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Top ten reasons we know college football season is approaching

Mark Mangino begins a rigorous pre-season fitness regimen.
OU cheerleaders scramble to memorize the words to Boomer Sooner.
Nerds across the country prepare for twelve weeks out of the shadows as they don Micheal Jackson-esque pseudo-military uniforms to march in the band.
A Northwest Florida cryogenics lab begins de-icing Bobby Bowden.
Joe Paterno starts sundowning.
BYU embraces its African-American [...]

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More on strength of schedule

Another interesting datum on USC’s toughest-in-the-nation schedule:
USC is the only team from one of the six major BCS conferences that did not play a game against an opponent outside a BCS conference. Wisconsin also has just one loss (to Michigan), but it isn’t involved in national-title talk because it played Bowling Green, Western Illinois, San [...]

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