As much as any FBS programs in the country, Alabama and Auburn have traditionally relied on homegrown prospects to lead their football teams. Over the past 25 seasons, 10 of the 15 players who have started more than one game at quarterback for the Crimson Tide were from Alabama high schools. Auburn has had five Alabama natives start at quarterback during the past 15 seasons. For a state with a much smaller population (4.8 million) than recruiting hotbeds like California, Texas, Florida and Ohio, Alabama has produced its share of great quarterbacks.
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Schlabach: Tide roll with in-state QBs
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BYU COUGARS Record: 9-3 It is hard to really measure this season for BYU. Another 10-win season would certainly make it a success, considering that would make the Cougars one of just six FBS schools with 10 or more wins in five of the past six seasons. In Year 1 as an independent, everybody at BYU will take that. But a closer look at the schedule reveals the Cougars have one victory over a team with a winning record. In the “big games” against three bowl teams — Texas, Utah and TCU — they went 0-3.
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Season recap: BYU
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Mack Brown didn’t sound encouraging about the prospect of Jaxon Shipley playing Thursday night. Shipley, who has missed the past 3 1/2 games with a sprained right knee ligament and a high ankle sprain, still ranks second on the team with 33 receptions.
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Longhorns limping as they prepare for Aggies
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How would you like to be a defensive player for the Texas Longhorns? For the past month, you have basically gone into games knowing you had a really good chance to shut down the opposition, which in the offense-heavy Big 12 is somewhere between a shutout and 21 points.
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With this defense, even a little offense would make a big difference
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In the summer of 2010, Missouri was telling anyone who would listen that it was a ” proud member of the Big 12 ,” even though its desire to leave for the Big Ten was the league’s worst-kept secret. Today, 17 months later, the Tigers are even more proud to be Big 12 expatriates. And who could blame them? Truth is, the Big 12 only has itself to blame for this disaster, the loss of a second founding member of the Big Eight (Colorado joined in 1947), which turned into the Big 12 when four Texas schools came to town. The departures have happened in those tumultuous 17 months. The frustration was obvious this past summer as Tigers coach Gary Pinkel repeatedly voiced his anger with the Big 12. “Obviously, we have some issues in our league. When you have Nebraska leave one year. Colorado leaves. Also now Texas A&M. Three really good football teams,” Pinkel said in a September radio interview. “We’ve got some issues. Without question there’s some issues that other leagues don’t have. You don’t hear anything about any other league in the country having these kind of problems.” So, the Tigers packed their bags and went to any other league in the country. A sizable sect of the fan population might have preferred the Big Ten, but hey, if the SEC needs a 14th, here come the Tigers. The Tigers were looking for a way into the Big Ten last year, but the SEC provided a way out of the Big 12. A year ago, while Texas and Oklahoma shopped for new leagues and the Big Ten shut the door behind Nebraska, Missouri was left waiting to hear its fate alongside Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and Baylor. Not exactly ideal company. Now, it’s leaving to join programs like LSU, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida, who have been glued together since 1932, 25 years after the Big Eight was formed. The SEC added South Carolina and Arkansas back in 1991 and threw Texas A&M and Missouri a helping hand for 2012 to leave a league filled with infighting and departures. Stability won’t be a concern anymore for the Tigers. Question a cultural fit or the idea that Missouri can compete all you’d like. The most important thing about the SEC for Missouri is that it isn’t the Big 12. Nervous meetings and guessing games about the intentions of fellow conference members are over. Missouri is a better cultural fit in the Big 12, where it will leave behind a century of history and possibly its fiercest rival, Kansas, where the mutual hatred burns 365 days a year. The Big 12 is a better competitive fit, too, with only a pair of historical powers left in the league to climb over to reach big success. The Tigers, though, are willing to test that culture and competition to get out of the Big 12. The Big 12, while it was busy sorting itself out, showed Missouri a terrifying future of constantly shifting leagues and a possible future in the Big East, where three members left in the past month and six more appear to be on the way, each a worse geographical and cultural fit than the other. Boise State? Houston? Can’t wait to see you guys at the annual clambake in Rhode Island ! The smell of desperation is among the most unattractive. The Tigers got a whiff and didn’t want to risk the chance at a second.
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Here are 10 things to watch this weekend: 1. Can Arkansas protect quarterback Tyler Wilson ? The No. 7 Hogs have struggled to protect Wilson for much of the season, allowing 15 sacks in eight games. They’ll have to keep No. 9 South Carolina’s menacing defensive linemen away from him in Saturday’s game at Razorback Stadium. The Hogs didn’t look inspired in their past two victories (29-24 at Ole Miss and 31-28 at Vanderbilt) and fell behind by double-digits in both contests. The Razorbacks can’t afford another slow start against South Carolina, which ranks No.
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What to watch in college football
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Mack Brown pictures the future and hopes he sees the past. The Texas football teams of 2012 and 2013 could resemble his teams of 2004 or 2008.
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Horns hope the future is bright, but realize 2011 is still on the table
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Collin Klein was handed a laminated card at the first team meeting after Bill Snyder had been re-hired as coach at Kansas State. On it were the building blocks upon which Snyder started one of the greatest program turnarounds in college football history: Snyder’s 16 Goals. Meetings in which Snyder doesn’t reference one or more of them are rare. He’s spent the past three seasons imprinting his philosophy on his players. “You really want me to recite them?” the Wildcats quarterback junio asked. Oh, yes. Yes, we do. No problem. “Commitment.
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K-State a reflection of its legendary coach
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With a 5-9, 0-3 Big 12 record, OU continues to struggle to win after dropping the past five consecutive… Source: OUDaily
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D.J. Monroe was called to the practice field this past spring by his new offensive coordinator, and all the Longhorns tailback managed to summon as a response was “Huh?” Monroe’s reaction to Bryan Harsin was understandable.
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A year later, a more heavily-used Monroe returns to scene of his best game
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