Student Union CFB Preview: Purdue
Under first year head coach Jeff Brohm, the Boilermakers had their most successful season since 2012, and their first bowl win since 2011. It seems as though the train is back on track for the Boilers...
Student Union CFB Preview: Maryland Terrapins
Maryland’s 2017 season was ruined undoubtedly by injuries. In the worst case of the injury bug I’ve seen, the Terps lost their top two quarterbacks and one of their pass rushers just in th...
Student Union CFB Preview: Minnesota
Football is a really simple game that requires a few things to be successful at the college level. I don’t just mean successful in regards to winning championships or eight or nine games, I mean...
Student Union CFB Preview: Illinois
The Fighting Illini have been in the rebuild stage for what feels like an eternity. Their games have been hard to watch with glaring issues on all three phases, but it’s all developmental and w...
Student Union CFB Preview: Indiana
The first year of the Tom Allen era went largely as expected: a stingy defense and a drop-off in offense. Time to see if Allen can carve out a place in the rough Big Ten East. When Tom Allen took over...
College GameDay Preview Weeks 9 & 10: Cocktails Outside, Ann Arbor Returns
Week 9 Jacksonville, Florida: The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party Florida-Georgia might be the most fun rivalry in sports. Combining fans from both these fanbases in Jacksonville is the ...
SEC Fallout: The Butch Jones and Brett Bielema Story
From head coaches to..well we’re still not entirely sure. Bret Bielema and Butch Jones were both coaches in the SEC just last year and now they have mostly disappeared from the public eye. Butch...
Punters… AREN’T PEOPLE. ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
It’s 2018. We have the iPhone X, TVs that curve and 3D capabilities without glasses, and we have Virtual Reality gaming. Technology is advancing faster than we ever imagined, so how is it transl...
Student Union CFB Preview: Rutgers
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights proved that they still have some growing pains to go through since joining the Big Ten. They had two nice wins at home against Maryland and Purdue in 2017 and also had a ...
Recruiting Season Episode 2: Payton Mangrum, Eastside HS (SC)
Welcome back for the second installment of the Recruiting Season podcast, hosted by myself and Johnny Rambos. This week, we welcomed our first ever recruit guest, Eastside HS (SC) junior WR Payton Man...
Student Union ACC Preseason Poll
We’ve been building towards it all week with our team preview releases, but here are our ACC preseason rankings as voted on by 14 writers on the Student Union staff. Clemson (12) Miami (2) Flori...
Student Union CFB Preview: Clemson University
Clemson finished with a record of 12-2 in the 2017 football season, along with an ACC Championship and a College Football Playoff appearance. In what was supposed to be a down year for the Tigers afte...
Student Union CFB Preview: Miami
Last year the return of The U was recognized across the nation as they finally brought back the defensive swagger that they’ve been missing since the 80’s. The quarterback battle is one o...
Student Union CFB Preview: Florida State
2017 was certainly a down year for the Seminoles. After knocking off Michigan in the Orange Bowl in 2016, 2017’s team stood the test of losing stars and, more prominently, injury. After starting...
The Types of Transfers in College Football
Transfers Studs like J.J Watt, Aaron Rodgers, Alvin Kamara, and Baker Mayfield all had to do some sort of transferring when they were a college student. I went to three different schools in three year...
Student Union CFB Preview: Virginia Tech
The Virginia Tech Hokies finished 9-4 last year. While this isn’t a terrible record, the Hokies couldn’t seem to show up when playing in big games. Also, this offseason was not a pleasant one for ...
Student Union CFB Preview: NC State
The NC State WolfPack, the team in the ACC who you can’t hate, but you also can’t love. Last season, this team had the power to jump ahead of the pack in the ACC and make some noise aroun...
Student Union CFB Preview: ACC Heisman Candidates
The CFB season is just a few short weeks away and I know everyone is excited for the season to start. The ACC is an extremely competitive conference with a lot of talented players, some of which have ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Boston College
Being in the ACC Atlantic with the likes of Clemson and Florida State, it’s likely that Boston College will never win a division title. However, in Steve Addazio’s 6th season in Chestnut H...
Student Union CFB Preview: Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech hasn’t threatened for a conference title since 2014, but Paul Johnson’s crew is always a threat to cause problems for non conference and conference opponents alike. With the...
GameDay Preview: Weeks 7 & 8: Crawfish & the Heartland
Week 7 Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Georgia @ LSU Stoppin’ every hundred miles, callin’ Baton Rougeeeeeeeeee! LSU is one of the truly great tailgate scenes in all of sports. The Bulldogs are fa...
The MAC Has Done Something Awesome
When we think of the Mid-American Conference, we think of a Group of 5 conference who can sometimes do some damage to a Power 5 team (aka Kansas, Nebraska, and Rutgers). But boy oh boy did we get a t...
The Johnny Rambos Podcast – Tim Bourret Interview
Long time Clemson SID Tim Bourret comes on the podcast and talks about his time at Clemson, the parallels between Dabo Swinney and Danny Ford, and a preview of this upcoming Clemson season, with so mu...
Student Union CFB Preview: Louisville
Louisville might be stuck in the mud. Louisville is replacing a QB who turned in 10,375 yards of total offense over two seasons. To go along with those yards he added 96 touchdowns. That’s some ...
Student Union CFB Preview: Pittsburgh
Pat Narduzzi is still trying to get in his groove since becoming the head coach of the Pitt Panthers. He and Mark Dantonio worked well together at Michigan State, but Narduzzi hasn’t enjoyed any...
