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New SEC Rules Work For Taylor, Kentucky
Atlanta running back Justin Taylor became news well beyond his three-star rating when, earlier this month, he found himself being offered a grayshirt after having been committed to Alabama for almost an entire year. Alabama was up against the SEC's new 25-player cap, and as Taylor had missed his...
2012's First Oversigning Controversy Comes At Alabama, But It Won't Be Last
In 2011, the topic of oversigning and roster management in college football hit a critical mass. The presidents of Florida and Georgia wrote op-eds condemning schools for aspects of it, and the SEC adopted new rules regarding graduate transfers, medical exemption scholarships, and the number of...
Quantifying Alabama's Brilliant Defense
This year's Alabama defense was one of the best ever to take the field of play. OK, I can't really say that because I haven't studied the entire history of college football defenses. It is certainly one of the best of its era, which probably then puts it up in the top of all time. Let's go over...
BCS National Championship Game: Neither Saban Nor Miles Is the Most Important Coach
It's tempting to try to boil the BCS National Championship Game down to Nick Saban vs. Les Miles. College football head coaches tend to end up with cults of personalities around them, and certainly The Process and The Mad Hatter have a couple of the biggest ones out there. No matter how good they...
SEC's Biggest Stories in 2011 No. 2: Rematch
The SEC has won five consecutive national championships, and every one of them was special in a way. Florida went from slim escapes to a bowl blowout in 2006. Undefeated-in-regulation 2007 LSU became the first two-loss national champion in decades. Florida's 2008 national title is a crowning...
Alabama Coordinators Possibly Going Elsewhere
Alabama's run of success under Nick Saban has been nothing short of remarkable. Also remarkable is the fact that he hasn't lost his coordinators in the process. Typically a team cannot sustain that high level of success for more than a couple of years before the assistants begin spreading their own...
Translating Coaching Carousel Speak to English
The coaching carousel is spinning up, with Rich Rodriguez replacing the fired Mike Stoops at Arizona and Urban Meyer reportedly set to take the Ohio State job. The SEC has one job already open, with Houston Nutt coaching his last game at Ole Miss this weekend. As this process continues, you'll hear...
Who Should Ole Miss Prioritize: RichRod or Mike Leach?
I honestly don't have any good idea what direction the Ole Miss coaching search will go in. In 1998, the school hired the offensive coordinator from the soon-to-be national champions in David Cutcliffe. He helped get them Eli Manning and had a 10-win season, but he was fired after seven years....
SEC Schedule Week 8
GAME OF THE WEEK Auburn at LSU, Saturday, 3:30 ET, CBS Still the only SEC battle of Tigers (for now), it's also the only battle of ranked teams within the conference. Will the current distractions derail the Bayou Bengals, or will LSU hold serve at home against the overmatched Plainsmen? SATURDAY,...
Counting the Ways That Alabama's Defense Dominates
The Alabama defense has been brilliant so far this year. Let's count the ways in which the defense ranks highly. All of these categories leave out stats from games against I-AA opponents. Scoring Defense This, of course, is not entirely on the defense; the NCAA counts special teams and defensive...
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