The departure of longtime starting QB Geno Smith signals the departure of a gifted passer and a gifted athlete who put up some mind-numbing statistics. Moreover, it’s not just Smith who says goodbye to Morgantown for the greener pastures of the NFL.
Texas Christian University is in better shape than most Big 12 teams at the quarterback position, although its success still rides on a massive “what-if”.
The 2013 FedEx Cup get underway Thursday from Liberty National in New Jersey. The Barclays Classic will bring together the top 125 point getters on TOUR with eyes on the big prize – the Cup and the enormous first prize that goes along with it.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup series will be racing under the prime-time lights of the Bristol Motor Speedway this Saturday night in this season’s Irwin Tools Night Race. All the action gets underway at 7:30 p.m. and the race will be broadcast nationally on ABC.
The Yankees have been playing well as of late winning 3 straight and 8 of their last 10, but they are still in 4th place in the AL East 6.5 games back of the Red Sox.
The Detroit Lions looked to capitalize on a huge 2011 season, but promise turned to letdown as the boys from Motor City finished the 2012-13 campaign with an overall record of 4-12.
The Clemson Tigers should definitely be considered among a handful of teams capable of winning the national championship this final season of the BCS. They have a very good base of talent, a schedule that is challenging enough to put them in the equation and seem to have found the ability not to fall completely apart when you least expect, the way a number of Clemson teams have done in the past.
Florida State might be back. They made it to the Orange Bowl last season and took care of upstart Northern Illinois behind a fast and punishing defense that reminded us of Bobby Bowden’s best teams.
2013-14 Preview (ACC) Maryland Terrapins
The start of the Randy Edsall era at Maryland has been less than stellar. Not sure why but the program got tired of coach Ralph Friedgen even though he won there as much as any previous coach they ever had, probably more, including 9 wins in his last season – a number they have fallen short of the last two season, combined.
NC State is hoping a new coach can get them out of mediocrity and hopefully bridge the gap that is growing between them and those folks in Chapel Hill lately. The guy they chose is Dave Doeren who came to Northern Illinois and didn’t screw up what others had built there.
The Reds are in the heart of their division race in 3rd place in the NL Central 3.5 games back of the St. Louis Cardinals. While the D-Backs are in 2nd place in the NL West they are 7.5 games back of the red-hot Dodgers. MLB lines have the Reds as the home favorite with a total of 7.5 runs.
The Sooners have their usual wealth of talent on the roster, but it’s unlikely that the transition from longtime starting QB Landry Jones to bulldozing goal-line threat Blake Bell will occur without some (likely considerable) growing pains.
Texas’s main advantage this season is being able to feature the most pedigreed, most accurate – and really, just downright best – QB in the Big 12, with junior David Ash. Ash had a poor outing against hated rival Oklahoma (which is mildly concerning) and TCU, but he played against the Horned Frogs while nursing a broken rib.
The Green Bay Packers started off slowly in 2012, and after five games into the season found themselves already one game under .500, which included a controversial loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
The biggest question when looking at this year’s Minnesota Vikings is — whether Adrian Peterson can carry the Vikings to another postseason appearance.
Next up. The KC Chiefs. One of my favorite tools in preparing for the 2013 NFL football season and to enhance your nfl wagering knowledge is to look ahead at each teams NFL schedule, and evaluate the games they will play.
