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This year’s College Football Playoff controversy is the sport at its bestAmidst all the outrage and taunting on Sunday, I hope everyone took the time to enjoy the rush. A reminder about college sports: the athletes are not as good as the pros. The game is not nearly as polished. What makes up for the majority of participants having no chance at becoming well-paid profess...

Week 7 of college football was perfectComing into the weekend, we knew at least three unbeaten programs were guaranteed to end Saturday with a smudge on their immaculate records as six perfect top 13 teams were set to face off against each other. ...

"Just A Hunch": To Win What Might Have Been His Biggest Game, Darrell Royal Had Texas Do The Very Thing He HatedFormer University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal despised the forward pass. "Three things can happen," he famously said of throwing the football, "and two of them are bad." In 1968, Royal rolled out a scheme that allowed Texas's offense to be effective with minimal passing. The wishbone, as i...

Julio Jones Makes Incredible Catch, Is Having His Own Game Of The Century Against The Colts

Julio Jones checks in early with today's first wild plays. ...

LSU-Alabama Was The Worst Game Ever

Your morning roundup for November 6, the day we learned how to make our own sea salt. Image via Mocksession. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

The Waiting Is Over: LSU-Alabama Open Thread

Lee Corso trolled the shit out of the Alabama student body. Kirk Herbstreit styled on set with the Bear Bryant hat. Brian Wilson...exists in this world to annoy everyone....

Stories That Don't Suck: College Football's Greatest Game And Its Greatest Story

From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: Dan Jenkins on the 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma "Game of the Century."...