C-USA Football

When the UCF Knights football program kicks off spring practice Wednesday, they’ll also unveil the first palpable evidence of the many minor changes that are coming along with Central Florida’s July 1 move from the Conference USA to a new, yet-to-be-named home—new uniforms. While coach George O’Leary isn’t much of [...]

There are a small handful of gems with great value found in the middle rounds at multiple positions each April.  Here are five running backs who will likely fit the bill and get selected between the third and fifth round in the 2013 NFL Draft. Pittsburgh RB Ray Graham  Ray [...]

By Contributor Steve Shoup, Fanspeak.com: There are 30 NFL teams that will be gathered around the couch for Super Bowl XLVII, but excitement is in the air with the 2013 NFL Draft just three months away.  However, one of the position groups that I was least thrilled to see heading [...]

This Christmas Eve matchup in Hawaii should once again be a solid bowl that has a decent amount of points on the scoreboard thanks to a solid cast of stars on offense. The biggest difference should be the ability for Fresno State to come away with a few backbreaking turnovers. [...]

This game may be oddly familiar to the Hawaii Bowl thanks to a pair of explosive offenses with questionable defenses from mediocre conferences. The Pirates have been accustomed to bowl games as this will be their 15th in the program’s history. However, the Ragin’ Cajuns will be appearing in just their [...]

On the 2012 Christmas Eve night if you are a die-hard fan of college football, you may turn on the Hawaii Bowl as a family tradition. Or perhaps it is a sickness in which you enjoy sports with the best of them and watch all 35 bowls like yours truly, [...]

Who would have said these two would have been playing in a bowl this season let alone be one more win away from reaching double digits? Talk about a bowl that came out of nowhere for these two, Ball State had a magnificent 9-3 year under Pete Lembo whereas the [...]

UCF comes in as 7-point favorites depending on which ‘experts’ you listen to, but as good as the MAC has been this season, this game is really all about whether or not UCF shows up for a bowl that is played in their own state. That is one huge advantage [...]

Ball State (9-3) was not in the running for a MAC title this season because of their abysmal defense that was gashed apart thanks to their inability to stop the opposition’s running game. If there is any chance for the fighting Pete Lembo’s to pull off this upset, it will [...]

Latavius Murray was the starting back heading into the season, but former Hurricanes back Storm Johnson is slated to start this game and get the majority of the carries with Murray nursing a minor injury (ankle). That isn’t the best of news for the Knights since they could use a [...]