Preseason college football rankings mean squat, unless your team owns the top spot. So instead of issuing my own rankings heading into the first weekend of action, I decided my College Football Preview for Bullz-Eye.com will break down the AP’s top-15 teams to see who has the best shot to compete for the title.
I also included a list of players who are NFL bound among those top 15 teams, as well as a must watch game.
Sports Illustrated has an infatuation with the Carolina Panthers that rivals bodybuilders’ obsession with protein shakes.
In 2005, the mag picked the Panthers to beat the Colts 31-27 in the Super Bowl. A year later, SI again went with the Panthers, this time choosing them to beat the Dolphins in the Super Bowl.
And now in 2007, whom is SI picking to win the Super Bowl? Well, the Saints over the Chargers, but who do they have New Orleans beating in the Divisional Round of the playoffs? That’s right, the – in their estimation – 11-5 Carolina Panthers, of course.
Regardless of what you think about the Panthers – personally I think they’ll be lucky to win nine games this year – it’s flabbergasting that three years in a row SI has dropped to their knees in absolute worship of this team. The Panthers aren’t on the same level as the Patriots or Colts for SI to be predicting them year in and year out to make the playoffs. Seriously, two of the past three years they’ve picked the Panthers to win the Super Bowl and this year, which is probably the most flawed the Panthers have looked in years, they’re predicting them to go 11-5. Is Don Banks and knucklehead “Dr. Z” on Jerry Richardson’s payroll?
SPORTSbyBROOKS.com found an interesting clip of two players from a losing team at the Little League World Series, who spit in their hands before congratulating the winners. Check out the clip here, which was originally shot by ESPN cameras.
Pat Freese, vice president of Coon Rapids (MN) Little League where the boys were from: “The [spitting players’] coaches looked at [the video replay] and they were disgusted. They were beside themselves.”
Little sh!ts.
According to a report by Yahoo! Sports, former first overall pick Tim Couch had been using steroids and human growth hormone while attempting a comeback to the gridiron.
“If I took that much steroids I wouldn’t have passed the steroid test in Jacksonville,” he said last week. “There’s no way in hell. It doesn’t matter what that (steroid regimen) says. It matters what I took. I know what I took and what I didn’t take.”
Well I hope you didn’t take roids Couch, because if you did they certainly didn’t help your career 75.1 quarterback rating or your 17 comeback attempts from first overall bustland. I’d hate to assume guilt from one Yahoo! Sports article, but if he did juice, this is just proof that steroids don’t always boost athletes to Barry Bonds-levels.
According to the St. Louis Dispatch, Torry Holt states that he’s only 70 to 80 percent healthy while continuing to recover from offseason knee surgery. Holt will probably play Week 1 against the Panthers, but won’t be completely healthy and in fact, he might not be 100% all season.
So if you haven’t already drafted, what round does Holt fall to now? He’s 31, didn’t show the burst or ability to separate from defenders last year like in previous seasons, and now is slow to recover from knee surgery. I would still say he’s a fourth round pick in a 10-team league, falling behind Marvin Harrison, Chad Johnson, Terrell Owens, Steve Smith and probably Reggie Wayne. I would still take him ahead of Roy Williams and the two Cardinal receivers, but obviously recognize he’s much more of a risk these days.
He might start slow, but at least there are other weapons in that offense that defenses have to key on so he’ll still put up decent numbers this year.
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