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Georgia completes its return from one brink, and arrives at another
Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 17. The story could change in any number of ways over time so let the record show: Yes, by all indications Mark Richt really was in danger of losing his job after Georgia's...
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Michigan buries Buckeye angst beneath long-awaited BCS breakthrough
Michigan 40, Ohio State 34. As often as they've discussed it — and they seem to have discussed little else over the last five years — Michigan fans still disagree about the precise moment the pall...
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Kentucky welcomes Derek Dooley to the ‘embattled’ phase at Tennessee
Kentucky 10, Tennessee 7. When Derek Dooley was hired last year, Tennessee fans took to him. He had the charming Southern accent. He was the son of Georgia legend Vince Dooley. And best of all, he was...
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Video: Kellen Moore is so good, his receivers don’t even have to be upright...
Kellen Moore is doing his best to make sure he remains in the Heisman conversation, by adding a few more highlights to his already ridiculous reel. This week's gem came with 1 second remaining in the...
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And you will know Alabama’s closing BCS statement by the trail of blood
Alabama 42, Auburn 14. Well, that was… more or less expected, actually. The Crimson Tide started the day as three-touchdown favorites, won by four and aggressively snuffed out any remaining sense of...
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Robert Griffin III gets knocked cold, then scores a touchdown
Robert Griffin's amazing season is likely going to end in a banquet room in New York next month, but whether Baylor's rising star takes another snap between now and then is in the air after a...
View ArticleVideo: Aaron Dobson’s backhanded, one-handed catch is a lesson in athleticism...
We've seen some pretty awesome plays this season, but Marshall receiver Aaron Dobson delivered one Saturday that may go down as the catch of the season. With 39 seconds remaining in the first half...
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Ain’t got no alibi: Gators, ‘Noles just set offensive football in Florida...
Florida State 21, Florida 7. Like me, most of you are old enough to remember Florida-Florida State as an annual clash of titans with ludicrous talent at every position and national implications in...
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One of these teams is the Pac-12 South champion. The other is only pretending...
USC 50, UCLA 0. Officially, this is how it's going to work: At 7-2 in Pac-12 games, USC has the conference's blessing to claim a first-place finish in the South Division. Which is entirely accurate,...
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Akron fires Rob Ianello en route to his mother’s funeral
It was Saturday when Rob Ianello got the phone call: After two dismal seasons and an ugly loss in Friday's season finale, he was no longer the head coach at Akron. The timing couldn't have been worse —...
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Bloody Sunday: In the line of fire as coaching casualties begin to mount
'Tis the season for coaching carnage in the college ranks, and the casualties are already beginning to mount: One coach, Akron's Rob Ianello, got the axe Saturday, one day after the Zips closed their...
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Bloody Sunday: At long last, Illinois pulls the plug on Ron Zook, survivor
The best metaphor for Ron Zook's tenure at Illinois is a roller coaster — a sprawling, poorly constructed ride that interrupts long stretches of monotony with seemingly random dips and loops that fill...
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Bloody Sunday: For Kansas, two years of Turner Gill is two too many
Nobody ever remembers this sort of thing in retrospect, so the let the record show: When Kansas snapped up Turner Gill in December 2009, it was initially considered a pretty great hire. At that point,...
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BCS Realpolitik: Drive home safely, and enjoy the rematch
In a perfect world, the Doc would be given carte blanche to publicly torch the Bowl Championship Series in effigy and institute the elaborate, double-elimination battle royal of his dreams. But we...
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Headlinin’: The bell tolls for Dennis Erickson
Making the morning rounds. • Bloody Sunday, cont'd. The next head to roll in the coaching harvest will be Dennis Erickson's, according to an anonymous Arizona State official who told the Associated...
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It’s D-Day for Ohio State’s Urban renewal
His agent is busy trying to slam on the brakes as we speak, but the story is only speeding up: Urban Meyer, owner of two national championships at Florida and arguably the most impressive resumé in...
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Ohio State holds on to Luke Fickell, its good soldier
Luke Fickell isn't going to find another head coaching job waiting at the end of the season. But he should find an appreciation across Buckeye nation for his role in steering Ohio State through the...
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Bloody Monday: Arizona State, UCLA commence Pac-12 coaching carnage
How bad was the Pac-12 South behind its official non-champion, USC? Last Friday, both Arizona State and UCLA were in a neck-and-neck sprint for the division title and a ticket to this Friday's Pac-12...
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Mid-Major Monday: Looming BCS bid puts C-USA in a financial, ethical dilemma
Weekly notes from the undercard Southern Miss will be under intense pressure this week as it prepares to face Houston in the Conference USA title game: Pressure to win the game, upset the Cougars'...
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Urban Meyer has landed at Ohio State, full speed ahead
In narrative terms, the momentum of Michigan's 40-34 win over Ohio State was one-sided, to say the least. Here was Michigan, simultaneously vanquishing seven years' worth of angst against its most...
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