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Sign Me Up, Tear Me Down: Recruiting Rankings and On-Field Success
The relationship of recruiting and success may be self-evident enough to fall under the heading of “ duh studies ,” but we are approaching the peak not only of heavy breathing over collections of teenage talent, but also relentless mocking of said ...
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SMQ Sells Out
There's a reason this week has been a rather ad hoc affair instead of the precise, disciplined preview laser I promised a couple weeks back: in the interim, I became a short-timer. After a couple months of wary circling, CorporateBehemoth.com swooped ...
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 Blog Poll Countdown: The Cream
Blog Poll Countdown: The Cream
A week-long look at SMQ’s preseason ballot. - - - 5. Georgia There are no questions here about the defense, which wreaked all kinds of havoc down the stretch and returns basically everybody (with the notable exception of Marcus Howard and ...
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Virginia Tech Shooting: "An Unfolding Nightmare"
Off of football to lament campus horror this morning in Blacksburg: At least 29 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass killing on a college campus in American history -- and the death toll may rise. Police at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, ...
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 A Somewhat Obligatory Assessment Of: Ohio State
A Somewhat Obligatory Assessment Of: Ohio State
By popular demand ... - - - The least you should know about Ohio State... 2006 Record 12-1 (8-0 Big Ten, Champions) Past Five Years 52-9 (33-7 Big Ten) Returning Starters, Roughly 12 (6 Offense, 6 Defense)  ...
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 SOUTH FLORIDA MUST BE STOPPED
SOUTH FLORIDA MUST BE STOPPED
Depending on one's station in life, we tend to acquiesce more readily to certain realities than to others. As an unwitting, non-minority tool of modern society's hegemonic power structure, for example, I'm much more willing to champion the notion that ...
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 BIG PICTURE: SPECULATION AND DEMISE AT USC
BIG PICTURE: SPECULATION AND DEMISE AT USC
A disclaimer is probably in order: I thought USC would win the mythical championship at the start of the season, and think I was right to think so. I should say now that I saw it coming when I called the Trojans vulnerable , warned against ...
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 SUNDAY QUARTERBACK FINDS A WAY
SUNDAY QUARTERBACK FINDS A WAY
The huge illicit ticket trade isn't usually considered a part of that great bastion of Americana, the black market - Eric Schlosser will probably never write a book about scalpers, for example - but this is only because it's generally a ...
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 Pac Ten Week: Binding Picks
Pac Ten Week: Binding Picks
The process here is important, so, like last week , a box has been added to each team's section that explains how I arrived at its rank. Here's what's up with the numbers, which take Athlon's classification of wins, losses and toss-ups to its extreme: ...
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Appalachian State 34, Michigan 32, or HOT! HOT! HOT!
There is no order. The Earth is flat. We are alone in a universe of chaos and cruelty. There is no purpose to our actions, especially those concerning the predicting of the outcomes of football games. I am so, so sorry for Michigan . On the other ...
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 Sunday Morning Quarterback's Got Hippies In the Oak Trees!
Sunday Morning Quarterback's Got Hippies In the Oak Trees!
By how many yards did LSU outrush Mississippi State again? Could ESPN flash that number maybe one more time? - - - I'm still trying to synthesize the Appalachian State upset of Michigan. If Biff from Back to the Future saw that game in his ...
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 Stats Relevance Watch, Part One
Stats Relevance Watch, Part One
Wherein SMQ examines the final regular season statistics in more than a dozen  major categories to suss out who succeeded in what and how that statistical success correlated to overall success in terms of final record. I don't not have the ...
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 Stats Relevance Watch, Part Six: Into the Trees In the Big XII
Stats Relevance Watch, Part Six: Into the Trees In the Big XII
Wherein SMQ examines the final regular season statistics in more than a dozen major categories to suss out who succeeded in what and how that statistical success correlated to overall success in terms of final record. I do not have the luxury of a ...
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 Whatever Happened to Great Expectations?
Whatever Happened to Great Expectations?
One of the really entertaining things about UCLA partisans Bruins Nation is how staunchly on-message it is at all times. It’s apparent some of its founders have political backgrounds. When the message was "Fire Karl Dorrell," no opportunity ...
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An Absurdly Premature Assessment of: Alabama
A random, too-soon look at next fall, sans the inevitable injuries, suspensions and other pratfalls of the too-long interim. - - - The least you should know about Alabama... 2006 Record 6-7 (2-6 SEC/ T-Fifth West) Past Five Years ...
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 A Somewhat Obligatory Assessment Of: Georgia Tech
A Somewhat Obligatory Assessment Of: Georgia Tech
By popular demand ... - - - The least you should know about Georgia Tech... 2006 Record 9-5 (7-2 ACC / 1st, Coastal) Past Five Years 37-27 (24-17 ACC) Returning Starters, Roughly 14 (6 Offense, 8 Defense)  ...
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 Big 12 Week: Underlying Literary Themes in the Big 12
Big 12 Week: Underlying Literary Themes in the Big 12
The Individual In Society Society and a person's inner nature are always at war. In society, stereotypes exist as a necessary shortcut to assessing individuals when possibly distinguishing subtleties aren't deemed to be worth the time or effort of ...
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 Big 12 Week: Binding Picks, South Division
Big 12 Week: Binding Picks, South Division
    1. Texas     - - - Peter Bean has posited the Colt McCoy Conjecture as the grand unifying theory of 2007 Longhorn football (we've been talking about this season for so long now, I almost typed "2008"), and I tend to agree - ...
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 Introducing SEC Week: Underlying Literary Themes in the SEC
Introducing SEC Week: Underlying Literary Themes in the SEC
The Individual in Society • Society and a person's inner nature are always at war. • In spite of the pressure to be among people, an individual is essentially alone and frightened. - - - It wasn't always this way, but for years now, ...
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 SEC Week: Life on the Margins
SEC Week: Life on the Margins
There's more parity in the SEC than meets the eye: take Ole Miss, for example, an ostensibly terrible team which played Georgia within five points last year, Georgia within six and took Alabama and LSU to overtime. Or Vanderbilt, which finished 1-7 ...

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