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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff, occasional college football columnist for Deadspin, reflects on college football's signing day today. Email him to let him know what you think.
Kevin Hart did it right: Buy into the dream that a big-time college is recruiting you, hold a huge press conference to announce your commitment, then have it revealed that the whole thing is a sham.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff, college football columnist for Deadspin, reflects on LSU's big win over Ohio State last night in the BCS championship game. Email him to let him know what you think.
Let me say this once and for all, to all the Ohio State fans out there:
Thankfully, mercifully, finally... S.T.F.U.
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Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
Split the national title! The campaign climaxes tonight: AP voters need to showcase the creativity and cojones to vote a deserving Georgia as No. 1, sharing the national title with the LSU-Ohio State winner.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
Nothing says "end-of-the-year" (or "MSG hangover") like a batch of fairly obvious, entirely shallow superlatives, representing the best and worst of 2007, with a baseless look-ahead to 2008. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
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Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
Bowl sponsors have fascinated me since their arrival was supposed to herald the end of the "classy" "pageantry" of college football's bowl season. (Riiight: It was all FedEx's fault.)
But sponsors have become as integral to the bowl experience as the games themselves. (Teams come and go, but Meineke Car Care is forever.)
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
So I'm sitting there watching the 1-AA playoffs, at the same time going over all these various (and ludicrously unrealistic) "But mine would work!" playoff plans being put out there, all while keeping an ominous eye on this "Plus-One" plan.
(You know the "Plus-One." Tagline: "The Solution That Wouldn't Solve Anything.")
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
While everyone is griping about the BCS, you know what is unsatisfying? Complaining about the BCS system the day after the bowls are set.
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Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
The wildest — and best — college football season in modern history is down to a simple set of "ifs":
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
For a season as clusterf—-ish as this one has been, the irony is that we seem to be heading for a blandly straightforward finish. Supporting my original theory that college football's regular season is a de facto playoff system held over 14 weeks, merely four realistic contenders remain with two weeks to go:
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Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
For some reason, the angry emails from Ohio State fans have dried up, sort of like the Ohio Stadium scoreboard clock in the 4th quarter. But I'm not here to gloat or say "Told you so" about the Buckeyes ... well, not really.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
With all four BCS unbeatens surviving the weekend in "prove-it" wins of varying satisfaction (in order: BC, Arizona State, Kansas, Ohio State), it's a convenient moment to revisit an annually thorny issue:
Why a playoff system really doesn't work.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
Here is the flimsiest argument I have heard about how (and where) to value a team right now:
"Because They're Unbeaten."
Why can't I buy it? Because in addition to totally discounting reasonable factors like, oh, strength of schedule, it is so inconsistently applied, by pollsters and fans alike.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
With Saturday's losses its two top-ranked teams, college football reached an unprecedented place it had been teetering on for weeks:
Even with a half-dozen unbeaten teams remaining, this season has officially become the biggest clusterf—k in the sport's history.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
Appalachian State over Michigan. Syracuse over Louisville. Last weekend's upheaval of the unbeatens. All were mere prelude to the mother lode:
Stanford beat USC: The poster child of college football in the 21st Century lost to its red-headed step-sibling.
Thinking back over the decade's Trojan Dynasty, there have been a few priceless moments of schadenfreude: The 2006 Rose Bowl. Reggie Bush's scandal. The 2007 BCS implosion. Matt Leinart's life.
This tops them all: USC — mighty, dominant, loaded USC — losing at home to a 41-point Stanford underdog that was so sorry, the Cardinal scored all of 3 points a week ago in a 41-3 loss to Arizona State (and might as well have not even shown up for a shutout blowout at home a year ago to USC.)
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
Sunday morning, 2 a.m.: I am writing this now because I cannot sleep, because my team's season is ruined. Obliterated.
I could be an Oklahoma fan. Or a West Virginia fan. Or a Texas fan. Or even a Rutgers fan. As it happens, I am a Florida fan. What we share is the fate that in Week 5, our team's seasons are effectively over.
Oh, sure, conference titles might still be up for grabs. But this season was about competing for a national championship. A spot in a BCS bowl simply isn't the same.
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dan shanoff is the bandwagoneer
Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think.
The original name of this guest-post was "Dan Shanoff Is The Tebow," so it was inevitable that I would devote at least some space to Florida's QB — who, after a mere four games, is the rock star of the year in college football. Saturday, Tebow accounted for 426 yards of offense, the hard way: 260 passing (with 2 TDs) and a Florida-record 160 rushing (with another 2 TDs). Heisman buzz is rampant, and fanboy panting is near-universal.
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