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Missouri’s bowl hopes are there for the taking. Can Barry Odom’s Tigers finish the comeback?

Perhaps, we’ve always been this way, but as technology has improved we’ve gotten more and more impatient as people. I remember as a kid, when my mom came home with our first computer. That thing was probably powered by a hamster wheel, but it was ours and it connected us to the rest of the  Continue Reading »

Oklahoma Sooners Football Press Conference Notes: Big 12 defenses, Marquise Brown’s speed, and the injury situation

After winning one of the most exhilarating Bedlam games in history, the Oklahoma Sooners are looking forward to an enormous challenge against the TCU Horned Frogs. Baker Mayfield looks to be the clear front-runner in the Heisman conversation after an epic performance on a Saturday where all other candidates had sub-par outings. Finally, the team  Continue Reading »

Tom Herman ‘100-percent’ certain he wants to retain all assistant coaches

Without continuity, there’s no alignment. The latter buzzword is almost cliche at this point when discussing first-year head coach Tom Herman and the Texas Longhorns, but it does matter — the only assistants he didn’t bring with him from his first staff in Houston were his offensive coordinator and his running backs coach. And his  Continue Reading »

Deep Inside the Numbers: Auburn-Texas A&M

I like when Auburn beats Arkansas. The Hogs learned a simple college football lesson: look like Rutgers, play like Rutgers. Here’s to hoping the Aggies wear all smokey gray or black on Saturday. They won’t call it that, they’ll call it “Anthracite” or “Texas Smoke” or some other made-up nonsense a person got paid money  Continue Reading »

Nyheim Hines, NC State should be full-go for Clemson game

NC State suffered its first significant bout of attrition since early September during the Wolfpack’s loss to Notre Dame last weekend. Defensive linemen Darian Roseboro, Justin Jones, and Eurndraus Bryant were all banged up early, as was running back Nyheim Hines, who got rolled up and was lucky to escape without major injury. All of  Continue Reading »

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