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Let’s Get This Out of the Way
Let’s just do this and get it out of the way, alright? Call me crazy, but I find coaching innuendo far more entertaining at the non-marquee F.B.S. stops – tossing around names for a Vanderbilt, as...
View ArticleThe SEC’s Other Sept. 3 Game
This post originally appeared on Mar. 24, shortly after the SEC released its team-by-team and composite schedule for the 2011 season. Since I’m very much bogged down with Countdown work, I thought it...
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No. 12: B.Y.U.
Everyone used to do it, pretty much. Notre Dame did it best; Notre Dame still does it, as do Navy and Army. Penn State used to do it. So did Pittsburgh, Florida State, Miami (Fla.), West Virginia and...
View ArticleIn September and After September
B.Y.U.’s tough start has many questioning its placement so high on the Countdown, but remember that the list does not reflect where teams stand today but projects where each team will finish the 2011...
View ArticleMissing: A Much-Needed Marquee Win
If we know anything, it’s that B.Y.U. is going to lose to Tulsa. Huh? Well, the Cougars have beat only one bowl team all season, Utah State, and the team’s remaining seven F.B.S. wins came against...
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Nelson Channels His Inner Dan Marino
I remember it well: Nov. 27, 1994, and Dan Marino, along with Bernie Kosar, a forgotten collaborator, shocked the flummoxed New York Jets by pulling the most brazen and audacious of post-snap stunts....
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The Year in Review: B.Y.U. (10-3, 0-0)
The suspicion was there in October and November, but it didn’t become official until Riley Nelson duped Tulsa, Dan Marino-style, late in the fourth quarter of December’s Armed Forces Bowl. Then it was...
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Future Members of the Hall of Fame: Coaches
So there are issues with the College Football Hall of Fame’s eligibility criteria for coaches, as discussed at length earlier today. Eliminating those whose career spanned less than 10 years is silly;...
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2012 All-Name Team Nominees (May 11)
There’s a preview coming today, but not until later in the morning. For now, while I plug away – and since we’re more than 20 teams down – let’s update the current F.B.S. all-name team. If you hadn’t...
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No. 20: B.Y.U.
The suspicion was there in October and November, but it didn’t become official until Riley Nelson duped Tulsa, Dan Marino-style, late in the fourth quarter of December’s Armed Forces Bowl. Then it was...
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