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Baylor Upset Oklahoma And Isaac Williams's Head Almost Exploded
Your morning roundup for Nov. 20, the day we learned that maybe sometimes you can care too much. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors....

Baylor's Kendall Wright Scores Ridiculous 87 Yard Touchdown On A Tipped Ball
"Sometimes you'd rather be lucky than good." ...

Your Saturday Night College Football Open Thread
Well, the day started off with a bang (bomb?) that will be hard to top, but let's try. Chat about tonight's games down below. ...

Your Late Afternoon College Football Open Thread
Here is your afternoon slate of games. Feel free to chat about them in the comments below....

"Ah, Fuck It": Lee Corso Strikes Again
So, first it was Lee Corso asking about the whereabouts of "that little kid" while ESPN cameras zoomed in on the Penn State huddle. Today, he kicked it up a notch with a wonderful F-bomb. ...

Your Early College Football Games Open Thread
Here is your designated space to chat about all things college football. Please join us, won't you? 12:00 p.m. Indiana and Michigan State kick things off for us on the Big Ten Network. ESPN has Nebraska and Michigan—the rare matchup of ranked teams this afternoon while ESPN2 has Wisconsin at Illino...
![UHaul Truck Collides With Tailgaters At Yale Bowl, Kills One, Injures Two Others [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18j4rh0gsrsofjpg.jpg)
UHaul Truck Collides With Tailgaters At Yale Bowl, Kills One, Injures Two Others [UPDATE]
ESPN College Gameday just reported that a U-haul truck hit three individuals, killing one woman tailgating before today's Harvard-Yale game. Yale Daily News tweeted, however, that three people had been sent to the hospital, one in very critical condition....

Gary Pinkel's DWI Arrest On Dashboard Camera: "Well, There Are Other Letters Between 'H' And 'R'"
Gary Pinkel was arrested on November 16th for driving while intoxicated. The Boone County Sheriff's department has since released video of his arrest....
![Urban Meyer Reportedly Will Take Ohio State Job, Hire Kirk Herbstreit As Assistant [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/18j4ri3x6fnojjpg.jpg)
Urban Meyer Reportedly Will Take Ohio State Job, Hire Kirk Herbstreit As Assistant [UPDATE]
Sports Illustrated, via Eleven Warriors and Sports by Brooks, is reporting that Urban Meyer is set to take over as Ohio State head football coach. ...

Penn State Paid $28 Million To Another Company With Close Ties To Sandusky's Charity
Yes, Penn State and The Second Mile overlapped in many ways. Penn State grad students wrote essays for the charity's annual reports. Second Mile kids participated in programs on the university campus. And companies controlled by Second Mile board members scored juicy contracts from Penn State. Earli...

Yale's Football Coach, Like Vince Lombardi, May Have Padded His Academic Resume
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's conflict with the Rhodes Scholarship organization this week has also drawn attention to the scholarly credentials of the school's football coach, Tom Williams. So far, the New York Times has devoted two stories—with two reporters working on each—to investigating wheth...

Second Mile Is ... Penn State: School Paid $25 Million To Company Run By Chairman Of Sandusky's Charity
Bob Poole is the chairman of The Second Mile board of directors (or, perhaps, former chairman—nobody really knows who's running things now). He's held that position for 17 years. He was chairman, then, in 1998, when an attorney for both Second Mile and Penn State learned about an investigation into ...

Cecil Rhodes Would Have Given Yale's Quarterback A Scholarship For Telling The Pencil-Necks Who Run The Rhodes Scholarship To Get Lost
Yale quarterback Patrick Witt withdrew his application for a Rhodes Scholarship this week, after the Rhodes committee informed him that he would have to skip the Harvard-Yale game to attend his scholarship interview. ESPN.com quoted the American Secretary for the Rhodes Trust, Elliot F. Gerson as sa...

When Oregon Fans Make The "O" Symbol, They're Screaming "Vagina" In American Sign Language, <em>New York Times</em> Reports
The New York Times shared an important revelation out of Eugene, Ore. yesterday, and we wanted to pass it on because we are immature: the spade-shaped Oregon "O" that Ducks fans so enthusiastically make to show support for the team means "vagina" in American Sign Language....

That Mean Columbia Marching Band Has Been Un-Banned From Performing At The 0-9 Football Team's Last Game
You did it, Deadspin readers! Or at least our friends at the Columbia Spectator say you did it:...

Oklahoma State's Head Women's Basketball Coach And Assistant Die In Plane Crash
Well, this is very sad: Oklahoma State's women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna died in a plane crash in Perry County, Ark., on Thursday night. There were no survivors in the crash, which also killed the pilot of the plane and another individual not directly affiliated with ...

Here's An Email From The Syracuse University Chancellor About The Bernie Fine Sex Abuse Case
Nancy Cantor, the Syracuse University chancellor, must have been thrilled last night to discover that ESPN had learned that her school's assistant basketball coach, Bernie Fine, was under investigation for molesting his team's ball boy for six years. The alleged victim, Bobby Davis, told ESPN that t...

Syracuse Assistant Basketball Coach Bernie Fine Under Investigation For Molesting A Ball Boy
Good grief. ESPN had this story in 2003, but couldn't corroborate one alleged victim's account until Sandusky coverage prompted another man to come forward. And now ESPN again has the story:...

<em>South Park</em> Is Already Doing Penn State Jokes
Too soon? [WWTDD]...

Deadspin's College Football Top 25 Or So: Ducks Unlimited
It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. ...