The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sent me up to Springfield, Mo., earlier this week to cover the signing ceremony of Dorial Green-Beckham, the country’s top-ranked high school football prospect.

STILLWATER — On Dec. 3, I was blessed enough to witness one of the biggest wins in Bedlam Series history as Oklahoma State defeated Oklahoma 44-10, winning the school’s first Big 12 Conference championship.

Share Since the official preseason USA Today Coaches’ Poll is out, I’ve decided to examine each of the top 10 schools with one goal: finding chinks in their armor. A simple concept that has taken me a while to complete, my goal is to expose each team’s weaknesses, if they have any. Whether it’s a young team, a new quarterback, [...]

Share It takes a lot of hard work to coach football at the college level. But what happens when the thousands of hours put in by coaches is thought to be what makes them successful rather than pure luck? Whether it’s being handed a team full of talent, serving in a conference that just doesn’t have talent surrounding it, or [...]

Share “It’s Division I football! It’s the Big 12!” Just about everyone remembers those classic words said in a press conference by Colorado head football coach Dan Hawkins. Hawkins was upset by parents sending him letters about players not having enough time to relax during the summer before having to be back in Boulder to prep for the season. Hawkins [...]

Share With all this talk about conference expansion (or implosion) over the past two weeks, I thought I’d take some time and focus on the players rather than the universities they play for.

Share Oklahoma State football made a huge turnaround starting in 2001, leading to an emergence of respect on the national scene that hadn’t been felt in Stillwater since the late 1980s. I’ve decided to go back and look at some of the biggest players for the Cowboys in the past decade and rank who I thought were worthy of earning [...]

Share Mascots are just another element that make college football great. Sure, the NFL has them, but do they really add anything to the professional atmosphere? One of the best parts of college mascots is the fact that they’re generally one of two things: live animals or college students. What do those two things have in common?

Share To take a page out of Fall Out Boy’s manual, I decided to take a look at 10 college football players who will hit a sophomore slump in 2010 (not have a “comeback of the year”). Keep in mind, these aren’t guys I think are going to play poorly, just not really impress after the impact they made as [...]

Share With both the NFL Draft and spring football now complete, all that’s left is to officially start college football in the fall. With 100s of games on the docket each season, it’s hard to break down which ones are the most intriguing, especially with no team officially playing a down of the 2010 season.