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bigleadsports ran an interesting article yesterday. The premise is that LHN will impact how the media reports on Texas athletics. Read past the suggestion of media being credible, and there are several interesting points. Here’s the crux of the story: In making itself synonymous with Texas, ESPN...
BlogPoll Preseason College Football Top 25 Rankings: Why Limit Ourselves to Looking Ahead to 2012?
(Author’s Note: The rankings following the jump are intended in jest. Bring your sense of humor with you. You have been warned.) Our good friend (and soon-to-be conference coeval) Bill Connelly, of whom I made mention earlier today after he gave Mark Richt the credit due him (and thereby almost...
2012 SEC Football Schedule Finally Announced; Georgia Bulldogs Lose Pre-Cocktail Party Open Date But Card Gains Elsewhere
At 10:00 this morning, following multiple rumors and interminable delays, the 2012 Southeastern Conference schedule finally was released. The SEC slate has been rearranged to accommodate the addition of the Missouri Tigers and the Texas A&M Aggies to the league, effective as of next football...
Penn State Coaching Search Targets Mark Richt: Why the Nittany Lions Will Not Poach the Bulldogs' Coach
As NCT noted on Friday, rumors abound regarding Mark Richt and the Penn St. Nittany Lions. Frankly, these rumors are both ignorant and stupid, and anyone who takes these rumors seriously is either ignorant or stupid, but these rumors are out there, nevertheless, so, unfortunately, they warrant...
SI's Stewart Mandel Predicts Boston College To Military Bowl Vs. Navy
On Monday, SI.com's Stewart Mandel published his 2011-12 college football bowl predictions for this season, placing the Eagles in the Military Bowl opposite Navy. But that wasn't the biggest surprise in Mandel's bowl predictions as it relates to the ACC. This was: Jan. 3 Sugar: South Carolina (BCS...
Don't Bet On It!: Labor Day Weekend College Football Predictions Around the SEC
September is almost upon us, and with its arrival comes the start of college football season, which means the time has come for me to begin offering you my prognostications concerning the outcomes of actual games. I do this each week of the season in three increments, beginning with every game...
The Miami Hurricanes And A Coming NCAA Storm
If you have been following College Football in any detail over the last few days - outside of the Bruins fall camp, that is - you have likely seen, or at least heard about the latest piece of investigative journalism by Charles Robinson over at Yahoo Sports, detailing a jawdropping series of...
The Case for the Bulldogs: Why Georgia Boasts One of the Best Athletics Programs in College Sports
If you frequent SB Nation websites, you doubtless are aware of the conference re-draft project, wherein several network blogs will be serving as conference commissioners and taking part in a mock draft of entire athletics programs for the purpose of building leagues the way NFL general managers...
Big Ten Countdown: 36 - The AP Poll Begins And Basketball Can Be Ugly
1936 was an enormous year in the history of college football as the first poll was born. The Associated Press (AP) poll began on October 19th, 1936. Alan J. Gould is credited with coming up with the idea, although the book "Tales from College Football's Sidelines" credits Cy Sherman of the...
Boston College Vs. Miami Football Rivalry: The Real Victim Of ACC Expansion
Maybe I'm a little late to the party here, but over the weekend I picked up and read Stewart Mandel's Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football. It's a good, quick read, even if some of the material is already dated (published in August...
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