17 years ago today, Boise State RB Ian Johnson gave us the happiest ending in bowl history by proposing to head cheerleader Chrissy Popadics on national TV after beating Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, 43-42. 💍
P.S. Yes, they're still together & living in Boise. 🥹
Biggest college football buyouts ever paid:
5. Tom Herman: $15.4 million
4. Willie Taggart: $18 million
3. Charlie Weis: $19 million
2. Gus Malzahn: $21.5 million
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1. Jimbo Fisher: $75 million
Forever the 🐐 of college football fans, Alabama super fan Dick Coffee attended every single Crimson Tide football game from the 1946 season opener until his death in 2013 at the age of 91 — 781 consecutive games in all.
Coffee's final Alabama game was the Tide's 42-14 win over…
Lane Kiffin sounded off on the state of college football at SEC Media Days, including:
- Calling the current state of college football a "disaster"
- Saying the unintended consequence of NIL is a "pay-for-play" system where there will be even less parity than before
- Stating…
Chicago State has the most electric atmosphere in college hoops.
Listed attendance for Friday night's game vs. East-West University: 94.
Looks more like 9.
Florida State Seminoles not playing in the Orange Bowl:
- QB Jordan Travis (injury)
- RB Trey Benson (opt out)
- WR Keon Coleman (opt out)
- WR Johnny Wilson (opt out)
- TE Jaheim Bell (opt out)
- DL Jared Verse (opt out)
- DL Fabien Lovett (opt out)
- LB DJ Lundy…
You won't find anyone who will outwork Michigan RB Blake Corum. 〽️
This was his daily routine in HIGH SCHOOL: 🤯
- 4:30 AM: Wake up
- 5 AM: Speed work, running and stability workouts
- 7 AM: School
- 3 PM: Lifting with the football team
- 4 PM: Practice
- 6 PM: Post-practice…
Kudos to Shelton Douthett, who dresses up as a Miami football player for every Hurricanes home game to honor his late older brother, who loved "The U." 🙌
New Washington head coach Jedd Fisch has a crazy back-story:
He was a regular freshman at the University of Florida in the 1990s who dreamed about getting into football with his roommate.
After getting passed over for the Gators equipment manager position, Fisch left notes on…
Wife: "What time does Michigan play today?"
Me: "They don't play today. It's a bye week."
Wife: "Great! So you don't need to watch college football today???"
Me:
We didn't realize how good we had it with the old Tostitos Fiesta Bowl logo with the t's sharing a chip & the i doubling as a bowl of salsa until it was gone: 🥹
Because Alabama is BETTER!!
Period! So is Texas. So is Michigan. So is Washington. So is Oregon. So is Georgia. I watch 10-15 games a week live from September-early December. I think I’m allowed to have an opinion on who I think is BETTER!! If FSU doesn’t like itbis “The BEST 4”…
New Charlotte head coach Biff Poggi had a message for the media at AAC Media Days: "That's it, 3 questions? Maybe that's because you have us ranked last, that's all what you think of us. So, we get that message, thank you." 😳
An amazing note about Michigan QB JJ McCarthy via Michigan radio's Doug Karsch. 〽️
"JJ takes his NIL money and he donates it to local children's hospitals in the towns that they play in and he did it again here for Texas Children's Hospital in Houston." 🏥
BREAKING: Arizona RB Jonah Coleman plans to enter the Transfer Portal, he tells
@on3sports
The 5’9 220 RB totaled 1,550 Yards & 10 TDs in his time at Arizona
Will have 3 years of eligibility remaining
Michigan RB Blake Corum is one of the good ones. 🫡
For Thanksgiving, he used his NIL money to buy turkey dinners for families in need. 🦃
Today, he is at a mall outside Detroit doing a holiday toy drive: Donate a toy & get a picture with Blake. (via
@chengelis
) 🎁🎅
Very cool to see Oklahoma QB Dillon Gabriel transfer to Oregon, where he will wear
#8
like Oregon QB greats & fellow Hawaii natives Jeremiah Masoli & Marcus Mariota. 🦆🌈
Remember Florida State star safety Myron Rolle?
He delayed his NFL career to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and after he finished with football, Rolle returned to Tallahassee for FSU's College of Medicine.
He is now a Neurosurgery Resident at Harvard/Massachusetts…
Imagine telling a college football fan during the 2007 season that Tennessee's middle linebacker would be Bill Belichick's replacement as the Patriots' head coach.
Christian Braun is now just the 5th basketball player ever to win NCAA & NBA titles in back-to-back years. 🏆x🏆
- Bill Russell (San Francisco 1956, Celtics '57)
- Henry Bibby (UCLA 1972, Knicks '73)
- Magic Johnson (Michigan St. 1979, Lakers '80)
- Billy Thompson (Louisville…
New Mexico State head coach Jerry Kill went OFF on New Mexico's AD for not allowing NMSU to use UNM's practice facility before Saturday's New Mexico Bowl b/c QB Diego Pavia urinated on its midfield logo before the UNM-NMSU rivalry game this season:
"When he won't let us…
On this day, we salute former Iowa QB Ricky Stanzi, whose patriotism knows no bounds — including a tattoo on his back that reads "Made In USA 1987" & his 2010 Orange Bowl victory speech dedicated to his love of America. 🫡🇺🇸
Kirk Herbstreit is earning his wings over this 48-hour span: ✈️ (h/t
@FOS
)
- Thursday PM: Called Vikings-Eagles in Philly
- Friday PM: Watching son play H.S. football in Cincy
- Saturday AM: Doing "College GameDay" in Boulder
- Saturday PM: Calling Tennessee-Florida in…
QB Josh Allen had an incredible college journey before reaching NFL stardom:
- He was recruited by 0 colleges in high school
- Allen played 1 season at Reedley Junior College outside Fresno, CA
- He emailed 1,000 college coaches the message below & got zero responses
-…
Former Iowa WR Arland Bruce IV allegedly placed 19 bets on Hawkeye football games, including two "under" bets.
He is now the 2nd Iowa player accused of betting the "under" against his own team, joining kicker Aaron Blum. 😬