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Ohio State Blocking A Northwestern Punt, In Extreme Slow Motion
We're not entirely sure how, but as of this writing Ohio State's only put up one touchdown tonight—and they got it on a punt block that exhibited such dominance you wonder how they're losing to Northwestern....

UVA Scores Three Last Week, Doubles It Right Here
UVA struggled to get any kind of offense going last week and lost 14-3 to Pitt. This week, against Ball State, it's an offensive smorgasbord—they currently lead 17-10 just inside the second quarter—including this diving and tumbling effort at the end of a 27-yard run from quarterback David Watford. ...

Show Us Your Tats: Northwestern-Ohio State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
The nerds near Chicago are hosting Ohio State tonight and also ESPN's College Gameday this morning. Be sure to grab your dictionary and the, uh, the-other-one-with-the-different-words-that mean-the-same-thing-ary. You'll need them both to get most of these signs....

Paul Rhoads Goes On Rant For The Ages After Officials Screw ISU
Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads, already on the hot seat after losing the Cyclones' opening game to Northern Iowa of the FCS, had a right to be upset with officials after tonight's game against Texas, a 31-30 Longhorns win....

Here's The Worst Late Hit You'll See This Year In College Football
Hope you're proud, Longhorns fans....

The Student Who Didn't Win $2,000 At An NMSU Game Is A Badass
Recently New Mexico State University President Garrey Carruthers made a generous offer: Students who attended the games of the woeful post-WAC Aggies would receive prizes, including $2,000 cash for a certain lucky someone if he or she happened to be in the stands after the third quarter....


Brian Scalabrine Showed Up To Media Day With A Black Eye
Big Scal is a Warriors assistant coach now, but the White Mamba isn't slowing down. In this photo from Golden State's media day, Scalabrine sports a mysterious shiner. You should see the other guy....

Entire Buckeye Team Lines Up To Hug Anchor After His Daughter's Death
Dom Tiberi, sports director at the CBS affiliate in Columbus, lost his 21-year-old daughter in a car crash on Sept. 17. That Saturday, Ohio State honored the local legend with a moment of silence before its game. Tiberi returned to Ohio Stadium for this weekend's win over Wisconsin, and as the playe...

FSU Pulls Off Flutie-Like Hail Mary Against Boston College
Sure, it's not a game-winning touchdown, but it's hard not to think about Flutie when you watch this. With time expiring in the half, Jameis Winston scrambled away from BC defenders and launched a desperation jump ball from right around the 40-yard line into the endzone for a touchdown to Kenny Sha...

Iowa State's AD Trolled All Players United On Twitter Today
Jamie Pollard, head left, who directs the athletics programs at Iowa State University, apparently decided today he'd seen enough of this All Players United business, whereby university athletes have shown solidarity for the idea of getting paid for working their asses off. We must point out, as Poll...

Why <em>SI</em>'s Oklahoma State Series Sucked: The Inside Story
On Wednesday, Aug. 28, Sports Illustrated senior writer George Dohrmann placed a phone call to Oklahoma State's public relations office. He said that the magazine was about to publish a series of stories about what he characterized as "disturbing allegations" involving the OSU football program. An i...

NCAA Eases Up On Some Penn State Sanctions, Acts Like A Dick About It
The NCAA announced today that it will gradually start restoring some of the football scholarships it took away from Penn State in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Beginning next season, the Nittany Lions will get an additional five scholarships back per year, allowing the program to return to...

Pam Oliver Nearly Steamrolled By Ohio State Band
It's been a rough season already for Pam Oliver. She suffered a concussion from being hit in the head by a football in the preseason, and now her producer's set her up in the middle of a marching band's path. At least she avoided this fate....

Mike Leach To Paul Petrino After Beating Him 42-0: "Fuck You"
Washington State thumped Idaho 42-0 last night in what was yet another pointless NCAA football blowout, but the game in Pullman at least had some postgame fireworks—thanks to the head coaches, who had to be separated. ...

Ohio State School For The Blind Performs Script Ohio
This is pretty cool. The Ohio State School for the Blind performed the famous Script Ohio halftime performance at Buckeyes games in braille. ...

Ohio State Crushing FAMU, Leaving Trail Of Waste Including Officials
Ohio State is doing to Florida A &M today what you'd expect; as of this writing, they're up 41-0 18 minutes into the game. Nobody on the field with the Buckeyes is escaping unscathed, and that includes the umpire....

"Crap On Me Sam Ponder": Your NDSU-Delaware State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
We don't know much about our friends up in Fargo, North Dakota, but we are learning every day. For example, today on ESPN's College GameDay from North Dakota State, we learned that they enjoy scat play. Which is nice. For that and so much more, join us in our GameDay sign roundup from The Great Nort...
