TE Jermaine Gresham will miss Saturday’s season opener against the 20th rank BYU Cougars according to the Oklahoman. The senior Mackey Award candidate injured his knee this week in practice but school officials are keeping a tight lid on the severity of the injury. The Sooners will turn to either James Hanna or Trent Ratterree to fill in for Greshman this Saturday. Greshman surprised many by coming back to Oklahoma for his senior season as he was a sure bet to...
Ticket prices for big games are off the charts If you want to go to some of the biggest college football games this season, you better start saving your lunch money. Even with this economic downturn, major college football ticket sales are off the charts. As of now, the most highly sought out ticket is the USC v Ohio State game on September 12th. The average ticket price is hovering above $800 compared to the average ticket price of...
Recruiting is heating up and rivals has all the updates. As of now, here are the rivals top 5 2010 recruiting classes. 1. Texas 2. LSU 3. Florida 4. Oklahoma 5. Alabama The SEC continues to have a strong hold on recruiting the nation’s top talent, but don’t let this list fool you, there is a lot of time to recruit and usually players and teams get verbal commits later in the season. At least, that’s how it works...
USC’s Pete Carroll is accustomed to shaking down most of LA for recruits with little to no challenge from cross-town rival UCLA. If July is any indicator of things to come, Carroll may not be able to take that for granted for much longer. Coach Rick Neuheisel and his Bruins are making their presence in the valley known and have been hitting the recruiting circuit hard this summer. UCLA has already had an extremely active July (3 commits) and recently secured...
The favored to win the 2010 BCS National Championship Game is Florida at 2/1. It’s a solid bet, but other teams to consider are: Texas (8/1): The Longhorns will have a potent offense and will simply win by outscoring their opponents. To be a solid contender, the defense must step up their play and pray opposing offenses have bad days.
Where do we even begin with the Big XII? The same conference that provided many of highlight reel material for Sports Center on Saturday nights for their fast break offenses also captured the eyes and ears of the college football world as the result of a three way tie near the end of the season. Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech each finished with one loss in conference and Big XII officials were confused on how to deal with the...
