tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61225522011-12-17T12:25:34.482-05:00What career achievements do Jimmie Johnson, Barry Switzer and TJ Lambert all share? Name SEVEN Division-IA mascots that are clear-cut American white guys NOT including 'Cowboys.' Name 10 that include a color. You miss Trev, right? Besides the team he played for, what school is Quinton Coryott forever associated with? What do Northern Illinois, Troy State and Louisville have in common? Name the only US State with no College FootballPJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.comBlogger1331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-41700627651756782922011-12-17T11:46:00.002-05:002011-12-17T12:21:57.029-05:00

A slightly-expanded for 2011 (weekend prior to Tebow-v-Brady, possibly the zenith of Tebow-time) email I sent to friends prior to the 2010 draft, when dissing Tebow was a full time thing. Screw the draft and the NFL, etc.  maybe i shouldn't be even looking at it. But something is bothering me:  someone is going to fail to take Tim Tebow.  Probably the whole league is going to fail to put

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Carolina won the NCAA men's soccer title today, beating in the final UNC-Charlotte ("go 49ers?" I'm going from memory here... let me look. OK its... 49ers! Nice! Just like Long Beach State, which will matter as we go along here). Its a nice win, after things going so disastrously wrong for the more-famous women's team, who lost at home to UVA this year*, lost three games in a row at one

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Nate Silver managed to drop an astounding stat into a column recently, which he often does, but then did not comment on it, which was even more bizarre because he so rarely lets one sail by. His point was that one symptom of the NBA's labor problem - evidence that it has a real problem as opposed to just everyone wanting more money - is the clear, rigid Have/Have Not order in place. He notes,

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I once did a long hiking/skiing trip across a glacier with a big group. It was 15 miles and 5 days long. One of the people on the trip knew nothing of trekking, so they thought it would be a good idea to bring a Jumbo-sized jar of peanut butter. It probably weighed 10 lbs. Of course, it got vetoed, but then somebody thought it would be funny to stick that 10lbs of peanut butter into the

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Click for full resolution, which is very readable.Did ya miss it? Click here:(HT to comments section on EDSBS)

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Today it begins.

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There appears to be a documentary out now about the 1968 H-Y game, and with some justification. Consider:• Both teams arrived undefeated, the first such meeting since 1909.• Yale was the heavy favorite, ranked 16th, and led by QB Brian Dowling, a senior who had lost exactly one game as a starter dating to sixth grade (the Cincinatti City Championship game), and future NFL star Calvin Hill.• Yale

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It's a tough one, X. You've basicly got energy drinks, late night workout tape and fat burners, Bill Gates' video game, all-wheel drive on an Infiniti and the fattest, laziest, too-much-too-soon generation ever.Yuck.Just kill me In College Football, X is wholly owned by Florida State, home to"athletic" "running" "mistake-prone" quarterback Xavier Lee, Wide Righter Xavier Bietta and incoming

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The 1986 Air Force-Army game at West Point, both running the wishbone, which is to say two of the last wishbone offenses facing defenses who see it everyday in practice.A few things to note:- Army's offense produced four 500-yard runners (2 over 1,000) that year.- THere are two significant passes in this video. In one, the Army QB hangs one deep and gets his reciever blown up in the endzone, and

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Discussing birthdays with Ivan, Beano told the story of UNC's #1 most famousfootball player, Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice, who finished second in theHeisman voting twice, one of only 2 guys to do that.Out of high school, he was headed to Duke. But he got drafted, playedfor a service team and came back to NC married. So he went to ChapelHill and told the coach he'd come to UNC if his wife, Sarah

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While trawling the backbays of YouTube in search of that perfect HD clip of Hakeem Nicks' behind-the-back catch in the Meineke Bowl, you run across some terrific stuff. Here's a collection:1 . Video Games - Glitches in NCAA 2009.Predictably, its not In The Game. It's In The Righteous Outrage."That is 385! That is near death!""The molecul-ah struct-shah of defensive tackle right der doesn'

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(compilation of 7 running emails I kept during the last hour or so of the spelling finals on ABC)(**to self: add that Ghenghis Khan/Conan quote about crushing enemies here)Early Roundscatching up a little late. Started tonight - the finals - with 11.So far, an Indian girl from Vegas lost on a killer medical word with a hidden double-r in the middle. The color guy called it, said the hidden

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The NCAA Lacrosse championship is later today, with Cornell taking on Syracuse. And you can never be totally sure about these things, but the odds are it's going to be great game.Why? Because year in and year out, lacrosse puts on the Championship show of any sport, which we'll prove as we go along (though at least one non-lacrosse player - Shaq - apparently, already knows).But since writing

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UPDATE: The Index takes a look at some Lax history ahead of the Syracuse-Cornell final.

