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HOUSTON, TX – OCTOBER 17: Greg Ward Jr. #1 of the Houston Cougars looks to pass against the Temple Owls in the first half of their game at TDECU Stadium on October 17, 2014 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

The 5 most underrated non-conference college football games of 2016

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The non-conference schedule will have more meaning than ever as the College Football Playoff era continues. As we head into the 2016 season, that transformation has not taken full effect. This is true despite the SEC scheduling powerhouses such as Chattanooga, Alcorn State, Texas State, Presbyterian, Nicholls State, Austin Peay, Delaware State, Wofford, Prairie View, […]

NORMAN, OK – NOVEMBER 21: Matt Dimon #94, Steven Parker #10 and Baker Mayfield #6 of the Oklahoma Sooners celebrate a failed two-point conversion by the TCU Horned Frogs in the fourth quarter at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on November 21, 2015 in Norman, Oklahoma. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

David Boren and the Big 12, Part Whatever

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The University of Oklahoma’s board of regents met on Thursday. Would it surprise you to learn that OU president David Boren used the occasion to go Trump with the assembled media for an hour about the Big 12? If so, you must be new here. If you can stomach yet another article on this, here’s […]

TSS Roundtable: Which schools should the Big 12 add?

0 comments by TSS Staff on 5/12/2016

Our ongoing discussion of college football continues today with our second roundtable of the week. This spring and summer, the cast of writers here at the Student Section will discuss what’s going to happen on the gridiron this fall. Yesterday, we asked if the Big 12 should expand. Today, we expand that subject to discuss […]

The Big 12’s problem is that it doesn’t merely have one problem. The league has to make numerous adjustments, from non-conference scheduling to the conference title game issue to the split-championship issue which did not help the league’s cause. Oh, and the league might want to consider expanding IF the 12-team requirement for conference title games is upheld in April.

TSS Roundtable: Should the Big 12 Expand?

0 comments by TSS Staff on 5/11/2016

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to kickoff another round of college football roundtables. Thus far, we’ve discussed the best coaching hires, the worst coaching hires, the biggest surprise team, the most disappointing team, impact transfers, and intriguing quarterback situations. Last week, we talked about next year’s NFL draft and sleeping giants in college football. Today, our staff discusses […]

CORAL GABLES, FL – DECEMBER 04: New University of Miami Hurricanes head coach Mark Richt makes the ‘U’ sign after he was introduced at a press conference at the school on December 4, 2015 in Coral Gables, Florida. (Photo by Joe Skipper/Getty Images)

TSS Roundtable: Which college football program is a sleeping giant?

0 comments by TSS Staff on 5/6/2016

Our discussion of college football continues today with our third roundtable of the week. This spring and summer, the cast of writers here at the Student Section will discuss what’s going to happen on the gridiron this fall. On Wednesday, we discussed who we would pick as the first pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. […]

The Big 12 is overthinking the College Football Playoff

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Yes, the Big 12’s latest consideration of expansion might be the result of political pressure applied by David Boren and the University of Oklahoma. TSS columnist Allen Kenney touched on this and other tension points in a helpful Big 12 primer, so no one’s pretending that school politics — coupled with the erosion of Texas’s […]

Aaron Moorehead gets ripped for giving an opinion? Surprise

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Aaron Moorehead said something that the delicate flower types don’t like. In today’s world, that’s going to get you castigated unless it’s sunshine, gumdrops, and rainbows for everyone involved. To recap, Moorehead, a current Texas A&M wide receiver coach and former Super Bowl Champion Wide Receiver with the Indianapolis Colts/Illinois Fighting Illini alum Tweeted on […]

Bob Bowlsby Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby at Big 12 media days in 2014.

Big 12 Expansion Questions Answered

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Questions and answers about the state of play in America’s least-functional conference. Is the Big 12 going to expand? It sounds that way to people who were at the Big 12 meetings this week. CBSSports.com columnist Dennis Dodd, for one, is talking like it’s a done deal: “The momentum is there. It’s in the air. […]

Sumlin special? Just the opposite — Texas A&M’s agonies continue

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Kevin Sumlin was quickly headed on the path to coaching stardom four years ago — at least, that’s the appearance he gave when Texas A&M curb-stomped Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. The Aggies blended high-end talent with noticeable coaching acumen in that 2012 season. Sumlin’s arrival from the University of Houston could not have begun […]

Meet a coordinator: Phil Snow

0 comments by on 5/3/2016

Phil Snow hadn’t tasted a college football season so deliciously urgent in 19 years. At the age of 59, a football lifer realized he could still throw his fastball. * Phil Snow shares an historical connection with the coordinator he faced in last year’s inaugural AAC Championship Game, Major Applewhite of Houston. Both Snow and […]

Meet a coordinator: Major Applewhite

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Editor’s Note: This brief profile of Major Applewhite begins an offseason series in which we’ll introduce you to various FBS coordinators, mostly in the Power 5 conferences. We’ll also spend time examining the crop of coordinators as a whole, and we’ll spend a part of the offseason exploring the careers of various non-coordinator assistant coaches […]

Ole Miss and Baylor, sittin’ in a tree… F-A-I-L-I-N-G

0 comments by on 4/29/2016

Ole Miss and Baylor endured hard times on the gridiron for decades. When you live in places that care about being good at football — Ole Miss used to be a superpower under Johnny Vaught in the 1950s and 1960s; the state of Texas will never not care about football, and Baylor tasted some Cotton […]

TSS Roundtable: The most intriguing QB situation of 2016

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Throughout the offseason, the cast of writers here at the Student Section will discuss what’s going to happen on the gridiron this fall. Last week, we shared our thoughts on who will be the most disappointing and most surprising teams. Earlier this week, we talked about impact transfers. Now let’s talk about one of the […]

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