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From one vantage point, Auburn’s passing game with Nick Marshall will be a foremost factor in Saturday’s game against Mississippi State.

Five College Football Player Prop Bets Worth a Look

0 comments by on 8/14/2014

Online gaming service Bovada yesterday put out a boatload of player prop bets for the upcoming college football season. These bets generally stink, offering odds wildly incommensurate to their level of risk. Will that stop anyone from playing them (for entertainment purposes only)? Of course not. Since you’re going to do it anyway, here are […]

Dorial Green-Beckham

Dorial Green-Beckham and the Balance Between Rights and Rules

0 comments by on 8/7/2014

Under the standards of the NCAA’s “runoff rule,” the requirements for obtaining a waiver of eligibility are pretty clear. For those acquainted with the morass of rules that constitute the law of the land in college sports, the runoff rule almost looks refreshingly simple. If the reports that Missouri is supporting Dorial Green-Beckham’s request for […]

In the Battle for Fans in the Stands, Schools Have Already Lost

0 comments by on 7/29/2014

Fears about declining attendance at college football games have grown so bad that schools are studying Major League Soccer for tips on keeping butts in the seats. That’s the upshot of a recent Wall Street Journal piece on declining attendance at college football games: Schools are actually paying Kansas City’s MLS club to explain how […]

Bret Bielema Woo pig, pay me!

The Coaching Pay Paradox

0 comments by on 7/24/2014

Eighteen months ago, Arkansas needed a coach to stabilize a program that was flailing following Bobby Petrino’s ignominious exit and a year of John L. Smith’s, um, “caretaking.” Athletics director Jeff Long emerged from his search with Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema as his pick. Under the terms of the six-year contract Bielema signed, Arkansas guaranteed […]

Gary Pinkel at 2014 SEC Media Days Gary Pinkel has coached the best short-field team in the SEC over the past two seasons. Missouri has squeezed more production out of this one stat than any other SEC team since the start of the 2012 campaign.

SEC Media Days: Missouri and Texas A&M Are Here, Get Used to It

0 comments by on 7/17/2014

Senior Texas A&M defensive back Deshazor Everett was going through the car wash earlier this week at SEC media days and had stopped to get hosed down by Mark Packer of SiriusXM College Sports. “What are the differences between the players in this league and the Big 12?,” Packer asked. It seemed like an odd […]

College Football Has a Discipline Problem

0 comments by on 7/10/2014

Wednesday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on college athletics was filled the typical bluster of political theater. It yielded precious little in the way of new information or insight. The one major exception came when Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill lashed out at NCAA President Mark Emmert regarding her finding that more than 20 percent of schools […]

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