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From my favorite twittering coach:It was EDSBS that turned me on to Stewart, so HT to them. And I don't plan on rebroadcasting coach tweets here.But as it happens, this particular entry - besides being gloriously un-coachlike - reminds me a few weeks ago when M and I heard Crystal Blue Persuasion in the car and both immediatly assumed that it was a drug song. And if you listen to it - drippy

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Maybe I enjoyed the Bobby Jindal (JINDAAAALLLLLL!) eruption too much. But YahooCF popped up this morning with Boise State's Kellen Moore on the front page. He's on the left.

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A Cultprit Emerges!A commenter on EDSBS points out that in 2001, Texas* was in the exact situation which UT seems to think it SHOULD have been in this time, namely: playing in the title game, having beaten top rivals in both divisions. That year it was OU and Colorado, who UT* had beaten earlier.Texas* lost to CU in the title game, still another 'why they play the game' lesson, which you can

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Happy April 1st, the first day of 2009's second quarter, and also the day for pranks and tricks. With perfect symmetry of structure, then, is this first play of this second quarter, glorious in both trickeration and in name, dubbed the McCluster Fluster for Ole' Miss wide receiver and speed bandit Dexter McCluster.

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SUCCESS!!!!! CLICK ON GRAPHIC TO GO TO FULLY DYNAMIC VERSION, with click-thru links to video

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That Findlay shot in OT was great today. Just brilliant.But let's not forget - LET'S NOT FORGET - that two years ago Barton College from Wilson, NC did this:

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UNC-Radford: From this Radford-NCAA-party, pick the "hey we're on TV!" bench guys and the "Dang- Carolina?"-starter:so Radford's domain is runet.edu, huh? Well, if you look up RU.edu, you don't get rutgers or rice or regent or anywhere in russia. You get Rogers State, which is in Oklahoma. Rogers State also has RSU.edu locked up, which really seems greedy.(radford also owns Radford.edu).So

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Or How Losing to FSU was the Perfect Plan!I have a friend nicknamed Homer who is a looooong-time Duke fan because he went to geek-camp there when he was 12 or something. He emailed after the Heels lost to FSU:"Buddy of mine has always sensibly insisted that it's best to lose no later than Saturday in the acc tournament, better even than winning the whole thing."UPDATE: The Homer Theory Rolls

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We'll be back to the CFB Alphabet tomorrow (anybody wild guesses at V? Anybody want odds?). All this video is missing is a reference to Polynesian Sauce and a lock against playing it on Sunday.11: Years the Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl was sponsored by the Atlanta Marathon, ie The Atlanta Marathon bowl.2: by ratings, Chick-fil-a Peach Bowls in all-time top six ESPN bowl broadcasts, including 2009

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"Come and sit by me side if you love me,Do not hasten to bid me Adieu /Just remember the Red River's Val VarleyAnd that guy who played for TCU"10: Years in prison for Lonta Hobbs, former TCU RB and one of the stars of the legendary TCU-Boise State Ft. Worth Bowl.Hobbs was rung up for selling drugs near his old HS stadium by the exquisitely named Red River DA, Val Varley.

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(yip: starts with "U," means blue. I pulled it off)Like orphans and sundresses, Boise State's secondary will hitchee.Oh, they'll draw a flag. You'll get your first down. But you won't try that shit again, and by that shit we mean, 'advancing the ball.'No. 1 - Jeron Johnson marking his territory against San Jose State on an overthrown ball to the sideline with a cheap shot to the back.No. 2

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It's not college and its not football, but Alaska has no college football and an overabundance of Crazy in its basketball legacy, so it will always have a place on the Index.To recap some of Crazy's high school basketball accomplishments that have been chronicled here:1 - a few years back (04?), the Barrow high school girls played for and won the State championship against a team from Juneau.

