Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG RNG on Facebook The value of the NCAA Transfer Portal for college football players and respective programs is a wait and see affair. Much like any part of the recruiting process, until a signee gets on the field, all the hype is just hope and hot air. Regardless of the outcome, the need is […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG RNG on Facebook There are great reasons for Texas A&M fans to be excited about the 2020 college football season. In his third go in College Station, head coach Jimbo Fisher returns perhaps his most complete and seasoned roster with momentum to be had off an 8-5 campaign in 2019. Furthermore, the schedule over […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG RNG on Facebook Life for an Auburn fan living in the state of Alabama is never easy as comparisons rule the day. The Tigers have posted one national championship over the last decade while big brother in Tuscaloosa has cleared space in the trophy case for six. This inadequacy in comparison falls into the […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG RNG on Facebook The quest is on in Baton Rouge to replicate some semblance of the title grabbing 2019 squad that steamrolled college football during a perfect season. A year ago, the LSU Tigers (15-0) knocked off seven top-10 ranked squads, took down archnemesis Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and shredded defending national champs Clemson (42-25) […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG RNG on Facebook Since 1990, the Razorback faithful have been through some tough times on the gridiron but nothing quite compares to the hardships endured over the past three seasons. Arkansas posted a four-win season in 2017 under then head coach Bret Bielema and then opted for a change on the sidelines with an […]
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Posted by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG The measuring stick among college football fans on how good a conference is top to bottom comes with wins in non-conference games. No matter how many wins a program may have during the season, if their schedule is weak, the program and fanbase will hear about it. A program can make excuses during the […]
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After four seasons of toiling at a subpar level below standards LSU set in the early 2000’s, the Tigers are back. Head coach Ed Orgeron has made a quick transition to a style of play he wants on the field with his offense seeing the results in a 10-3, 5-3 SEC, run in 2018. The Tigers ended the year ranked […]
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Since Nick Saban put Alabama firmly back on college football’s blueblood-elite list during the 2009 season capturing the first of five national championships with the Crimson Tide (2011, ’12, ’15, and ’17), the rest of college football has been waiting for the fall of the dynasty. Many have tried to wrestle the top spot away from Alabama within the SEC […]
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Written by Chris Neudecker Twitter: @Chris_Neudecker Welcome to another season of Missouri Tigers college football. Yes, this season will be different. Why would this season be different you ask? My response is the same as my parents’ when I was a kid… “because I said so.” The Tigers are not picked to contend for a SEC championship or a SEC […]
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Life in college football is never easy and without a doubt is toughest in the SEC, especially in the West Division. The incredibly high standards set across the board within the conference leads to unrealistic expectations by the fanbase year after year. With all the pressures heaped upon each coach, perhaps the toughest is manning the sidelines for Auburn with […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG Another National Signing Day has come and gone, meaning another year of college football programs from across the nation restocking the proverbial shelves of football talent. The future is an unknown for all, players and coaches alike, but for now all classes are graded by the number of five-, four-, and three-star talents signed. […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG The 2017 college football season has not started out the way Arkansas fans, the coaching staff, and players alike had hoped. The Razorbacks are 2-3, 0-2 in SEC play, with a tough row of games still left to play. The grumblings of unsatisfied fans began last season after several second half collapses in winnable […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @RyanWrightRNG In Bret Bielema’s fifth season in Fayetteville, the Hogs are seemingly trending in the wrong direction coming off a 48-22 trouncing in Columbia by the Gamecocks and the fan base is unhappy. Sitting at 2-3, 0-2 in SEC action, Arkansas faces back-to-back games against potential College Football Playoff candidates in No. 1 Alabama and […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Rivalry week in Division I football did not disappoint ending the season on an exciting note. While some teams are still crying foul over their losses, regardless, the conference championship games are set in four of the five Power Conferences with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State left to battle it out in the Big 12 […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Shocking news broke on Monday that one of Tennessee’s all-time great running backs was leaving the Volunteers program. All that is left now is to wonder why Jalen Hurd would leave Knoxville in the middle of Tennessee’s season just 440 yards shy of breaking the school’s