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2012 College Football Season – Best Photos From Week 2
You know College Football has really begun when the ranked teams start falling, and there were plenty of top 25 sides who went through some stunning losses this weekend, with Arkansas overtime loss against Louisiana Monroe the biggest of them all, while the national title contenders: Alabama, USC and LSU had no problem going up […]
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2012 College Football Season – Week 2 Predictions
The second week of College Football should be a rather easy one for the national champion contenders, with Alabama hosting Western Kentucky, USC visiting Syracuse and LSU hosting Washington. The most interesting games should be SEC debuts for Missouri, hosting Georgia, and Texas A&M hosting Florida.
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Peyton Manning – Can’t Wear 18 to Denver Schools
Wearing a Peyton Manning jersey to school in Denver, Colorado will just get you sent home, so maybe kids will now have an extra incentive to buy one after a third grader was sent home to change after arriving at the school wearing number 18, a banned number in the district due to its association with local gangs.
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Dallas Cowboys – Tony Romo Has Nearly Perfect Day at MetLife
The stadium in which both the New York Giants and the New York Jets play hasn’t been exactly welcoming to Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys, but after leading his team to a 24-17 over the Super Bowl champions while holding on to a fourth quarter lead, for once, it seems some sort of breakthrough has been achieved.
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New York Giants – Unexpected Problems for Eli Manning & Super Bowl Champions
It was supposed to be some sort of crowning night. The Super Bowl champions always win their season opener, at least the last eight have. The New York Giants started slow, and couldn’t pick up the pace, both on defense and on offense, leaving a lot of questions after a 17-24 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
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2012 NFL Strength of Schedule – Patriots get Easiest, Giants get Toughest
It’s funny how the two Super Bowl participants get the two edges of the stick when it comes to the hardest projected schedule in the 2012 NFL Season, based on the 2011 records of all 32 NFL teams. The champions, the New York Giants, have the most difficult road ahead of them while the New England Patriots get the easiest.
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2012 NFL Season Week 1 – Cowboys vs Giants Predictions
Since the beginning of the tradition of having the Super Bowl champion host next season’s opener, the home team is 8-0. That means the New York Giants should feel very comfortable going into their first game of the 2012 season, hosting their bitter NFC East rivals, the Dallas Cowboys.
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Rooting Against the SEC
When a number 8 team meets the number 2 team in the nation on a neutral field, we’re supposed to have something closer to 41-14. But the difference between Alabama and Michigan, between the SEC and everyone else, is so big right now, that seeing the Wolverines down 21-0 after 15 minutes shouldn’t come as such a shock.
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2012 College Football Rankings – Week 1
The national champions opened where they deserve to be, at #1. The Alabama Crimson Tide beat Michigan 41-14 in the featured opening game of week 1, giving them most first place votes after the USC Trojans were the preseason number one team in the nation. Their 49-10 win over Hawai’i wasn’t good enough to keep them from falling to number 2 in the rankings.
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The Black Hole – First Outdoor Black Football Field
If you’re wondering why West Salem High in West Salem, Oregon, decided to go with a black turf for its high school football field, than the answer is the one that usually comes up – money. The school was offered a price break of nearly $150,000 if it installed a black field rather than a green one, with those savings reflected in FieldTurf Inc.’s ability to avoid having to use died synthetic turf in its installation.