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Week 6’s top 10 college football games: Time to find out if Mizzou is a paper tiger?

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Week 6’s top 10 college football games: Time to find out if Mizzou is a paper tiger?

Perhaps the schedule makers thought we would need a breather after Georgia–Alabama last week? There’s only one ranked matchup across the entire slate and nothing that jumps out on paper. That said, there are some intriguing matchups that could yield potentially telling results. No judgment if you opt for the pumpkin patch this weekend, but […]

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The top 5 jobs in college football: Which programs do coaches, staffers consider the best?

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The top 5 jobs in college football: Which programs do coaches, staffers consider the best?

So much has changed across college football over the past three years. There have been seismic coaching moves. Realignment has eliminated a power conference and forced us to reconsider how much geography actually matters. And the introduction of name, image and likeness combined with the freedom of movement provided by the transfer portal has thrown

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What stat matters most in college football? Keep an eye on explosive play margin

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What stat matters most in college football? Keep an eye on explosive play margin

In the old days, they were known as big plays. Or maybe long plays. It’s not clear when, or why, football people started to refer to them as “explosive plays” or just “explosives.” It was probably around the time football people started referring to position groups as “rooms.” The football people also can’t quite agree

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: A gloomy Week 3 in the Sunshine State for Florida and FSU

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: A gloomy Week 3 in the Sunshine State for Florida and FSU

And now, 18 thoughts from Week 3, which was awfully fun to watch, so long as you weren’t in Gainesville or Tallahassee, Fla. 1. Florida and Florida State claim a total of six national championships. Their state produces more blue-chip recruits than any outside of Texas. And their head coaches, Florida’s Billy Napier and Florida

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Clemson’s mini-dynasty is over, and that’s only part of ACC’s angst

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Clemson’s mini-dynasty is over, and that’s only part of ACC’s angst

And now, 17 Final Thoughts from the first three days of Week 1. (Apologies, LSU and USC, I just couldn’t wait.) 1. So, what was your “We’re not in Kansas, anymore” moment of the first full weekend of New World College Football? For me, it was turning on Friday night’s TCU-Stanford game, seeing an ACC

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