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The Hype Machine: Cutler vs Tebow
Now we all know the hype surrounding Tebow, and maybe a few remember some surrounding Cutler as well. After awhile, things started to sound familiar and I wondered why, then I realized we had done this before. So while this is the second article I've done about the hype surrounding Tebow, this...
The Blind Side Movie Reviews Are In: Schmaltzy, Uplifting, Formulaic...Fresh?
And the reviews are in...Slate.com mourns a great football novel lost to Hollywood Rom-Com schlock... For all The Blind Side's flaws, it's impossible not to get caught up in Michael Oher's life. (And if you're a sports fan, there's also some perverse pleasure to be had in watching the nation's...
Five theories about Lane Kiffin's jab at Urban Meyer
New Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin is wasting no time irritating his rivals. He poached a coach from Nick Saban, was accused of cheating by Steve Spurrier, and most recently took recruits from Florida and called Urban Meyer a cheater. About that last item: turns out Meyer's call to a prospect...
Gators gettin' worked by Boise State in straitpinkie.com Playoff Poll
I know you guys are playing for the real thing on Thursday but you are getting absolutely obliterated by the potatoes of Boise State in the playoff poll on straitpinkie.com. It is like 90 to 20...you have to at least try and make this thing respectable. Don't allow this crushing to be a precursor...
Texas, Florida & OU Season Comparison, SOS Results and Lousy Human Voters
As we all know, the BCS rankings are decided by 1/3 computers verdicts, 1/3 journalists opinions and 1/3 coaches opinions. Here are the college football classes of human voters(The RPG of the BCS), or in other words the reason Texas was left out of the NC game. First of all, lets look at our two...
Gators Take it Easy on the Citadel, Only Put Up 70
For a lot of the Gator players, this homecoming game will be the final memory of Florida Field as a football player. Some will move on to the Pros, others will find careers in business, science, or law. All of them will remember this was the day that the Gators were charitable, calling off the dogs...
What has college football come to?
Sorry this has really been bothering me lately. Its a shame that the only way people think college football can be interesting is to have such a fickle system to make fans pumped. They should root die hard for their respective teams to win no matter whats at stake. If it takes the current system...
The Hunt for Orange October
How about The Unversity of Texas Longhorns football team leading the Orange charge yesterday against higher-ranked opponents with Florida and Oklahoma State joining in on the action? While I fear the shake-up in the polls may put more pressure on the Texas Longhorns if they have a #1 ranking...
Are you excited yet?
Despite being concerned that the opening line on this game should have been 49 instead of 7, I still got goosebumps when my tickets for Tennessee-Florida arrived from FedEx today. I've been to more UT games in Neyland Stadium than I can reasonably count. I'd peg a conservative guess at 40, but...
2008 College Football Preseason Top 25
As the 2007 season showed us, preseason rankings don't really mean squat for some teams. There may be a top ten team that finishes the year out of the rankings. There may be a team (or two or three) that rise up from no ranking to a top five ranking. But some teams stay about where they are...
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