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A look at the 15 Power Five schools that are a combined 0-29 against the LSU Tigers. Can you name them?
The history of the LSU Tigers football program dates back to the 1893 season. Continue reading “List of Power Five schools that are winless against the LSU Tigers”
CBS Sports ranks Texas’ Steve Sarkisian in the bottom third of Power Five coaches this year.
Each year, CBS Sports ranks every head coach in the Power Five.
The rankings are generated by a panel of college football writers from CBS Sports and 247Sports who submit ballots and vote. Some value accomplishments on the field, while others heavily weigh the recruiting proficiency or possibility of future success.
Texas’ first-year head coach Steve Sarkisian will no doubt bring a brilliant offensive scheme to Austin and has learned from Alabama head coach Nick Saban over the last few years. Coupled with the fact that he hired a strong support staff, it’s enough to get the fan base excited for the future of the program.
However, some don’t believe that Sarkisian will find immediate success with Texas. CBS Sports lists Sarkisian at No. 46 overall in the Power Five head coach rankings for the 2021 season.
So, how about this spot for Sark? He was 46-35 in seven seasons at Washington and USC, and he hasn’t been a head coach since 2015, but he starts out in our rankings two spots ahead of the man who replaced him at USC. And you can argue that Sark was more underwhelming at USC than Helton has been! Of course, it’s easy to understand why given he’s coming off an extremely successful stint as Alabama’s offensive coordinator and was a surprise hire.
Sarkisian was the eighth Big 12 coach listed just ahead of Texas Tech’s Matt Wells and Baylor’s Dave Aranda. Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley was understandably the highest ranked coach in the conference at No. 3 overall, while Iowa State’s Matt Campbell, Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy and TCU’s Gary Patterson each landed within the top 25.
There are five teams from the Power Five conferences that the Texas Longhorns have yet to face off against.
Texas has a long, storied history of playing college football that dates back to 1893. Continue reading “Each Power Five conference team that the Texas Longhorns have not played”
University of Texas administrators feel they’re in a good shape to attempt to play college football this fall.
It feels like a month’s worth of news all seemed to surface in one day. Continue reading “Texas administrators ‘feel good’ about playing football this season”
College football players, coaches and athletic directors began a ‘We Want To Play’ movement on Twitter.
Where do we begin?
With every minute that passes, a new opportunity seems to present itself with college athletics. This particular offseason has been unlike any other and has brought on a significant amount of anxiety and uncertainty to all those involved.
The past few months have been centered around an ongoing fluid situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s getting down to crunch time to make a final decision on the upcoming college football season this fall.
It appeared things were trending in the right direction when Power Five conferences agreed to a shortened, conference-only schedule. However, over the past two days the rumors have become more rampant that there may not be a college football season at all.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 are pushing towards not playing, while the SEC, ACC, and Big 12 are doing their best to salvage what they can.
Power 5 AD just texted me: “It’s looking more and more like it’s Big Ten and Pac-12 vs. SEC, ACC and Big 12."
— Matt Hayes (@MattHayesCFB) August 10, 2020
A common denominator among all major conferences is that the athlete’s want to play. On Sunday night, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence took the lead for all players when he began a ‘We Want To Play’ movement on Twitter.
While Lawrence was the first high-profile athlete to speak out in that sense, several began to follow suit. Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, Baylor quarterback Charlie Brewer, Texas safety Caden Sterns and many other coaches, athletic directors, and players express their views on the next page.
Will their voices be heard?
SI’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger are reporting that the Power Five conferences are looking to cancel the season. Big 12 set Monday meeting.
Over the past several days there has been an uneasy feeling about the possibility of a cancelled 2020 college football season. The NCAA President Mark Emmert recently spoke about the path forward being a rough one. Even CBS Sports writer Dennis Dodd spoke with two anonymous athletic directors that believed it was inevitable.
On Sunday afternoon however, the report that many didn’t want to hear began to make its way to twitter. Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger tweeted out that the Big Ten Conference was set to cancel football for the 2021 season. Again it isn’t surprising but nothing something that one wants to hear.
College football sources tell @SInow that the Big Ten is moving toward a decision to cancel the 2020 fall season, while engaging other Power 5 conferences on a uniform decision to be announced later this week. https://t.co/vT1JIQYHrC
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 9, 2020
Shortly afater that report surfaced, Clemson’s quarterback Trevor Lawrence took to Twitter to plead for the opportunity to play. Many athletes have voiced their opinions with hashtag Let Us Play. Here is what Lawrence had to say about it.
