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Tag: College Football
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What’s the Ceiling for the KliCats?
Year two under Chris Klieman was always going to be a “down” year for the program, but I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority of K-State fans were more than a little concerned with how this season would ultimately turn out after a seemingly disastrous loss to Arkansas State on September 12th. […]
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Sports & Corks 2.29: Ball Remains Life
Emily and Emily come ready to talk about WNBA and NBA action. They give NHL, NASCAR, college football, and NFL updates. Games of the week are basketball focused (because ball is life, fam). Hot takes and wine picks come through strong. Emily Twitter – https://twitter.com/emily_shaleen Emily Twitter – https://twitter.com/emilproblems Sports & Corks Twitter – https://twitter.com/sportsandcorks The Tailgate Society […]
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CFB is back, so let’s remember some dudes
The CFB season is officially back in full swing this weekend so to get us all in the right mindset – let’s remember some familiar faces. Bruce Gradkowski – Toledo Deltha O’Neal – Cal Taylor Stubblefield – Purdue Ashlely Lelie – Hawaii Patrick Willis – Ole Miss Tim Rattay – La Tech Carlos Rogers – […]
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Adopt The Big 12: A Guide for Displaced Football Fans
So, your college football team/conference decided against playing football this year, huh? That sucks. Like, really sucks. I’m sorry. And if you came here hoping for commentary on COVID-19, the safety of players, conference commissioners’ decisions to play or not play football, or the likelihood of a complete fall season being played, you can stop […]
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TGS Presents: A Very Special College Football Podcast, Episode 3
College football went boom. Travis, Jake, Aaron, and Tami from TGS got together to talk about what happened, and how the future might play out.
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What “Plus One” College Football Schedules Could Look Like
A report from CBS Sports describes the ACC, Big 12, and SEC are considering a “plus one” approach to 2020 football: each school would be permitted one non-conference game along with their conference schedule. As other conferences cancel non-conference competition entirely, like the Big Ten and Pac-12, and some FCS leagues are even cancelling fall […]
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College Football should take the loss to Covid
There are, best I can tell, around 150-ish people who are regularly around the average college football program, including players, coaches, sports medicine, and the administrative staff. Below is the Georgia Tech Covid-19 Risk Level Map (taken July 22, 2020), set to 100 people, with the D1 CFB program locations (apparently made sometime before Idaho […]
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Returning to Conference Alignment Sanity
Ten years ago, the University of Colorado and the University of Nebraska left the Big 12 Conference, creating a domino effect across the college athletics landscape, before the realignment fervor largely settled in 2014. Since that move, the Big Ten, ACC, and SEC have become 14-member institutions, while the Pac 12 is now at 12 […]
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The COVID-19 case against recent conference realignment
The most recent era of conference realignment in college athletics settled following Big Ten and ACC expansions which moved the leagues to 14-members in 2014. These moves widened the geographic footprint of their leagues for cable subscription purposes, in particular to capture New England cable subscriptions. The move was widely successful financially for the Big […]
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Big Red to the Big 10 (Ten years later)
It has now been ten years since Nebraska left the Big 12 Conference for the Big 10 on June 11, 2010. On that date, the Huskers made the move out of a conference they had been a core member of since 1907, when they were original members of a conference that morphed from the MVIAA […]
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