Barking Carnival

H/T FanHouse

It’s time to elect Homecoming King! Let’s decorate the float, figure out who the cool kids are, and see which regional media have an ax to grind.
Here’s what some respected handicappers believe:

This is a rare year for the Heisman. There are a number of reasonable candidates and I wouldn’t throw my remote through […]

We get it. You want to take a shower with Tim Tebow and personally supervise all scrotum cleaning efforts.
Dude throws a simple touchdown pass and all of a sudden he’s an amalgamation of Neils Bohr, Dan Fouts, Robin Hood, John Elway, Vince Lombardi, Techno-Viking, Gandhi, MegatronOptimus Prime, and George S. Patton.
I’ll still […]

Yesterday was a day for revelations in college football.  In the Big 12 and across the country, we found out realities about highly-rated teams that some had suspected might be true, but for which we needed some independent confirmation.
Yesterday was a day when the wheat of the college football elite began their November-long separation from […]

At least according to both the Rocky Mountain News Heisman Trophy Poll and Tim Tebow.
McCoy received all ten first place votes which means even Kirk Bohls voted for him. Rounding out the top five are Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow, Dez Bryant and Chase Daniel.

Tebow says McCoy would get his vote.
”He’d probably be one of the […]

Holy cow.  So what am I supposed to say about this one?  Let me try to think of a few things…
In its history, the Texas football program has gone up 35-0 over quite a few opponents.  At least, I imagine it has - I frankly don’t have time to do the research, but you have […]

Here’s a piece of trivia that will only be good to use until Saturday (I think). The first game Texas lined up as the #1 team in the nation during the regular season  and the last regular season game that the Horns entered as the top team in the nation have both ended in a […]

Don’t look now, but the sports media are beginning to catch on to just how well Colt McCoy is playing his position this season.  I was kind of hoping the folks at ESPN, Fox Sports and elsewhere would continue their mindless slobbering over guys like Tebow, Sanchez and what’s-his-name at Georgia until Colt had snuck […]

I finally got to sit down and watch some games this weekend.
Alabama is not as good as their ranking. They’re very one dimensional on offense, and John Parker Wilson Lewis Can’t Lose is mediocre. Any team that forces them to pass has a chance. Their defense is giving up yards but not points, and that’s […]

ESPN has assembled a panel comprising ‘analysts, former players, former coaches and ESPN.com’s college football staff’ to vote on their Heisman candidates at this point in the season.
Chase Daniel is the clear favorite at this point followed by Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez. I’d personally rank Sanchez number one at this point because he has […]

The beauty of the unexpected bye week is that it gave us all an opportunity to see a lot more football on TV than most game weeks.
I learned the following:
Josh Nesbitt of Georgia Tech may be the best sophomore QB you haven’t heard about. That’s probably because he plays for Georgia Tech. Think […]

Yesterday’s rumors of a possible violation by All American Texas Tech WR Michael Crabtree seemed to be much ado about nothing.

If we were Aggies, we would boycott
OK, this Tim Tebow shit is really getting out of hand.
First, Urban Meyer said in July to a Miami alumni group that Tim Tebow ”is the greatest player of our era.”
And now, we have this gem from Men’s Fitness.
“When you look at who the biggest star among [the […]

Link to the UT Release
The Draddy Award is known as the “Academic Heisman” and was awarded in New York last night to Texas Center Dallas Griffin. Griffin is the first Longhorn to win the award, which recognizes an individual as the best in the country for combined academic success, football performance and exemplary community […]

Sucks to be Boston College. They’re playing their biggest game of the year on the same night as the Red Sox meaning that Bob Ryan might stop talking about Kevin Youkilis on ESPN’s Sports Reporters just long enough to mention the game on Sunday. Then he’ll start rambling on about Bobby Orr or Larry Bird […]

Mark Richt earned his reputation as an offensive guru at a place that was tough to succeed in the 90s, Florida State. In perhaps the promotion of the century, he made an almost Franchione-level good career move when he jumped ship after 2000. Chris Weinke had just won the Heisman, FSU was about to play […]

It’s never too early to handicap the Heisman race so here’s the latest results from the Rocky Mountain News poll. The paper has the longest running weekly Heisman poll.
Florida QB Tim Tebow 35 points
Ron Powlus predicts Tebow will win at least two Heismans.
Arkansas RB Darren McFadden 27 points
Houston Nutt will bring a woman […]