Hopefully one of the first things you've noticed on TP&TP after Matthew Stafford's "friend" is the extensive list of links to the right. The goal is to provide one link for each of the 119 Division I Bowl Subdivision Teams. I know by this I will be under representing many programs that are fortunate to have more than one great blog covering them, like USC, Penn State, Ohio State, and Georgia among many. For some programs I had to include message boards, scout.com or rivals.com sites which cover recruiting more so than the actual teams on the field. Each link does represent the most frequently updated, extensively written coverage of their respective college football programs that I could find.
While these blogs provide as much inside references and rah-rah homerism you'd expect. I encourage you to click on them to get inside perspective on any college football team your curious about. Here are some choice picks.
Everyday Should Be Saturday (Florida)- As Florida is the defending national champion on the college football field, EDSBS is regarded as the best in the blogosphere. If you live north of Jacksonville or south of Ocala you may not understand everything you read but their "Fulmer Cup" (a running tally and ranking of schools by off-field incidents) is pure genius.
Burnt Orange Nation (Texas)- Another blog that parallels the success of the team it covers. BON is part of the SBNation.com network which also includes:
Sunday Morning Quarterback- "Papa Bear", the best coverage of college football on the internet.
Roll Bama Roll (Alabama),- Because someone still has to love Nick Saban
The Band is Out on the Field (Cal),- Your source for all of Desean Jackson's YouTube highlights
And the Valley Shook (LSU),- When Les Miles officially goes insane, they'll break it.
Crimson and Cream Machine (Oklahoma),- They thought the Fiesta Bowl sucked.
The 12th Manchild Home of Dennis Franchione's hot seat.
Double T Nation (Texas Tech)- Hoping a defense will show up someday.
Block U (Utah),- Yep, Mid-Majors get represented here too
Provo Pride (BYU),- Discovering the next great 26 year old rookie Quarterback
Rocky Top Talk (Tennessee),- For the record, my <i>least</i> favorite Tennessee play is the bullsh*t pass-interference call against Syracuse in 1998.
Black Shoe Diaries (Penn State), - These guys might help clean Beaver Stadium.
Bruins Nation (UCLA), - Chelsea's favorite college football blog.
I am partial to my brothers on the blogspot server though. Blogspot as you know is what Myspace would be like without any bands or girls with daddy issues, so you can see how these sites have to earn their hits. I will try my best to help them out.
I expect things to get suspiciously better for Arizona State Football in the next coming years. Get on the bandwagon at House of Heat (Arizona State).
Keep up with the Running Back and Sociologist factory that is Auburn University at From the Bleachers (Auburn)
When your sports teams suck and your girls don't put out, you need a sense of humor to get by. Luckily the guys at Bear Meat (Baylor) do.
Boston College may have sold out its alumni in the Northeast by joining the ACC, but they didn't sell out the Eagle in Atlanta (Boston College).
Compared to Tommy Bowden, Danny Ford is God (Clemson).
Even UConn and Florida Atlantic have football blogs on blogspot. Check out Ramblings from the Runway (UConn) and The Edge of College Sports (FAU) to find out what optimistic bullsh*t could possibly be on there.
There is also Fresno State Football Blog (Fresno State), M State Sports Blog (Mississippi State), Jason's OSU Beavers Blog (Oregon State), WSU Football Blog (Washington State), Washington Husky Sports (Washington) and Badger Sports (Wisconsin) but I have no idea what those blogs are about.
If you're part of the 95% of the country who WON'T be getting the Big Ten Network, you can still follow the teams at Illini Talk (Illinois), The Hoosier Report (Indiana), Hawkeye State (Iowa), M Zone (Michigan), The Enlightened Spartan (Michigan State), Lake the Posts (Northwestern), Buckeye Commentary (Ohio State), and Boiled Sports (Purdue).
You may need a degree or student ID from Minnesota and Syracuse to understand the genius in the titles "Paging Jim Shikenjanski" and "Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician" but you don't need either to enjoy the coverage they dedicate to college football's underachieving dome teams. (side note MariusJanulisforThree at TNIAAM… is a gracious supporter of my "work" linking to my old Pizza Parlor site and immediately linking to this site once I started the slow launch on Wednesday, even if you don't know the difference between Dick MacPherson and Don McPherson, give his site a look, its great stuff)
Hope you can forgive me for not cheering for the people at The Warriors Will Throw and their BCS hopes. For if they went 0-12, they still LIVE IN HAWAI'I!
Turtle Waxing celebrates Ralph Friedgen's genius.
World Class Glass laments Ed Orgeron's lack of.
It'll be interesting to read Mizzou Sanity and Double Extra Point as their teams battle for the right to get pasted by a Big 12 South team in the Big 12 championship game.
Pitch Right is updated as often as Navy runs the football and its Midshipmen coverage is beat as often as Navy passes.
Click here to find the Oregon blog Lightning Strikes, for if you type it, you'll get another blog entirely with no great Duck football coverage.
Cock n' Fire patiently waits for South Carolina football to prosper under the Ol' Ball Coach.
Blue Gray Sky (Notre Dame), - Coverage as independent as Notre Dame is.
Trojan Wire is a USC blog that I'm allowed to read at work.
And perhaps the best blog title ever belongs to West Virginia of all people. You have to check out We Must Ignite This Couch
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