Players at Southern Methodist got a surprise on Monday morning, according to reports, when head coach June Jones allowed a special person to join them at practice – former president George W. Bush. Bush, who has been working on a book and speaking in public since leaving the oval office, is not a SMU alumni, as he attended Yale and Harvard, but he is Methodist and has been invited to the campus a number of times.
Bush came onto the field wearing a team SMU hat and watched as the players practiced. He then talked to the team for about five …read more

I’ll admit that I’m not as much of a fan of college football as I am of professional football.
But I’ll throw all the college football fans out there a bone today.
Here’s some of the picks for week one, straight from Rivals.com!
Temple at Army
Pick: Temple 30-21
SMU at Rice
Pick: SMU 41-38
Appalachian State at LSU
Pick: LSU 31-14
Western Kentucky at Indiana
Pick: Western Kentucky 31-14
Virginia Tech at East Carolina
Pick: Virginia Tech 20-14
Syracuse at Northwestern
Pick: Northwestern 35-20
USC at Virginia
Pick: USC 27-3
Oklahoma State at Washington State
Pick: Oklahoma State 34-30
Michigan State at California
Pick: Cal 28-24
For more college football analysis, visit Rivals.com or b5 Media’s own BCS Frenzy