Week 1 is here, and several high-profile SEC teams will enter play with quarterback situations still in flux. Alabama will square off with USC Saturday night with either Cooper Bateman or Blake Barnett taking the snaps, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart will start senior Greyson Lambert according to Chip Towers of DawgNation.com, but true freshman Jacob Eason could also play against North Carolina, South Carolina enters play with senior Perry Orth and true freshman Brandon McIlwain vying ...

College football's Week 1 slate features some of the most marquee matchups we'll see all year, and in the ACC, it's no different. Several games could make or break seasons. Three of the top showdowns feature ACC participants, including perhaps the biggest game in the Labor Day night tilt between Florida State and Ole Miss. Everybody is looking forward to that game, which features a pair of Top 15 teams that could find themselves in the national title ...

The Pac-12 Conference is coming off a 2015 college football season of mixed results. On one hand, 10 of the league's 12 teams qualified for bowl games, the most ever, but none of them earned a much-coveted spot in the College Football Playoff. What will happen in 2016? We'll find out soon enough, as the opening week of action is just around the corner. In Week 1, 11 Pac-12 schools make their 2016 season debut, with California ...

Ole Miss is a dangerous dog under head coach Hugh Freeze, going 7-8 straight up and 11-4 against the spread when getting points during his tenure. But the underdog Rebels will have their hands full when they take on one of the favorites to win the championship this season, Florida State, in the season opener for both teams Monday night at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida.   Point spread: The Seminoles opened as five-point favorites, according to ...

On the final Saturday of last November, a mentally depleted Urban Meyer took center stage in the crowded interview room adjacent to the visitor's locker room in Michigan Stadium.  Having just beaten the Wolverines for his fourth consecutive time as Ohio State's head coach, Meyer—hoarse voice and all—offered a reminder that winning a rivalry game is never easy. "You don't train for that game in one week," he said. "That's all year." With Jim Harbaugh in charge of ...

HOUSTON — The story, as Tom Herman tells it while tucked deep down in his office couch, goes something like this.  Before he won a national title with a third-string quarterback at Ohio State as the program’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, before he led Houston to a 13-1 season in his first year as head coach, before he was known as one of football's most coveted natural resources, Herman was the offensive coordinator at Rice. This was his ...

It's been a long time since college football left you. It went out for cigarettes 90 or so minutes after Nick Saban, in the midst of one of the greatest national championships of our lifetime, called for an onside kick of all things. He made this call knowing it had failed over and over and over in practice leading up to the game against Clemson, with the title slipping through his fingertips. Only this time it worked. And ...

Football fans can finally start to breathe again. NFL teams have been playing preseason games throughout August, but exhibition games mean little to most football fans.  The NFL is still more than a week away from getting started, but college football is here. The first full weekend of the season is upon us, and there are a slew of exciting matchups that should get the season off to a memorable start. Let's start with Alabama, the defending national ...