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This image gets the point across: Auburn didn’t do things in a conventional way last season. The Tigers won in a way that could be characterized as anything but “normal.”

Summer Reading: Alabama And The Frailty Of Dynasties

0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/24/2014

It’s the kind of topic made for Beano Cook. Dynasties — how long can they expect to last? Beano, were he still alive today, might have said, “Not since the Visigoths in fifth-century Rome has the world wanted a dynasty to fall as much as Alabama.” You might not agree with everything

Predicting Where GameDay Will Go in 2014

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A permanent fixture on Saturday mornings for most college football fans, College GameDay’s popularity continues to grow each year. Fans across the country tune in each week anxious to see what Lee Corso is going to do when it’s time for him to pick the game of the week. It’s even more fun for fans […]

When you consider Chris Fowler’s remarks, you’re free to arrive at your own conclusions. Just be sure to look at them from various perspectives: from a corporate perspective; from the GameDay production truck’s perspective; from Fowler’s own perspective; from the perspective of how different college football media coverage would have been if Ohio State had thumped Florida in January of 2007; and other vantage points you might not have previously considered.

Media Roundtable, Part II — Networks And Programming

0 comments by The Editors on 8/19/2014

Part one of our Editors’ Roundtable on college football television focused on individual broadcasters. Today, we focus on networks, individual shows, and the various ways in which all television outlets can improve the level of content on their broadcasts. Once again, Matt Yoder — publisher of Awful Announcing — joins the TSS editors to explore […]

Statistical Summer: Two-Year Drive Start Rankings For The Pac-12 And SEC

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A few weeks ago, you were introduced to the world of short-field points, a statistic I’ve tracked the past two seasons before I came to Bloguin and The Student Section. What was once called “Enemy Territory” will now be called “Turf Battle,” and you’ll get weekly recaps throughout the coming season. As the Statistical Summer […]

Editorial Section: Coaching Roundtable, Part II — The Coaching Industry

0 comments by The Editors on 8/12/2014

Yesterday, in part one of our coaching roundtable here at TSS, we looked specifically at coordinators. Today, we broaden our focus in the realm of coaching. There are still coordinators to talk about, but we’re also interested in examining head coaches, surprising transactions, and the notion of whether fixed principles should be adhered to when […]

The College Basketball Hate Map

0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/11/2014

Last week, you saw college football’s hate map, and there were a lot of results that just didn’t seem to square with what we know to be true. Ole Miss the most hated team in both Alabama AND New Mexico? Yeah, sure. The just-released college basketball hate map is a lot more accurate. Yet, there […]

Summer Reading: Stewart Mandel

0 comments by TSS LOCKER on 8/10/2014

Who doesn’t like to read about the Alabama Crimson Tide and various other subjects under the college football sun on an early-August weekend? Consider this part of your weekend media brunch buffet, as you prepare for the 2014 campaign. College football writer-commentator 

Jimbo Fisher had to deal with a mountain of distractions, an ocean of injuries, and the harsh sunlight of constant scrutiny… and didn’t allow his team to fall off the precipice throughout an emotionally exhausting regular season. Not an ordinary feat, by any means.

Statistical Summer: The 10 Most Imposing Teams Of 2013

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Yesterday, we looked at the 10 most imprisoned teams from the 2013 season, the teams that always got trapped in the kinds of games they rarely if ever won. Today, we consider the 10 teams that consistently managed to do one of the following: A) It played the type of game that suited its personnel […]

Heat Map? No — A Hate Map

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Reddit has been formulating and posting sports “hate maps” for various leagues over the past few weeks. It’s a fun concept, and though it’s not meant to be taken too seriously, the “hate map” does raise all sorts of fascinating questions about sports fandom as an extension of both demographics and the current condition of […]

The 10 Best Play Calls Of The 2013 Season

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Some play calls are simply fun. In fact, if you look at this YouTube video of the 100 best plays of the 2013 season (you’re welcome), you’ll see a lot of trick plays, some of them even more impressive in terms of raw execution or the concepts involved (or both): *Waits for you to watch […]

Big 12 Roundtable: Bedlam, Baylor and Bevo

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Big 12 Media Days have come and gone. As each power conference enters the media spotlight this week, you’re going to read a discussion about it. Here’s our installment on the Big 12, which exited the scene in 2013 by affirming the staying power of a familiar brand name in college football while elevating a […]

Oklahoma was just better than Alabama in the 2014 Sugar Bowl. And motivation is part of being great.

CFB Playoff gives rise to some bad arguments

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By Bart Doan Follow on Twitter There are things that will be endlessly debated: Bud, Miller, or Coors; is Bigfoot real or not; Coke or Pepsi; Scott Stapp or nails on a chalk board; and of course, playoffs in college football. Questions will always exist about whether or not a playoff in college football devalues […]

The Editorial Section: A College Football Roundtable

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Alabama didn’t need a conference championship to play for the national title in the 2011 college football season. Florida could have benefited from a four-team playoff format in the 2012 season. The 2013 Alabama squad could have similarly profited from a final foursome. Southeastern Conference teams are never out of sight or out of mind […]

Editorial Section: A Brave New Playoff World

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Welcome to The Editorial Section, otherwise known as a roundtable discussion among The Student Section’s co-editors. Matt Zemek, Terry Johnson, and Bart Doan tackle issues of interest to college football fans. In this edition, we look at various components of the playoff landscape: the favorites, the possibilities of a surprise, and the expected (lack of) […]

Who’s Going to Make the College Football Playoff in 2014?

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The most popular topic of conversation at the annual Johnson family Fourth of July cookout is college football. Before the burgers and hot dogs even make it to the grill, we’re already arguing about which teams should play for it all, and why team X belongs in the title game over team Y. Last Friday […]

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