Breakfast Buffet: Utah State player writes hearfelt thank you letter to those who saved his life (The Dagger: College Basketball Blog)
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Andersen will take back seat during Rose Bowl
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gary Andersen doesn’t mind taking a back seat with his new team when it comes to the Rose Bowl. Andersen was formally introduced Friday as the new head coach at Wisconsin and he made it clear right away that he will be more of a ”fly on the wall” as the Badgers prepare for the Jan. 1 game against Stanford. That’s because his boss, athletic director Barry Alvarez, is already handling the coaching duties at the request of the players following the departure of Bret Bielema for Arkansas. That allows Andersen, who left Utah State after four years, to evaluate players and prepare for next season. ”These kids need to go win a Rose Bowl,” Andersen said after walking past a bowing Bucky Badger mascot and pep band playing the Wisconsin fight song. ”The last thing they need for …
It’s official, Andersen is new Wisconsin coach
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Several schools tried to lure Gary Andersen away from Utah State. Wisconsin finally got him. Andersen was officially hired as the Badgers’ new coach Thursday, and will be formally introduced at a news conference Friday morning. He replaces Bret Bielema, who left the Badgers for Arkansas this month. ”I don’t know if I can really have a word for how excited I am to be at Wisconsin and have this opportunity,” Andersen said in a video on Wisconsin’s website. ”I know I’m humbled, I know I’m blessed.” The 48-year-old Andersen just completed his fourth and best season at Utah State. The 18th-ranked Aggies finished 11-2 with a bowl victory against Toledo and won the Western Athletic Conference. One of those losses was at Wisconsin, where the Aggies missed a 37-yard field goal in the final seconds…
Notre Dame still the 1 in AP rankings
NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame is No. 1 in The Associated Press college football rankings with nothing left to do but wait to find out who its opponent in the national championship game will be. Toward the bottom of the rankings, there was plenty of movement. Ten Top 25 teams lost this weekend, the most since Oct. 11, 2003. No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia, both easy winners in rivalry games Saturday, held their spots in the rankings and will play for the SEC title in Atlanta next weekend. Ohio State remained No. 4 after completing its perfect season with a victory against Michigan. The Buckeyes (12-0) are banned from the postseason because of NCAA sanctions. Florida moved up a spot to No. 5 after beating Florida State. Four teams from BCS non-automatic qualifying leagues are ranked. No. 18 Kent State and No. 19 Northern Illinois will play for the Mid-American Conference title Friday. No. 20 Utah State wrapped up its season as Western Athletic Conference champ. No. 25 …
Goodbye Utah State, hello Buckeyes? – San Diego St (Rivals)
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Big Ten Football: Power Ranking the Big Ten Teams in Week 9
We’re four weeks into the Big Ten slate already (even though only four teams have actually played four Big Ten games—the rest have taken byes), and we’re starting to get a clearer picture…
UW continues shakeup, names Stave starter
Apologies for posting this late, but Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema made it official Thursday and named redshirt freshman Joel Stave as the team’s starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against UTEP. Stave relieved Danny…
Forde-Yard Dash: College football kickers mysteriously missing their mark (Yahoo! Sports)
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (white flags sold separately in Boulder): KICKER CRISIS Utah State misses final second field goal. (AP) Just three weeks into the season, The Dash has seen enough from America’s field-goal kickers. Enough snap hooks. Enough pushed fades. Enough low-trajectory blocks. Enough kicks that doink off uprights, or don’t even reach them. College football officially has a kicker crisis. There apparently are not enough scrawny kids with strong legs on campuses from sea to shining sea. Or at least not enough of them willing to join their football team. The numbers don’t lie. According to NCAA statistics, FBS kickers have made 67.8 percent of their field-goal attempts this season. That’s on pace to be the lowest accuracy percentage since 2004, and the first time accuracy has slipped below 70 percent since 2006. It is six percent lower than the accuracy record set in 2010 and 2.6 percent lower than last year’s number. If that 2.6 percent decline…
Bielema has (secret) plan for Badgers QBs
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema sent Russell Wilson a text message Sunday night when he heard Wilson had won his first game as the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. If Bielema was tempted…
Wisconsin outlasts Utah State, barely
It came down to a 37-yard field goal attempt with just 11 seconds remaining in Camp Randall for Josh Thompson, who was kicking for the win over Wisconsin. But the ball would go…
