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For The SEC, Winter Is Here

Whether you love or hate the SEC, you have to admit the last decade has been very, very good for the conference from a football perspective. But all things must end. We’re on the cusp of seeing the SEC’s dominance cycle out for a while. For just how long is the great unknown, but a…

College Football Countdown: No. 83 Kellen Winslow

Kellen Winslow Sr. changed football dramatically, or at least help establish a direction for the game, in his senior season at Missouri. A tight end two-to-three decades ahead of his time, Winslow set the standard for pass-catchers at the position. Stars like Miami's Jeremy Shockey and his son, Kellen Winslow II; UCLA's Marcedes Lewis; Arizona's…

Is The Big 12 Conference Salvageable?

How close the Big 12 Conference was to full implosion six years ago this month, the world may never truly know. So many conflicting accounts surfaced at the time, and still leak out today, it's difficult to parse reality from fiction. Colorado was the first to go, leaving for the former Pac-10 on the 10th.…

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The State of College Sports Media

Right now might be the best and worst time to be a fan of college sports. On the one hand, college sports are ubiquitous and unrelenting. On the dominant hand, the problems associated with college sports seem to be even more ubiquitous and more unrelenting. It’s as though each sport comes standard with 99 problems. The issues…

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Cobra, Von Miller and Other SEC Legends

Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller's Super Bowl 50 MVP is now to college football what 1986 train-wreck Cobra is to cinema. The dreadful Sylvester Stallone actioneer was loosely based off a novel by Paula Gosling entitled Fair Game. Upon Cobra's release, Warner Books wanted the book rereleased to capitalize on the film's box office success.…

The SEC East Is Simply A Bad Division

The SEC East is bad. No compelling argument exists to counter the reality cruelly evident Saturday. FCS Playoff-bound The Citadel outplayed thoroughly outplayed South Carolina. There was nothing fluky in the Bulldogs' option offense rolling up 350 rushing yards en route to a 23-22 victory -- even if a penalty negated a would-be, fourth-down game-winning…

It Only Took A Quarter-Decade for The Fifth Down Receipt

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the infamous "Fifth Down" game between Colorado and Missouri (h/t @ESPNStatsInfo); arguably the most notorious and impacting officiating blunder in college football history. 25 years ago today- The “Fifth-Down Game” … Five things you should know about that game: http://t.co/e0Sm38RxgD pic.twitter.com/wKxdlOV5xJ— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) October 6, 2015…