College Football: The Best of 2010

With the 2010 College Football Season in the Books, it is time to take a look back at the season that was college football.


Best Firing- Rich Rodriguez (Michigan)
Best Game-Winning Play: Little Giants (Michigan State vs. Notre Dame)
Best Special Teams Play: also Little Giants (Michigan State vs. Notre Dame)
Best BCS Bowl Game- Rose Bowl (TCU def. Wisconsin)
Most Controversial Quote: "Little Sisters of the Poor" (Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President of The Ohio State University)
Most Overrated I-FBS Team: The Ohio State Buckeyes
Most Overrated Division III School: Mount Union Purple Raiders
Worst I-FBS Team Invited to a Bowl: Michigan
Coach of the Year: Gary Patterson (TCU)
Worst Coach of the Year: Rich Rodriguez + (defensive coordinator) Greg Robinson (Michigan)
"Hand in the Cookie Jar" Award (College Player Getting in Trouble OFF the Field)- SIX-WAY TIE: Cam Newton (Auburn) and Terrelle Pryor, DeVier Posey, Mike Adams, Daniel "Boom" Herron, and Solomon Thomas (ALL from Ohio State)
Worst BCS Bowl Win (TIE): Ohio State over Arkansas AND Auburn over Oregon
Most Controversial Play: Michael Dyer keeps on going despite his knee somewhat coming down (Auburn vs. Oregon)
Most Entertaining Bowl Game: Tostito's BCS National Championship
Bowl Game Most Painful To Sit Through (TIE): Capital One Bowl (Alabama > Michigan State in the Saban Bowl) and Gator Bowl (Mississippi State > Michigan in RichRod's last stand)
Team of the Year: Texas Christian Horned Frogs "The Little Sisters of the Poor"
Improvement of the Year: Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Fall from Grace of the Year (TIE): Texas Longhorns and Cincinnati Bearcats
Most Disappointing Team: Michigan Wolverines (runners-up included Miami Hurricanes, Texas Longhorns, Georgia Bulldogs, Washington Huskies, and Iowa Hawkeyes)
Worst I-FBS Team: Akron Zips
Team Projected to Win it All in 2011: Find out in August... ;)
Team Projected to Win Biggest Fall From Grace Next Year: O-H...