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All season I have tried to figure out the logic of the “Title Odds Rankings” given by the Las Vegas Sports Consultants. I finally got it figured out…this ranking is of the teams Vegas seems to believe have an actual path to the championship. The reason for this is that Vegas dropped the Florida Gators out of the poll after a close loss on the road to Kentucky while Ole Miss and Arkansas remain in the poll after blowout losses this week. Arkansas and Ole Miss still have a path to the SEC Championship Game WITHOUT help from another team. Florida will require help fromRead More →

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The LVSC poll/ranking usually responds differently to teams losing games or winning games, so I find this weeks poll extremely interesting as Florida, Arkansas and Michigan State all fall into the Overrated category. All three teams had impressive showings on Saturday. Anyway, we’re sticking with the program: Team Vegas Ranking Polling Average Index Coastal Carolina 25 17 -8 Wisconsin 23 16.5 -6.5 Michigan State Unranked 20.5 -4.5 Arkansas 21 17 -4 Penn State 10 7 -3 Florida 14 11 -3 Ole Miss 16 13 -3 Underrated Team Vegas Ranking Polling Average Index TCU 13 27 14 Oklahoma State 12 25.5 13.5 Liberty 18 26.5 85Read More →

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The Steelers would reach the Super Bowl again in 2010, losing to a red-hot Green Bay Packers team led by burgeoning superstar quarterback Aaron Rogers. Since 2010, however, the Steelers have only reached the AFC Championship Game once, losing to the New England Patriots in 2016.Read More →

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In the Wild Card game last weekend, the Bengals and Steelers both tried their best to see who could be the dirtiest team on the field. The Steelers players and coaches benefited from multiple missed calls to survive the game…thanks to the Bengals’ edging them at the line by committing two of the dumbest penalties ever seen. Cincinnati fans blamed Joey Porter (on the field when he shouldn’t have been), Steelers fans don’t think anything was wrong other than Wallace Gilberry intentionally bumping Porter. The problem with the whole thing is that both Marvin Lewis and Mike Tomlin have lost control of their teams…and coachingRead More →

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Dear Dawgs, In case you aren’t aware, you just lost the most successful coach in your program’s history.  That’s right, Mark Richt was more successful than anyone in your program’s history and you pushed him out the door.  Vince Dooley…”Hall of Fame coach”…is a myth.  He’s a good coach who won the same number of National and Conference championships in 25 years at Georgia…that Steve Spurrier did in half the time at Florida. Winning From 2001 to 2015, Richt won 74% of his games overall and 70% of his conference games.  Dooley coached at Georgia for 25 years, so is it fair to compare allRead More →

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Is the SEC cheating its television partners in Week 12? Multiple media members have posited the idea that the SEC should join other “Power 5” conferences (BigXII & Pac12) in playing a 9-game conference schedule in the regular season. Tim Brando of Fox Sports (among others) have taken to Twitter and other outlets to decry the week 12 schedule as abysmal and they complain that it is akin to the SEC stealing money from their television partners. Frankly, the SEC’s slate of games in Week 12 is not good (six games against *ahem* less than stellar competition), but I would argue the SEC’s schedule isRead More →

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Even when the Southeastern Conference was reaping the rewards of the Bowl Championship Series that crowned seven consecutive National Champions for the conference, its commissioner (Mike Slive) began pushing for a playoff system.  At SEC meetings in the summer of 2007, then-President of the University of Florida, Bernie Machen, advanced the idea of a “Plus One” system that would allow a selection committee to draw-up a championship format. What we have today is not exactly the “Plus One” pushed initially by Machen-then-Slive, but college football would not have its precious playoff without their insistence.  It was Slive who took Machen’s presentation to the remaining commissioners and eventuallyRead More →

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Six-Time NBA Champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks-out on the finger-wagging being done by the media and asks the exact question everyone else SHOULD be asking:  This was a surprise to you?  Donald Sterling is truly a despicable human being, but this isn’t news.  Why the moral outrage now? Do not get caught-up in Kareem’s politics here, you’ll miss the greater point. Time Magazine Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Moral outrage is exhausting. And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging. Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking.Read More →

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The New York Times… A Star Player Accused, and a Flawed Rape Investigation By WALT BOGDANICH Tallahassee, Fla. — Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 2012, a freshman at Florida State University reported that she had been raped by a stranger somewhere off campus after a night of drinking at a popular Tallahassee bar called Potbelly’s. As she gave her account to the police, several bruises began to appear, indicating recent trauma. Tests would later find semen on her underwear. For nearly a year, the events of that evening remained a well-kept secret until the woman’s allegations burst into the open, roiling the university andRead More →

Johnny Manziel

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The NCAA needs to figure this out if it hopes to have a future.  Its athletes (in major sports) are not amateurs, they are semi-employed fund-raisers for the school, the conference and the national associations to which the school belongs.  Let’s be clear here, we are talking specifically about revenue-generating sports.  For schools like Texas, Ohio State and Alabama, that major sport is Football.  For Duke, North Carolina and UCLA, that sport is Basketball.  At Tennessee it is football and Women’s basketball. The reality is that the athletes (especially in football) have no choice but to serve their three years before entering the NFL draft.Read More →