be a completely new look for the sport.
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College Athletes Unionizing – Alabama & Texas Make More Money Than the NHL & Most of the NBA
Once College Basketball for 2014 is over, the main thing in college sports that will grab the headlines will be the first steps in the attempt of college athletes, mostly football players, to unionize with the main goal starting to get paid for their services to universities, which means being given a piece of the huge money pie that is College Athletics, mostly coming from TV Deals.