Barking Carnival

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And there are media reports that Texas is high on their wish list.

After winning just 8 games in his first two years at Michigan, Rich Rodriguez was looking forward to talking about his latest recruiting haul for the Wolverines. Michigan inked 27 players, the largest recruiting class in UM history, but at his press conference, Rich Rod had to spend time saying he knew nothing about the special session of the Board of Regents also held Wednesday to hear an update on the NCAA investigation

The University of Michigan, the winningest program in college football, will open their season this Saturday with Western Michigan at home. Over 104,000 fans will be there and most of them won't have the faintest idea as to what kind of team, or what kind of season the Wolverines will have. That's because they aren't real sure if they have the right coach. At an emotional news conference Monday, Rich Rodriguez defended his program against

Perhaps a fitting sign of where things stand in Ames, Iowa with football season just two weeks away is the cover story at cyclonereport.com which features a recent commitment by some dude named Melvin Ejim – to the basketball team. CloneChronicles.com is all over this breaking story as well. In fact, every news outlet in Ames is devoting its full attention so they don't have to talk about the sad state of

With all the talk of "style points" and strength of schedule being bandied about this week, and with the bowl season about to be unleashed, there no doubt will be more talk about the relative strengths of the BCS conferences. Before the bowl matchups between leagues get started, here are some basics Overall BCS Opponents Conference W-L W-L Big 12 38-10 79% 7-8 47% ACC 37-11 77% 15-8 65% SEC 37-11 77% 6-9 40% Big 10 32-12 73% 6-7 46% Big East 28-12 70% 9-7 56% Pac 10 14-17 45% 6-8 43% Yes,

Get used to it, SEC fans. OK, I actually think the Big 12 deserves a meaningful discussion with the SEC, but since every SEC blogger and bulletin board posse have set Google Alerts for all discussions regarding best conference, I figured I’d poke them in the eye so their dander would be up by the time they made it over to Barking Carnival to defend their flag. I do expect that by the

Here are some Ohio State and USC starting points if you want do some research. A number of Ohio State fans think Sweatervest is engaging in cloak-and-dagger counterintelligence with regards to Wells and that he's just fine; the USC fans are surprised that people still, like, live in places like Ohio. My three keys to the game: QB Play Mark Sanchez is already an upgrade over JD Booty. The next question

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