Thursday, August 29, 2013

The 7 Biggest Non-Manziel, Non-Clowney Storylines Of The 2013 College Football Season

Let’s leave Johnny Football alone for a second…


This off-season has been filled by three big storylines: Can Alabama three-peat as BCS champs? Can Manziel repeat his Heisman performance? And can Jadeveon Clowney do something that rhymes with peat? But there's a lot more than that to be excited about. Here are just a few of the topics we're interested in this upcoming season:


Which new coaches will look like great hires by the end of the year?


Which new coaches will look like great hires by the end of the year?


Last year, rookie coaches Bill O'Brien at Penn State and Kevin Sumlin at Texas A&M established themselves as potential stars by leading shaky teams to strong seasons. This year 31 college football teams have a new coach — most notably Gus Malzahn at Auburn, Mark Helfrich at Oregon, Bret Bielema at Arkansas, and the youngest coach in a BCS conference, Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech. Which ones will immediately announce that their programs will be (or continue to be) major players going forward?


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The Texas Longhorns are finally back. No, really.


The Texas Longhorns are finally back. No, really.


Since Colt McCoy left, the Longhorns have gone 11-15 in the Big 12. If you call those "rebuilding" seasons, this is what the've built — a team with 19 returning starters and a potentially elite offense highlighted by QB David Ash (who finally gets it), a triple-threat RB rotation, and receivers (Mike Davis and Jaxon Shipley) with both speed and hands. This year is put up or shut up for Mack Brown's program.


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The debut of FSU quarterback Jameis Winston.


The debut of FSU quarterback Jameis Winston.


Jameis Winston is a 6'4" 225 lb. redshirt freshman, who was a 5-star recruit can throw a 100 mph fastball, and was recently called a "rock star" by Trent Dilfer, who also declared Winston to be the future "first pick of the draft." As a member of the FSU baseball team, Winston has his fair share of athletic highlights already, but now we're about to see what the dual-threat quarterback can do as the successor of E.J. Manuel.


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