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By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal NORFOLK, VA. — For several years, Appalachian State and Old Dominion have admired each other’s football programs from afar. On Saturday afternoon, these two Football Bowl Subdivision newbies will get to take their fresh rivalry to the field. App State (1-1) travels to Foreman Field.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CLEMSON, S.C. — For years, Appalachian State served as a darling among college football upstarts — a byproduct of the Mountaineers’ 34-32 victory in 2007 against the Associated Press No. 5-ranked Michigan Wolverines. But as App State heads into Saturday’s 12:30 p.m. game at Clemson,.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — Scott Satterfield was reflective of a 19-year Mountaineer career that started as a freshman quarterback in 1991 as he watched Appalachian State open football practice Aug. 4 with high hopes for the 2015 season. Now in its second year as a Football.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State will be celebrating two significant commemorations this year of the accomplishments of its football program — the 20th anniversary of its undefeated and untied regular season squad of 1995 and the 10th anniversary its first national championship team in 2005. .
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal ANN ARBOR, Mich. — On a cloudy, hot Michigan Stadium afternoon, there were no bolts of lightening to bail Appalachian State’s football team out of trouble on Saturday in a 52-14 loss to Michigan before 106,811 spectators. Returning to the scene of one of college.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The College Football Playoff selection committee met last week at the Four Seasons Hotel Resort of Dallas to try to figure out a puzzle that has stumped college football writers for the past one hundred years. “How the heck are we going to determine.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The members of the College Football Playoff committee have been spending the last week in Dallas walking through hypothetical playoff selection scenarios, which makes it the perfect time to make a fantasy, hypothetical scenario for playoff selection and how it might play out in.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — If there is one thing that the NCAA excels at, it’s the ability for it to be the straw man as to what’s wrong with intercollegiate athletics. Schools and programs can misbehave, and it’s the NCAA’s fault. Athletes misbehave, and it’s the NCAA’s.
By Dave BartooNational CFB Attrition Expert and Analytics Consultantand Founder of the CFBMatrix Special to College Sports Journal PORTLAND, OR – I love assumptions about college football and finding new ways to look at data and information. The flavor of the year seems to be a focus on the Pace of Play (POP).
By Kavitha A. Davidson Special Report College Sports Journal (Reprinted by special permission from Bloomberg View. The original article can be accessed here.) NEW YORK, NY. — Notre Dame and Under Armour Inc. have signed a 10-year apparel deal worth $90 million that is reportedly the largest in college sports history. Remind me.
By Wayne Otto FBS Columnist College Sports Journal DURHAM, N.C. — As the North Carolina collegiate football landscape continues to evolve, the Duke Blue Devils have positioned themselves as the top team in the state after nine weeks of the season. Coach David Cutcliffe, in his sixth year at the helm of the Blue Devils,.
Special Report College Sports Journal Editor's Note: This article is courtesy of the Casual Hoya Blog, reprinted here with permission. You can see the original story at the following link: http://www.casualhoya.com/2012/11/27/3698576/big-east-tulane-east-carolina-big-ten-big-12-pac-10-acc-maryland-rutgers-ncaa-realignment Pardon us as we take a break from our regularly scheduled delusion to provide a brief dose of reality..
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — If you've been following collegiate athletics like I have, you've undoubtedly seen the latest news flying around this week as colleges have been dumping long-standing conferences like, apparently, top military brass have been dumping husbands and wives. Maryland abandons the ACC, a conference which.
By Ryan Desort Special Report College Sports Journal CHICAGO, IL – Georgia faces Alabama on Saturday for the SEC championship. While any SEC game is a big game, there is much that is going to be decided with the outcome on Saturday. Most fans believe that Alabama will easily win this game,.
By Wayne Otto FBS Columnist College Sports Journal DURHAM, N.C. — The times they are a’changin, is an old Bob Dylan tune which is now being played at Duke University these autumn days. The Blue Devils football season came to a crescendo on Saturday night at historic Wallace Wade Stadium on the Duke campus as the.
Adam Prendergast/Troy Athletics By Wayne Otto FBS Columnist College Sports Journal TROY, AL. — There is only one constant in collegiate athletics, and that is change. In the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a mass exodus from the NAIA to the up and comer association, the NCAA. Sure, the NCAA already had the “big boys’ of.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The Freeh report has successfully showed that the four men that ran Penn State during the last decade not only knew about Gerald A. Sandusky's criminal activities but did their level best to cover it up. But about the only thing.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — With the release of the Freeh report, there's no longer any doubt as to what Joe Pa knew about sexual assault of boys in his facilities in his athletic department, and when he knew it. A portrait emerges of four men.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — At first, it was polls, and then it was bowls. But in 2014, for the Football Bowl Subdivision, there will finally be a playoff. Of sorts. A host of coaches, fans and media members, predicatably, formed a throng of cheering supporters.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The first instinct many people have when a hurricane is headed their way is denial. Though there were plenty of signs in retrospect that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 would hit landfall again and gain strength over the Gulf of Mexico, many, many.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. —Looking back, it probably shouldn’t have been such a surprise that Georgia State’s stay in FCS would be short, even though they were full members of the CAA in all sports. The writing had to be on the wall in February, when a gushing.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — In the living room of my house in the Philly suburbs sits a huge, oak bookshelf that my mom and I stained and finished years ago. There are books about college football, as well as a slew of cookbooks that betray one.
