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College Football's 2012 All-Name Team [1]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [4]
Big 12 [5]
Big East [6]
Big Ten [7]
Conference USA [8]
Independents [9]
MAC [10]
Mountain West [11]
Pac 12 [12]
SEC [13]
Sun Belt [14]
WAC [15]

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 [16]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [4]
Big 12 [5]
Big East [6]
Big Ten [7]
Pac 12 [12]
SEC [13]

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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Pac-12 Football's Breakout Players for 2012 [17]

Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey should be one of the top breakout players in 2012.

Every year, college football [29] fans are introduced to a handful of players that become household names by the end of the season. Predicting which players will breakout any year is never an easy task.

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USC Football: Matt Barkley's Return Has Trojans Poised to Win National Title [30]

Barkley's return to L.A. has USC in the mix to win the title in 2012.

The official announcement came on a bright December day just before Christmas, and throughout Southern California, the stunning news flicked on smiles like so many twinkling holiday lights.

Matt Barkley was coming back.

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College Football's 10 Biggest Changes For the 2012 Season [31]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [4]
Big 12 [5]
Big East [6]
Big Te [32]
Conference USA [8]
Mountain West [11]
Pac 12 [12]
SEC [13]

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

Simply put, college football [29] 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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20 Worst College Football Tenures of the Last 50 Years [33]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [4]
Big 12 [5]
Big East [6]
Big Ten [7]
Conference USA [8]
Independents [9]
MAC [10]
Mountain West [11]
Pac 12 [12]
SEC [13]
Sun Belt [14]
WAC [15]

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 [29].

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Unit Rankings: 2012 Pac-12 Linebackers [34]

Stanford's Shayne Skov is coming off a torn ACL.

Kickoff for the 2012 college football [29] 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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Pac-12 Football: Leach, Rodriguez and Graham Add Spice and Intrigue [35]

Arizona hit a home run with its hire of Rich Rodriguez.

Don’t expect Monte Kiffin to sleep very much from about Oct. 21-Nov. 10. The USC [37]defensive coordinator doesn’t get a lot of rest during the season to begin with, but the opponents the Trojans will face during that specific three-game stretch could lead to some particularly long nights.

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Who Will Be The First College Football Coach Fired in 2012? [38]

College Football [2]
News [3]
ACC [4]
Big 12 [5]
Big East [6]
Big Ten [7]
Conference USA [8]
Independents [9]
MAC [10]
Mountain West [11]
Pac 12 [12]
SEC [13]
Sun Belt [14]
WAC [15]

Boston College's Frank Spaziani enters 2012 on the hot seat.

Coaching in the college football [29] ranks is no easy task. 28 programs changed head coaches at the end of 2011 and there will be no shortage of openings following the 2012 season.

Who Will Be The First College Football Coach Fired in 2012?

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Unit Rankings: 2012 Pac-12 Defensive Lines [39]

Oregon's Dion Jordan looks for another big season in 2012.

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

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