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"Hello?"- Orange Bowl GuyHand it to OU fans - they treat their program's YouTube memories like a season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The more akward, the more embarrassing, the more pathetic and debasing, the better.There are at least three videos available on the 1985 Orange Bowl (including a recent Sunday Sermon here) where the Sooners lost to UW after thier horse-and-wagon cost them a field

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As Sheen said to Biehn, "T rust me with your life but not your money or your wife," and there's indeed no one I'd more gladly hand over the keys to my terrestrial days and nights than Sir Allen Stanford, Brigand Lord of The West Indi es!Sir Stanford, before the fall.Equally, there's no one I'd trus t less with anything I actually owned or held dear, as the SEC (subpeonas-and-jail-SEC, not

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One part stalking sociopath wraith, one part chemise-sweatered kitten bait, together were 2008's Clearest-Metaphor Couple, their forbidden love a Karmic portrait of what SC would have done to Florida.

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I know this guy. Or rather, I know my wife, my wife used to run with a self-described Valdosta-based 'hippie-redneck' who I'll call Preston, and Preston knows this guy pretty well. I've met this guy twice, and we'll call him - in a close approximation of his nickname - Lil' Lee.Now, if you know Preston - and a shocking number of people around Valdosta seem to - then you know there are three

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5: "Minor" NCAA violations committed in last month by new head coaches whose previous college ooaching job was as USC O-Coordinators (Lane Kiffin 3, Steve Sarkasian 2)17: Years in Kirk Ferentz contracted Iowa career - 10 to date, 7 in new contract extension signed last week.12: Ferentz Games-over-.500 to date.6: Ferentz game-over-.500 against Big 103-9: Ferentz vs Michigan and Ohio State5-5:

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It was 1980 in Jacksonville, FL and UGA trailed Florida by 1 with 90 seconds and 92 yards to go. That's when QB Buck Beleu (Buck Beleu!) hit Lindsey Scott over the middle and evoked a call from Larry Munson that is the aria of its kind.We'll pick back up the pace with P, Q, R, S and T this week.

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It's Western Kentucky, its late in the game but its still Alabama's Terrence Cody taking on a triple-team and still making the play.

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Barry Switzer reacts to the Sooner Schooner running onto the Orange Bowl at the wrong time, costing OU three points - and the lead - against Washington in 1985.Early in the 4th, OU kicked a FG to go up 17-14 on Washington, prompting the Sooner Schooner crew to charge onto the field.However, a penalty had been called on the kick, moving OU back. When the Schooner arrived, nearly knocking over

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Or, THE WORST F'IN FOOTBALL GAME EVER PLAYEDand Neil Diamond, besidesCollege Football is a recurring national Revival of local carnival barkers, traveling freak wagons and whistle-stop circus shows that thrill us and move on.Some of what we see is Great and lingers in legend. Much is, as it must be, average, and some is dull and stagnant.But occasionally one of College Football's circuses

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"Them Orphans'll Hitchee" - Dan Jenkins on recruiting secretsMay all your recruits be 3-sport, sub-4.4, 5-star, 6'-7", 890-SAT, 10-plus-character-guys who run like banshees and hit like orphans and if not, then I hope you get this QB:

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ESPN seems to have erased this transcendent moment from their searchable archive, but thanks to EDSBS's archive for keeping the link alive.

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Our first and only non-CFB clip, but anytime you throw a football over three cartographically significant elements (road, wires and river would all make a USGS 1:50,000), you get to be on the Index.This clip (with over 1M views, so you may have seen it) comes to us from Sparta, NC, which has several ties to college football.No, it doesn't, really, though it is the fictional home of Charlotte

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I'm not sure what I like best: Fouts' puppet, or when Jackson fronts him up and screams, "Read mah hat, trick!"

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"Here they come!"...cries Griese, measure and nuance chased from his voice, the only way the Pros call football's most arguably-racist but way-too-vivid-to-retire defensive euphamism. Can it be a coincidence that this call - this simple three-word alert -is the name of the music score for the Star Wars tie fighter attack, where the ragged band of heroes are hunted, surrounded and attacked from

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From The IndexWhat's your favorite Thursday Night upset?Like no other night, the winds of upsets howl on Thursday. This is college so nobody goes to class on Fridays, and even those who do won't be going THIS Friday because ESPN is in town (HERE! In Chippewa Falls!! ESPN!!!!) and the whole damn country is watching.Of course, they're watching to see the other guys, Program U, who rushed for a

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Funny thing about Hitler: he LOVES the SEC, to the tune of 3-of-6 3-of-7 4-of-8 4-of-9 4-of-10 4-of-11 5-of-12 rants!Update 6: The SEC returns with South Carolina! "Almost seven wins a row."Update 5: UVA! "We lost to Duke! No one loses to Duke!... it makes me want to kill myself." - Crafty historical accuracy!Update 4: It's almost creepy that the only place Hitler seems to like more than

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Its rare to find a 10 second video that lets you say, "You can see the earth shift right... there!" but here it is, the play that won the 1996 Big 12 title game for Texas, and embarrassed No. 1, 21-point favorite Nebraska so badly that their subsequent collapse took the entire Big 12 North with them.

