ESPN is reporting that two sources have confirmed to them that Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly will be the next coach at Notre Dame. UPDATE BY BRENDAN: Now confirmed; question mark removed from headline. 🙂
Courtesy of Suh93.com, a video compilation of Heisman candidate Ndamukong Suh’s amazing performance in the Big 12 title game against Texas on Saturday. Gotta love the Nebraska fans shouting “Suuuuuuh!!” after each big play: Don’t miss the “rag doll throw” at the 1:35 mark. Colt McCoy, you’ve just been Suh’d! In the words of kcatnd on Facebook earlier today: “Give… Read more »
The conventional wisdom heading into the Heisman Trophy balloting, at least among bloggy and Twittery types and the more thoughtful pundits, was that either Toby Gerhart of Stanford or Ndamukong Suh of Nebraska should win the Heisman, but that the award would instead go to either Colt McCoy of Texas, Mark Ingram of Alabama, or (less likely, but still more… Read more »
The 5th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ’em Contest is open for signups. To enter, just click here, then follow the links to either create an ESPN.com account or sign into your existing account, and enter your picks. (You can change your pick for each game up until kickoff time.) Because the contest is being run through ESPN, which… Read more »
Marty West, frequent blog commenter and die-hard Iowa fan, had more than just a Hawkeyes invite to the Orange Bowl to celebrate this weekend. Thanks to a win by Washington and a near-win by Nebraska, West edged out Phillip Price to capture the championship of the first annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ’em Contest by one point, 153-152…. Read more »
The BCS show was as predicted, and all the other bowl games have shaken out at this point, with one exception: the EagleBank Bowl has to wait for the result of the Army/Navy game next Saturday. If Army wins, the Black Knights will edge out the UCLA Bruins. Here’s the BCS setup: Championship: #1 Alabama vs #2 Texas Rose: #7… Read more »
Stewart Mandel writes: In another, 11th-hour BCS development, sources tell me the Fiesta Bowl committee took an unexpected turn in its deliberations this week and is now leaning heavily toward a matchup of the two undefeated mid-majors, TCU and Boise State. That would leave the Orange Bowl free to select Iowa or Penn State and send Cincinnati to the Sugar… Read more »
Tomorrow night, Oregon hosts Oregon State in the annual “Civil War,” which is also the de facto Pac-10 championship game this year. The stakes could hardly be higher. The winner goes to the Rose Bowl to face Ohio State. The loser, if it’s Oregon, goes to the Holiday Bowl to face (probably) Nebraska, or, if it’s Oregon State, probably tumbles… Read more »
On Facebook yesterday, one of my law-school classmates made an observation about Charlie Weis’s then-imminent departure that I suspect will be heard in certain corners the sports media this week, as Weis’s firing is used to advance the evergreen storyline of Notre Dame’s fall from grace. (The only story the sports media likes better than “Notre Dame’s fall from grace”… Read more »
SI’s Stewart Mandel says the problem with this college football season isn’t that there are “no dominant teams,” as many people have said. It’s that there are “too many dominant teams. Six of them, in fact.” The delineation couldn’t be clearer in this week’s BCS standings, which feature six undefeated teams (Florida, Alabama, Texas, TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State) …… Read more »