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College Football Realignment – The Big East Changing Its Name
The big money that keeps pouring in from TV deals into College Football is changing the national landscape when it comes to College Sports, and the broken up Big East is beginning to look more and more like an old Conference USA, and according to some sources, its new TV deal will also bring a change of name with it.
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Biggest American Cities With No Major Sports Teams
A large population in a city or a metro area doesn’t necessarily mean you get to have a team in the NBA, NHL, MLB or NFL. For example, places like Austin in Texas, quite close to one million people, have to settle for the Texas Longhorns in College Sports instead of a serious pro-team, although I’m not sure the people there see it that way.
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College Football Realignment – Big Ten Trying to Swallow the ACC
In 2014, the Big Ten, or B1G as others prefer, is going to be a 14 team conference, wit Maryland (from the ACC) and Rutgers (from the Big East) joining the conference that’s mostly been about the Midwest for so many years, but in its own attempt to become a Super Conference, is leaning South, trying to break up the ACC.
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College Football Coaches on the Hot Seat in 2013
Expectations of each football program is different, but it’s safe to assume that Lane Kiffin, Mack Brown,Paul Johnson, Steve Sarkisian, Gary Pinkel and Paul Pasqualoni will be the first head coaches to get fired after the 2013 College Football seasons if they don’t meet the early season expectations.
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Best Out-of-State Recruiting Teams in College Football
The three most recruited states in College Football are Florida, California and Texas. No one recruits better beyond state lines than Bob Stoops and Oklahoma, with a strong foothold in Texas. Nick Saban and Alabama do great about everywhere while other schools like Clemson, Oregon and Ohio State do very well beyond borderlines as well.
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Ohio State Buckeyes – Building on the Urban Meyer 2nd Year Syndrome
With two national titles and two undefeated seasons on his resume, Urban Meyer isn’t expected to just do a good job at Ohio State. He needs to win a national title for the Buckeyes, better sooner than later.
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Too Early College Football 2013 Rankings
Are things going to be different in 2013? Who knows. Still, it’s always fun speculation, and it’s not a really bold assumption saying Alabama will be the early season favorites; Texas A&M will be the closest thing to a challenger in the SEC, while Oregon, Stanford and Ohio State will also have hopes of winning a national title.
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College Football Realignment – Big Ten Breaking Up the ACC
The direction College Football is going, we’ll be left, in the end, with four Super Conferences while the rest fight for scraps. The Big Ten, which has added Maryland and Rutgers (both joining in 2014) in the most recent act of conference poaching, are eyeing quite a few ACC schools: Florida State, Virginia, Georgia Tech and possibly even Duke and North Carolina.
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Mark Helfrich, the Next Oregon Ducks Head Coach
Replace one former offensive coordinator with the current one. Seems logical. After Chip Kelly bolted the Oregon Ducks ship in favor of an NFL career with the Philadelphia Eagles, making Mark Helfrich, the OC for under Kelly since 2009, the next Head Coach in Eugene seems like the smart move.
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Manti Te’o, From Notre Dame Legend to Ridiculed Liar
No way how you turn the story of Manti Te’o and his fake, dead girlfriend around, it’s hard to see how he was exactly a victim in all of this.