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The Index has examined Fight Songs in the past, including in this post a few years back. And if you've ever thought, "somebody should make a site with all the big school's fights songs,someone did.And now, a Girls Singing Fight Songs Countdown:5 - Ohio State. Everything about this video is a delight, especially the defiant can-do clapping from Maddie, The Gutsy Brunette Who's Not Afraid To Run

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“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”- Martin Luther King Jr., who would be 80 today.Concentrate on living the Simple Art today. Edwin Baptiste has the flying thing covered.(click through for better-than-usual "high quality" option)36: yards completion vs. Winston-Salem.Baptiste attends

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"It may have been the greatest goal line stand in college football history. It certainly would have been the greatest goal line stand if had not been against Kansas." - Bill Dwyer, LA Times, Aug 29, 1993First and Goal, FSU 8yd line(VIDEO NOT EMBEDDED - Click to open YouTube page ) Defense Index:92, 95, 97, 99, 99: Temperatures reported during the hours of the game (noon to 5pm)

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Confidence Index-42: Stanford v USCI dug this one up from my EyeTV archive (brilliant product) and posted it myself. Had to be done.I know my USC friends are currently brewing up a "how could you?!?" email. I'd be disappointed if they weren't.Here's my Top 5 reasons:1 - "No, we just didn't make it, I'm not gonna worry about that."2 - "We dropped a couple balls, ya know, we had guys open and

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It's at 1:26.This play comes from the 2005 UVA-BC game, which (despite the ABC feed) was unseen by most of the nation since it was up against eventual National Champ Texas and Vince Young whipping Oklahoma 45-12.Butler Index35, 7, 2: Yards and points that Butler GAINED for UVA, and BC players ejected as a result of this play: 5 yards for offiside on BC on this play (personal fouls against Butler

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This is NOT the Michigan game. This is WAY better (at least, in some ways).Here is tape - actual tape! - from the astounding 2002 App St.-Furman game. Here is my dissection of it from last year, after the Michigan game put App in the headlines.BRIEFLY: App and Furman are bitter rivals, both ranked in the Top 10ish of I-AA.1. Furman, which has dominated the game but trails by 5, drives the ball

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In search of the superstring, quark or neutrino of CFB that will tell us, with blinding, universal simplicity, who the hell is gonna win.For starters, I don't need Ferme Lab to tell me its been a while since two such overtly arrogant, unlikable teams got at it, huh?  Not that Ohio State, SC, LSU, Texas and the rest aren't arrogant.  But in terms of the players and staffs both just radiating

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4: Current known species of Hyenas 70: Species for which fossil records exist.This is apparently pretty well known among people who, ya know, study hyenas, but I found out today reading the bio of a Fulbright Scholar at USC (who is neither Ray Malauga nor Mark Sanchez, neither of whom even applied but instead polished their essays for the Noble Prize in Applied Ass Kicking). Another thing well

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The flatest, loneliest stretch of highway this side of Deadhorse, Alaska is our topic tonight, I-35, the official Interstate of Flyover Country, which perhaps is why footballs apparently spend so much time in the air near it.C-words from the T-word25: Percent of the nation's top 12 QBs, by passing yardage, named "Chase"4768: Yards passed for by nation's leader, Houston's Case Keenum.3445: Yards

PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-81237108138005218572007-09-06T17:32:00.000-04:002007-09-06T22:33:11.522-04:00

The Greatest Game In Appalachian State History (V1.0) The Index has talked about it at great length in the past (because – dawgone it – The Index saw the sumbitch live!), "it" being the damndest end to a football game you’ll ever see or hear about, the 2002 Appalachian State-Furman game. Now that App State has climbed into the news reeeeallll proper-like, it’s time to revisit the

PJ Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16132220858672600172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122552.post-79231170928822135242007-09-01T00:01:00.000-04:002007-09-01T11:17:46.869-04:00

