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Tag: Texas Longhorns

  • Longhorns face long climb after off-field monkey business

    Longhorns face long climb after off-field monkey business

    If Ames isn’t full of banana pudding shots and students in monkey masks this weekend, what is even the point? CFB fans have ✨expectations✨ now, after Monday evening’s shenanigans. Quick recap: Jeff Banks, the special teams coach of Texas, had trick or treaters around his home on Halloween night. A middle-school-age kid was bitten (not […]

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  • Cy the Numbers: Texas

    Cy the Numbers: Texas

    Do you like meaningless stats, trends, and talking points? I do. So much so that I’m going to bring a handful to you each week this football season in a blurb titled “Cy the Numbers” because the best way to introduce pointless stats is with corny puns. Check back each week for updated stats and […]

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  • Adopt The Big 12: A Guide for Displaced Football Fans

    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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  • Punter Michael Dickson Exceeds the Hype

    Punter Michael Dickson Exceeds the Hype

    Michael Dickson is the only reason to watch Seattle Seahawk games this season. Watching Russell Wilson dodge defenders and make spectacular throws to no-name receivers doesn’t matter when the defense can’t stop anyone. This is why you will want Russell Wilson and company to stall out offensively as much as possible. Dickson is a punter […]

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  • Rivalries we’ve lost

    Rivalries we’ve lost

    College football has turned the final corner of the regular season. Conference races have narrowed to two or three contenders, and the march to bowl season is full steam ahead. Iconic and pivotal match-ups are beginning to take place, just as they have for over 100 years. Two of the best weeks on the sports […]

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  • How to create a new rivalry

    How to create a new rivalry

    Over the last decade in college athletics, numerous shifts in the landscape have caused a much different college football world in which we now live. As a result of this shift, many teams now play schedules against new teams or in entirely new conferences. As a result, new rivalries can emerge over time as teams […]

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  • TGS ULIMATE ROAD TRIP: Week Seven

    TGS ULIMATE ROAD TRIP: Week Seven

    Here at the Tailgate Society we make the rules and we decided that our RV is part time machine, so we are going to skip ahead to week seven before returning to week six at some point. Why you may ask, because we can.  Good day friends and football fanatics and welcome to TGS ULTIMATE […]

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  • The best rivalries in college football

    The best rivalries in college football

    In every sport, there are rivalries which can define a season for teams, and serve as a staple in the calendar during every season. Here are the best in college football.

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  • The Mount Rushmore of College Football Stadiums

    The Mount Rushmore of College Football Stadiums

    As we celebrate Mount Rushmore week at The Tailgate Society, here are the four stadiums in each Power 5 League which would be immortalized if such a monument to cathedrals of the sport were created. Stadiums were given their spot atop college football’s Mount Rushmore of stadiums based upon quality of facilities and overall environment […]

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