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The Big 12 is feeling awfully small lately
What happened to the Big 12? They were once a dominant force in the college football world. They were feared by opponents, loved by fans, hated by others, and everything a college football powerhouse conference should be. Now, with Texas and Oklahoma having left the conference for greener pastures, ...

<em>College GameDay</em> should continue to highlight HBCUs
Highlighting HBCUs was the perfect way to start the 2021 college football season and it should continue for years to come....

Big Ten… ACC… Pac-12… wyd
You remember that episode of The Office where Jim and Dwight create an “alliance” to combat other alliances around the office? That’s what this feels like. Less than a month after Texas and Oklahoma announced they’d be moving to the SEC, three of the four remaining Power 5 conferences announced they...

No, Kirk Herbstreit, college football doesn’t need a ‘Roger Goodell’
College football has turned into a scene from a playground in which kids are picking teams at recess. The ACC, Big 10, and the PAC-12 are on one side, and standing across from them is the SEC. The Big 12 is the scrawny uncoordinated kid that nobody wants to play with. And off to the side is Kirk Her...

Why is Antonio Brown still in the NFL?
Yes, the veteran wide receiver did make eight catches in the playoffs last season, and did score a touchdown in the Super Bowl, but it’s not like he’s anywhere close to the top target for Tom Brady in Tampa Bay....

Non-SEC Schools need to start over and make their own conference
College Football as we know it is quickly transforming, and if your school isn’t willing to make moves they’ll be left to pick up the scraps leftover from the SEC....

Hey, NCAA: Let J.R. Smith play college golf already!
J.R. Smith never played college basketball. He jumped straight from high school to the NBA. Now that his NBA career is over, he’s making an effort to get a college degree. Smith will be attending North Carolina A&T — the largest HBCU in the nation, with just over 12,700 students — which consistently...

The Big 12 is going to die — so Deadspin fixes college football in its wake
Texas and Oklahoma are looking to get out of the Big 12 and into the SEC, or maybe the ACC?, or… who knows?...

So now Jim Harbaugh is finally ready to ‘die trying’ to defeat Ohio State?
Apparently, Jim Harbaugh is finally fed up with getting embarrassed every November. So, on behalf of every Michigan football fan on the planet, I’d like to welcome Harbaugh to the sentiment that we’ve been feeling since 2011—- the last time we beat “that school down south.”...

Oh, the shockwaves that would ensue from UT and OU moving to the SEC
The college football conference map has been drawn and redrawn, torn down and rebuilt so many times in the past that it was starting to feel routine. The Big 12 specifically has seen a carousel of teams coming and going that nowadays, the conference itself can’t remember how many teams are involved?...

NIL is live and HBCU athletes could be getting a bag
This is a new day in college sports....

Of course you have to protect the players, but for goodness sake let the healthy ones play
North Carolina State baseball had the unthinkable happen to them prior to yesterday’s game against Vanderbilt. With a trip to the national championship on the line, the NCAA stepped in and notified the Wolfpack that several of their players — including two unvaccinated players — had tested positive ...

Quit crying about official reviews — they gotta get the call right
Always get the call right....

North Carolina A&T’s track and field success is no surprise — time for y’all to wake up
The greatness of HBCUs was on full display this weekend....

A 12-team playoff won’t change the fact that the same schools win every year
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like a 12-team college football playoff format could be on the horizon. ...

Women investing in women's sports is a game changer
There is a new financial model emerging in women’s sports, one that doesn’t depend on the traditional gatekeepers to coverage. ...

The NCAA should dump Mark Emmert and bring in Shane McMahon, because, well, HERE COMES THE MONEY!
Shane McMahon uses the Naughty by Nature song “Here Comes the Money” as his WWE entrance theme, and, well, his enthusiastic dance to it does fit how it feels to see the NCAA finally coming to terms with the fact that it cannot grab every last dollar associated with college sports....

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp lives with his head in his ass
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has once again proven his stupidity knows no bounds....

Deion Sanders’ attempt to become a savior for HBCU football was always gonna fail because of his ego
There’s no “i” in team, but there’s one in Deion. It’s smack dab in the middle of the name. And that makes so much sense after you remember that Deion Sanders loves to make everything about himself. It’s never about “us” or “we,” because to him, that “i” is all that matters....