Was on Daddy duty Friday night while M went out. Got to surfing on YouTube, and discovered the "Dear Sister" video chain, what your more snooty Legacy Media might call an 'internet sensation.'The Index's contribution:As my mouse hovers over "publish" its 12:08 a.m., Chapel Hill time.That means it's Saturday of Week 1.Let's get it on.(here's the now-infamous SNL skit and the scene it's based on

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Courtesy, of all people, Beano Cooke.5: Division IA teams that have never played a lower-division team.Name'em!(answer in the comments)

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It's no Quinton Coryott, but then, what is? Still, its a big hit and Bob Griese does drop my favorite call in all of sports, a timeless "here they come" on the blitz.And, in the end: it's Cal and it's Cal's Current It Boy, and that's enough.So this clip goes out to my Knoxville buddy, Cal Queda.(That said, click through the actual YouTube site for the real reason I posted this. Check out the

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Look up qwest field (ie Seattle Seahawks) on google earth, you get:So who's playing, and what the hell is going on? This is a riddle originated at Googlesightseeing. That site has a whole list of captured sporting events, but none of near the magnitude of this one.You can either go sort through the threads discussing thispicture and then go read the old game stats yourself like i just didfor an

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if you happened to stumble across this on ESPN, you're disqualified.teams from IPFW and UC Irvine just met in a National Championshipgame.This was the NCAA's top weight class, mind you. This is no "Hobart wins 13th straight title" trick.Previous champions include Penn State, BYU and USC.clever readers will note that this hint does not exclude football.so without looking, two questions:what

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Five Deep Breaths, courtesy 20043: Winning margin, USC-Stanford, last weekend in September.6: Winning margin, USC-Cal, very next game.8: Winning margin, USC-Oregon State, first weekend in November.5: Winning margin, USC-UCLA, last game of season.36: Winning margin, USC-No. 1 Oklahoma Orange Bowl, for the national title.Five More Deep Breaths, courtesy 20054: Arizona State lead with 3:44 left in

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OU President David Boren despairs at the decent officiating behind this OU loss... or maybe realizes his mom has been sitting on the pack of cigs he was hoping to raid.

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I run two blogs - this one, and an occasional look at the distinct insanity of living in Alaska.Well, last week up here, the toughest footbal coach in America died after heart surgery.Here in Alaska, we have no college football, the only state without it. That leaves high school, where the first games are played in mid July and the State title is decided in October.Like everything in Alaska,

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A feature from the New York Times Magazines on Ole Miss lineman Michael Oher. Its excerpted from Michael 'Moneyball' Lewis' new book.No matter what you had planned for the next 15 minutes, don't stop reading until you get to the part about the bus.

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The President of boohOU, David Boren, who called for the OU-UO game to be erased from the record book (original letter, PDF), has weighed in on this weekend's most improbable comeback:Dear Big 10 Commissioner Jim Delany:To describe the lapses in testicular fortitude at the Notre Dame-Michigan State football game last Saturday as constituting an outrageous injustice is an understatement. As I

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Just awful.It looked bleak going in, with only two games between ranked teams and virtually no conference play. But the college game abhors a vacuum, which meant surely something good would happen.Oklahoma-TCU springs to mind. Northern Illinois-Maryland.Nope. Nothing.The only mildly interesting result was Montana State, a I-AA power, beating Colorado, an occasional I-A power, giving The Index an

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And, we’re back! The College Football Season is just a few weeks off, and what better way to kick things off at the Index than to get an early gauge on the state of jailbait in all 50 states. Because what good college football experience doesn’t include starring at jailbait?Ladies and Gentleman, from the Family-Friendly Network that brought you a 6-Episode miniseries on Biblical Endtimes, the

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70.86: Average number of days with sunshine in Anchorage, Alaska between April 1st and the first televised game of 2006, South Carolina at Mississippi State (computed from this excellent weather page). That's an intriguing game, by the way: Spurrier in Year 2 walking into a solid (but not classic) Thursday Night Trap.81.14: Remaining days in period, on some of which - but certainly not all of

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Race For The Heisman

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Since EA Sports can't pick one, we'll decide.Since Carson got the cover 2 years ago, it surely won't be Leinart. Which leaves Reggie Vs VY.So is it gonna be Reggie.... Or - Reggie-for-the-VY-Faithful.