all-time rushing record. The weight of the news […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA A petty war of words through the media over a postponed SEC football game due to inclement weather from Hurricane Matthew was deescalated on Thursday when LSU (3-2, 2-1) and Florida (4-1, 2-1) agreed to makeup the missing conference game in Baton Rouge. Fan bases for both the Gators and the Tigers tangled online […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA If anyone doubts the cutthroat nature of college football, one of the newest case and point examples is LSU parting ways with senior kicker Trent Domingue just weeks away before fall camp opens for the 2016 season. On Wednesday, Domingue took to Twitter announcing his scholarship for his senior year was not renewed by […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA First-year Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp may have pulled off his greatest recruiting feat for the 2016 class getting linebacker Skai Moore to return to South Carolina as announced on Thursday. South Carolina had a season to forget in 2015 finishing 3-9, 1-7 in SEC play, after a seven-win season in 2014 and back-to-back […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The LSU Tigers soared in the AP rankings in 2015 hitting as high as No. 2 but after navigating a tough schedule finished 9-3, 5-3 in SEC play, after topping Big 12 conference member Texas Tech 56-27 in the Texas Bowl. The Tigers will have likely early season Heisman Trophy Award candidate running back […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Whatever the grievances may have been between former Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel along with the football program and starting quarterback Maty Mauk have been buried, for a third time, with new head coach Barry Odom. On Wednesday, Odom reinstated Mauk after a series of talks with the soon to be senior. In theory, […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA A quarterback in need of a spot under center in 2016 found a home with a program in great need of a do-it all talent. As announced on Friday, former Kentucky Wildcats starting quarterback Patrick Towles is now a team member of Boston College. If there ever was a team that was truly one-dimensional […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The promise of a bright future has been ongoing in College Station since the 2012 season when Texas A&M posted an 11-2 record finishing the season with an AP ranking of No. 5 after a 41-13 thumping of former Big 12 rival Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl Classic. Trouble is head coach Kevin Sumlin […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The University of Arkansas may soon be called “Tight End U” to go along with the “Running Back U” honor earned via ESPN (June 2014) after having the most tailbacks drafted into the NFL in the 2000’s. On Wednesday, tight end Hunter Henry became the second Arkansas player in school history to win the […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA South Carolina is rolling the dice on another former Florida Gators head coach. Per reports, Will Muschamp has reached an agreement to become the next Gamecocks head coach. Muschamp has spent much of his football life in the SEC first as a Georgia Bulldogs safety (1991-1994) and later as a defensive coordinator guiding defenses […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The Kentucky Wildcats more than likely ended their 2015 college football season falling one game shy of the normally needed six win mark to be invited to a bowl game. The Wildcats put a stamp on the end of another frustrating season losing to in-state rival Louisville 38-24 after racing out to a 21-0 […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The proverbial hot seats in college football have been simmering for weeks now, and in some cases for months, with fan bases and alumni itching to pull the trigger on removing a coach with the thought of a brighter future. With the majority of college football wrapping up their 2015 regular season schedule on […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA In mid-October, the college football world was shocked by the news Florida Gators redshirt quarterback Will Grier was suspended for a calendar year after failing a drug test for performance enhancing stimulants. The news coming Friday evening confirmed the worst for Gator Nation, Grier had lost his appeal. Grier redshirted in 2014 due to […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The wheels off the Kentucky offensive machine has slowly come crashing off in recent weeks seeing the team fall to a 4-6 record after a loss on Saturday to Vanderbilt. In the 21-17 loss to the Commodores, Kentucky could only manage 352 yards of total offense with 127 coming from the quarterback position in […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA Losing has a way of mending fences when dealing with suspensions on the college level, and it appears Missouri’s three-game losing streak has a hand in the return of junior quarterback Maty Mauk from suspension. Mauk has served a four-game suspension for violation of unspecified team rules seeing the Tigers go 1-4 over that […]
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Written by Ryan Wright Twitter: @HogManInLA The NCAA announced the fate of Ole Miss left tackle Laremy Tunsil late Monday giving the preseason All-American a seven game suspension. To date, Tunsil has served a six game suspension for receiving improper benefits that included an interest free $3,000 loan reportedly going towards a new car and three free loaner vehicles over […]
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