Alabama, SEC trying to climb back to college football summit

Alabama and the Southeastern Conference are trying to climb back atop the college football mountain.
Alabama and the Southeastern Conference are trying to climb back atop the college football mountain.
Four of the top five teams in the country kicked off their games at noon Eastern on Saturday, which suggests
Danny Etling threw a short touchdown pass in the second half and LSU rebounded from a stunning home loss with
On a cool and rainy afternoon during the first week of classes at Centennial High School in this well-to-do Baltimore
The College World Series finals begin Monday night featuring two teams from the same conference, but two distinctly different histories in Omaha. The SEC regular season co-champion LSU Tigers, gunning for their 7th national crown, face the co-champion Florida Gators, who are looking for their first national title. For the first 40 years of the college baseball championship round, the Tigers were a non-factor. The first champion was crowned in 1947, but LSU did not reach the CWS until 1986.…
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Plenty of Florida college sports is on tap throughout the Memorial Day weekend. Many of the games come with high stakes. The Florida Gators will play in the SEC semi-finals on Saturday against Arkansas. The top-seeded Gators will face the fourth-seeded Razorbacks in the second game of the day in Hoover, Ala. Second seed LSU meets 11th-seeded South Carolina in the first game at 1:00 p.m. Florida reached the semi-finals after an incredible rally against Mississippi State. The Gators trailed…
Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher is glad to get back to a normal game-week schedule after Hurricane Irma forced the
Many area schools and colleges in the Tampa Bay area have announced plans to shut down ahead of Hurricane Irma’s
Florida State has largely been known for its offense during Jimbo Fisher‘s eight seasons as head coach. This could be
The NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) figures are in for the 2015-2016 school year with some good news and not-so-good news for some Florida schools. We learn from the APR that women’s tennis teams in particular, and female athletes in general, constitute the best performing college students. The NCAA fully explains the methodology. Three Florida Gator programs earned perfect scores (men’s and women’s tennis along with women’s golf.) Ever Gator program scored at least 970. “In athletics, we keep score,…
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ACC fans, or supporters of schools outside of the SEC, often grumble about the “best conference by far” tag often given to the SEC by football pundits. Each time an SEC team loses a bowl game or a head-to-head matchup with one of the outsiders, the derision often follows. Conversely, SEC basketball fans, or supporters of other power conferences outside of the ACC, are equally uncertain that conference is that much better than the others. The ACC put eight teams…
Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher is glad to get back to a normal game-week schedule after Hurricane Irma forced the
Florida State has largely been known for its offense during Jimbo Fisher‘s eight seasons as head coach. This could be
Gov. Rick Scott says proposals to remove a Confederate soldier monument from the Capitol grounds should be handled through the
For the first time in several weeks, three Florida teams are in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. Florida and Florida State have been included every week, but now the South Florida Bulls have joined the club. USF is the 24th ranked team in the country according to AP. With Saturday’s victory over Central Florida, the Bulls finished the season at 10-2. The 10 wins are the most in a season in USF history and the Bulls are ranked in…
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Gov. Rick Scott Monday has ordered flags at half-staff “in honor and remembrance of the victims of the act of
A little more than one season removed from a winless season, the University of Central Florida Knights have returned the
Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson wants to see the ACC continue its two-year run of dominance in state rivalry games against teams from the SEC. Atlantic Coast Conference teams are 7-1 against Southeastern Conference teams from the same state the last two years. That includes a 4-0 sweep in 2014 of the state rivalries that will be renewed on Saturday: Clemson-South Carolina, Louisville-Kentucky, Georgia Tech-Georgia and Florida State-Florida. “Best of luck to all those guys competing against the SEC,” Watson said…
Florida State University President John Thrasher announced the members of the President’s Advisory Panel on University Namings and Recognitions, according to a news
On a cool and rainy afternoon during the first week of classes at Centennial High School in this well-to-do Baltimore
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