It wasn’t too long when Notre Dame QB Tommy Rees was 3rd on the depth chart behind Dayne Crist and Nate Montana. Now, the 18 year-old freshman is set to make his grand starting debut for the most storied football program in the nation. Rees, a true freshman who left high school early to enroll at Notre Dame, will be the starting QB as the Irish and 81,000 fans take on #14 Utah this Saturday afternoon. With Dayne Crist...
The Midshipmen will meet President Barack Obama today at 4:00 p.m. for the annual presentation of the 2009 Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. Last season, the Midshipmen defeated Air Force (16-13) and Army (17-3) to clinch their 7th consecutive trophy. As of late, Navy has dominated the service academies winning 15 consecutive games dating back to 2002. The Midshipmen completed the 2009 season with a 35-13 win over Missouri in the Texas Bowl. The Air Force Falcons still have the most Commander-in-Chief’s...
The Armed Forces Bowl has reached an agreement with Army that will pave the way for the Black Knights to play in the bowl game next season. Currently the Armed Forces Bowl has a contractual obligation to pick between Conference USA and Mountain West Conference teams that are bowl eligible at the end of the season. With this new agreement, Army, an independent team, will join the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy as potential teams for the bowl...
Yankee Stadium will be the site for the New Era Pinstripe Bowl which will take place on December 30th., 2010. The Pinstripe Bowl will feature the #3 team from the Big East and the #6 team from the Big XII. The two conferences, along with New Era and Yankee officials, agreed to play until the 2013 college football season. Earlier this year, Army and Notre Dame agreed to play at Yankee Stadium on November 20th., 2010 also. Football games...
Notre Dame and Maryland will meet on November 12, 2011, at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland. As of last year, Notre Dame’s athletic department decided to play one home game a year away from South Bend. As a result, the Irish played Washington State in San Antonio last season at the Alamodome, and are scheduled to play at the new Yankee Stadium against Army next season. While D.C. has a large number of Notre Dame alums, the University of Maryland is only 15...
What is going on over at Vandy? First, the team lost a heart breaking game to Army this past weekend. Yes, the mighty SEC lost to Army. Now Vandy is dealing with another loss. Vanderbilt just announced the indefinite suspension of sophomore RB Jermaine Doster following his arrest by Nashville police the day before the Army game (Doster wasn’t on the traveling team). Coach Bobby Johnson confirmed the suspension today. Apparently, Doster was in a late night melee in...
The moment that college football fans have been waiting all year for has finally arrived. Today marks the official kickoff of the 2009-2010 college football season as the North Carolina State Wolfpack host the South Carolina Gamecocks at 7 p.m. EST on ESPN. Fans from Pullman, WA, to Piscataway, NJ, will be wearing their school colors with a little more pride than usual starting today. 119 Division 1 teams are starting fresh with the hopes of playing on January...
According to ESPN, Army has agreed to play three more football games in Yankee stadium in addition to the Notre Dame game scheduled for the fall of 2010. As of now, Army will host Rutgers in 2011, Air Force in 2012, and Boston College in 2014. This is exciting news for the college football community as it is reminiscent of the old tradition of gridiron in Yankee Stadium.
