He starred at Grissom High School in Huntsville and played linebacker at Kentucky leading the Wildcats in tackles his senior year in 2004. While Brown headed up Troy, Sumrall was Assistant Head Coach/Linebackers/Special Teams Coordinator. Jon Sumrall is currently Co-Defensive Coordinator/Inside Linebackers at Kentucky. Troy (5-7) - Alabama assistant Charles Kelly was a candidate to take over the Trojans but it appears the university is foolhardily trying to recapture some of the magic from the Neal Brown era by hiring one of his former assistants.Fortunately for UCLA, it is a home advantage playing in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. UCLA (8-4) - The Bruins get a tough draw in NC State.The next challenge will be San Diego Maradona State in the Frisco (TX) Bowl. A mere eight years later with their third head coach, Jeff Traylor, they are C-USA Champs. UTSA (12-1) - The Roadrunners started their inaugural season as an FCS team in 2011 and moved to FBS in 2013.It will be interesting to see what is next for coach Jason Simpson, father of Ty Simpson. It was a historical season for UTM with an Ohio Valley Conference championship and recording the most victories in the school’s Division I Era (since 1992). UT-Martin (10-3) - The Skyhawks fell to eight-seed Montana State 26-7 in the second round of the playoff.Lee Corso was the only one on the GameDay panel to pick Alabama. ACC Championship GameĬorso trolled with "Sweet Home Alabama" and picked the Tide to win the SEC title game /vM6e3bsonR- College GameDay December 4, 2021 None of these games factored into the playoff choices. I honestly think Arkansas could have won the Big Ten West division this season. Everyone else is rather pedestrian to down right lousy. This game further proved that the Big Ten is top heavy with Michy, Sparty, and anOSU. The Michigan defense pushed Iowa around all game and made up for the sloppy offense for an easy win. A blocked punt and an interception twice put the maize and blue deep in Hawkeye territory and would lead to touchdowns. By the final quarter, the Hawkeyes were out of gas. Iowa answered with a long 14 play drive that covered 7 minutes but ended at the UM 8 with no points. On the first possession of the second half, the Wolverines finally put together a good drive and pushed the score to 21-3. It was the defense that bailed out this dreadful offense.
In the first half, Michigan series ended in the two TDs, two 3-and-outs, two interceptions, a fumble, and an 8 play punt.
Michigan 42 Iowa 3 - The B1GCG started kinda slow with the Wolvies offense converting two long touchdown plays of 67 and 75 yards, but not much else as they held a 14-3 advantage at the half. The Wolverine defense is a force to be reckoned with 〽️ comes up a with a huge stop on 4th down /1Co4gBggZx- FOX College Football December 5, 2021
The loss knocked Okie Lite out of playoff contention. On a drive that traveled 89 yards on 17 plays over 2:59, the OSU again found themselves knocking at the goal line door but could not put it in, being stopped at the one inch line on 4th down with 24 seconds to go. Baylor was doing a whole lot of nothing on offense and gave the ball back to the Cowboys for one last push. They would later kick a 20-yard field goat after having first & goal from the one. Eight plays later Okie State made it a one score game at 21-13. This misstep gave OSU excellent field position and more importantly - momentum. After gaining nine yards on three plays, Baylor coach Dave Aranda made the risky choice of going for it, but his quarterback could not find a receiver and inexplicably threw the ball away.
The Cowpokes opened the second half with Sanders’s third of four picks on the day, setting Baylor up at their own 27. BAYLOR STOPS OKLAHOMA STATE ON 4TH DOWN /9JlKW4ZLrv- SportsCenter December 4, 2021ĮLIMINATED! Baylor 21 Oklahoma State 16 - The Bears jumped out to a 21-3 first half lead thanks to bad decision interceptions by Okie Lite’s Spencer Sanders and it looked like BU would run away with it.