People are at just as much, if not more risk, if we don’t play. Players will all be sent home to their own communities where social distancing is highly unlikely and medical care and expenses will be placed on the families if they were to contract covid19 (1)
Not to mention the players coming from situations that are not good for them/ their future and having to go back to that. Football is a safe haven for so many people. We are more likely to get the virus in everyday life than playing football. Having a season also incentivizes
Players being safe and taking all of the right precautions to try to avoid contracting covid because the season/ teammates safety is on the line. Without the season, as we’ve seen already, people will not social distance or wear masks and take the proper precautions
The former National Championship winning quarterback makes a sound argument for not only his teammates but for players across the nation. While you can argue it could be safer for athletes if they don’t subject themselves to contraction by playing. The players seem to want to play. They don’t feel that they are safer by not playing. You can be the judge on being for or against it. As for the Big 12 Conference, they are set to meet on Monday at 5 p.m. according to Drew Davison of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
I'm told the Big 12 board of directors is planning to meet at 5 p.m. tomorrow with its medical experts on the upcoming football season.
— Drew Davison (@drewdavison) August 9, 2020
Nothing has been made official yet but it is quite possible come 6 p.m. on Monday that we will have some finality to this situation. Whether or not the Big 12 follows the Big Ten or they attempt to play on their own.
The NCAA Board of Governors meeting did not vote on whether or not to cancel fall championships. Instead it will fall to the D1 Board.
The NCAA Board of Governors meeting was expecting to make a ruling on the subject of fall championships. Many had the feeling that they could cancel the championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic currently going on. That led to Power Five leaders discussing the possibility of hosting their own fall championships. One step towards the top conferences leaving the NCAA.
According to Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated, the meeting concluded without a vote.
News: The NCAA Board of Governors did not determine a course for the future of fall championships at its meeting today, source told @SINow.
There was not vote, despite the meeting lasting until around 7 pm tonight.
The next steps are unclear.
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 5, 2020
Brett McMurphy stated that each division of college football would determine their own course of action when it comes to fall championships. It is likely that for college football it would stay as is at this point. However, it now falls into the hands of the Division I Board of Directors. They have a meeting scheduled at 10 am on Wednesday.
The waiting game will continue tomorrow as we await to find out if they will cancel fall championships. If that is indeed the case, there is still the option on the table for the Power Five conference leaders to take this into their own hands.
If the NCAA cancelled fall championships due to concerns over COVID-19, could the Power Five conferences create their own?
A lot has changed in the landscape of college athletics in the six months since novel coronavirus spread to the United States. The Big 12 Conference basketball tournament was cancelled. That was followed up with the NCAA Tournament and then all college athletics soon followed. It left a lot of doubt as to whether there would be college football in the fall.
There is still plenty of concern surround the idea of a full college football season in 2020. The situation surrounding the Miami Marlins and Major League Baseball creates more concern over if they can finish a football season. If they are able to finish the year, what could they mean when it comes to fall championships? Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated makes the case for the Power Five conferences hosting their own.
In anticipation of the NCAA Board of Governors potentially canceling or postponing fall sports championships, Power 5 conference leaders have begun exploring the possibility of staging their own championships in those affected sports, multiple sources have told Sports Illustrated. This could be seen as a first step toward a long-theorized breakaway from the NCAA by the 65 schools that play college sports at the highest level.
In recent days, Power 5 conference officials began seeking feedback from their members about the feasibility of staging their own championships during the fall, sources told SI. When asked if such a move away from the NCAA championship structure could be seen as a precedent-setting rift between the national governing body of college sports and the Power 5, one athletic director said, “If I were (NCAA president Mark) Emmert, I’d be really worried about it. He’s got to keep the Power 5 together.”
Another Power 5 athletic director said he thinks the chances of breakaway fall championships are remote, but added, “I think this is representative of the poor relationship between the (NCAA) national office and our conferences.”
When it comes to Division I football, it is the Power Five conferences that truly run college football. A breakaway from the NCAA with hosting their own fall sports championships could shake the foundation it currently stands on. Especially since the foundation it is built on is shaky to begin with. NCAA has sat and watched as the Power Five schools, conference and leadership have made their decisions on the upcoming season. As stated in Dellenger’s article, this could cause a crack in the armor to grow. Essentially burning the whole thing down to the ground.
