Total Sports Report

     Oklahoma senior quarterback Baker Mayfield is on track to win the Heisman Trophy after a terrific outing against their 11th ranked rivals Oklahoma State in the annual "Bedlam" game where he threw for 598 yards, a school record, and scored 6 touchdowns. No player is having a better season then Mayfield who has guided his 5th ranked team to an 8-1 record while throwing for 3226 yards and scoring 32 touchdowns.      I was re-watching a favorite movie of mine this past week, Kevin Costner's Draft Day , and they talked about the scouting report for different all-time-great quarterbacks coming out of college, how they thought Manning didn't have the arm strength, Montana was too small, and Elway didn't throw a touch ball, and how those "weaknesses" never seemed to matter. As I watched the Bedlam game on Saturday afternoon, the same thought kept coming into my head as Mayfield kept escaping pressure from a porous offensive line, throwing balls sixty ...

     As many football fans know, we have a lot of analysts that are just idiots on national TV when talking about sports, and we often times end up feeling like we could do a better job for free (sometimes, I know I'm doing a better job for free...). It's one of the most frustrating things in the world of sports journalism that with all of the competition in this field that we don't have the very best working on all of the networks.      You may recognize Joel Klatt. He's become a respected FOX Sports analyst and Play by Play commentator for FOX's College Football Game of the Week alongside Gus Johnson, and can call a tremendous game from the press box. He was a walk on quarterback at Colorado between 2002 and 2005, and won the starting job as a sophomore. So he knows the game of football and he can say some really good stuff.      One of the analysts I have the utmost respect for is FOX Sports Network Host Colin Cowherd. He is the host...

     Mark Richt has been a big name coach in college football for almost two decades now. After head coaching the Georgia Bulldogs for 15 seasons between 2001 and 2015, Richt was fired after a season of letdown from very high expectations and shortly thereafter hired by the University of Miami to be their next football coach. Richt took over a mess of a program, stumbling through decades of mediocrity, all the while trying to return to the glory days of the late 1980's and early 1990's.      Richt is now 16-4 as the head coach of Miami, and the Hurricanes are on a 12 game winning streak stretching back into last regular season, starting this season at 7-0. Going into this week, Miami has a chance to prove that they are for real, with a homecoming victory over Virginia Tech on November 4th.      A 7-0 start, filled with magical victories and last second scores to win, has everyone wondering if the Hurricanes are returning to their glory...