With changes afoot at Duke, Wake Forest and Va. Tech, this year may prove this isn't your father's ACC. Tony Barnhart says Clemson may just prove the point.
CBS Sports Network football analyst Tony Barnhart joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss how the recent statements from Bob Stoops, Tim Davis, and Brady Hoke should not be taken serious.
As the power conferences work to secure spots in the most desirable bowl games, the Mid-American Conference and Sun Belt also are trying to expand their postseason lineups.
The Big Ten released its first football schedule with Rutgers and Maryland included, and the Scarlet Knights are getting quite a welcome to conference in 2014.
Al Golden's goal of returning a championship to Miami has been sidetracked by the NCAA storm encircling the program. Golden tells Dennis Dodd that the Hurricanes expect to go to a bowl this year.
Several league officials believe some more restructuring is in store, but that a new division for BCS-level conferences would be bad for college football.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.- Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is fervently disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care has been compromised after the team doctor was replaced.
BOULDER, Colo.- Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb and former Buffaloes offensive lineman Alexander Lewis were both charged with second-degree assault on Wednesday after prosecutors alleged they knocked a man unconscious in a weekend brawl.
As spring football ends, Tony Barnhart offers five takeaways to consider before fall. A couple: Jadeveon Clowney's a bad man on the gridiron and Auburn's Jay Prosch is inspiring.
FORT WORTH, Texas- TCU defensive end Devonte Fields has been suspended for the first two games of the 2013 season due to an unspecified violation of "university and team policy."
There's a great mystery lurking around the ACC: Why doesn't the conference win more? Dennis Dodd says no one has any answers, but they do have hope for better times ahead.
University of South Florida football head coach Willie Taggart joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss his move to South Florida as well as his upcoming season with the Bulls.
WESTMINSTER, Colo.- The day former Colorado coach Bill McCartney found out he was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame should've been one of the happiest moments of his life, the crowning achievement in a career that included a national title.
People have made up their minds about Joe Paterno's legacy, but that hasn't stopped his son, Jay, from trying to change opinions. Gregg Doyel says it's understandable, and pathetic.
Jay Paterno's life's work has now become protecting the life's work of his father. Dennis Dodd talks with a son who refuses to let others have the final word on his dad.
Sirius XM radio college football analyst Rick Neuheisel joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss Bob Stoops' comments on the SEC and just how strong the conference is.
BOULDER, Colo.- University of Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb and former Buffaloes offensive lineman Alexander Lewis are facing assault charges after witnesses said another man was knocked unconscious when Lewis shoved his head into a brick wall and both men pushed the victim to the ground and punched him.
The group that makes up the first playoff selection committee will have a highly-scrutinized job. Tony Barnhart offers up some guiding principles and some worthy names for rooting out any hints of bias.
NCAA boss Mark Emmert's run of ill fate continues. Dennis Dodd says the effort to trim the football rule book meets with zero cooperation, as do issues like recruiting deregulation and stipends.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.- The contingent, appropriately dressed in blue and white, gathered in front of the blue and white bus with the unmistakable logo of the Penn State mascot.
NORMAN, Okla.- Oklahoma sophomore quarterback Kendal Thompson was arrested in Norman for public intoxication and refusing to obey a police officer's orders.
Frank Haith's petition seeking to determine if his bank account was illegally accessed was denied by a judge on Thursday. Haith has been charged by the NCAA with failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the Miami program for parts of 2010 and '11.
If the NCAA can't, or won't, approve stipends to athletes, then it might be time for the power conferences to form their own division, Tony Barnhart says.
Gary Andersen switches jobs, but Wisconsin's new coach won't adjust his principles now that he's running a BCS program. Jeremy Fowler says it's Anderson's stubbornness that has made him a winner.
Atlantic 10 Commissioner Bernadette McGlade joins the Tim Brando Show to discuss the slowing of conference realignment and losing rivalries in the conference.
DUBOIS, Pa.- Penn State is hitting the football recruiting trail hard with coaches visiting close to 200 schools in the first two weeks of the May recruiting period.
Missouri football head coach Gary Pinkel joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss Tigers spring football, their struggles last season as well as dealing with injuries.
MINNEAPOLIS- A former head football coach for Minnesota State University, Mankato, who was cleared of child pornography charges last year but reassigned to an administrative position, is no longer employed at the university, the school said Wednesday.
NEW YORK- Penn State has 67 scholarship players on its football roster and coach Bill O'Brien sees no reason why that will change significantly by the time the season starts Aug. 31.
NEW YORK- Penn State has 67 scholarship football players on its roster and coach Bill O'Brien sees no reason why that will change significantly by the time the season starts on Aug. 31.
