Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Recruiting rankings are always to be taken with a grain of salt and an objective eye. The star power associated with various recruits can be accurate or inflated leading to various programs and their fan bases to have an overly optimistic outlook about an incoming class only to be disappointed on down the line […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA With just the college football national championship game left to be played on Monday, Jan. 11, the good news for college football fans now that all the other bowl games are completed is the SEC dominated the competition going 8-2 overall. The winning record serves as proof in the pudding that the SEC is […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The SEC produced 10 bowl eligible teams during the 2015 season and for the second consecutive year managed to get all seven SEC West teams a bowl berth. The only teams not bowling for the SEC this year are Vanderbilt (4-8, 2-6), Kentucky (5-7, 2-6), Missouri (5-7, 1-7), and South Carolina (3-9, 1-7). Alabama […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The end of season college football awards are being handed out right and left with one of the long-time staples of postseason honors being the Associated Press All-American teams. On Sunday, the AP released their three teams with Alabama and Baylor topping all schools with three first-team selections each. No surprise to see Heisman […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Alabama once again was the football standard in the SEC posting a 12-1, 7-1, record winning the West Division title on their way to claiming the SEC Championship with a 29-15 win over then- No. 18 Florida. For the squad’s efforts, coaches around the conference voted 10 Crimson Tide players to the All-Conference teams […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Week 11 of the college football season did not disappoint bringing four big upsets of Top 10 AP ranked teams; Oregon vs. then- No. 7 Stanford, Arkansas vs. then- No. 9 LSU, No. 10 Utah vs. Arizona, and No. 12 Oklahoma vs. No. 6 Baylor. The losses racked up by ranked teams did not […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The recruiting battle to land Snow College (7-1) sophomore offensive tackle Garett Bolles is reaching a frenzy with several top Division-I programs giving their all to forge that meaningful relationship in hopes of landing the 4-star recruit. Schools like Boise State, Kansas State, South Carolina, Washington State, Florida State, Cal, Missouri, and Michigan State […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Week 9 of the college football season did little to restructure or add mounting drama to the 2015 college football season with more near misses than amazing Top 25 upsets but all of that is sure to change in Week 10. AAC The American Athletic Conference showed that the top of the class deserves […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Razorbacks picked up a nice homecoming win on Saturday over Tennessee-Martin and added highly regarded Texas outside linebacker Jordan Carmouche in the process. Carmouche and another Arkansas target, Manvel High School running back teammate D’Vaughn Pennamon, were in attendance for the Razorbacks homecoming win. The trip to Fayetteville helped seal the deal for […]
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Written by Charlie Beuttel During homecoming week at Bastrop High School in Bastrop, Louisiana, their 4-star wide receiver Isaiah Graham announced on Friday that he will further his football career at TCU next year. After making his announcement Graham said, “I feel like I can go there in December put in the work necessary and contribute early and my whole […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA What a big difference one year can make with a given team’s college football schedule. Over the last two seasons the Arkansas Razorbacks have endured schedules ranked among the toughest in the nation but get a slight reprieve in 2016 with four SEC home games. The University of Arkansas athletic department is already hailing […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The college football docket did not look impressive on paper with only two ranked teams meeting on the gridiron going in but Week 8 turned out to be a thriller filled with overtime games, blowout upsets, and last second victories reshaping the college football playoff landscape. AAC The three ranked American Athletic Conference teams, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA College football fans were treated to several key matchups in Week 7 with conference and national title implications. Week 8 does not have the flair of last weekend’s games from top to bottom, especially from how the preseason rankings dropped, but several conference races will tighten up once Week 8 games have completed. AAC […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The months-long flirtation between Memphis area talent Donte Vaughn and Notre Dame ended on Monday when the big defensive back picked the Fighting Irish over in-state powerhouse Tennessee. Vaughn, listed at 6’3”, 195 pounds, is a true cover corner for Whitehaven High School. The west Tennessee powerhouse, famously on Elivs Presley Blvd., has been […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Have the AP rankings ever been this temperamental? The 61 voters spread across the nation are having love affairs with a different team every week and much like a grade school or junior high kid, off to the next shinny object when all of Saturday’s scores have been tallied. The Week 6 