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What are the Chances of Making it to the NFL?
A lot of young athletes believe that sports may be their way to escape poverty and provide a better life for them and their family. The numbers showing us how many of them actually make it into the NFL through the process of high school, college football and eventually the pros, shows once again just how important education is before anything else.
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College Football – Way Too Early 2014 Preseason Rankings
It’s impossible to predict what happens in College Football season, but it’s always worth giving it a shot. The new playoff system means no more BCS rankings, and maybe even more significance in public perception for the AP Poll and its top 25.
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College Football – Final Rankings of the 2013 Season
The BCS era ends with the dethroning of the SEC as Florida State win the national championship game against Auburn, earning them the top spot in the year-end polls and rankings, with Auburn, Rose Bowl champions Michigan State, South Carolina and Missouri completing the top 5.
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Tuskegee Golden Tigers Bring Segregation Back to College Football
We don’t usually see news from Division II NCAA Football making anything but local news. However, in the most recent playoff game between the North Alabama Lions and the Tuskegee Golden Tigers, a rare request made by Curtis Campbell, Director of Athletics for Tuskegee, shockingly accepted by the NCAA, pushed the sport and racial relations back into some very dark times.
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2013 College Football Season – Week 12 BCS Standings
There’s no change in the higher reaches of the BCS Standings after week 13. Alabama and Florida State at the moment heading to the national championship game, Ohio State waiting for someone to fall. That simple? Not really, because the rise of Auburn to number 4 and of Missouri to number 5 really makes it a bit more complicated if either the Crimson Tide or the Seminoles mess up in the upcoming games.
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College Football – Upsets Keep Rocking BCS Standings
While the top 3 teams in the BCS Standings: Alabama, Florida State and Ohio State continue to cruise, which means the Buckeyes will be left out of the national champions game, below them it continues to be mayhem, as Number 4 Baylor (losing to Oklahoma State) and number 6 Oregon (losing to Arizona) probably will find themselves out of the top 10, while Texas A&M, UCLA and Minnesota join them in the long list of ranked teams that lost this week.
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2013 College Football Season – Week 11 BCS Standings
As expected, the top 25 of the BCS standings took a big hit and shake, as Florida State took a big step towards being in the national championship game with Alabama, distancing themselves at number 2 from the rest of the chasing pack, as things are quite close between Ohio State, Stanford and Baylor battling for third.
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2013 BCS Standings – Week 10
Week 10 of the 2013 College Football season gave Florida State, by beating another top 10 opponent in Miami, a chance to move back into the number 2 spot, taking advantage of Oregon having a bye week before their biggest game of the season, which didn’t have any positional effect on Alabama, standing firm at the top of the BCS standings.
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2013 BCS Standings – Week 9
While the clear dominance of Alabama in every possible college football ranking system, the big change in the second edition of the BCS Standings in the 2013 season is Oregon leapfrogging Florida State to the number two spot thanks to a win the computers loved over UCLA, while three new teams – Michigan, Notre Dame and Wisconsin make it into the top 25.
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2013 BCS Standings – Week 8
The release of the first BCS standings didn’t cause a huge deal of surprise, as Alabama lead the top 25 obviously. Florida State being above Oregon might be surprising to some, but considering their strength of schedule and most recent win over Clemson, it pretty much makes sense to make them the strongest of the undefeated teams behind Alabama, while Ohio State and Missouri trail behind, not looking likely to finish among the top 2.