Blog entry from September analyzing Arizona quarterback Nick Foles.
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Jon has strongly stood by his belief that Arizona QB Nick Foles is the best pure passer the Hawks will see in 2010. There has hardly been a consensus on that notion. Many posters feel that the Hawks will see several better passers, or more dangerous quarterbacks. However, many of those detractors fail to see the distinction that Jon makes: yes, Terrelle Pryor is a more dangerous QB because...

After an “embarrassing” loss to unranked, two-loss UCLA, Texas is still ranked ahead of Iowa and Miami.

In college football the importance of the polls is paramount and well documented. After all, they decide who plays in the most coveted game of the season, the BCS National Championship.

Coaches like Urban Meyer, Bo Pelini, Paul Rhoads, and Ron Zook make up the 2010 USA Today Board of Coaches. Along with 55 other FBS head coaches, they rank the top 25 teams each week...

I know that Saturday's loss has been tough to swallow and rightly so. I think many Hawkeye fans are like me in thinking that had Iowa played their typical fundamentally sound style of football they would have had a great opportunity to leave Tucson with a "W". Unfortunately that isn't the way things work in the real world and especially in competitive sports. One bright spot from my perspective is despite the loss is that Iowa didn't fold up and get blown out. It reminded me a lot...

A couple weeks ago we learned what the divisions will be in the Big Ten starting next year. In taking a look at the last eight years, the west division has been very balanced. Here is who would have won the division each year:

(Regular season totals only)
2009 - Iowa and Nebraska with 10 wins
2008 - Nebraska, MSU, and NW with 9 wins (MSU beat NW)
2007 - Michigan with 8 wins
2006 - Michigan with 11 wins
2005 - Nebraska with 8 wins
2004 -...

Well, it’s that time of the year again. Yes, summer is just about coming to an end, which means most people will start whining about the fact that winter is right around the corner. For the rest of us, it means football season is finally here. For those of you that weren’t fortunate enough to read my post on rivals last year, these were my picks from this time a year ago (minus the breakdown of each team):

1.) Ohio State 11-1 (7-1) - Rose Bowl - actually went 10-2 (7-1) and...