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Who is slated for their comeuppance in 2009? Some really good coaches, actually. And one or two that are perceived to be. I will eschew the legalistic prick picks like Utah (the Utes went 10-3 in 2009, crashing down from their 13-0 record in '08!!!!) and give you a few of the teams that will be picnicking on shit sandwiches and will be qualitatively much worse in 2009. Cincinnati Like Jim

Now that the July Rubicon has been forded and my mourning for Michael Jackson has ended, our attentions can turn in earnest to college football preview magazines and preseason prognostication. Like many of you, I will purchase several terrible college football magazines with outdated information (Jarvis Humphery's development at DT will be key for the 'Horns!), poor analysis (2008 Preview Headline: Can West Virginia prevent the inevitable Ohio State/Georgia national title game?), and uninspired

When Gary Pinkel arrived at Missouri, he shook up the Big 12 North by being the only head coach to wear a visor in December. The resulting brain freeze explained his 13-17 record at Missouri in games played after November 1st. It’s cold up there, Gary. He turned the corner against Kansas by slicing open Mark Mangino like a tauntaun and climbing inside his ample abdomen to stay warm. It worked. They won the North,

Nebraska stares into the college football abyss. They see Bo Pelini staring back at them. That's when Nebraska finds their new head football coach, and that's what keeps them out of the abyss. That's the task at hand for Pelini. The once dominating Nebraska football program has gone missing and is no longer in the public eye. He has to return it to its past glory. "You're Nebraska. You used to win national championships. You used

Well, here we go again, sports fans. Another college football season is finally, at long last, about to begin after eight long, tedious months of recess. I’m so sick of this waiting crap. When in the hell are they going to come up with a real, lasting, interesting spring football season just to placate those of us who are football-obsessed?

Barring that, repealing Title

Remember when you could smoke cigarettes in football stadiums? I liked the world better that way. I am neither virulently libertarian, nor am I a member of any sort of modern day Christian temperance movement. My vices are documented in these pages, for better or worse (they include caffeine, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey older than at least two of my three sons, tacos al carbon, Earth, Wind and Fire and, well, the fact that I

Some of our illustrious Barkers are putting the finishing touches on this year's previews. If you are new here and want to read last year's, click here. Tentative schedule for posting is as follows:

College Football 2009: And They All Fell Down

College Football: Breakout Teams in 2009

2008 Missouri Football Preview – State of the Union

2008 Nebraska Football Preview – State of the Union

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly – Season Preview

Jones Top Ten 2008 Season Preview

The Barking Carnival Big XII 2008 Preview & State of The Union Collection

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