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The Biggest Hit That Ever WasThat's Texas A&M's Quinton Coryott against TCU in the early '90s.You are free to think that somewhere, somehow, you saw a more ferocious trainwreck-lick than that one. But this hit - miraculously posted to YouTube recently - was a seminal event in sculpting the world view of The Index. I don't (and never did) have any particular penchant for A&M. Quite the opposite,

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Death.Taxes.The Onion. This marks the second time that the earth's best comedy site has taken a run at SC's Glamour Boys. I couldn't be prouder.

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Needless to say, took this pic in Australia. We made the Aussie Open the anchor of a 2-week vacation that I will prattle on about at great length if you care to write me about it. Never did find the Hook'Em guy in this picture. But you know I couldn't run up a UT flag without throwing some USC-salute at it. That same night, on our side of the stadium, I spotted a guy maybe 10 rows ahead of us.

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12: Minimum months beyond 18th birthday that still qualifies as "barely 18" according to less-than-authoratative biography and title in video cannon of former ASU cheerleader known professionally as Courtney Simpson.The full story is here.2, 3, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22: Numbers that also appear in titles of Simpson's work, according to a search engine called Search Extreme, which a little google work

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Got plenty of thoughts on the Rose Bowl, but not for this space.I put them on my White Noise blog - I even spelled Requiem right.

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It's funny. it is.And while we're at it, the Florida State Scorching Sluts and the definitive picture of the In-WAY-Over-My-Head look.

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Sure he steals stuff from other blogs - but these are excelent stats. Texas QBs in the NFL, all-time yardage leaders.1 - Don't you tell me about Bobby Layne (duh).2 - Chris Simms. Yip, already, the 2nd most successfull UT QB ever in the pros.3 and 4 - somebody else.5 - Tom byGawd Landry. 4: Bowl Wins that Fresno State's QB failed to capture as a starter when FSUlost to Tulsa in the Autozone

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3 : Heisman Finalists.Go ahead. Start the Rant music...Only 3 guys are going to the heisman award. i'm not positive why - either no one else got enough votes to qualify for an invite, or the NYAC just picked the Big 3. Three guys from 2 schools? THE 2 schools? the winner certainly needs to be Young or Bush - either is fine with me - but to not pick 2 others to come out and share a little

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VS (Photos: Dylan Wilson, georgiadogs.com; AP)AUBURN-GEORGIA '05 VS"THE GREATEST COLLEGE GAME EVER PLAYED" THE TEAMS - 2: Undefeated seasons since 1980, THE GREATEST COLLEGE GAME EVER PLAYED participants (Notre Dame 88, USC 04) 3: Same Stat, Auburn-Georgia - (UGA 80, Auburn 93, 04) 57-19 (.750): TGCGEP participants, Cumulative record, last three years.64-15 (.810): Same Stat,

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Greatest "Third-Best QB in America" of All Time?12: TD passes for Northwestern's Brett Basanez1: INTs. Nobody else in a Big Conference is remotely close. Way back here, two laps down, in second place is Brian Boehm at Louisville (14 TDs, 3 INTs) or the absurdly-inflated Drew Olsen at UCLA (21-3). 311: Basanez's yds/game, 2nd among all major-conference QBs, which is really the same as FIRST

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That Bowl System That Shall Not Be Named I took a long look at BSTSNBN standings. 'Bout as fun as it sounds. 33: Percent of total formula that computers make up - 6 computerseach rank the teams; the highest and lowest ranking for each team getsdropped; average of the other 4 becomes 1/3 of the BSTSNBN formula.5: Out of 6, computers that have Texas #1.5: Ranking, USC, in one computer. 4th

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Best Weekend Ever(And I'll prove it by not even mentioning You Know Who-beats-You KnowWho-in-You Know What-Color Jersies. If you'd like to know what i think about that game, read that link)(and just for comparison, here's last year's Best Weekend, which was the best weekend since 2001. And it wasn't even close)3: Still-undefeated teams that scored the winning points on theirfinal offensive

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Cash me out.I'm rakin' in my chips and pushing back. If, as ol' Kenny said, youhave to know when to hold 'em, fold 'em and when to walk away, then nowis most emphatically the time to run. 28 wins. "I was there." Cash me out. Call me Alan Greenspan cuzI'm walking away from this irrational exuberance before it swallows myrationality, my 401K and possibly cardiac health. Because what

