SEC Now checks in on the Gators as coach Jim McElwain and the QBs discuss the competition surrounding the starting role.
Bulldogs excited for big matchup vs. Notre Dame
Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Brandon Adams previews Georgia’s Week 2 game against Notre Dame and gives a prediction for the final score.
Vandy, UGA taking advantage of team scrimmages
SEC Network hears from Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason, Georgia coach Kirby Smart and players from both teams as they prepare for fall.
Schultz turns attention to World University Games
FAYETTEVILLE — Freshman diver Brooke Schultz continues her summer world diving tour with the World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan, on Saturday.
The Fayetteville native will represent Team USA at the games on the 1m springboard, 3m springboard and the 3m synchro. The diving portion of the games runs until Saturday, August 26.
Earlier this summer, Schultz, along with Arkansas freshman diver Maha Amer and senior Nicole Gillis, dove at the 2017 FINA World Championship in Budapest Hungary, where she finished 25th (248.80) in the 3m.
On Wednesday, Schultz was named one of 24 American divers to compete at the Junior Pan American Championships in Victoria, British Columbia, from Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. There, she will compete on the 1m and 3m springboards.
SCHEDULE (All times CT)
Saturday, August 19 – 1m springboard
Prelims – 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 20 – 1m springboard
Semifinals – 12:00 a.m.
Finals – 1:30 a.m.
Thursday, August 24 – 3m synchro (Alison Gibson)
Finals – 3:45 a.m.
Prelims – 9 p.m.
Friday, August 25 – 3m synchro (Alison Gibson)
Semifinals – 12:00 a.m.
Saturday, August 26 – 3m springboard
Finals – 3:00 a.m.
Examining expectations for Texas A&M, Ole Miss
SEC Network’s Jordan Rodgers gives his take on the Aggies’ best option for QB and Marcus Spears looks at the Rebels’ 2017 season.
Manning gives Vols rousing pep talk at practice
Former Vols QB, Peyton Manning, encourages the team to enjoy the journey and to not just focus on the destination.
SEC wide receivers floating under the radar
SEC Network’s Chris Doering shares the names of breakout wide receivers around the conference.
Looking back on fall camp in the SEC
SEC Network gets an inside look at how teams from around the conference prepared for the 2017 season.
Allen named to Manning Award watch list
NEW ORLEANS — Arkansas quarterback Austin Allen was among 30 of the top quarterbacks in the nation heading into the 2017 season named to the preseason watch list for the Manning Award on Wednesday.
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that includes the candidates’ bowl performances in its balloting.
The list of 10 finalists will be released on Nov. 30. The winner will be announced in the week following the College Football Playoff National Championship.
This year’s Watch List includes players from all 10 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences.
Ready for his second season at the helm of the Razorbacks’ offense, Allen enters 2017 after an impressive junior campaign that saw him top the SEC in both total passing yardage (3,430) and passing yardage in conference play (2,291).
He also threw 25 touchdown passes, which ranked second in the conference, completed 61.1 percent of his passes (245 of 401) and boasted a 146.04 passer rating.
His 3,430 passing yards and 25 touchdown passes each ranked fifth in single-season school history. Of his 25 touchdown passes, 19 came inside the red zone, which led the SEC and tied for 10th in the FBS.
The Fayetteville product threw multiple touchdown passes in nine games and became the first quarterback in school history and one of just four in the SEC since 2000 to throw multiple touchdown passes in each of the first seven games of a season.
Allen is also a candidate for the Maxwell, Davey O’Brien and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm awards.
Former Razorback Brandon Allen, Austin’s older brother, was one of 12 finalists for the Manning Award in 2015.
Broyles really was a big-name hire by Barnhill
Despite what some younger Arkansas fans think, Frank Broyles didn’t invent the game of football in Fayetteville.
When he was hired in December 1957 to replace Jack Mitchell, who departed for Kansas (yes, the Jayhawks), a lot of fans had barely heard of Broyles if they had at all.
But athletic director John Barnhill, who had gone through the public relations motions of calling some big-time names, figured he had Broyles as his ace in the hole.
Just a few years previously in Dallas the Hogs were playing in the Cotton Bowl against Georgia Tech, where Broyles was what would be called offensive coordinator today. Rumors were already rampant that Bowden Wyatt was leaving Fayetteville for Tennessee, which he did after the game.
Broyles did his research after initially wondering what a mother thought of folks calling her son a Hogs. During the days leading up to the game, Broyles approached Barnhill and said he had heard Wyatt might be leaving and he would like to be considered.
Barnhill wasn’t hiring anybody that didn’t have head coaching experience, but he did start keeping tabs on Broyles.
He finally got his chance to be a head coach at Missouri in 1957 and when Mitchell left, Broyles got the call he had wanted for a few years.
“Barnie, what took you so long?” was what Broyles asked.
Barnhill found out that during his one season, Broyles had made a name for himself among some of the legends in the coaching business.
Against Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma team that year, the Tigers had fought the good fight for a half before fading in a 39-14 loss.
“Don’t worry,” Wilkinson told Missouri fans through the reporters after the game. “Frank Broyles is one of the best young minds in the game.”
Barnhill noticed that comment.
Just a few weeks before the Oklahoma game, Bear Bryant had brought his Texas A&M team to Columbia. Those were the Aggies of John David Crow and likely would have been national champions if word hadn’t leaked out late in the season that Bryant was headed to Alabama.
Bryant knew Broyles well because of his relationship with Bobby Dodd, who was Frank’s mentor, coach and boss for years.
He wasn’t as polite.
“Frank, I don’t see a single damn athlete on your end,” Bryant said as he draped an arm around Broyles’ shoulders in the pregame warmup.
The Aggies then proceeded to beat Broyles’ Tigers 28-0 in a end-of-the-year losing skid that some felt set Broyles up to anxiously await Barnhill’s call.
The greatest coaches in the game knew Broyles and how good of a mind he had. Barnhill got that info and after some name-dropping for a few weeks, he quietly made the call to Broyles.
“Frank Broyles is one of the best young coaches in college football today,” Wilkinson said in 1965 when he was a color analyst for NBC, who did the weekly college football games then. He was in Fayetteville for the Hogs’ miracle 27-24 fourth-quarter comeback win.
Barnhill just smiled when he heard that comment. He already had Broyles locked down.
But not even Barnie could have guessed just how long Broyles would be locked down in Arkansas when he hired him that December day in 1957.
He stayed for nearly 60 years.
Austin getting confidence in young receivers
Arkansas quarterback Austin Allen met with the media Tuesday and talked about the Hogs’ new receivers.
