All-Americans

FIRST TEAM Offense
Quarterback - Tim Tebow, Florida.
Running backs - Darren McFadden, Arkansas; Kevin Smith, Central Florida.
Wide receivers - Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech; Jordy Nelson, Kansas State.
Tackles - Jake Long, Michigan; Anthony Collins, Kansas.
Guards - Duke Robinson, Oklahoma; Martin O'Donnell, , Illinois.
Center - Steve Justice,Wake Forest.
Tight end - Martin Rucker, Missouri.
All-purpose player - Jeremy Maclin, Missouri.
Kicker - Thomas Weber, Arizona State.

DefenseEnds - Chris Long, Virginia; George Selvie, South Florida.
Tackles - Glenn Dorsey, LSU; Sedrick Ellis, Southern California.
Linebackers - Dan Connor, Penn St, James Laurinaitis, Ohio St Jordon Dizon, Colorado
Cornerbacks - Aqib Talib, Kansas; Antoine Cason, Arizona.
Safeties - Craig Steltz, LSU; Jamie Silva, Boston College.
Punter - Kevin Huber, Cincinnati.

SECOND TEAM Offense
Quarterback - Chase Daniel, Missouri.
Running backs - Ray Rice, Rutgers; Mike Hart, Michigan.
Wide receivers - Mario Manningham, Michigan; Harry Douglas, Louisville.
Tackles - Ryan Clady, Boise State; Sam Baker, Southern California.
Guards - Robert Felton, Arkansas; Anthony Parker, Tennessee.
Center - Jonathan Luigs, Arkansas.
Tight end - Fred Davis, Southern California.
All-purpose player - Felix Jones, Arkansas.
Kicker - Austin Starr, Indiana.

DefenseEnds - Vernon Gholston, Ohio State; Lawrence Jackson, Southern California.
Tackles - Terrill Byrd, Cincinnati; James McClinton, Kansas.
Linebackers - J Leman, Illinois; Curtis Lofton, Oklahoma; Ali Highsmith, LSU.
Cornerbacks - Brandon Flowers, Virginia Tech; Malcolm Jenkins, Ohio State.
Safeties - Patrick Chung, Oregon; William Moore, Missouri.
Punter - Durant Brooks, Georgia Tech.






The AP ALL-AMERICAN TEAMS CAME OUT, usually I do not have a beef with who is picked. Normally if you had a good year you will be on it. And sometimes a player below you will be ahead of you in the teams. And thats fine too but when you do something as ridiculous as put Mike Hart on 2nd team all-american i have a big problem with that. Especially when he is ranked #24th in the nation in rushing. Chris Wells of Ohio state is ranked #10 in the country in yrds. And doesn't even get mentioned in any of the All-American teams. What is the fascination with Hart, he is undersized, gets hurt and doesn't lead his team to victories. You can argue Ohio State was a better offensive team. But that is far from the truth, Michigan had a better QB, better Wide Receivers, Tight Ends. And yet he only ran for 1200 yds, the so called key to Michigan winning. I would say Chris Wells meant more to the Buckeyes than did Hart. Well ran for 200 yds more. Here is the numbers and you decide


NCAA Division I-A Rushing Leaders: 2007



10. Chris Wells, Ohio St 254 attempts 1463 yds 5.8yds per carry 14 Tds



24. Mike Hart, Michigan 233 attempts 1232 yds 5.3 yds per carry 12 Tds

Tressel Ball

For those college football fans that are not fans of Ohio State have a hard time understanding or taking a liking to the way Tressel coaches. Now a days its all about how many passing yards, the big highlight plays, and putting up 40pts per game. Tressel aka Senator Tressel brings back the old school football days. Running the football, playing top 5 Defense and field position. Sure Tressel isn't the flashiest of coaches but he expects execution from his players. And yes sometimes it doesn't work against teams like Florida and Illinois with the spread offense but everybody has their bad days. And I'm sure his record will only improve against those types of teams when he gets more chances to play them.

