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11/24/2008 - Berea, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Although Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn was benched in Sunday's home loss to the Houston Texans, head coach Romeo Crennel named him the starter for this week's game versus the Indianapolis Colts.
"Brady is still the starting quarterback," Crennel said one day after a 16-6 setback to the Texans. "I told him last night he had not lost his job. He is the starter. He is the quarterback. He is not on a short leash."
Quinn was only 8-of-18 for 94 yards with two interceptions before being pulled for 2007 Pro Bowl quarterback Derek Anderson. Anderson lost the starting job to Quinn after a 3-5 start and did no better on Sunday, completing just five of his 14 pass attempts for 51 yards with an interception.
Crennel noted that he was trying to find a spark in his team when he made the switch at quarterback. Quinn made a few misreads according to the head coach, who was also being cautious with the youngster's fractured right index finger.
"In that circumstance I decided to make the change try to get the spark. Some of that had to do with a couple misreads he made and some of it had to do with my knowledge of the finger situation," Crennel added.
Drafted 22nd overall by Cleveland out of Notre Dame in 2007, Quinn has passed for 518 yards with a pair of touchdowns and two interceptions for a 66.6 rating in his three starts.
<< Tar Heels still a unanimous No. 1
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - North Carolina was again a unanimous pick as
the top-ranked college basketball team in the country, according to the latest
Associated Press poll released Monday.
The Tar Heels (3-0), playing this week in t
<< Savard leads NHL's Three Stars
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Boston Bruins forward Marc Savard was named
the NHL's First Star for the week ending November 23 and Vancouver's Henrik
Sedin and Chicago's Nikolai Khabibulin joined him on the 'Three Stars' list
Savard
<< Devils' DiSalvatore earns AHL Player of the Week
Springfield, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lowell Devils right winger Jon
DiSalvatore has been named the American Hockey League's Player of the Week for
the period ending Nov. 23, it was announced on Monday.
DiSalvatore recorded two g
<< Rangers recall Rissmiller from Hartford
New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Rangers recalled forward Patrick
Rissmiller from their American Hockey League affiliate, the Hartford Wolf
Pack, it was announced on Monday.
Rissmiller, 30, recorded seven assists in six gam
Maypray, Klein and Gathof capture FCS Players of the Week >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Tim Maypray of VMI, Terrence Klein of New
Hampshire and Brandon Gathof of Eastern Kentucky have been named The Sportsbook Betting Lines's FCS national players of the week.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Tim Maypray
Stars forward Ott to miss a month >>
Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Dallas Stars announced on Monday that
forward Steve Ott will miss at least a month with a broken right hand.
Ott suffered the injury in a fight against Anaheim Ducks defenseman Steve
Montador, an
Rivermen winger Conner joins Stars >>
Peoria, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Dallas Stars recalled left winger Chris
Conner from their American Hockey League affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen, it
was announced on Monday.
The 25-year-old Conner has scored 10 goals and six assi
Tseng inches past Sorenstam in world rankings >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Yani Tseng and Annika Sorenstam both
failed to reach the weekend at the season-ending ADT Championship, but Tseng
was able to inch past Sorenstam back into the No. 2 spot in the world
ranking
My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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