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BlogPoll Preseason College Football Top 25 Rankings: Why Limit Ourselves to Looking Ahead to 2012?
(Author’s Note: The rankings following the jump are intended in jest. Bring your sense of humor with you. You have been warned.) Our good friend (and soon-to-be conference coeval) Bill Connelly, of whom I made mention earlier today after he gave Mark Richt the credit due him (and thereby almost...
Bribing Carolina: Making an SEC Expansion Offer the Gamecocks Can't Refuse
This may all be moot if Missouri really is SEC-bound, but, after an argument, a rebuttal, an apology, another rebuttal, and a counterargument, I thought it was only fair to take the next step by offering a bribe. Fans of the South Carolina Gamecocks don’t want the Clemson Tigers in the SEC East....
The Case for Clemson: Why the Tigers Should Be the 14th SEC Team
A "high-ranking SEC official" told the Sporting News' Matt Hayes that "every option is on the table now". Presumably that means any kind of gentleman's agreement about not taking schools from current SEC states is off. Year2 (September 19, 2011) Today, as fate would have it, is the anniversary of...
Review the Rivalry: Clemson Tigers
Rivalry Overview: Tech leads the series 49-25-2 but the average Clemson fan will tell you not to start counting until 1978 (Danny Ford Era) where Clemson has actually won 14 of 29 contests. Since Clemson fans are obsessed with Danny Ford, let's start with the most recent major break in the series...
Mark Richt and Vince Dooley: Georgia Bulldogs Head Football Coaches on Parallel Courses?
Yesterday, I compared Mark Richt’s fourth down decisionmaking against the Clemson Tigers on August 31, 2002, and against the Central Florida Knights on December 31, 2010. The more I thought about that analogy, the more I was reminded of similar disparities in the calls made by Vince Dooley against...
Old Wine in New Bottles: Why the Georgia Bulldogs' Change of Strength and Conditioning Coaches Inspires More Hope Than Confidence
When attempting earlier this season to address the problems in the Georgia Bulldogs’ football program, we looked at the team’s strength and conditioning regimen, and the general consensus appeared to be that this was at or near the top of the list of issues in need of correction. Accordingly, the...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Gators?: Notes on Restoring Balance in the Georgia Bulldogs' Most Important College Football Rivalry (Part III)
In my ongoing effort to get back into the swing of things following last Saturday’s gut-wrenching loss, I have attempted to put my time to productive use by asking how to address the problem of the Georgia Bulldogs’ continuing struggles with the Florida Gators. Since I do not believe we can resolve...
Don't Bet On It!: Week Three College Football Forecasts Around the SEC
By posting a 7-1 record in last weekend’s conference forecasts, I improved my SEC ledger for the season to 17-2, which attests more to the weakness of the opposition faced by the league’s member institutions than to any particular acumen on my part. Lest I be mistaken for a prognosticator of any...
ACC History in Numbers: Coaching Heroes and Zeroes
The first two parts of our ACC History in Numbers previewed the birth and ascension of the ACC as a football conference from 1953-2009. Through all the number crunching I wanted to bring out the most important factor in every ACC team's record in conference: the head coach. Today's history...
ACC History in Numbers: 1980-2009
Yesterday's post featured the formative ACC days. Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire. Today, I'm diving into more recent records featuring three expansions and their importance in strengthening the conference's football presence overall within the national sports media. The 80's: ACC...
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