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Considering that streaks of all kinds were the hot topics this week -OU's 5 over UT, SC's 27-and-counting with streak-breaker ND looming -let's start with THE Streak and some fantastic trivia about it theIndex just stumbled across:Streak Shots47: In games, NCAA-record OU win streak, accomplishedunder legendary coach Bud Wilkinson.37: In years, length of Wilkinson's first marriage before divorce

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TCU Supportsthe Troops 1:45: Time remaing in OU-TCU game when The Index walked into the Navybar in Naples, Italy, OU with a first down on it’s own 30, trailing17-10. 10: Hours of travel to that point in the Index’s return flight from adeployment.47: Total hours of unbroken travel (“travel” = on a flight or waitingfor one in an airport) that trip would eventually add up to.2: Yards gained in OU’

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The Preseason IndexTalk-Myself-Out-Of-It Edition5: Coaches departed from USC's 03-04 staff.3:  Heisman trophy winners sculpted by Nation's undisputed best O-Co-ord, Norm Chow.  Gone.33:  Age of his replacement.85: Yards gained by OU's Adrian Peterson against USC's defensive line, coached by Ed Orgun.  Gone.2: Departed All-Americans from that unit.4:  Departed All-Americans from last year's Orange

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111: Seasons, including 2005, that South Carolina has fielded a football team.11: Returning South Carolina Football players arrested since the close of the 2004 season.500: All-time wins.507: All-time losses.38,806: Attendence at USC spring game, Steve Spurrier’s first public coaching display.4: Position on the Nebraska QB depth chart of Joe Dailey, last year’s starter.

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4: Returning starters who, according to the LA Times, might be academicaly ineligible, including wheelhouse-RB LenDale White and Steve Smith's personal Speed Bag.And video games were involved. love it.

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170: Collective starts of OU offensive line that took the field against USC.60: Approximate starts for current listed starter (actual depth chart not yet announced).19: Letters in OU cornerback Chijioke OnyenegechaMore on OU:Ivan Maisel: Head of the line

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Put up all 4 of my diaries of 2003's New Years and BCS games.Highlights:- Grossman and Florida-v-Navare and Michigan in, by far, the best bowl game of that year.- The story about a guy named Mike Moran crumpling up an aluminium ashtray at Burger King and eating it on a dare.- The unbroken awfulness of the Fox broadcast of Texas-LSU, which also was Chris Simms final game (and featured his -

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4: Consecutive items added to Just White Noise, my personal blog, that involve (or at least invoke) college football. Topics:Tommy Lee Jones' new, instantly forgetable movie, "Man of the House," which is vaguely about UT's football team.College ball's only real rival for on-TV sports drama, the Westminster Dog Show. Recruiting. A delightfully ugly hat.

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Somebody mentioned in an email that they had seen the Army All-American game in a bar. I can do you one better: I saw it on my couch. 9:08 – You’re looking LIVE at the AlamoDome, home to today’s “US Army All-American Bowl”, featuring 72 All-American high school football players, many of whom are going to announce their college choice today live, a fun way for each player to individually

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Now that the BCS train has left the tracks and careened through theholiday-choked mall, I'm actually ecstatic. The disaster has come to pass and, for the second year in a row, I couldn't be happier. Yes, my conference got one of the worst shafts ever handed out, but really, watching the BCS fall apart, again, is getting to be my sports highlight of the year.a few thoughts I haven't seen

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Bizaro World this week on The Index, two rivalrly games that, as tutorro put it to clooney, don't make no sense.Louisiville-CincinnatiINDEX STAT OF THE WEEK!70: Louisville point total. 15: Louisville passing attempts. Read that again.83: Points scored in 2003 Louisville-Cincinnati rivalry game.3: Louisville winning margin, 2003.77: Points scored in 2004 game.63: Louisville winning margin,

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9:02: In the AM (PST), kick-off for Boise State-San Jose State, the earliest local-time kickoff in NCAA I-A history.15: Tds in game.15: Successful PATs. I’d be interested to see the last time two kickers put together such a hefty number.1: Missed field goals, each.1: Fumbles and interceptions, each.3: Offensive drives, each, in the fourth quarter that gained zero or less yards.20: Seconds

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It finally happened. I cliked on an ad banner. How could you not? http://www.collegefootballgameday.com/SendVoicemail.aspx just about everybody reading this would be getting one of these voicemails if I didn’t think I was setting you up for a life of marketing calls. I won’t do that too you, but not because of my respect for you – I just hate marketers more than I like the idea of sticking

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