Since taking over the reins of the Ohio State football team in 2001, Tressel has guided the Buckeyes to an overall record of 73-15, six bowl appearances, including four BCS games(soon to be 5), five 10-win seasons, four Big Ten titles and one national championship. Tressel is 2nd behind Pete Carroll in wins since 2001, Carroll comes in with 65-12 record not counting this year. Carroll has brought 2 Nat'l titles. So to those who hate on the way tressel coaches shouldn't hate because it isn't flashy he does what he has to do to give his players best chance to compete and win.

And to those who hate on the ohio state schedule, they tend to forget past 2 years we have competed against Texas a top 5 program. And have USC on our schedule coming up other top programs play teams well below their level. Look at michigan playing app st, LSU playing tulane, Alabama vs UL Monore. So to all those saying we play a soft schedule we are not the only team in the NCAA that does this. Your goal is to go undefeated and compete for a National Title.





Who Dey

All I can say is I am completely ....I dont even know

56-10 patriots over the bills.

wow.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=273212561

Siena pulls the upset over Stanford... and people questioned syracuses win over them?

I realize the travel involved pry helped siena..but still a big win...

Impressed with ....
VT - defense continues good play.
Michigan - with their poor play, just as i expected.
Michael crabtree, what a play, what a play...how is that play overturned...13-7 early lead for texas tech

michigan ohio state game

These two storied programs are showing why a lot of people have no respect for the big ten.

Slow, pound em and boring football.

Saying that, I'm enjoying...
7-3 ohio state so far with a few minutes left in the first half.

Scariest? Maybe not but def sexiest....

Great article about the least scary mascots at schools.

Being an orange fan...I'm not worried about scary...only sexy.

http://www.collegenews.com/feature.php?newsid=2421

Ramblin On.....

NFL History

November 16, 1980 Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-30 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Check out all the stats from his nine year career.

For those of you that know little about me, there isn't much to me except that I love sports. During football season I literally watch sports all weekend long, and yet still maintain a girlfriend. When I hear someone or anyone for that matter talking football, I get goosebumps, feel butterflies, am giddy like a school girl....you get my point. But I just love to talk football from formations, to stats, trends, players, stadiums, all of it.


If you were to ask me what intrigues me about the NFL I would answer back with the QB position as it is related to African Americans. As a tot I was a Washington Redskins fan (not by choice, I didn't know any better). That's where the love started those Redskins teams under the guidance of Joe Gibbs were simply magnificent. They displayed great defensed led by players such as Dexter Manley (my all time favorite), Darrell Green, Charles Mann, Wilbur Marshall, and many other. But as a kid I really didn't care about that too much I was all about the offense and at that time the Redskins had it all with the best WR's the posse (Clark, Monk and Sanders), the best offensive line --The Hogs (Bostic, Joe Jacoby, Russ Grimm, Mark May, and others). I saw running backs like Earnest Byner, Gerald Riggs, and Timmy Smith...talk about smash mouth football. Gibbs had one plan in mind -- Run the ball down the opposing teams throat. Now that I have rambled on. Its time to get to that moment when I first saw "IT".


The 'IT' that I am referring to as the events that took place on the evening of January 31, 1988. I was a 7 year old kid getting ready for Super Bowl XXII. I had spent most of the day in the back yard tossing the football to myself acting as if were Doug Williams trying to lead the Redskins past the Broncos. I quickly realized that I was not Doug when my mom came out and asked "Who are you out here talking to?" And told her to buzz off and that we were down by 6 with 1:30 on the clock, no timeouts inside our own 10, and we had to win the game.


That night I saw something spectacular, I saw sports history. Doug Williams not only became the first black (and only one so far) to hoist the Lombardi trophy, but they way in which he did it really stands out in my mind--throwing 4 TD passes in a single quarter.WOW!!! I had never wanted to be a QB until I first saw Doug Williams play the position on the last regular season game that season when he came in for at the time my boy....JAY SCHROEDER.


From Doug Williams to Warren Moon to Randall Cunningham (awww) to Donovan Mcnabb and Michael Vick the dynamics of the quarterback position has drastically changed from pop Werner football all the way to the NFL.


Man this is a lot. The point I was trying to get across is I love sports, and as I get older I have grown to appreciate all the history with all the leagues, teams, stadiums. Its all just so fascinating to me. It should be a college major or something...



if the (3-6) Falcons beat the division leading (5-4) Buccaneers this weekend to push the win streak to 3, can we start talking playoffs?????