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Athlon Awards: Best Defensive Line Units

College Football They're the teams within the team - those cohesive little units bound together by their shared responsibilities within the larger team context. Whether it's the offensive linemen firing off tim...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big Ten, Mountain West, SEC, Baker Steinkuhler, Billy Winn, Brandon Jenkins, Devin Taylor, Jadeveon Clowney, Jared Crick, Shea McClellin, Arkansas, Boise State, Florida, Florida State, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio State, South Carolina, Texas, Athlon Awards

Top 25 Players of the BCS Era

College Football Athlon's editors have voted on the top 25 players of the BCS era. ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big East, Big Ten, big-12, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Adrian Peterson, Cam Newton, LaDainian Tomlinson, Michael Vick, Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, Vince Young, Arizona State, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, oklahoma, Ole Miss, Pitt, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, USC, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin

Predicting College Football's Breakout Players: Big East

College Football by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) What is a breakout player? Defining that term isn’t exactly easy. Although Big East fans are likely already familiar with the names on this li...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Florida, Syracuse, West Virginia

Athlon Awards: Wide Receiver Units

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, Greg Childs, Jeff Fuller, Justin Blackmon, Michael Floyd, Ryan Broyles, Arizona, Arkansas, baylor, Florida State, Missouri, Notre Dame, oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Washington, Athlon Awards

Predicting College Football's Breakout Players: ACC

College Football by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) What is a breakout player? Defining that term isn’t exactly easy. Although ACC fans are likely already familiar with the names on this list, this i...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest

Athlon Awards: Running Back Units

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Christine Michael, LaMichael James, Marcus Lattimore, Montee Ball, Trent Richardson, Alabama, Arkansas, Boston College, Michigan State, Ohio State, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Washington, Wisconsin, Athlon Awards

North Carolina vs. Ohio State: The Violations Scorecard

College Football Two programs, one with a middling college football tradition and one comfortably nested among college football's elite, currently face the heavy hammer of the NCAA's compliance police. Both have re...

1 year ago by Scott Henry Tags: College Football, ACC, Big Ten, Marvin Austin, Terrelle Pryor, North Carolina, Ohio State, Butch Davis, Jim Tressel, NCAA Violations

Ranking the SEC's Top 40 Players for 2011

College Football By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the college football season with a look at the top 40 players for 2011 in the...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, SEC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

Bubba Starling Is A Wanted Man

College Football Bubba Starling University of Nebraska/Kansas City Royals Hometown: Gardner, Kan. There is no truth to the rumors that Bubba Starling could hit 10 home runs, rush for 350 yards, cure the com...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, Monthly, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Kansas City Royals, Bubba Starling

College Fantasy Mock Draft

College Football The 2011 college football season is less than 40 days away and many fantasy drafts will start over the next month. To help prepare for your upcoming fantasy draft, Athlon Sports has completed its s...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Fantasy, Fantasy Football

Athlon Awards: Quarterback Units

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Arizona, baylor, Boise State, Cincinnati, Georgia, Hawaii, Houston, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Notre Dame, oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon, Stanford, Tulsa, USC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Athlon Awards

Vanderbilt Cheerleaders

College Football Vanderbilt Cheerleaders from the Athlon Archive! ...

1 year ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, Cheerleaders, Cheerleaders

2011 ACC Championship: Florida State or The Field?

College Football Debate: Who would you pick to win the ACC Championship: Florida State Seminoles or The Field? Patrick Snow (@AthlonSnowman): I’ll take Florida State over the field in the ACC, and you can sp...

1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, ACC, Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, FSU

Ranking Conference USA's Top 25 Players for 2011

College Football By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the college football season with a look at Conference USA's top 25 players fo...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Conference USA, East Carolina, Houston, Marshall, Memphis, Rice, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB, UCF, UTEP

Looking Back at the Top 10 Recruits from 2006

College Football by Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden on Twitter) Every year, millions of dollars and man hours are spent trying to acquire talent by college football programs across this great country. Attemptin...

1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football

Who Will Coach North Carolina in 2012?

College Football By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) and Mitch Light (@AthlonMitch) It's really no surprise North Carolina decided to end Butch Davis' tenure. However, the timing of his firing was odd. ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, North Carolina, Butch Davis fired, coaching search, UNC Coach

The Best Quarterback in the Big Ten?

College Football The Big 12, Pac-12 and Big Ten are three of the deepest quarterback conferences in the nation. Athlon's editors have debated which quarterback they would vote No. 1 in the Big 12, and Andrew Luck i...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big Ten, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin

Looking Back at the Top Recruits of 2006: 20-11

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football

Is Louisville the Big East's Surprise Team for 2011?

College Football By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) Defining what is a surprise team is no easy task. Over the next couple of weeks, Athlon will take a look at a team from each of the ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big East, Louisville

Looking Back at the Top Recruits of 2006: 30-21

1 year ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC

College Football's Coaches on the Hot Seat

College Football The coaching carousel is usually one of the most intriguing elements of college football's regular season and has been in full effect since May with the departure of Jim Tressel at Ohio State and B...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC, Coaches on the hot seat, Mark Richt

Looking Back at the Top Recruits of 2006: 40-31

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football

College Football: Projecting the 2011 Win Totals

College Football by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter) The countdown to kickoff for the 2011 college football season is less than 40 days away. With fall camps opening up in a matter of days, now is anoth...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Ranking the Big 12's Top 35 Players for 2011

College Football By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven) Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the college football season with a look at the top 35 players for 2011 in the Big 12. ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big 12, baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech

Over/Under Texas Wins in 2011

College Football Texas lost to the likes UCLA, Baylor, Iowa State and Kansas State en route to a 5-7 season in 2010. Everyone expects the Longhorns to bounce back - but how far? Over/Under Texas Longhorns win ...

1 year ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, Big 12, Texas Longhorns

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