The day all of us have been waiting for is finally here: the start of the college football season. But be honest. The season doesn’t feel like it’s really started until College GameDay airs for the first time. Beginning its 24th year of existence, GameDay has become just as big an event as the football game it visits. We take a look at how this once little-known show became the gold standard in college football coverage.
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Michigan’s Chris Perry Released By UFL’s Sacramento Mountain Lions
It’s been a bad year for Chris Perry. Arrested in April for a fight with a family member, the UFL’s Sacramento Mountain Lions just released Perry, meaning he’ll fade back into obscurity without ever really coming out of it. Perry last played in the NFL in 2008. He was a 2003 Heisman Trophy finalist and a 2004 first round pick of the Cincinnati Bengals. Chris Perry profile
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Boise State’s Jared Zabransky Now Third String For CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos
Lost in the excitement of Boise State’s 2007 Fiesta Bowl win and the proposal by Ian Johnson after the game was the fact that Jared Zabransky was Boise State’s star player. In fact he was the MVP of the game. For his career, he threw for 8,076 yards and 57 touchdowns. Today, he’s buried on the depth chart of the CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos.
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USF’s Bill Gramatica Still Living Down Embarrassing Injury, Now In Construction
It’ll be impossible for South Florida’s Bill Gramatica to live down his ACL injury after celebrating a field goal … in the first quarter. But Gramatica has no regrets. “My jump was excellent. It was my landing I needed to work on,” he told the Arizona Republic. “It was funny.” Today Gramatica runs a company that specializes in energy-efficient construction with his brothers Martin and Santiago. Bill Gramatica profile
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College Football’s Top 20 FBS Super Fans
If the NFL is considered America’s new religion, then the college game is our nation’s biggest cult. The most rabid U.S. sports fans, millions of them fill stadiums across the country each fall Saturday and literally live and die college football.
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CFB’s Top 10 Back-To-School Coaching Bombs
When NFL head coaches head back to campus for college gigs, they’re expected to roll out of bed and win 10 games a year. Unlike the “No Fun League,” there are cupcakes on the schedule, there’s no salary cap to worry about, recruits are impressed to be sought after by a household name when some of the opposing head coaches on the trail still look like they’re in college themselves (sorry, Pat Fitzgerald).
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Northern Iowa’s Ali Farokhmanesh Takes Clutch Shooting To Switzerland
We’re a little behind on this, but we had to run it: Northern Iowa guard and NCAA Tournament legend Ali Farokhmanesh is headed overseas to play in the Switzerland . He went down in Big Dance lore ahead hitting a clutch 3-pointer to knock off UNLV, then hitting another trey to beat Kansas that landed him on the cover of Sports Illustrated. You can bet we’ll be keeping an eye on “Strokemanesh” in the 2010-11 season.
Site News:
Introducing The Brand New “School Filter”
Notice anything different on our site? We have a new feature to introduce: the school filter. The feed allows you to find posts related only to your school. Just place your cursor over the baby blue dropdown box at the top of page and a menu appears with all the FBS conferences. Then find your school and, voilà, see all the amazing content we have related to your program. For example, if you’re a Wolverine fanatic, check out our Michigan News Feed.
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Top 10 High-Flying Offenses Of 2010
Sometimes it’s just more fun to watch a football team take the field and rack up points like they were playing on junior varsity mode in NCAA. We count down the Top 10 offenses that will be the most entertaining to watch each fall Saturday that will have you tuning in and strapping on your seat belt.
God Shammgod Podcast:
Preparing To Go Back To The Far East
Providence’s God Shammgod talks about what he’s been up to recently, his plans to play in China next season and how things in the Far East have changed for the better since the 2008 Beijing Olympics (run time is 5:15; transcript below the jump).
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Feature:
Dylan Doesn’t Fall “Favre” From The Tree
As the Brett Favre Watch commences with news Brad Childress is currently in Mississippi, another Favre will begin his freshman year at Mississippi State with much less attention. Dylan Favre, Brett’s nephew, hates to be compared to his famous uncle but it’s hard not to analogize the two. As Dylan embarks on making a name for himself, we look at the similarities and differences between the two quarterbacks.
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Top 10 Historically Hapless Major FB Programs
If you think you’ve got it tough as a Michigan or Syracuse fan, imagine if your program hadn’t just hit a couple down years – but down decades or even down generations. In fact, some football programs in BCS conferences have been doormats so long they’re as much a part of homecoming at other schools as tiaras. We look at the Top 10 Historically Hapless Football Programs from the six BCS conferences. – Scott Parry
