A lot of people have been unhappy with EA Sports' new NCAA '13 college football video game, but none more than Northwestern starting quarterback Kain Colter, who was startled by his likeness on the game.

Now, EA Sports doesn't always replicate the likenesses of players because the game tries to make the players ambiguous and not necessarily the actual guys on the roster, but it's clear that No. 2 on Northwestern is Colter. He's the starting quarterback and they have the same height and weight. Not saying it has to look exactly like Colter, but getting his ethnicity correct would have been a good place to start.

Colter's video game alter ego looks more like a redheaded Ben Roethlisberger than the Wildcats' first-year starter. One would probably be hard-pressed to find another quarterback starter (heck, skill position starter) who had a similar mistake.

And look at it from Colter's perspective: He's probably played this game his entire life and now he gets to be a major part of it - something he can show his friends and family - and it's not really him.

This is the second major boo-boo by the 2013 game. It also left FBS institution South Alabama out of the game completely.

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Saturdays are no longer just for arguing about sports; now fans can verbally beat each other up about their politics, too.

It's like the best of both worlds.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ESPN, in a ridiculously sad and slimy money grab, has sold ad time during college and pro football games to political campaigns. The ads will run during the first half of the college football season — the time right before the election.

Hooray for the think tank that came up with combining the two things people are most (violently) passionate about - sports and politics. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this idea.

This is the summer of the "Call Me Maybe" spoofs.

From the Harvard baseball team to the Miami Dolphins' cheerleaders to "Sesame Street's" Cookie Monster, the craze over Carly Rae Jepsen's hit song has touched nearly every aspect of our lives — and now it's hit college football.

It's been nearly six months since Penn State coach Joe Paterno passed away from complications from lung cancer, and since his death his name and his legacy have been both praised and vilified.

Paterno was fired in November for failing to do more when he learned one of his former assistant coaches, Jerry Sandusky, was sexually abusing children in the Penn State locker room. While his firing was met with outrage, the past couple weeks have turned the tide as rumors have surfaced that Paterno was part of a university-wide coverup for Sandusky.

Paterno's family has vehemently denied Paterno's involvement in a coverup, but the Freeh report, an independent investigation of Sandusky and Penn State, could prove otherwise.

Paterno died before ever getting to tell his side of the story, but on Wednesday, his family sent former players a letter he wrote before he died.

[Related: Dan Wetzel: Freeh probe into Penn State will focus on more than Joe Paterno]

(courtesy of thesouthern.com)

If you thought Boise State's field was obnoxious, a small college in Belleville, Ill., is putting the Smurf turf to shame.

The Lindenwood University-Belleville will have its first football season this fall and, in an effort to make it unforgettable, the university decided to design an original field striped red (maroon) and gray to represent the school's colors.

Charlie Strong is 14-12 in his two seasons as the head coach at Louisville — the school's first two winning seasons since going 12-1 in 2006 — and apparently, that's enough for Maker's Mark to model a bottle of its fine Kentucky Bourbon for him.

According to UofLcardGame.com (also thanks to Card Chronicle), Maker's Mark will produce a limited edition bottle with the coach's picture on it that will be available July 20.

Maker's Mark does special edition bottles for the Kentucky Derby and occasionally for star former players from the state's top-two schools, but putting the second-year coach on the bottle — after two 7-6 seasons — has to be some sort of anomaly.

Wonder what it'll do if Louisville actually has a championship season?

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Rejoice state of Utah, the Holy War rivalry between BYU and Utah isn't dead yet.

Even though Utah coach Kyle Whittingham expressed a desire to potentially halt the rivalry game after the contract expired following this season, the two teams agreed to play again in 2013 and in 2016.

There is, however, some bad news.

As part of the agreement, the two teams will take a two-year hiatus from the series in 2014 and 2015, the first time the two teams won't play since 1922.

(Greg Bartram/US Presswire)The attorney for former Ohio State linebacker Storm Klein thinks his client could be exonerated and reinstated by coach Urban Meyer, according to reports from the Columbus Dispatch.

The Buckeyes dismissed Klein last Friday after he was arrested on domestic violence and assault charges. According to police, Klein and an ex-girlfriend, who also happens to be the mother of his child, got into an argument and Klein "violently and purposefully" grabbed her by the arms and threw her against his apartment door. The woman had bruises on her forearms and her forehead.

Ohio State issued a statement the following weekend acknowledging the incident and Klein's subsequent dismissal.

"The charges filed against Storm Klein violate the core values of the Ohio State Football Program," Meyer said. "As a result, Storm has been removed from the team. It has been made very clear that this type of charge will result in dismissal. If there are any changes in the charges, we will re-evaluate his status."

And that change in status is exactly what Klein's lawyer is expecting.