Lane Kiffin has taken his final you-know-what-chewing on the sideline from Nick Saban.In an unprecedented stunner, Alabama announced Monday — a week before it defends its College Football Playoff title against Clemson — that Kiffin will leave the program to focus on his new head coaching duties at Florida Atlantic. Steve Sarkisian, the former Washington [more]
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Utah hires Eastern Washington QB guru Troy Taylor as next offensive coordinator
Leave a commentUtah’s offense could be getting a major overhaul with the hiring of Troy Taylor, who co-coordinated Eastern Washington’s explosive offense at the FCS level this year.Taylor will be Utah’s next offensive coordinator in a move announced by the Utes Monday. Coach Kyle Whittingham also announced that offensive line coach Jim Harding, who spent the last [more]
16 college football games among most-watched non-NFL/Olympics events of 2016
Leave a commentThis headline requires that major caveat above involving the NFL and Olympics, given that those two sports accounted for 45 of the 50 most-watched sporting events of 2016. So with those ratings juggernauts removed, we have a pretty good idea of what other sports people were watching last year between baseball, basketball, college football and [more]