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College football’s 10 most dramatic rivalry game moments

October 24, 2011
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College football’s 10 most dramatic rivalry game moments

College football elicits emotion unlike any other sport. The passion and devotion of the fans are most apparent during rivalry weekends, in which their teams face off with their most hated annual opponent, competing for regional and/or historical bragging rights. In many cases, these intraconference and intrastate clashes have been instrumental in determining conference and national champions, especially those including teams such as Alabama, Auburn, Michigan, and Ohio State. The following dramatic rivalry game moments double as college football’s...

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Boise State and Georgia to meet in Atlanta next season

November 19, 2010
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Boise State and Georgia to meet in Atlanta next season

Next year’s Chick-fil-A kickoff game will feature Boise State and Georgia. The two teams agreed terms to play in Atlanta on September 3, 2011. The game will be Boise’s second season-opener that the team will play on the road. Boise faced Virgina Tech earlier this season at Landover, MD’s, FedEx Field. Boise was originally scheduled to travel to Oxford, MS, to play the Ole Miss Rebels, but dropped them from the schedule for Georgia. The two schools rescheduled their meeting for the...

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Auburn’s Three-Headed Rushing Attack

November 4, 2010
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Auburn’s Three-Headed Rushing Attack

  Although Cam Newton is the face of Auburn football, the Tigers boast a punishing three-headed rushing attack that has left defensive coordinators struggling to find ways to slow it down this season. However, what they’ve learned in the process is that you cannot stop it; you can only hope to try to find ways of containing it. Michael Dyer, Onterio McCalebb, and Mario Fannin are averaging over 5 yards per carry this season and have been instrumental in...

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Auburn’s Zac Etheridge’s Road to Recovery

November 3, 2010
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Auburn’s Zac Etheridge’s Road to Recovery

While Auburn continues to soar to great heights this season, far surpassing even the most ardent Auburn fan’s expectations, perhaps no one is more grateful and appreciative than Auburn safety Zac Ethridge. For Etheridge knows firsthand that although football is the game he loves and plays with a fierce and fiery passion, it is still just that, a game. When compared to something as precious as life, it is far minuscule. October 31, 2009, is a day that will forever live...

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And The Winner Is…

October 14, 2010
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And The Winner Is…

Ole Miss students have finally decided on a replacement mascot for Colonel Reb. Ole Miss students, faculty, and season-ticket holders, voted electronically and selected the Rebel Black Bear to succeed Colonel Reb as the school’s mascot. The selection of Rebel Black Bear ends Mississippi’s eight month highly publicized search for a new school mascot. Along with the Rebel Black Bear, the Rebel Landshark, and Hotty Toddy, were finalists in the vote. According to school officials, the Black Bear has...

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The Genius of Gus Malzahn

October 8, 2010
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The Genius of Gus Malzahn

Auburn offensive coordinator, Gus Malzahn, is arguably college football’s most creative offensive mind. One of the early innovators of the current wildcat offense, a formation he routinely ran at Arkansas with former Razorbacks Darren McFadden and Felix Jones, Malzahn has been successful at every stop throughout his coaching career. Most recent, his offensive philosophy has propelled the Auburn Tigers to the top of nearly every single offensive statistical category since his arrival last season. Under his guidance, this year’s Auburn...

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NCAA correct on Masoli denial

September 1, 2010
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NCAA correct on Masoli denial

Jeremiah Masoli’s eyes popped out of his head like a love-struck cartoon werewolf when he found out Houston Nutt wanted him playing at Ole Miss come 2010. Unfortunately, the NCAA nixed Masoli’s waiver plans and the troubled youth will be forced to redshirt this season if his appeal, which will most likely be, denied. Masoli was attempting to take advantage of the NCAA waiver rule in which a player does not have to sit out a season if he transfers to...

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The Riverboat Gambler’s Final Hand

August 16, 2010
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The Riverboat Gambler’s Final Hand

Three years removed from winning his first and only BCS National Championship, LSU skipper Les Miles could be entering his last season as head coach of the Tigers. Miles assumed head coaching duties on January 3, 2005, when current Alabama head coach Nick Saban bolted Baton Rouge to try his hand in the NFL. Miles got off to a red-hot start by going 11-2 in his first season as head coach and earned a trip to Atlanta to represent...

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