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Boise State Broncos 2012 Recap: 2012 was a down year for Boise State, a down year is one with 2 losses and that is where Boise State was at 11-2. The defense was stellar once again and Boise State showed it could win some close game through adversity. Coaching: Chris Peterson has averaged 12 wins […]

LSU Tigers 2012 Recap: LSU is constantly at the top of the SEC and the national scene although they lost 3 games last year after losing to Clemson in their bowl game. LSU was very close to defeating Florida last year and it would have given them another crack at Alabama after their epic battles […]

Wisconsin Badgers 2012 Recap: Wisconsin was 8-5 but they won the conference title game hanging 70 on Nebraska before losing in the Rose Bowl to Stanford. Wisconsin finished 8-6 but lost 3 games in OT, they were right there in every game they played. Wisconsin now has a new coach at the helm so there […]

Washington Huskies 2012 Recap: Washington finished the year at 7-6 after a tough bowl loss to Boise State. The team suffered through three straight losses in the middle of their schedule with Oregon, USC and Arizona. Before that streak Washington had scored an upset win over Stanford and they also defeated a very sound Oregon […]

Clemson Tigers 2012 Recap: Clemson seemed to have one of the quietest 11 wins seasons ever seen. There was an exclamation point on the season as Clemson defeated LSU in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl 25-24. The only losses suffered by Clemson came against the likes of Florida State and South Carolina. Coaching: Dabo Sweeney is 40-21 […]

Florida State Seminoles 2012 Recap: It was a terrific season for the Seminoles as they defeated Northern Illinois 31-10 in the Orange Bowl for a BCS Bowl victory. In order to repeat Florida State is going to have to win with a largely new cast of characters including at quarterback where starter E.J. Manual was […]

Rutgers Scarlet Knights 2012 Recap: Rutgers has the whole college football world talking for a few weeks as first year coach Kyle Flood has a team her just inherited from Greg Schiano off to a 9-1 start. Rutgers sadly crashed to earth dropping the last two regular season games and a hard fought 13-10 loss […]

Nebraska Cornhuskers 2012 Recap: A big year for Nebraska as they finished 10-4 but they suffered two straight losses to end in the year in the Big Ten title game and against Georgia in the Capital One Bowl. Three of the four losses came against ranked teams and Nebraska enjoyed big home wins against the […]

2012 Recap: Ole Miss became bowl eligible and won the Compass Bowl over Pittsburgh 38-17. At 7-6 it seems like a mediocre season but for a team under a first year head coach, going 7-6 in the SEC is easily like 8 or 9 wins in another conference. Coaching: Hugh Freeze came in and installed […]

Notre Dame Fighting Irish 2012 Recap: It was looking like a Cinderella season for Notre Dame as they started 12-0 and had a birth in the BCS Championship game. The title game was not as close as the 42-14 score indicates, it was an absolute drubbing and it felt like Notre Dame lost by 100. […]

Michigan Wolverines 2012 Recap: Although it wasn’t the 11-2 season the Wolverines had in Brady Hoke’s first season, it was a respectable 8-5 year that unfortunately ended with a 33-28 loss to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl. Michigan has played with renewed defensive vigor under Hoke and should once again find themselves in familiar […]

UCLA Bruins 2012 Recap: After years of mediocrity and a few coaches unable to get the program over the hump, the Bruins broke through with Jim Mora Jr. UCLA went 9-5 although they did lose their final three games of the season including the Holiday Bowl 29-26 to Baylor. It was a season that exceeded […]

Northwestern Wildcats 2012 Recap: To say 2012 was a smashing success does not do justice for the Northwestern Wildacts. The team went 10-3 with a pair of road losses at Penn State and Michigan while their only home loss came by 1 point to Nebraska. Notice I didn’t talk about a loss in their bowl […]

TCU Horned Frogs 2012 Recap: A 7-6 record is not what TCU has been accustomed to over the last 10 years but it was their first as a member of the Big 12. The defense finished in the top 20 nationally as they seem to do every year and there are plenty of bright spots […]

Miami (Fla.) Hurricanes 2012 Recap: Miami (Fla.) has yet to return to prominence as the once vaunted “U”. Al Golden is 31-11 in his two seasons at the helm and he is slowly turning around the culture and winning the recruiting wars you need to in the hotbead of talent that Miami (Fla.) is located […]

Michigan State Spartans 2012 Recap: Michigan State finished 7-6 and only 3-5 in the Big Ten but they had one of the best defensive units in the country and lost a handful of games by 4 points or less. The season did finish on a high note with a come-from-behind 17-16 win in their bowl […]

USC Trojans 2012 Recap: This team was ranked #1 by many in the preseason poll and ended the season on a three game losing streak and with a 7-6 record after losing to Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl. This qualifies as one of the most disappointing seasons in recent years for a team that […]

BYU Cougars 2012 Recap: BYU had a mediocre season at 8-5 but they won four of their last five and walked away with a 23-6 victory in the Poinsettia Bowl. There were injury issues on offense and some shuffling of lineups and inconsistency but the defense was about as solid as could be. BYU was […]