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Urban Meyer's Arrival Has Ohio State Football Back on the Track [1]

The Buckeyes will be back in national title contention with Urban Meyer at the helm.

The note was abrupt: “Urban, make sure the garage door is shut.” It wasn’t signed, because there was no mistaking who wrote it.

Soon after Urban Meyer was hired as Ohio State’s new football coach, he moved in with his mentor, Earle Bruce, his former boss when Meyer was a wide-eyed graduate assistant at OSU in 1986 and ’87.

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Ranking College Football's New Coaches From 2011 [6]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [7]
Big 12 [8]
Big East [9]
Big Ten [4]
Conference USA [10]
Independents [11]
MAC [12]
Mountain West [13]
Pac 12 [14]
SEC [15]
Sun Belt [16]
WAC [17]

Where does Will Muschamp's 2011 season rank among new coaches?

As evidenced last season, new coaches can make an immediate impact on college football [18] conference title races. Michigan's hire of Brady Hoke allowed the Wolverines to jump back into a BCS bowl, while James Franklin led Vanderbilt to its second bowl game since 1982.

Athlon ranks the new coaches from 2011 season:

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College Football 2012 All-American Team [19]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [7]
Big 12 [8]
Big East [9]
Big Ten [4]
Conference USA [10]
Independents [11]
MAC [12]
Mountain West [13]
Pac 12 [14]
SEC [15]
Sun Belt [16]
WAC [17]

Wisconsin's Montee Ball is a first-team All-American for 2012.

Picking a college football [18] All-American team is no easy task. Some positions are deeper than others, while it's also difficult to project how a player will perform with the losses or additions around them.

With that in mind, it's time to unveil Athlon's 2012 All-American Team.

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Athlon Sports 2012 All-American Team As Recruits [20]

College Football [2]
ACC [7]
Big 12 [8]
Big East [9]
Big Ten [4]
Independents [11]
Mountain West [13]
Pac 12 [14]
SEC [15]

Athlon Sports looks at how the best players in the nation ranked as high school prospects.

Recruiting is the life blood of college football [18]. And the rankings of the these prospects elicit responses both positive and negative fitting of a nickname like, say, Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. Fans either live and die by star rankings or totally disregard Top 100 lists altogether.

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Can College Football Analysts Avoid Bias When Covering Alma Maters? [21]

College Football [2]
ACC [7]
Big 12 [8]
Big East [9]
Big Ten [4]
Independents [11]
Pac 12 [14]
SEC [15]

Broadcasters must tread a fine line when covering their alma maters

In March 11, 2011, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch columnist Bob Hunter dropped the news — Kirk Herbstreit was leaving Ohio and relocating his family to Nashville. The guy who any serious college football fan knew played quarterback at Ohio State and still contained much love for his Buckeyes found that living in Columbus was no longer bearable.

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Unit Rankings: 2012 Big Ten Wide Receivers [22]

Wisconsin's Jared Abbrederis is one of the Big Ten's top leading receivers.

Kickoff for the 2012 college football [18] 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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College Football: Examining the Skyrocketing Coordinator Salaries [34]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [7]
Big 12 [8]
Big East [9]
Big Ten [4]
Conference USA [10]
Independents [11]
MAC [12]
Mountain West [13]
Pac 12 [14]
SEC [15]
Sun Belt [16]
WAC [17]

Clemson's Chad Morris is one of college football's highest-paid assistants.

There’s more money than ever in college football [18], and assistant coaches are reaping the rewards, with compensation levels rising at a rapid pace

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Northwestern Football: Revisiting the 1995 Wildcats Rose Bowl Team [35]

Northwestern made a surprising run to the Rose Bowl in 1995.

It was midnight on the eve of the 82nd Rose Bowl in Pasadena. A lone figure sat in the partially lit stands gazing out at the fabled field in the near darkness.

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The History of Big Ten Conference Realignment [36]

Conference realignment isn't a new phenomenon and Athlon Sports will prove it to you.

College football expansion has taken over the hearts and minds of college football junkies everywhere.

The sky is falling, rivalries are dead and the future of college football is in great peril. I am here to tell you that this just simply isn’t the case. Conference realignment has been taking place for more than a century and it won’t stop anytime soon. Teams have been switching leagues, conferences have been created out of thin air and college football has powered through all the criticism and into the playoff era.

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Ranking College Football's Conferences for 2012 [37]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [7]
Big 12 [8]
Big East [9]
Big Ten [4]
Conference USA [10]
MAC [12]
Mountain West [13]
Pac 12 [14]
SEC [15]
Sun Belt [16]
WAC [17]

The SEC is once again college football's best conference.

Once again, the SEC ranks as college football's [18] best conference. LSU and Alabama are expected to be national title contenders, while Georgia and South Carolina should finish the year ranked as top-10 teams. While the SEC is college football's No. 1 conference, the Big 12 isn't too far behind. Oklahoma is the favorite to win the conference title, but Texas is on the rise, and the league welcomes West Virginia and TCU as new members in 2012.

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