Last year, when Alabama came to face Texas in Austin, to say the University of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band didn’t receive a warm reception from the Texas administration would be an understatement. The MDB was going to be placed in
Talk about proving a point. For moments during Sunday night’s game between No. 5 LSU and No. 8 Florida State, FSU quarterback Jordan Travis appeared overwhelmed, and even flustered. The fourth quarter didn’t have many of those moments. The Seminoles
Do the Atlantic Coast Conference’s championship hopes ride on Florida State’s ability – or inability – to knock off LSU tonight? Well, that’s a ridiculous jump to a conclusion, one way or another. But the Seminoles will take on coach
The Big 12 Conference’s off-the-field stock might be rising, but on the field, Saturday, Sept. 2 might be remembered as one of the darkest days in recent memory, at least for some of the league’s latest up-and-coming programs. TCU, Baylor
Raise your hands out there if you think Alabama head coach Nick Saban needs advice. {Crickets.} Yeah, me too. I doubt seriously the Leader of The Process, who came back to college football in 2008 after not doing swimmingly as
Maybe the slogan for the Big 12 in the 2023 season should be, “The Big 12: We Can’t Count. But hey, you’re getting more football!” The largely-Texas-based conference actually has 14 programs this season. In addition to the teams that
It began last week, technically, but only in small scale. Saturday, it’s everybody in the pool. The 2023 season is completely, totally, 100 percent under way this weekend, unless you happen to be LSU and Florida State, I guess. They
Seems like everybody was dying to get to Arlington this year. The Big 12 Conference, the American Athletic Conference, and Conference USA all had their media days in Arlington within just a couple of weeks of each other. And thefootballbeat.com was blessed.
Those of you who were actually alive prior to Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and HORACE GRANT – the original three-peat Chicago Bulls – terrorized the NBA in the early 1990s might remember the cute little nickname that some of the
University of Georgia tight end Brock Bowers appeared to draw the biggest crowd of media at SEC Media Days in Nashville for his brief question-and-answer session back on July 18. Bowers, a big, strong kid who might very well be