BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (August 7, 2020) – The Southeastern Conference on Friday announced the two additional non-divisional opponents each school will play as part of the SEC’s conference-only football schedule in 2020.
The 2017 Alabama Crimson Tide would not have won the national championship under the current College Football Playoff schedule, which was announced on Wednesday afternoon.
So, the SEC will release a 10-game completely conference schedule fairly soon, certainly by the end of the first week of August… or at least, that’s what I and many others think. This delay can’t […]
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama July 30, 2020) – The Southeastern Conference has established September 26 as the new kickoff for its 2020 football season to allow its universities to focus on the healthy return of their campus […]
There are so many different news components to the coronavirus pandemic: the medical side, the economic side, the governmental side, the cultural side, and dozens of other aspects of life.
LSU won a big recruiting battle in mid-July as the Tigers picked up a big commitment in 4-star linebacker Greg Penn III out of Hyattsville (Md.) DeMatha High school.
There will not be a USC-Alabama game on September 5. That is one of the higher-profile games involving an SEC team which will not take place in 2020, due to COVID-19. With the Pac-12 and […]
As the United States continues to wrestle with COVID-19 and all of its various complications, virtually any column on college football in a pandemic has to begin with these three basic statements:
It has been necessary to focus our attention on college football, which faces a stiff-enough challenge in its own right to play this fall. The NFL has a much better chance of being able to […]
The Southeastern Conference released a statement on Friday that addressed the status of players who refuse to participate in athletic contests in the fall of 2020.
Given that six weeks has generally (if not uniformly) been established as the most reasonable timetable for a college football team to sufficiently prepare for the start of the season, any attempt to play a […]
No date has been specified for the virtual version of SEC Media Days later this summer. The event was originally scheduled for next week (July 13-16). If anything, it is likely to be later than […]
It is not always the flashy recruits that build a program. There are few positions less flashy than offensive tackle – offensive guard perhaps – but all the quarterback talent in the world is worthless […]
A lot of the conflict in the college sports community can be found in online clashes between sportswriters who keep writing with a lot of caution (at best) and negativity (at worst) about playing college […]
Professional basketball and Major League Baseball — on an immediate level — have nothing to do with SEC sports. Yet, it is hard to ignore the distinctly different paths being carved out by these two […]
The most important word in the title of this story is “football,” not because SEC football is more important than public health, but because it is its own separate consideration.
We are slowly getting more and more of an understanding of what needs to be done to carry college sports through a pandemic, but please emphasize the word “slowly.” Full understanding won’t immediately arrive.
Picking up those 4-star prospects is always a good feeling. That is what Ed Orgeron and LSU did earlier this week when the received the commitment of 4-star safety Khari Gee out of Woodward Academy […]
Yes, Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, and Georgia are the teams most likely to be in the mix for the College Football Playoff and national championship at season’s end, provided that we are able to go […]
Student-Athletes Given Opportunity to Engage in Strength & Conditioning Activities That Can Be Effectively Monitored and Performed While Social Distancing.
They say that the rich only get richer and that seems to be the case here as the current national champions picked up their first running back commitment of the 2021 recruiting cycle.
Inside are the 2018-19 SEC football academic progress rates. The NCAA released the Academic Progress rates for the 2018-19 school year today. In the SEC a Ole Miss led the way (997) followed by Alabama […]
I know, I know: We have to start the college football season before we can worry about how it will end. Of course we have to wrestle with the start of the season and the […]
The transformation of Joe Burrow into an all-conquering QB in 2019 is paying dividends on the recruiting trial for head coach Ed Orgeron and the LSU Tigers.
For any incoming freshmen, the next college basketball season — whenever it begins — will be what a freshman season typically is: a new journey, a big opportunity bursting with possibility and hope. Yes, the […]
The first thing to say about a question as big as this one is: We don’t truly know. Mature adults need to be able to tell each other that they don’t know all the answers, […]
One can divide a 15-player group — such as the SEC’s record-setting number of first-round NFL Draft picks — in so many ways. The method used here is the division between well-run NFL organizations and […]
Sometimes, discussions don’t have to last very long, because any debate or search for truth is found so convincingly and immediately that we can all move on with our lives.