Student Union CFB Preview: Wake Forest
The Demon Deacons try to keep their offensive momentum going. Prior to 2017, Wake Forest was mostly known for a weak offense and a relatively stout defense. Last season, the defense fell off a bit, bu...
Student Union CFB Preview: Duke Blue Devils
Las season, Duke’s young core led by the not-so-young David Cutcliffe had a season that looked a lot like a large, desolate valley in between two beautifully verdant hills. Their youth showed ma...
Student Union Preview ACC Awards
This year is the first in recent history all awards feel like they’re finally up for grabs with Mr. Lamar Jackson, who won the ACC player of the year award in 2016 and 2017, entering the NFL dra...
Student Union CFB Preview: Syracuse Orange
The Syracuse Orange almost turned a corner in 2017. Almost. However, after beating Clemson for their fourth win of the season, the Orange failed to win another game. Once again, the tide appears to be...
Student Union CFB Preview: North Carolina
Going into the 2017 season, the North Carolina Tar Heels had big shoes to fill with star QB Mitch Trubisky entering the draft over the off-season. Throughout the season, though, the Tar Heels only suf...
Student Union CFB Preview: Virginia
Year two was a bit of a shock for Bronco Mendenhall and the Cavaliers. Year three might bring them back down to earth. When Bronco Mendenhall took over the Virginia program following the 2015 season, ...
Recruiting Season: Episode 1 Feat. Sean Bock (247 Sports)
The very first installment of the newest Student Union podcast is here! Introducing Recruiting Season, a weekly podcast hosted by Student Union personalities Brendan Smith and Johnny Rambos. The pod...
Top Pro Prospects From Each FBS Conference
Fur’s pro prospects, Football season is upon us people, so I figured I’d celebrate by throwing out my predictions for the best pro prospects from each FBS conference. Every year you’...
Top 5 Quarterbacks in the Big Ten
It’s shaping up to be a great year in the college football universe with the season right around the corner. As the Big Ten tries to make the leap to becoming the best conference in college foot...
Campus Cover 033: Johnny Rambos
Cody and PJ return from the summer break along with guest Johnny Rambos of the Johnny Rambos podcast. They talk home run derby, NBA summer league, and it devolves from there. Check it out as we will g...
College Gameday Weeks 5 and 6: Conference Title be Damned
Week five is a good point for telling whether or not you’re in the hunt. This is when the Big Ten will start to get into the hairy part of its schedule. Week six will either tell us if THA U is ...
Best Schools to Rebuild if NCAAF 19 Existed
The game that could have been. Knowing it’s been over five years since the last edition of NCAAF came out, I have lost some sleep. While the last edition doesn’t have the kind of graphics ...
Prospects that have left New Jersey
Hello guys, my name is Fur and this is my first article for Student Union Sports, so lets just get right into it. The other day I was on twitter and saw this tweet. I just watched my first college foo...
Teams We Missed Playing With in NCAA Football
Another anniversary of NCAA Football 14 has come and gone. The game turned 5 years old on July 9th, with it being the last iteration before the series was cancelled. NCAA 14 still lives on today, with...
The Johnny Rambos Podcast Episode 25 with Clemson football commit Sheridan Jones and Clemson writer Riley Morningstar
Sheridan Jones comes on the podcast to discuss his decision to commit to Clemson and who some of the people he models his game around are. He is the peoples corner. Then Riley Morningstar, former Tige...
Kansas subpoenaed — What does it mean?
Yahoo Sports — The University of Kansas tacitly acknowledged that it has been subpoenaed by the federal government in the ongoing federal basketball investigation, according to a recent response to ...
Hokies Recruiting for Bright Future
Last season didn’t end exactly the way Virginia Tech had hoped it would, having to watch Miami go to the ACC Championship game and then losing to Oklahoma State in the Camping World Bowl. Not having...
Returning Players to Watch for in the SEC
College football season is almost upon us! It’s finally the time of year where college football fans awake from their offseason hibernation as the hype and anticipation for the upcoming season b...
Friday Fire 7/6
As we approach the weekend, I can only hope that everyone here has recovered from their Fourth of July escapades. Just because Independence Day has passed doesn’t mean we can’t still celeb...
Jake Fromm is Bad at Lakes, Breaks his Hand
Over the holiday week, Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm broke his non-throwing hand in a “freak lake accident.” The incident occurred Monday on Lake Burton in Georgia. Georgia fans can hold ...
Throwback: Were the 2013 Spartans the Best Team in Big Ten History?
‘You will be the ones’ Mark Dantonio famously declared about the 2013 edition of the Michigan State Spartans. Never before had a Big Ten team won all of their games by at least ten points ...
My Trip to Omaha
Not a great travel guide. To start this off, I just want to point out that the trip from Starkville, Mississippi to Omaha is a bitch, and I don’t think I will ever make it again unless I am bein...
Northwestern Looking to Impress in the Big Ten this Season
When you take coaching careers into context, Pat Fitzgerald might be the second best coach in the Big Ten behind Urban Meyer. Northwestern is the Stanford or Vanderbilt of the Big Ten. It is one of th...
An 18-year-old is the front runner to be the starting QB for USC this Fall: How did we get here?
How did this happen. How is one of the most prolific football schools in the country going to potentially put their seasons fate in the hands of a teenager? Well, lets starts from the top. J.T. Dani...
Bold Takes: South Carolina is Winning the SEC
Drew Lock is widely considered the best quarterback in the SEC. That just isn’t true. The best QB in the SEC resides in the other Columbia. In fact, Jake Bentley is the best QB in the SEC. Besid...