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This is the longest week of Florida State's increasingly miserable season, a bye that gives the 'Noles five extra days to mull over their three consecutive losses before their next attempt to stop the bleeding Thursday at North Carolina. There, another loss would drop FSU to 2-5, 0-4 in the ACC and practically ensure the 'Noles' first losing season in 30 years with four more losable conference games and Florida still to come. Assistant may not be coming to blows (yet) at the low point of most of their careers, but clearly the walls are beginning to close in.For Exhibit ...

USC's offense and defense finished the scrimmage period of Tuesday's practice in a 12-12 deadlock. For the program that brought us star players faking suicide, defensive ends arrested for freshman abuse and Internet piracy, old-school R&B stars posing as experts on fungus and movie star alums interrupting practice as competition-themed super heroes, there's only one possible way to break a tie between the offense and defense: A slip 'n slide competition between the offensive and defensive line coaches, naturally.After two rounds, your winner is 43-year-old defensive line coach Jethro Franklin, whose final slide shamed OL guru Pat Ruel's by a ...

Come one, come all, the friendless and the shut-in and the flu-stricken and the utterly addicted. It's Wednesday night, and that means Live! Minor! Conference! Action! This week, Boise State travels to Tulsa, and we tell you why you should care.This one might mean something.Weeknight games with national implications are rare creatures. And like it or not, the fate of Boise State is looking more and more like it's gonna seriously impact the BCS. We haven't seen the Broncos in one of the big bowls since their upset of Oklahoma in the 2006 Fiesta. And after two consecutive postseason losses ...

Another sign of the mercenary times in the SEC: One of the byproducts of Georgia's sudden swoon, and the accompanying realization after Saturday's debacle at Tennessee that the Bulldogs are probably en route to their worst season in more than a decade, has been a rapid reassessment of Mark Richt, heretofore on track to become the most successful coach in school history. That was two weeks ago, when UGA was still in the polls at 3-1; a pair of hard-to-swallow losses later, Dawg partisans are beginning to hear the ghosts of a couple recently departed, championship coaches dragging their chains ...

Once again we're gobsmacked by the routine passage of time: Ten years has passed like that, and to commemorate the artificially grouped events therein, the Doc Sat team is counting down the best of 2000-09. Today's category: Best scandal.Matt Hinton: Colorado recruiting goes all the way.Of all the sordid tales in the history of college football, almost none have made international news in countries whose citizens couldn't identify a "Ralphie" or "Rashaan Salaam" if their socialized medicine depended on it. But almost none have reached the scale of the accusations against Colorado in 2003, when -- after four players had ...

• "Yes, we know what 'Classic' means. Why do people keep asking that?" The Cotton Bowl, newly renovated with millions in taxpayer dollars and desperate to remain relevant after losing the actual Cotton Bowl game this yera to the glittering new Jerry Dome across town, will climb back in the postseason saddle next year with something called the Dallas Football Classic, which tentatively plans to pit a team from the bottom half of the Big Ten with a Conference USA also-ran on New Year's Day. If the exodus of half of the most high-profile games (including the Cotton Bowl, now ...

For the (attendance) record: Visits from heavyweights Alabama and Florida Saturday brought in the largest crowds to ever watch a football game in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, respectively, packing 62,657 into Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and 93,129 in Tiger Stadium to watch Rebels and Tigers combine for 259 yards and kick one field goal apiece. Meanwhile, the tickets aren't as hot for this weekend's Red River Shootout, and the crowds are starting to dry up in South Carolina, and the Gamecocks are actually winning at the moment. Related posts:Life on the Margins: Gamecocks go down, unfathomably – Dr. Saturday – NCAAF ...

Florida State president T.K. Wetherell made the point clear enough last week, when the escalating chaos around Bobby Bowden's immediate prospects as FSU's head coach forced Wetherell to put it on the record: Bowden isn't going anywhere this season, health permitting, and there's not much point in suggesting, speculating or campaigning about it until at least December. For Bowden supporters, the subtext of that statement -- Wetherell stressed a transition plan is in place to promote offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to Bowden's chair, and that he would "make a final recommendation to the full Board of Trustees" at the end ...

Tuesday night with two Sun Belt also-rans? Pinch us. But we're tuning in like always, and here's why you should join us: • It might not be a bloodbath.On any given Saturday Tuesday I'd take the team with actual wins over other I-A teams (Monroe) over a team more than a month removed from its lone victory, over Mississippi Valley State (Arkansas State), but take a look at how feisty Arkansas State has been against its last two opponents as a substantial underdog: The Red Wolves fell to Sun Belt overlord Troy and No. 13 Iowa by just a field goal ...

Even five games in, there's no point in trying to compare Oklahoma's offense to last year's record-smashing bombers statistically, and it probably wouldn't be fair even if Sam Bradford had been at full speed for every snap; the '08 Sooners' numbers aren't really the kind you can reasonably expect to replicate, and the '09 Sooners, despite lopsided games with Idaho State, Tulsa and Baylor, certainly haven't -- scoring is down by 16 points per game, and total offense by almost exactly 100 yards one less yard per snap. The 33 points OU scored in losses to BYU and Miami combined ...