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BCS Bowl Projections: The Fiesta Bowl Will Avoid Matching Up TCU and Boise State

With Texas's entirely illegitimate and unsatisfying win over Nebraska booking them a spot in the BCS national championship, the bowls' at-large selections will proceed as follows in tonight's Selection Special on Fox...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 10 minutes ago 2 reads 0 comments
Please, BCS Voters, Don't Put These Texas Longhorns In The National Championship

We've seen the conference championships play out. Alabama mopped up the floor with Florida. The Tide defense harassed Tebow, shut down the Gator running game, and forced turnovers, while the offense was nothing short of stellar...

Written by Bryan Kelly about about 12 hours ago 1,762 reads 124 comments
Florida, Florida State, Georgia, USC: Where Will No. 1 Ranked Linebacker Recruit Jeff Luc End Up?

To a defense, a great player at middle linebacker is like an excellent quarterback. The right plays get called, everyone is on the same page, and no one gets caught out of position...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 3 days ago 2,669 reads 18 comments
Rumor: Source Claims Bob Stoops Has Signed Contract for Notre Dame Job

An anonymous poster on an Irish Sports Daily message board is alleging that Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops signed a contract for the Notre Dame job today and gave specific details pertaining to the ongoing negotiations between Stoops and ND...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 3 days ago 20,927 reads 36 comments
Tiger Woods' Statement Shows Why He's a Champion and We're All Chumps

I'm almost certainly in the minority when I say this—most people probably wanted juicier details, a clearer confession of wrongdoing, or at the very least, not to be told off—but ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 4 days ago 1,841 reads 13 comments
Bowl Projections: Cotton Bowl, Outback Bowl, Chick-Fil-A Bowl, and Gator Bowl

Across the country, athletic departments are fielding invites, rumors, conference calls, and—probably— scores of angry emails and horses' heads concerning what team goes where when in the postseason...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 4 days ago 2,645 reads 11 comments
BCS Bowl Projections: TCU Scales Mt. Cody, Tops Alabama in the Sugar Bowl

I've been pulling for Alabama all year. Even up until a month ago, I could envision how and why the Tide could win against Florida ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 4 days ago 1,711 reads 20 comments
BCS Bowl Projections: The Fiesta Bowl Belongs to the Iowa Hawkeyes (We Hope)

I'll begin by assuming that Texas will beat Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship game. This is maybe the second time all year I've vouched confidence in Texas, but the Aggies were probably their ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 5 days ago 3,216 reads 31 comments
Report: Bobby Bowden To Retire from Florida State

Word is in on the Bobby Bowden situation: Bowden has chosen to retire from the Florida State Seminoles on Tuesday . The Tallahassee Democrat reported today that Bowden was given two options by Florida State president T...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 5 days ago 185 reads 1 comments
Would Jimmy Clausen Stay Another Year with Bob Stoops As Coach?

As other B/R writers have argued , Jimmy Clausen and Charlie Weis's fates have been inextricably intertwined since the beginning, and it ought to follow that Clausen will depart to the NFL a year early now that Weis is fired...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 5 days ago 2,153 reads 16 comments
If Bob Stoops Goes To Notre Dame, Who Replaces Him at Oklahoma?

With the rumors that Bob Stoops will likely take over for Charlie Weis at Notre Dame flying around, the Oklahoma Sooners might suddenly find themselves without their Heisman quarterback and their national championship-winning coach in the same year...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 5 days ago 1,789 reads 14 comments
Sources: Charlie Weis Fired as Notre Dame Head Coach

Multiple sources are reporting that Notre Dame has fired head coach Charlie Weis after five seasons. There were rumors that Weis had cleared out his office prior to departing to Stanford to face ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 5 days ago 116 reads 0 comments
Analyst Says Bob Stoops Will Coach Notre Dame

A writer from the Notre Dame Scout page is reporting that Bob Stoops and the Notre Dame athletic department have agreed verbally to the principles of a contract , and that if Notre Dame can meet ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 6 days ago 9,599 reads 5 comments
No. 1 Recruit Tony Jefferson: UCLA, USC, Oklahoma, or Michigan?