Career highlights of Mount Union football coach Larry Kehres, who announced on Wednesday that he is stepping down as coach but will continue as athletic director:
Two heart-warming touchdowns made this spring matter more than most. Dennis Dodd surveys the college landscape to find a spring full of intrigue and, in special cases, hope.
ATLANTA- University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban is selling his lake-front estate with its three-story lighthouse and custom boat house in the north Georgia mountains.
ALLIANCE, Ohio- Mount Union's Larry Kehres, who won 11 NCAA Division III championships in 27 seasons while compiling a remarkable 332-24-3 record, is stepping down as head football coach to remain athletic director.
NEW YORK- The only time Tommie Frazier and Danny Wuerffel shared the field during their brilliant college careers, Frazier's Nebraska team trampled Wuerffel and Florida in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl to win the national championship.
HARRISBURG, Pa.- The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated how former administrators handled Penn State's high-profile child sex-abuse scandal said in a new court filing that the defendants are intentionally stalling their criminal case with repeated motions and appeals.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.- Florida A&M University on Tuesday announced the hiring of a director for its famous Marching 100 band, bidding to rebuild and relaunch the band suspended after a 2011 hazing scandal.
NEW ORLEANS- LSU running back Jeremy Hill met with a judge in Baton Rouge on Tuesday and received more restrictive conditions for his probation in the wake of his recent arrest in a bar fight.
HARRISBURG, Pa.- Pennsylvania's attorney general is blaming defense motions for delays in the criminal case against former Penn State administrators accused of covering up child sexual abuse complaints about Jerry Sandusky.
Danny Wuerffel led Florida to four SEC championships and one national title, but Tony Barnhart says the QB's work off the field makes him a true Hall of Famer.
NEW YORK- Heisman Trophy winners Danny Wuerffel of Florida and Ron Dayne of Wisconsin, along with two-time national champion Tommie Frazier of Nebraska, were selected Tuesday for the College Football Hall of Fame.
The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated former Penn State administrators in their handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal says the criminal case against them needs to move forward.
HARRISBURG, Pa.- The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated how former Penn State administrators handled the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal said in a new court filing that the criminal case against them needs to move forward.
Cincinnati finds itself in sort of a purgatory of college football, says Dennis Dodd. With realignment stalled, the Bearcats have few options to get back to the big time.
Cincinnati, UConn and South Florida played the realignment dance but wound up without dates when the music stopped. What's next for these Big East remnants? Jeremy Fowler examines their limited options.
HILLSBORO, Ore.- Former Oregon cornerback Cliff Harris has been arrested after witnesses reported him fighting with his girlfriend outside a restaurant.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.- Brandon Mitchell was caught off guard by new coach Bret Bielema's suggestion that he might see action somewhere other than quarterback following the end of spring practice at Arkansas.
CBS Sports Network college football analyst Tony Barnhart joins the Tim Brando Show to the new SEC Network and if it will be remembered as Mike Slive's legacy.
SEC schools now play an eight-game conference schedule. Tony Barnhart examines the pros and cons of moving to nine games, which is probably inevitable.
MINNEAPOLIS- A judge has ruled that the investigative file in the case of a former college football coach who was cleared of child pornography charges will remain private, according to court documents filed Friday.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.- Penn State trustees have approved reforms to university governance following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and learned two incumbents on the university's governing board were voted out by alumni.
BATON ROUGE, La.- Authorities say they've arrested a second suspect in a bar fight last weekend that had also resulted in the arrest of LSU running back Jeremy Hill.
Mississippi State athletic director Scott Stricklin joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss the beneficial impact the new SEC Network will have on the conference.
SAN MARCOS, Texas- Texas State football coach Dennis Franchione has agreed to a five-year contract extension that pays him $400,000 annually starting in 2014.
NEW ORLEANS- The attorney for LSU running back Jeremy Hill says a brief mobile phone video showing Hill punching another man does not show important events that precipitated the fight.
SOUTH BEND, Ind.- Notre Dame unveiled a plan Thursday to add buildings and more than 3,000 revenue-producing premium seats in and around Notre Dame Stadium in a push to make that area of campus more of a community hub.
ATLANTA- The Southeastern Conference and ESPN on Thursday announced a 20-year agreement to operate a SEC network that is scheduled to debut in August, 2014.
ARLINGTON, Texas- Notre Dame chose to play a "home" game in North Texas long before Cowboys Stadium was picked as the first venue for the national championship in the new playoff system.
NEW ORLEANS- Johnny Manziel has decided he's not going to allow the pitfalls of fame stop him from having a good time, forging friendships with rival quarterbacks or even going back to class - in person.
