College Football

A group of Air Force Academy cadets decided to do a “spirit” video for their football game this year against Army. The cadets stripped and posed while lip-synching “I’m Sexy and I Know It,” that featured such lyrics as “I got action in my pants and I ain’t afraid to show it.” Suffice it to […]

LSU defensive star and Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann “Honey Badger” Mathieu is learning not to get into a spat with ex-girlfriends/hookups. Spurned these days means sending out penis pictures of the offender on the Internet. Media Takeout has the pics, which are allegedly of Mathieu's private parts. Since the photos are headless, they could be […]

Major college football is the most unsatisfying of our sports, the only one where computers and voters determine who gets to play for the “national title.” This is how Nos. 2 and 3 finished in the BCS rankings this year: Alabama, 9419, Oklahoma State .9333, the closest ever between two and three. And thus, because […]

I love it when the bogus BCS is a mess. Major college football stubbornly refuses to have a playoff and the result is a unsatisfying system that got turned upside down Friday night when Iowa State stunned previously unbeaten Oklahoma State, 37-31, in overtime. LSU and Houston are the only major unbeaten teams and Houston […]

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky proclaimed his innocence in an interview with Bob Costas of NBC (complete transcript). Sandusky said he regrets showering with boys, but says it was just “horse play” and that he is not a pedophile and did not rape a boy in the shower. Sandusky is free on […]

The only good thing about LSU’s dull 9-6 overtime win over Alabama in a game the media hyperventilated about all week is that we won’t see a rematch in the BCS title game. At least we better not. College football fans don’t deserve to be put to sleep again. I can appreciate a great defensive […]

Kirk Cousins Wow. In what was the best ending I've seen in either a college or pro football game this season, Michigan State beat Wisconsin, 37-31, on a last-play throw-it-up-and-hope touchdown pass (video below). The pass was thrown by Kirk Cousins and was caught off a ricochet by Keith Nichol, a former QB. The refs […]

The Michigan Wolverines have been pushing against homophobia for over a decade.

Someone lamented that we have not posted about the BullCrap Series game last night, so I’m filling the void. I was in annual “boycott the BCS title game” mode so I didn’t watch it. The system is a sham and I wish everyone would realize that we could get a playoff if we all stopped […]

Outsports is 10 years old. It’s been an incredible journey for both Jim and me. The most fulfilling aspects of the first decade of Outsports has been meeting some incredible people and telling some incredible stories. For the rest of 2010 we’ll revisit some of the stories that touched us and that had an impact […]

It is all but certain that there will be a new BCS champion in college football after Alabama fell to LSU, 24-21. It is Alabama’s second loss, all but eliminating them from title contention. The Tide's loss was good news for teams like Boise State and TCU, "non-automatic qualifiers." Both are still unbeaten (TCU crushed […]

The first BCS poll will be out Sunday and the big question is who the top two teams will be. It won’t be Ohio State, 31-18 losers to Wisconsin. The Buckeyes became the second straight No. 1 team to lose, following Alabama a week earlier. Oregon, which was idle, will almost certainly be one of […]

Week 1 of the college football season is in the books, and the big winner was Boise State. The No. 3 Broncos beat No. 10 Virginia Tech, 33-30, to stake an early claim to a legitimate spot in a national title race. Boise State had to show a lot of heart, trailing by 4 points […]

If the University of Florida is the fourth-best college football team in the country, then it will be an incredibly weak year in college football. Florida beat Miami of Ohio, 34-12, but that score is highly misleading. It was 20-12 in the fourth until the Gators scored on a 72-yard run and a lucky throw-it-up-in-the-end-zone-and-pray […]

Bama QB Greg McElroy No surprise, but defending BCS champ Alabama is the overwhelming favorite to repeat as No. 1 in college football, if the preseason AP poll is accurate. The Tide garnered 54 of the 59 first-place votes. Rounding out the Top 5 are Ohio State, Boise State, Florida and Texas. It's Boise State […]

Former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow says his decision to appear in Super Bowl ads for Focus on the Family cost him endorsement deals. Tebow appeared in ads that stressed a pro-life message for Focus on the Family, a political advocacy group that is extremely homophobic. Tebow was the featured speaker at a dinner […]

Let’s see: CBS in the past has rejected ads from the United Church of Christ promoting gay rights, from PETA and from Moveon.org. But it has no problem running a pro-life ad by Florida quarterback Tim Tebow paid for by the anti-gay hate group Focus on the Family. I wonder why? CBS’ decision on the […]

Alabama beat Texas, 37-21, to win the BCS title game in the Rose Bowl, in a game that was pretty much over when Longhorn QB Colt McCoy hurt his shoulder on his fifth snap and never returned. 'Bama won the game and their fans can celebrate, but the Tide was less than impressive. It came […]

Mark Ingram of Alabama won the Heisman Trophy over the weekend, becoming the first player from the Crimson Tide to take home the award. He won in the closest vote in history, edging out Stanford RB Toby Gerhart by 28 points. Now comes the second-guessing of not only the decision but the process itself. Against […]

University of Cincinnati football players are pissed that head coach Brian Kelly quit on them and took the job at Notre Dame. Kelly follows in the proud tradition of Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino, liars who swore there was nothing to rumors just days before bolting. “The Tuesday before we played Pitt, he was telling […]