#15: Florida State #14: Florida #13: Ohio State #12: West Virginia #11: Houston #10: Arkansas #9: Wisconsin – He is studious, that Brett Bielema. Any deficiencies he may own when it comes to developing talent and calling football plays, he masks with his relentless scouring of the NCAA rulebook. At breakfast, at dinner, at the [...]
Creek 0-0: This is coming in the nick of time. The lizards are starting to gnaw at my brain. One more week without college football and I might be last seen taking a stolen Chevy off of Mt. Le Conte into the blue Tennessee sky, totally naked and with Jerry Lee blaring at full blast [...]
In the spirit of getting ready for college football season this week, the staff and contributors of The College Football Voice have taken on the most impressive task of ranking every conference from ACC to WAC. Let me tell you, this was not an easy undertaking – with no immediate information from a couple of conferences I actually had to pull out the old dart board to provide magic insight where no specialized information was available. Of course these rankings are only our opinions, if you have another opinion, please share it with us.
10. Arkansas – That’s right, I bought the hype. Or, am I the one that created it. I’ve seen firsthand the destruction left by Bobby Petrino both on the field as a head coach for Louisville, and in his wake after departure from the Cardinal program. He didn’t last in the NFL not only because the players were big enough to eat him, but because they made enough money to also afford disposable methods for handling human bones. That’s what scared him the most. Petrino decided to take his footballs and go back to the college level.
“Four years and several investigations ago the NCAA brought forth on this college football season new sanctions, conceived in the PAC 10, and dedicated to the proposition that all football violations are created by unscrupulous agents “
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All around the country college football programs are struggling. Universities are being forced to cut non-revenue sports because money just isn’t available. Economically times are uncertain… and yet universities continue to spend 3 and 4 million dollars a year on coaching salaries. “Winning at Any Cost “seems to be the mantra for today’s elite college football programs.
Now some folks might argue that college football produces revenue for universities and enormous coaching salaries are needed to attract the best coaches so a program can stay competitive and maintain its elite status. Some people will tell you that the ROI justifies the cost of paying a huge salary, and that would be true of any “Big Business “ but universities are not businesses, they are Institutes of Higher Learning, or at least they should be.
#11. Houston – Normally a team with the ability to average ten touchdowns a game would be a shoe-in for the title game. The Cougars, however, completely forgot that defense is a significant part of college football game planning. Either that, or the Cougar defense was so brow-whipped in practice by Case Keenum and his offensive marauders, that their confidence melted against opponents like butter in the microwave at the first sign of a push. How bad? Real bad. How bad exactly? Houston’s defense put out like a drunk, coked-up escort at a swinger wedding.
12. West Virginia – This fall the title starved eyes of West Virginia fans will feast upon the best team fielded in Morgantown since the infamous 2007 season. The weight of the shiny, silver serving platter has been placed firmly on the shoulders of sophomore, and first year starter, Geno Smith. His level of play could literally propel West Virginia into not only Big East, but even national title contention.
15. Florida State 14. Florida 13. Ohio State – I know, I know. It’s absurd, Ohio State being #13 in the country. But here’s the deal: the freshest writer has a fresh take on the 2010 Freshest 15, so cry me an Olentangy River. An by the way, I know what’s going on up there [...]
15. Florida State 14. Florida – “Holy horse crap! This Musket Man must be out of his damned mind. The Florida Gators outside the top 10? It’s nonsense…” Nah, I’ll tell you what it is. Florida is stifled. They lost their two leaders following the 2009 season; Tebow is in the NFL, and Meyer flat [...]
