With Virginia Tech traveling to face Miami in the ABC National TV game this weekend, it’s hard not to think back to September 23, 1995.  That afternoon Virginia Tech hosted Miami at a much different looking Lane Stadium.  The South End Zone seating consisted of some rickety old bleachers just below a scoreboard that was […]

Question?  Have you ever heard of Bellhaven University?  Chances are, unless you are a complete football junkie or just like irrelevant information (insert my name here), you haven’t. But, when you watch college football this weekend or any weekend, then you are witness to the innovation that comes from the head coach at a small NCAA Division […]

You ever wish life came with a mulligan.  You know, a chance to do it over and do something different.  Alas, it doesn’t work that way, but in the College Football world sometimes it does. There is more than one fan base out there hoping their athletic director and administration hits the reset button and […]

There’s an old riddle you may have heard:  “Why does someone go out on a limb?”  The answer is because that’s where the fruit is.   Going out on a limb has become a trend for former FCS programs like Appalachian State and Georgia Southern who made the move to FBS.  Both of those schools won multiple […]

Stuck among the numerous games of the first week of the College Football Season is a little gem in Landover, Maryland.  Actually it’s not really stuck in the middle of other games, it has its own primetime spot on Sunday night as Virginia Tech and West Virginia renew their rivalry…at least for the moment. Virginia […]

After about 4 weeks of practice, various scrimmages and VHSL benefit games, High School Football starts for real tomorrow night (in some places tonight) across the Commonwealth of Virginia.  And, when it does there are a handful of schools in Southwest Virginia that once again are facing another year just hoping to make the post-season, let […]

Let’s go back in time to 2005.  That season, West Virginia authored one of the its finest seasons when the Mountaineers went 11-1 (losing only to Virginia Tech), and won the Sugar Bowl by beating Georgia in what was essentially a Georgia Home game when the game was moved from New Orleans to Atlanta due to the damage caused to […]

If you are of my age, or maybe any age, you are familiar with the story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  Released on NBC in 1964, it has become a staple of television’s Christmas Season.  During the program, Rudolph and a companion wind up on an Island known as the Island of Misfit Toys.  […]

It’s a fact of life, where there are sports, there is beer.  Speaking personally, there’s nothing wrong with that.  That’s particularly true for College Football and we are kidding ourselves if we think otherwise.  The tailgate was designed for College Football Saturdays, but the school isn’t seeing any revenue from that time honored tradition of fall.  That […]

You can set your clock by it.  It’s as woven into the fabric of the Commonwealth of Virginia as Northern Virginia traffic, and Senator Tim Kaine complaining about something.  It begins on Thursday where all across the Commonwealth guys like my buddy Chris Jones in Covington and Jeff Williams in Giles will blow the whistle […]