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The best from bowl games with non-New Year’s Six names

Making fun of lesser bowl games is easy and fun. Do we really need a Boca Raton Bowl? Or a LendingTree Bowl? Or a Gasparilla Bowl? Or a Cameilla Bowl? Or a Hertz Bowl? Or a Guaranteed Rate Bowl? (Only one of those is fake.) No, probably not. The answer to “Who’s better: Eastern Michigan […]

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It’s 2021, time for college football bowls to branch out from Gatorade dumping

As french fries rained down upon the head of Wyoming head football coach Craig Bohl against the bright blue background of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl yesterday in place of the usual victory Gatorade bath, I thought to myself as I (and many others) do every year — why don’t all bowl games do something […]

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When has it EVER been about education, Dabo?

Dabo Swinney, Champion of All Things Amateur, went on a tirade against the current state of the NCAA transfer portal at Clemson’s signing day event earlier today. Swinney made his stance on paying student athletes clear several years ago, when he publicly declared that he would leave coaching if college athletes ever… Read more…

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Somehow the ‘BuT-tHe-AmATeUR-MoDeL! ‘ NCAA survived the beginning of NIL

We’re approaching the four-month mark since the NCAA officially approved name, image, and likeness rights for student-athletes and, somehow, the apocalypse has not come, the collegiate model has not collapsed, and Dabo Swinney is still coaching (to some extent , at least). As athletes, schools, sponsors and lawmakers… Read more…

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Pitt is a three-point favorite against Clemson this weekend… how did it come to this?

Yep, you read that right. The University of Pittsburgh is favored Saturday towards the formerly formidable Clemson Tigers — the same team that made appearances in six College Football Playoffs in a span of six years, winning two championships along the way. With the way Dabo Swinney’s team is playing this season, … Read more…