bull’s eye […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Stats, an outside view, and the possibility of getting too wrapped up into a story can sometimes cause one to have a skewed view of reality, but sometimes perception is reality especially in sports. In 2014 running back Trevor Gear missed the first six games of the season for Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy due […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA While LSU has pulled together one of the top recruiting classes for the 2016 group, the Tigers have not lost sight on next year’s class landing Oakland High School’s JaCoby Stevens. Stevens, 6’2”, 200 pounds, started making a name for himself as a sophomore helping the Patriots to a 14-2 record in 2014. A […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The mighty (Alabama) has fallen and chinks in the armor of those atop the AP rankings have already started to come through in Week 3 of the college football season. The AP voters have been finicky all season quickly demoting a team for a poor showing and that is exactly what they did to […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Week One of the college football season is in the books and the AP voters see the SEC as the top conference placing a record 10 teams into the Top 25. The previous record for most teams in the Top 25, also set by the SEC, was eight, a mark that was tied […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Texas Longhorns got some good news on Saturday when they landed highly recruited in-state cornerback Obi Eboh. Eboh has 30 Division-I offers from top programs from around the nation including Oklahoma, Cal, Ole Miss, Boston College, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt, Washington, Pitt, Wisconsin, Arizona State, Duke, and Arkansas. The recruiting period with Texas may […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Arkansas Razorbacks landed one of the most prized recruits in the 2016 recruiting class on Saturday securing a verbal commitment from defensive end McTelvin Agim. The Hope High School star has rankings varying from the No. 9 player in the nation by ESPN, to the No. 53 recruit by 247Sports, and his lowest […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Will Muschamp effect has taken affect with Auburn landing stud 5-star defensive end Marlon Davidson. Davidson, listed at 6’3”, 275 pounds, is not only one of the best recruits in the state of Alabama but across the nation. Nearing 20 offers, Davidson was courted by some of the top teams in the nation […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Coaches across the SEC with quarterback battles waging in fall camp started naming starters for Week 1 of the 2015 college football season on Monday. In Oxford, the post-Bo Wallace era will begin with Chad Kelly in the pocket. Kelly has picked up a reputation for getting into trouble, both on and off the […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Yes! It is that time of year when drinking a beverage of choice and eating meats while sitting in a parking lot is not considered a crime or weird… it’s time for college football to begin! With every college football season comes preseason hopes, dreams, and expectations laid upon teams to exceed the success, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA *Original post-date on Athlon Sports Aug. 13 Few college football coaches have achieved the kind of success Les Miles has on the field. Since arriving in Baton Rouge in 2005 the Tigers have played for a BCS National Championship (2011) and won a BCS National Championship (2007) with the “Mad Hatter compiling a win-loss […]
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Written by Ryan Wright – interview co-conducted by Jordan Jones The Arkansas Razorbacks’ coaching staff is coming off an amazing 2015 in-state recruiting haul where only one top player offered from the Natural State left for another Division-I program, receiver K.J. Hill (Ohio State). The top talent within the state has yet again attracted college recruiters from all over the […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Cal keeps adding solid recruits to their 2016 recruiting class keeping a Top 20 ranking to date. On Monday, the Golden Bears added do-everything Mississippi athlete Jordan Duncan raising the stock of the class. Duncan is the true definition of a football “ATH.” The 6’2”, 193 pound, talent is a two-way star for Oak […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The anticipation over which college football team would start the 2015 preseason No. 1 was never in doubt but the curiosity factor wondering if an AP writer would be brave enough to vote a team other then Ohio State as the top in the land was all one could wait until Sunday to see. The results […]
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Written by Ryan Wright The Arkansas Razorbacks picked up verbal commitment No. 13 to their 2016 recruiting class on Saturday landing Arlington Lamar High School wide receiver Kofi Boateng. Boateng is one of the more highly recruited wide receivers in the nation with some 30 scholarship offers. The 6’1”, 180 pound, target had 66 receptions for 1,023 receiving yards with […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Allen High School head coach Tom Westerberg has built a football dynasty in Texas. The 11th year head coach has four state championships under his belt including three consecutive with nine District Champion titles. The Eagles are coming off a 16-0 campaign in 2014 but take the field for the first time in three years without […]
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