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Arizona State was a step ahead of Notre Dame for most of a warm Saturday afternoon. Being inhabitants of the desert, the Sun Devils knew how to handle the heat when Notre Dame uncorked a 28-0 run and came close to pulling off an all-time comeback. Arizona State has often allowed big games to slip away over the years. The Sun Devils’ ability to stabilize themselves in the final 6:37 of Saturday’s game showed that they’re made of sterner stuff, a reality created in large part by head coach Todd Graham.

The Power of The Devil Grows: Arizona State Wins A Game It Hasn’t Often Won In The Past

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The story of Arizona State’s once-lopsided, then perilously close, then numerically deceptive 55-31 win over Notre Dame on Saturday begins with a photo of Sun Devil Stadium: Two top-10 teams in November, playing for the right to stay in the College Football Playoff race — that setup alone should guarantee a packed house. However, this […]

PHOTO: See Floyd of Rosedale, Claimed On The Field

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Across the vast landscape of college football, many trophy games exist, but only some of them own a long and enduring history. Many trophy games are artificial creations bereft of the passion which ought to belong to a backyard battle. Floyd of Rosedale, however, is one of the legitimate trophy games. Minnesota’s players were very […]

Duke Is The Team With The Most To Prove In College Basketball This Season

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If you look at the topics discussed by The Student Section’s lead college basketball writers, whom you got to know yesterday, you’ll notice that the Mid-Atlantic region of the country and the state of Texas figure prominently in this first collection of the season’s more intriguing questions. We’re going to discuss a lot more about […]

This missed field goal by Georgia’s Marshall Morgan began a long slide for UGA, known in yoga parlance as “downward Dawg,” but before that miss, Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo made the play calls which fundamentally changed the trajectory of the Cocktail Party.

College Football’s Emergent Absurdity: Why It’s Time For Divisions To Be Eliminated

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This weekly survey of the absurdities in the college football world normally acquires the form of a look back at various in-game developments. This past weekend, we saw Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst fail to center the ball for a short field goal at the end of regulation in the Panthers’ game against Duke. Pittsburgh’s […]

Student Section Spotlight: An Introduction To Our Lead Basketball Writers

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It’s a very big week for college football at The Student Section, but college hoops starts on Nov. 14, and we have a season to preview. The college basketball articles you’ve seen so far at TSS have been our preseason poll segments. Lead writers Scott King — publisher of Bloguin’s Cincinnati site Bearcats Blog — […]

Oregon And Nebraska Both Have Legions Of Doubters; They’ll Get The Chance to Make Statements In The Coming Weeks

0 comments by The Editors on 11/4/2014

Oregon and Nebraska are simultaneously studies in contrasts and portraits of similarities. Oregon loudly announced its presence as a playoff contender with a thumping of Stanford last Saturday. Nebraska has been as quiet as a church mouse, ignored by the national press while Ohio State and Michigan State prepare for their defining duel this week […]

This game airs on network television Saturday.

Notre Dame-Arizona State: One Team Faces A Much Bigger Burden Of Proof… And It’s Not The Irish

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You can already feel the anticipation in advance of one of the best November Saturdays in many years. It’s hard to recall another non-rivalry November Saturday which offers so many games loaded with national significance for both teams. One of the six gems on this gorgeous Saturday slate is Notre Dame-Arizona State, the game that […]

Auburn-Ole Miss: An Evening Of Chaos, Unrewarded Effort… And A Huge Penalty That Went Uncalled

0 comments by The Editors on 11/3/2014

Auburn-Ole Miss didn’t draw blockbuster-level television ratings, but it could very well remain the single most compelling college football broadcast of the 2014 season. This was sports television at its theatrical, suspenseful, and ultimately heartbreaking zenith. This was a game which made every onlooker react like this on many — not just a few — […]

While You Were Watching Ole Miss and Auburn, Mississippi State Barely Survived Arkansas

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The number one team in the United States, playing at home in November against an opponent without a single win in its conference, was taken to the final half-minute of regulation. Just let that fact sink in. Yet, how many people other than Mississippi State and Arkansas fans (or the journalists assigned to this game) […]

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