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Nobody's Better At Maintaining Mediocrity Than Iowa State
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

LSU's Danny Etling Likes A Good, "Plump" Butt On His Centers
College football players have made it abundantly clear that they know and enjoy a good butt; whether it be just for pokin’ or actual strategy, they’re thankfully none too shy about letting reporters in on the secrets of the tush....

Lane Kiffin Owned By Autograph Seekers
Florida Atlantic head football coach Lane Kiffin, the most frequently dunked-on coach in recent college football history, has willingly shared two more stories about times in which he was savagely owned....

Josh Rosen Gets Brutally Honest About The Tension Between College Football And School
UCLA QB Josh Rosen is expected to be a high pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The 20-year-old junior can be seen as a future NFL star and an ambitious guy whose eagerness to have a life outside of football somehow makes certain corners of the league’s intelligentsia skeptical. In today’s interview with B...

Lamar Jackson Accuses Wake Forest Coach Of Anonymously <em></em>Trashing His NFL Dreams
Lamar Jackson, the 2016 Heisman winner who, for a while, appeared to be the Second Coming, is heading into the fall with the typical pressure being applied to college football’s reigning MVP—he’ll be tasked with somehow improving his draft stock, bettering a team that fell apart down the stretch, an...

Bo Pelini Defends Decision To Let Steubenville Rapist Ma'Lik Richmond Play For Youngstown State
Youngstown State football coach Bo Pelini has spent the last week explaining his decision to allow Ma’Lik Richmond—a former high school football player found guilty of rape in juvenile court in the Steubenville, Ohio, case—to walk on to the team this winter. ...

Report: Houston Nutt Offers To Settle If Ole Miss Apologizes And Pays Respect To The Ethics
Ole Miss can make this whole self-induced Houston Nutt headache—which is now just one headache among many—go away if it just admits it lied about the details of some recruiting violations and forks over a half-a-million bucks in the name of “sports ethics.”...

Girlfriend Of Former USC Kicker Says School "Railroaded" Him In Title IX Investigation
In February the USC Trojans suspended placekicker Matt Boermeester indefinitely for what was called a “code of conduct issue.” The player’s status with the program was vague as the year went on, until last week, when the school finally confirmed Boermeester was off the roster. The reason Boermeeste...

Why Was A Private Corporation Paying For Hugh Freeze's Cell Phone At Ole Miss?
The quest to uncover what exactly the “moral turpitude” of former Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze consisted of continues, and that means the university is responding to a lot of public-records requests, including some from Deadspin. This started two weeks ago, when university leaders said that a review o...

Time To Vote In The Only Poll That Matters—The Deadspin 25 Is Back, Baby
It’s August, which means that helmets are ready to clash, brains are ready to slush, and Hugh Freeze is (allegedly) ready to bone. It also means it’s time for the motherfucking Deadspin 25....

There Are Still More Questions Than Answers In The Hugh Freeze Scandal<em></em>
After a sudden explosion, the noise from the Ole Miss scandal continues to reverberate; it’s just doing so a bit more slowly now. Reports from the past week have borne an array of interesting developments, revealing Ole Miss’s godawful legal and press strategy and shining a sliver of light on some d...

UCF Kicker Ruled Ineligible After Rejecting NCAA's Demand To Stop Making Sports YouTube Videos
After trying to fight for his right to vlog behind closed doors, UCF kicker Donald De La Haye took his clash with the NCAA public in June, blasting the governing body of college athletics for threatening to revoke his eligibility if he continued to create and post sports videos to his personal YouTu...

<i>Sports Illustrated </i>Publishes Story Based On Bogus Report From Fake Pat Forde Twitter Account
Just before midnight tonight, Sports Illustrated published a story about Chip Kelly being considered for the head coaching position left open at Ole Miss after Hugh Freeze’s resignation last week. One problem—the report that their story was based on was fabricated, courtesy of a fake Pat Forde accou...

Hugh Freeze Talks Some More About God, Does Not Discuss Possible Sex-Having
It’s now been six days since Hugh Freeze resigned as head football coach at Ole Miss after personal behavior that school officials described as “moral turpitude.” (Translation: at least one instance of calling an escort service from his university-issued cell phone, which was part of a larger “patte...

This Is What Happens When A College Football Fixer Goes Rogue
If you had asked me when I was a student at the University of Florida who is Huntley Johnson, my answer would have been this: The guy who represents all the football players. Football players exist in the bizarre NCAA unreality where those in power refuse to pay their most necessary workers a living...

Penn State's Hard-Hitting Kicker Leaves Program
Penn State kicker Joey Julius, arguably the greatest tackling kicker of his generation, is no longer with the Nittany Lions. ...

Screencap Classix: July 22, 2014
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Whether He Meant To Or Not, Houston Nutt Got Spectacular Revenge
Put simply, Houston Nutt won. Put more colorfully, Houston Nutt is a mad man and, my God, if anybody out there has slighted him, their best bet is either fleeing the country or submitting defeat before it’s too late....

Why Was Possible Sex-Doer Hugh Freeze Allowed To Redact His Phone Records?
Hugh Freeze quit his job as head coach at Ole Miss tonight for reasons nobody wanted to describe other than saying they involved “moral turpitude.” Part of the narrative, though, at least for tonight, includes Freeze’s phone records, which show a one-minute call to an escort service. According to a ...

Ole Miss Brass Solemnly Discuss Possible Hugh Freeze Sex Stuff At Bizarre Presser
About an hour after announcing the resignation of head football coach Hugh Freeze amid an ongoing NCAA investigation and reports that he once called an escort service from his university-issued phone, Ole Miss officials gave a press conference in which they said Freeze left because of a pattern of “...