Just a note: I'll be adding new blogs soon.  Strike the harp and join the chorus.  Or something.

---The big story right now continues to be the quarterback shakeup at Arizona State.  ESPN's Joe Schad adds a ($) little more detail about the story and interviews new Sun Devil offensive coordinator Roy Wittke.

What trips me up about this story is that although Rudy Carpenter is considered a better team leader, I keep finding passages about him like this one:

A person close to Carpenter says he was seriously considering transferring. But would he really have followed through with it?

Why not wait and see whether Keller got injured -- like last season -- or not perform as well as Carpenter performed down the stretch in 2005? Those close to Carpenter say his competitiveness would not have allowed him to sit on the sideline for just one season.

That's a bit of a dichotomy if you ask me.  On the one hand his teammates respect him more than Crazy Sam Keller^TM, but on the other he couldn't wait one more year as backup to a very good if erratic quarterback before taking charge as a junior?  Yeah that's not leadership in my book.

ESPN has Keller headed to Nebraska (or Oklahoma?) although it isn't a done deal.  He would obviously have to wait one year under NCAA transfer rules and have just one season of eligibility.

---Ben Olson has been named the starting quarterback at UCLA.  Olson was a former all-everything recruit from Thousand Oaks, CA who originally signed with BYU before going on a Mormon mission and then transferred to UCLA.  Of course, despite all his physical gifts some outspoken UCLA fans want nothing more out of him than to manage the game and tread water, something almost any quarterback recruit can be asked to do.

As far as the fans are concerned here, I don't believe any of us are expecting Big Ben to replicate [Drew Olson's] statistical performance from last season. All we are expecting from our coaches is to get a 23 year former No. 1 national recruit ready to manage the game - so that he can use all the talents around him and minimize the mistakes.

What good is a fancy sports car if all you demand of it is to drive like a Civic?  Welcome to the strange world that is the UCLA fan base.

---I'm a little behind on this story, but the preseason Associated Press poll has been released.  Ohio State is No. 1, followed by Notre Dame, Texas, Auburn and West Virginia.

I can't help but wonder if Texas' rankings are an admission that the Big 12 is just a terrible conference this year.  I don't dispute that Texas will be a very good team this year, but No. 2 or No. 3 in the preseason polls despite graduating Vince Young, despite starting any of two freshman quarterbacks, despite graduating all world safety Michael Huff?

---From SI's photo galleries: Best Mobile QB's of the Past 15 Years

---Apparently he's a good bluffer or just likes to talk a lot: Oklahoma Bob Stoops has remained consistent about his plan for 30-35 carries a game for star back Adrian Peterson.  Also an interesting DidYouKnow: "no running bakc since TC's LaDainian Tomlinson has averaged at least 30 carries per game.  Memphis' DeAngelo Williams led D-IA with 28.2 last year"-Via Ben Maller

---Alright, time for the Pundit Roundup: ($)  Bruce Feldman's latest, Ivan Maisel on Adrian Peterson, Pat Forde on coach Steve Kragthorpe and resurgent Tulsa, Stewart Mandel sends a postcard from Texas and notes an interesting link between Mack Brown and golfer Phil Mickelson, Paul Finebaum on the "powerful" Tommy Tuberville

---For just $7.50 you can enter Heisman Pundit's "Fantasy Challenge" for a shot to win a pair of Rose Bowl tickets.  The setup's easy enough and sounds fun, so be sure and sign up.

---More goods from HP: the future of TV and college football and HP's Preseason All America Team (Offense).

---Burnt Orange Nation was recently libeled slandered by a newspaper writer, revealing yet another rift between some in the established media and those on the blogs.  Thankfully, the writer later apologized for his mistake, but this continues to show that things aren't always what they seem in terms of the MSM's whole "accountability" and "accuracy" thing they hold against the blogs.

---College Footblog has it right: more plays, less advertisements.

---From the MoneyMen: VegasInsider's Preseason Top 25, SEC odds and "returning starters" for all NCAA teams.

---Careful, you're being watched.  In a good way... sort of.

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---Sun Sports' Whit Watson translates a few scouting cliches for us.

"Manages the game well" = He's accurate as long as he doesn't have to throw it more than 20 yards. Patron saint: Trent Dilfer.

---Here is the list of AP college football poll voters this year.

---Rivals.com ($) has a good story on impact D-I transfers this year.

---Finally, September 1 is "College Colors Day 2006".  Wear your school gear and rejoice in the start of the college football season.

If you have suggestions of links or blog entries or anything for future roundups, be sure and send me an email and I'll put your suggestion into consideration.