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On Friday we started our Big Ten college football roundtables as we discussed two quarterbacks who will be filling big shoes. Now it's time to spread the love around to some "under the radar" players around the league. Joining us in this series of r...
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The Zone Read is your college football primer to make you seem like the smartest person at the water cooler even if you're not. Georgia Tech is trying a new recruiting pitch: Come to GT and you might see a movie star. That's what several of Georgia ...
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Larry Fedora first made his name as an offensive coordinator at Florida under Ron Zook, and later at Oklahoma State under Mike Gundy, where he installed the balanced, high-octane spread offense that's made the Cowboys one of the most reliably prolifi...
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A weeklong grade book for the offseason coaching hires. Previusly: Grading the Up-and-Comers. Today: Small-school head coaches moving into their first big-time jobs. KEVIN SUMLIN • Texas A&M Age: 49 Alma Mater: Purdue. Replacing: Mike Sherman, whos...
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#1 The Urban Effect To say that Urban Meyer's arrival at Ohio State has been controversial would be putting it mildly. The Buckeyes landed the big fish in the coaching pond when they signed Meyer, but there was grumbling from the get-go, first ...
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It's understandable if it takes head coach Tim Beckman some time to get to know his new team. The Illini certainly weren't easy to get a handle on last season. Beckman, hired away from the University of Toledo, inherits a team that had one of the mo...
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Navy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo joins Adam Zucker, Tom Lemming, Ron Zook and Rick Neuheisel on CBS Sports Network
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Making the morning rounds. • Nothing personal, coach. Two University of Illinois trustees voted against the appointment of new head coach Tim Beckman Thursday, not out of opposition to Beckman, but to protest the fact that the school has never hired ...
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All season, when each Big Ten football coach has come to his bye week in the schedule, he generally has tried to put a happy face on it. The usual response on the weekly Big Ten coaches teleconference is something like: "This is the perfect time fo...
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Making the morning rounds. • The hay is in the barn. It's game day in New Orleans, where LSU and Alabama fans of all stripes have descended on the French Quarter ahead of tonight's all-SEC championship rematch — including one Harvey Updyke, aka "Al ...
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There’s no way this comes to fruition, but if it would help, I’d be willing to pay good money for it. Auburn: Sources tell me that Auburn head coach Gene Chizik has interest in former Illinois head coach Ron Zook … Continue reading ?
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Ryan Tannehill threw for 329 yards and a touchdown, as Texas A&M survived a late Northwestern charge to win Saturday's Meineke Car Care Bowl, 33-22. Trailing 30-7, Northwestern scored 15 straight points to make it a one-possession game with 5:22 rema...
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After a threat through the media to boycott the bowl game this week, Illinois assistant coach Joe Gilbert and a pair of his colleagues were on the field during the pre-game. Former head coach Ron Zook told ESPN.com the assistants were ready to coach ...
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Who: Illinois Fighting Illini vs UCLA Bruins Where: AT&T Park (San Fransisco, California) When: Saturday, Dec 31st at 3:30 PM EST TV: ESPN ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI (6-6, 2-6 in Big Ten) Most Impressive Victory: 17-14 over ...
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The Illinois Fighting Illini of the Big Ten is set to square off with the UCLA Bruins of the PAC 12 in this year's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.The bowl, formerly known as the Emerald Bowl, has a contract to slate the sixth-place finisher of the PAC 12 wi...
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The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is supposed to be an occasion for genuine human uplift: For each ticket sold, bowl organizers donate meals to three food charities in San Francisco, and the game itself is a culmination of Kraft's "Huddle to Fight Hunger" ...
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For critics of the bowl system who believe the proliferation of games has only served to reward undeserving teams, this year's Fight Hunger Bowl could serve as a prime exhibit. Illinois and UCLA head into the game Saturday behind interim coaches, wit...
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Making the morning rounds. • The truth is out there. With Wisconsin's Montee Ball closing in on the official NCAA record for touchdowns in a season, the Oklahoman's Berry Tramel has a familiar bone to pick on behalf of former Oklahoma State hero Ba...
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Illinois running back Jason Ford, the team's leading rusher, is ineligible (academics) for the Dec. 31 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against UCLA.As if the Fighting Illini had not accumulated enough low grades with a six-game losing streak and the firing o...
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Illinois has hired Toledo's Tim Beckman as its football coach. Beckman will replace Ron Zook, who was fired after seven seasons. Copyright 2011, USATODAY.com, USA TODAY
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