College Football's Overrated Trends and Overlooked Numbers

Beware: What statistics have been overrated and overlooked for 2012

With college football season less than a month away, some (but hopefully not all) preseason predictions and projections will be moot. Trust us, we’ve been digesting our thoughts on the upcoming season since the end of spring practice and even the end of bowl season.

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SEC's Top 10 Storylines to Watch in Fall Practice

LSU looks for a big season from quarterback Zach Mettenberger.

Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is just around the corner. However, plenty of unanswered questions remain around the nation for every team. Injuries, quarterback battles and players that need to step up to make a run at the conference title will all be under the spotlight over the next couple of weeks.

The SEC's 10 Biggest Storylines to Watch in Fall Practice

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Tennessee Fans Create Another Bad College Football Rivalry Video

We are all for creativity and cheering for your college football team, but sometimes it can result in some embarrassing videos.

Remember Texas A&M's Welcome to the SEC video? That was only one of many bad college football song/cheer videos that have been released this summer.

The trend continues with the band Elevated releasing the song and video "Overcome the Tide." We give them points for creativity, but the execution and song is certainly lacking.

Our reaction? The college football season can't get here fast enough.

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College Football's 2012 All-Name Team

Jake Stoneburner makes Athlon's 2012 All-Name Team.

With 124 teams in the FBS and around 100 players on a roster, there are certainly some interesting names that pop-up throughout the course of production for Athlon's 2012 college football magazine or online research.

We took a look through the rosters for the 124 teams and pulled out some of the funniest and more interesting names in college football for the 2012 season.

College Football's All-Name Team for 2012

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2012 College Football Awards: Sack Masters

Athlon is releasing its own set of preseason watch lists. Today, we the top pass rushers.

History, and most every rational brain in sports, indicates that the quarterback position is easily the most important and valuable on any football roster. In order to protect the most valued member of the team, the NFL has proven that the left tackle is the second most important position on the field.

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Tennessee Football: 2012 Is a Make or Break Year for Derek Dooley

Derek Dooley needs a big season to save his job.

The fan base isn’t happy. He’s working for a new athletic director. He won one SEC game in 2011. Simply Derek Dooley needs to win – and win right away.

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Mississippi State Football Reveals New Uniforms

Under coach Dan Mullen, Mississippi State is a program on the rise and has made a few uniform and helmet changes in the last few years. The Bulldogs will have another tweak in 2012, adding a white stripe on the helmet and a brighter maroon color on the home jerseys.

Here's a look at Mississippi State's new jerseys for 2012:

New Mississippi State Home Jersey

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College Football's 10 Biggest Changes For the 2012 Season

Texas A&M is on the move from the Big 12 to the SEC.

Simply put, college football fans may never again witness the pure volume and amplitude of changes which will take place as the 2012 season unravels itself. Below is a list of the top-ten changes, in ascending order of significance (defined by national impact and/or the precedent for the listed change):

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Unit Rankings: 2012 SEC Linebackers

Georgia's Jarvis Jones should be one of the top linebackers in the nation.

Kickoff for the 2012 college football season is still two months away, but it's never too early to project how the year might play out. Athlon will be taking a look at how each position stacks up in the BCS conferences and nationally until the start of the season.

Each unit ranking was evaluated based upon how it will perform in 2012 - not how the team played in 2011.

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20 Worst College Football Tenures of the Last 50 Years

Paul Wulff had an awful tenure as Washington State's coach.

Sometimes a coach inherits a bad team. In some cases, through recruiting, game plan and inspiration, that coach can turn a bad team into a good or even great team. The guys on this list are not those coaches. Here are the 20 worst coaching tenures in the past 50 years of college football.