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College Basketball's Great 68 Questions: 17 for the South Region

SEC College football season hasn’t begun, but here at Athlon we’re already hard at work in thinking about the 2012-13 basketball season. Believe us, the season will be here before you know it. ...

SEC Coaches Talk Anonymously About Conference Foes

SEC It's not easy getting college football coaches to honestly comment on another coach, player or team. Most coaches don't want to give opposing teams billboard material, which is why there ...

44 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Missouri Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, Vanderbilt Commodores

College Football's Top 20 Linebacker Units for 2012

SEC 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 o...

College Football's Top 20 Defensive Back Units for 2012

44 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Independents, Pac 12, SEC

SEC Player Rankings: The Top 75 Players for 2012

SEC With the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M, the SEC is bigger and better than ever. While the Tigers and Aggies probably won't win the conference in 2012, the addition of both teams only adds ...

College Football's Top 20 Offensive Lines for 2012

44 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Independents, Pac 12, SEC, WAC

College Football's Top 20 Wide Receiving Corps for 2012

College football teams we'd like to see on Hard Knocks

SEC College football is the world’s greatest reality show. The competition is more fierce than anything on Survivor. The glory is greater than anything on American Idol. And if you don’t think some...

45 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Akron Zips, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, LSU Tigers, Maryland Terrapins, Tennessee Volunteers, USC Trojans, Washington State Cougars, West Virginia Mountaineers

College Football's Top 25 Running Back Units for 2012

SEC 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 fi...

Texas A&M Aggies 2012 QB Battle: Jameill Showers vs. Johnny Manziel

SEC Moving to the SEC was already expected to be a challenge for Texas A&M, but the Aggies will also have a new head coach and quarterback for 2012. Considering all of the new faces, it may take a ...

45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, Texas A&M Aggies

College Football's Top 20 Storylines to Watch in Fall Practice

SEC The start of the 2012 college football season is just a few weeks away. However, as fall practice kicks off around the nation, plenty of unanswered questions remain, including some that will have a...

College Football's Overrated Trends and Overlooked Numbers

SEC 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 s...

SEC's Top 10 Storylines to Watch in Fall Practice

SEC 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 ...

45 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Missouri Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, Vanderbilt Commodores

Tennessee Fans Create Another Bad College Football Rivalry Video

SEC 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...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: News, SEC, Tennessee Volunteers

College Football's 2012 All-Name Team

SEC 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 ...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

2012 College Football Awards: Sack Masters

SEC 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 membe...

46 weeks ago by Braden Gall Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac 12, SEC

Ranking the nation's top college basketball coaches

SEC Through the last two weeks, Athlon Sports ranked each coach in the ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC along with the top 20 coaches from outside those seven conferences...

46 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, West Coast, Arizona Wildcats, Butler Bulldogs, California Golden Bears, Connecticut Huskies, Duke Blue Devils, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Gonzaga Bulldogs, Indiana Hoosiers, Kansas Jayhawks, Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Marquette Golden Eagles, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, North Carolina Tar Heels, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, Pittsburgh Panthers, Purdue Boilermakers, Saint Louis Billikens, Saint Mary's Gaels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Syracuse Orange, UCLA Bruins, Vanderbilt Commodores, VCU Rams, West Virginia Mountaineers, Wisconsin Badgers

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

SEC 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. For 37 days — a stretch that span...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, Tennessee Volunteers

Mississippi State Football Reveals New Uniforms

SEC 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 ...

46 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: News, SEC, Mississippi State Bulldogs

College Football's 10 Biggest Changes For the 2012 Season

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, ...

47 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Te, Conference USA, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC

Ranking the SEC's basketball coaches

SEC When SEC basketball coaches get together for media days or other offseason events, they may need name tags. Three programs -- LSU, Mississippi State and South Carolina -- have new coache...

47 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State, Missouri Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, Vanderbilt Commodores

Unit Rankings: 2012 SEC Linebackers

SEC 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 s...

47 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Missouri Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Tennessee Volunteers, Texas A&M Aggies, Vanderbilt Commodores

20 Worst College Football Tenures of the Last 50 Years

SEC 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 tho...

47 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Pac 12, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC

Alabama Football: AJ McCarron is an Emerging Star in the SEC

SEC How impressive was AJ McCarron’s performance against LSU in the BCS title game? He had surgery on his shoulder three days later. In fact, McCarron’s whole season was pretty remarkable, and ...

47 weeks ago by Athlon Sports Tags: College Football, SEC, AJ McCarron, Alabama Crimson Tide

Which SEC Football Teams Are on the Rise or Decline Heading into 2012?

SEC With kickoff to the 2012 college football season still weeks away, it's time to evaluate where each team is headed. This is essentially a checkup or a state of the program overview for ea...

47 weeks ago by Steven Lassan Tags: College Football, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Ole Miss Rebels, Texas A&M Aggies

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