Bulldogs, Badgers Resist Stereotypes
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Forget the stereotypes, say Mark Richt and Barry Alvarez. Southeastern Conference football is more than a test of speed, and the Big Ten is about more than pure power.
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By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. Normally, as the New Year approaches, the college football mind does not linger in Memphis, Tenn.
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The television image to remember from Auburn Hills Friday night was not the flying beer cups or the thrown punches. Not the chaos of brainless bums disguised as fans, or unhinged vigilantes who a moment before were professional athletes.
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An avalanche of hype has hit No. 1 Wisconsin and second-ranked Ohio State heading into their Sunday showdown for supremacy in the Big Ten. Both teams are trying to dig their way out of it.
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When talking with high school or college athletes one of the reoccurring themes that tends to pop up is how they happen to have come from athletically minded families.
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Fresno State coach Pat Hill cringes when anyone applies the "mid-major" label to his Bulldogs or the Western Athletic Conference.
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All around the country, the quaint notion of a student athlete has been stored in a hope chest amid a foolÂs-gold pursuit of big-time football.
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Many college students see the latest flirtation with a military draft more as political game-playing than a serious threat.
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In recent years, Big Ten football teams such as Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin have trekked to the University of Oregon&#39;s Autzen Stadium.
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Jimmy Russo scored twice and added an assist and Louis Liotti scored the winner as Northeastern wiped out a three-goal deficit and rallied to beat Bowling Green, 4-3, last night in the first round of the Badger Showdown in Madison, Wis.
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It is not as though they need any more reminders. It is not as though they are not aware of the consequences. Boston College has Rutgers and Mississippi State and, to an extent, Pittsburgh as prime examples of what can happen to a Division 1-A team on any given day against a Division 1-AA opponent.
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Wisconsin&#39;s Alando Tucker missed last year&#39;s game against Alabama because of a foot injury. Tucker had 21 points and seven rebounds for the Badgers as they stifled No.
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The Georgia Bulldogs celebrated in the end zone early and on the sideline late. They probably should have hoisted Knowshon Moreno and Matthew Stafford on their shoulders for both.
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The NCAA tournament's play-in game is drawing the ire of the historically black colleges and universities as their schools have earned the dubious distinction of being picked most often for the event.
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It took a while for sophomore quarterback John Stocco to get comfortable running the offense and just as long for wide receiver Brandon Williams to recover from a leg injury. Now that both are in top shape, the fourth-ranked Wisconsin Badgers have more than just a stout defense and punishing ground game for opponents to worry about.
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The Big Game has rarely been smaller. There's no sibling rivalry when No. 21 California meets Stanford in the 109th edition of their rivalry Saturday. In truth, it's more like a big brother picking on a kid brother &#151; and the result will do little to change the decidedly eastward tilt to the state of college football in the Bay Area.
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Big-time college athletic departments who assert that their teams&#39; success leads to increased alumni donations and a better applicant pool have created an &quot;arms