NCAA Football

2012 Signing Day Preview

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:34 | Written by Mike Crook |

NCAA Football In the last "Recruiting Nation 411" prior to national signing day, our host of recruiting experts from around the country shares all the latest information on what the top uncommitted recruits are thinking, and where they might end up.

What are your thoughts about where each school's 2012 signing class will put them in the rankings?

While we at Free Sports Press love to debate such things we really feel its a moot argument to discuss recruiting rankings as its just speculation.

Just because an athlete is high caliber in high school doesn't necessarily mean it will transition into a "sure thing" when he starts playing college ball.

Paterno Dies at 85 of Cancer Complications

Sunday, 22 January 2012 08:51 | Written by The Associated Press |

Former Penn State Head Coach, Joe Paterno STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday. He was 85.

His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: "His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled."

"He died as he lived," the statement said. "He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community."

Paterno built his program on the credo "Success with Honor," and he found both. The man known as "JoePa" won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL.

SD Mines Announces 2012 Football Schedule

Friday, 20 January 2012 13:19 | Written by Brad Blume (Sports Information Director at SDSM&T) |

SDSM&T Hardrockers RAPID CITY --- South Dakota School of Mines and the Hardrocker football program have announced the schedule for the 2012 season. The ‘Rockers will again play an 11-game season with a majority of their contests against NCAA Div. II opponents mixed in with a couple former NAIA Dakota Athletic Conference rivals as well as an NCAA Div. I opponent.

SD Mines opens the season in Grand Forks, N.D., against Div. I University of North Dakota slated for Aug. 30. This will be the first-ever meeting for SD Mines and UND.

The Hardrockers will face six teams in 2012 they have never seen before in the program’s storied history. Along with North Dakota, SD Mines will take on William Jewell College (Kan.) Sept. 22 in Rapid City; travel to Joplin, Mo., for a matchup with Missouri Southern University (Oct. 6); are at Alva Okla., on Oct. 20 to face Northwestern Oklahoma State University; welcome Fort Hays State (Kan.) Oct. 27; and play host to the University of Nebraska-Kearney Nov. 3.

Top 10 Bowl Moments

Wednesday, 11 January 2012 08:50 | Written by ESPN.com News Service |

NCAA Football ESPN has compiled their "Top 10" moments of the bowl season.

The ACC and Florida State were represented on three of these, though none of the highlights were favorable to the respective ACC teams.

The lone winning school that made the cut? Florida State.

Do you agree with ESPN's list? Leave your opinion in the comments section below.