Have you ever wondered what it is like to play quarterback in college football? We may not ever get a chance to see a true first-person point of view any time too soon in a real game, but Florida Atlantic gave us a new view during their spring game recently.

Florida Atlantic placed a Go-Pro camera on top of quarterback Melvin German III's helmet for the recent spring game. The first-person point of view from the FAU spring game is rather unique and with the popularity of these types of cameras continuing to grow it is probably safe to assume this will not be the last time we see this.

Get ready for the Summer of Bros. Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel are planning on hanging out this summer, according to a recent conversation on Twitter.

That's right, bro. Two of the SEC's top quarterbacks, one a two-time BCS champion and the other last season's Heisman Trophy winner, will be hanging out at the beach this summer. It will surely lead to some epic Instagram memories.

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports)

With the success of Notre Dame’s game in Dublin last season and previous discussions by the Pac-12 to hold games in Asia, college football is a sport that seems set to global. That is of course, if it hasn’t already.

And apparently it’s an idea that has been at the forefront of John Swofford’s mind too, a man who seems intent on bringing ACC sports as a whole- including football- across the international dateline and into Europe.

At least that’s what Swofford told CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd in Pasadena, Calif., last week. While the rest of the conference commissioners were in town to discuss the parameters of a new college football playoff, Swofford was apparently thinking bigger, and thinking about ACC football under the lights of the Eiffel Tower.

As players paraded up to the stage at this week's NFL draft, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell rattled off the same schools that fans have grown accustomed to hearing every year – Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, Notre Dame and the like.

These power programs bring in the best talent from the high school ranks ever year, so it makes sense that they're sending the most players to the big leagues. However, if you're an elite recruit with hopes of making it to the NFL, a new study from Emory University suggests you should pass on the bluebloods.

According to the Emory research, lower-profile programs such as Oregon State and Kentucky send an outsized number of players to the NFL relative to the number of four- and five-star recruits on their rosters. Put another way: "A player’s draft outcome may be adversely impacted by joining programs with many other highly rated recruits."

Earlier today staff writers Kevin McGuire and Andy Coppens held the first official Google+ hangout for Crystal Ball Run. During the course of an hour they discussed a number of college football related topics from the college football playoff news to the ACC grant of rights announcement and the first round of the NFL Draft and more.

If you missed it and have an hour to kill, we have the archived video right here for you. Or you can just hit play and minimize your browser while going about your business.

I struggle to explain my fascination with the NFL Draft, but I never miss it.

My dad and I used to pick the first round and compare when it was over. More often than not, I did better. When I was in college, my roommates were not big football fans, but they knew the TV was mine on draft day.

I’m not alone in my passion for the draft. If you tuned into the ESPN coverage on Thursday night, you saw all of those NFL fans packed in to hear names like Ezekial Ansah and Barkevious Mingo.

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Drip... Drip.... Drip, no that's not the leaky faucet in the non-existent CBR break room. That sound you are hearing is the slow leak of information coming out of the College Football Playoff powers that be. The latest of which is the announcement of the rotation and dates for the semi-final hosts and remaining bowl games. 

For fans this is perhaps the best piece of news to come out so far this week as the semi-finals and bowl games, tentatively being called the lame (but working title) "New Year's Bowls", will all revolve around the one time of year everyone's attention turns to college football - New Years Day. 

According to Jeremy Fowler's article the semi-final's will be part of a back-to-back-to-back triple header on both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. 

Beano Cook would've been a shoe-in for the selection committee - RIP.

OK, so we know what the new college football playoff is going to be called. (Do we have to capitalize that from now on?) We know what its logo might look like. We know where it will be held. We know who's going to televise it.

The only thing we don't really know is who will get the honor of disappointing the public – and potentially incurring the next Harvey Updyke's wrath – with their selections for the participants.

It sounds as though the people in charge have narrowed it down to two potential approaches. One way would be to turn the selections over to a panel of experts, such as former players and coaches. Another route would be leaving the picks in the hands of current administrators, such as conference commissioners and athletic directors, much like the process for March Madness.

Yesterday the less than inspired news of the new college football playoff name... you know, "College Football Playoff" was announced and then it was followed by a website launch and the introduction of a fan vote for the logo of the new College Football Playoff. While there wasn't much controversy in playing it safe with the name or the logos up for vote, it's taken less than 24 hours for controversy to strike.

Austin, TX, IP address hacked into College Football Playoff logo contest, voted 50K times for Logo 4

— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) April 24, 2013

That's right, someone actually has taken the time and the care to put together a hack and vote for the 4th option (the compass looking one). It's already given way to the conspiracy theory world too: 

Was it really hacked? Or are they so paranoid that logo No.4 is the fan choice?

— Matt Hayes(@Matt_HayesSN) April 24, 2013