I am loving the Will Muschamp hire as the head coach for the Florida Gators. Rapid fire begins now:

Florida Gators coach Will Muschamp expresses his singular goal for the football team (Icon SMI)

One, he’s worked for some of the best HBCs in the business in Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville and Mack Brown so he has been around a lot of winning teams and has worked for coaches that know how to win. It doesn’t get much better in terms of mentors than those three.

Two, he obviously knows defense, and his defenses have been among the best in the nation since he got his first DC opportunity with LSU. It was LSU’s defense that led them to the 2003 National Championship Game. It was Texas’ D that kept them in the game versus Alabama last year after Colt McCoy went down. Certainly, Saban gets a lot of credit for LSU’s D but Muschamp was doing all the day-to-day teaching/coaching for that defense. He’s had not just “good” defenses everywhere he’s been; he’s had GREAT defenses.

I read how ‘bad’ Texas’ D was this year when, in fact, they were 7th in the nation in fewest yards allowed per game. That’s better than most everyone in the SEC sans Alabama and they had to battle the Big XII offenses with very young personnel… True, the TX ppg allowed suffered this year but that had as much to do with Texas’ O and turnovers as it did their D.

In terms of STOPPING AN OPPONENT, no one does it any better than MusCHOMP.

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For the first weekend of games in October, there is a notable decline in sure-fire, play-them-this-week fantasy QBs from previous weeks.  Gone are the easy non-conference games for the high-octane programs.  Now, the games get a little more tougher, and a little more meaningful, for the big-time programs.

There will be some exceptions this week….notably Kellen Moore (photo, thanks Scout.com) and his Boise State Broncos. Read the rest of this entry →

Replacing Florida’s legendary QB Tim Tebow looked like a daunting task for the Gators, whose offense has struggled at times during the 2010 season.

 This past Saturday, the Gators may have found their Tebow           replacement.  Sort of.

Florida QB/RB/WR/Wildcat/Whatever, Trey Burton, is our Fantasy College Blitz Fantasy Player of the Week for Week Four. 

In the Gators 48-13 win over Kentucky, Burton (photo, thanks AP/John Raoux), a true freshman from Vencie, FL (Venice HS), scored 6 TDs (5 rushing, 1 receiving) while operating mostly as the QB in the Wildcat formation.  Burton rushed for 40 yards, passed for 42 yards, and had 37 receiving yards against the (pardon the pun) Wildcats.

Most of survived Week One intact (except your humble writer here…who seems to have caught the “My Fantasy Team Stunk Last Week” flu), and, Week Two looks pretty promising…for your quarterbacks.

For those of you who got lucky and picked Houston QB Case Keenum (photo, thanks sportsblognation.com), be prepared to be awarded this week. Read the rest of this entry →

Can you believe it…it is just days from the start of the 2010 College Football season!  And, of course, you probably want to know whether your fantasy QB is worth playing in Week One….like Texas A&M’s Jerrod Johnson (photo, thanks, Scout.com)

We got the lowdown on many of the top QB plays this week…and we even did this article on our own.  What?  You think we got Butch Davis’ Nanny to write this?  Come on… Read the rest of this entry →