As the college football season winds down, the battles won and lost off the field start to heat up. Nothing becomes bloodier or more contentious than the modern war game known as college recruiting...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 6 days ago 3,628 reads 0 comments
The Worst Decisions Made by College Football Coaches This Year

Here's the thing about a lot of awful coaching decisions: they're just great coaching decisions in unpleasant disguises...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 11 days ago 2,966 reads 12 comments
A Big Ten Thanksgiving: What Every Team in the Conference Should Be Thankful for

'Tis the season to watch football gorge yourself give thanks. And Big Ten fans, a majority of them Midwesterners, pride themselves on being some of the most gracious people in America...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 12 days ago 577 reads 12 comments
Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart: Sizing Up the Two Best Backs in the Nation

College football pundits have deemed 2009 the "Year of the Running Back." And why not? The top three passers coming into the year are either injured (Sam Bradford), inconsistent (Colt McCoy) or underwhelming (Tim Tebow)...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 16 days ago 1,011 reads 7 comments
Why Adding a Bye Week Will Benefit the Big Ten Conference In 2010

For the last two years, the majority of Big Ten teams have played uninterrupted seasons of football, kicking off in late August or September and not quitting until the weekend before Thanksgiving...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 16 days ago 225 reads 2 comments
Ranking Eight College Coaches Who Have Resurrected Their Programs In 2009

A coach wears many hats: apologist, antagonizer, PR man, cheerleader, clarifier, defender of the faith. Sometimes, a coach has to don the hat of a shaman, and resurrect his program after many have left it for dead...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 17 days ago 623 reads 7 comments
Bad Blood in Tucson: The Ducks Will Avenge the Fall of Dennis Dixon

Leading up to this weekend's game, Oregon fans are surely thinking about the last time the Ducks visited Tucson with Pac-10 title aspirations. The year was 2007...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 17 days ago 636 reads 6 comments
10 College Players Who Started Strong And Faded Down The Stretch

Momentum is difficult to maintain in any profession. Heck, even I considered retiring after compiling the 50 greatest football players of the last 50 years. But the siren song of psuedo-sports journalism still calls to me...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 18 days ago 1,183 reads 6 comments
The 10 Worst Officiating Calls In College Football This Year

Were the refs always this bad? Is the replay system bogus? Or is it just more obvious since the calls have happened in the big games? These are the pressing questions facing college football ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 18 days ago 1,794 reads 20 comments
Texas Vs. TCU: Who Has The State's Best Football Team?

There's a slim, albeit encouraging, chance that Texas and TCU will meet in the Fiesta Bowl this season. The most conceivable path to this game involves Texas losing to Texas A&M at Kyle ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 19 days ago 1,056 reads 5 comments
The Hottest College Football Rivalries of 2009

Rivalries are funny things. They might be fought neck-and-neck every year, with the bragging rights trading hands perennially. They also might go five, ten, even twenty years in favor of a dominant team, with the bad blood lying dormant the whole time

Written by Bryan Kelly about 19 days ago 819 reads 10 comments
Tennessee's Lane Kiffin Dismisses Richardson, Edwards From Team

The decision is in: Lane Kiffin has kicked Nu'Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards off the Tennessee Volunteers . The two players, along with defensive back Janzen Jackson, were arrested last week ...

Written by Bryan Kelly about 19 days ago 696 reads 22 comments

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Bryan Kelly Article Archive

BCS Bowl Projections: The Fiesta Bowl Will Avoid Matching Up TCU and Boise State

Please, BCS Voters, Don't Put These Texas Longhorns In The National Championship

Florida, Florida State, Georgia, USC: Where Will No. 1 Ranked Linebacker Recruit Jeff Luc End Up?

Rumor: Source Claims Bob Stoops Has Signed Contract for Notre Dame Job

Tiger Woods' Statement Shows Why He's a Champion and We're All Chumps

Bowl Projections: Cotton Bowl, Outback Bowl, Chick-Fil-A Bowl, and Gator Bowl

BCS Bowl Projections: TCU Scales Mt. Cody, Tops Alabama in the Sugar Bowl

BCS Bowl Projections: The Fiesta Bowl Belongs to the Iowa Hawkeyes (We Hope)

Report: Bobby Bowden To Retire from Florida State

Would Jimmy Clausen Stay Another Year with Bob Stoops As Coach?

If Bob Stoops Goes To Notre Dame, Who Replaces Him at Oklahoma?

Sources: Charlie Weis Fired as Notre Dame Head Coach

Analyst Says Bob Stoops Will Coach Notre Dame

No. 1 Recruit Tony Jefferson: UCLA, USC, Oklahoma, or Michigan?

The Worst Decisions Made by College Football Coaches This Year

A Big Ten Thanksgiving: What Every Team in the Conference Should Be Thankful for

Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart: Sizing Up the Two Best Backs in the Nation

Why Adding a Bye Week Will Benefit the Big Ten Conference In 2010

Ranking Eight College Coaches Who Have Resurrected Their Programs In 2009

Bad Blood in Tucson: The Ducks Will Avenge the Fall of Dennis Dixon

10 College Players Who Started Strong And Faded Down The Stretch

The 10 Worst Officiating Calls In College Football This Year

Texas Vs. TCU: Who Has The State's Best Football Team?

The Hottest College Football Rivalries of 2009

Tennessee's Lane Kiffin Dismisses Richardson, Edwards From Team

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