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Saturday on the Couch – Recap (thanks to College Gameday Final)

Okay, so you got no live updates this week; I apologize. I was taking online defensive driving to get out of a ticket, so I saw very little of the daytime action and then the family came home and it was daddy/daughter time until SC started. First, maybe I was wrong about SC. For the [...]

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Week 3 Games of Interest

Saturday, September 15, 2007 College Gameday: live from Lincoln, Nebraska, 10:00 AM EDT (Fowler/Herbstreit and the other two) No. 5 Florida (2-0) vs. No. 22 Tennessee (1-1), 3:30 PM EDT, CBS (Lundquist/Danielson); Florida -8 No. 10 Ohio State (2-0) at Washington (2-0), 3:30 PM EDT, ESPN (Franklin/Cunningham); Ohio State -4 No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) at [...]

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Saturday on the Couch – Part 1

West Virginia looked like sh*t for 35 minutes Ohio State tried to pull a Michigan for 3 quarters OU throttled Miami Nebraska survived the trip to Winstom-Salem (only because Skinner was hurt) The Tide rolls in Nashville So far “Measuring Stick Saturday” is not that exciting, with the exception of Minnesota/Miami Ohio in a 3rd [...]

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Rules for college football fans

Many of you have no doubt seen Page 2′s “New Rules for College Football Fans to Live By.” But let’s be honest: that’s a lot to read, and somewhere around Rule 26.a.1 our eyes started to glaze over. So here’s a condensed list: 1a. Under extenuating circumstances, however, you may have up to three Division [...]

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SI.com’s Top 20 Games of 2007

Here is their version; here is our version: #16- Tennessee at California September 1st #18- Florida St at Clemson September 3rd #4-   Virginia Tech at LSU September 8th #14- TCU at Texas September 8th #19- Miami at Oklahoma September 8th #20- Notre Dame at Penn State September 8th #8-   USC at Nebraska September 15th #9-   [...]

Posted in Alabama, Boise State, Cal, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Louisville, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Rutgers, Tennessee, Texas, The U, UCLA, USC, Va Tech, West Virginia, Wisconsin | 2 Comments »

College football roundup – “Joe Pa in the press box” edition

Happy Friday. Let’s get to the roundup. Most of the major preseason polls have closed, and with 97% of precincts reporting, we can report that USC is getting a little bit of attention. They top both the College Football News poll and the USA Today coaches poll. That should be good news for Trojan fans, [...]

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Nick Saban Defends Himself?

Nick Saban has finally decided to go on the record about why he lied to South Florida last December. (The interview was with Sports South, shown regionally in SEC country.) “I’m interested in staying here,” he told the Miami media just days before accepting an offer from Crimson Tide athletic director Mal Moore. “I’m committed [...]

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#62: Forward Progress

As we continue our march through The 100, we’re still waiting for the first USC-related entry from the Paul Hackett era … until then, here’s a little something from 1970: Sam Cunningham rushed for 135 yards and three touchdowns in No. 3 USC’s 42-21 victory over No. 16 Alabama in Birmingham to open the 1970 [...]

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Breaking down Ivan Maisel’s list

Not to jump ahead of ourselves (and don’t worry, we’ll continue breaking down the Trojan moments that made the list), but Ivan Maisel has concluded his countdown of the top 100 college football moments of all time. No doubt fans will quibble with the list – because that’s what fans do, they quibble – but [...]

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Will Alabama make Saban a liar again?

Alabama is backing up a Brinks truck to Nick Saban’s house in an effort to get relevant again.

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