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College Gameday will be in Austin this weekend
Third time they've covered the Tech game in five years. They were planning on doing Tennessee-Florida, but Tennessee lost to UCLA. So f 'em. It's great that ESPN is coming, but let's not forget what is most important. Signs. Signs that will appear on tv. Such as and Good stuff. Whomever can get...
The Top Media Personalities in College Football
With the anticipation of college football building, now's the time to revisit a topic we addressed a few years ago: Who are the top college football media personalities? Outside of the players, coaches and pageantry, the on-air personalities shape our Saturday's more than anything else. Who are...
ESPN College GameDay 2010 Preseason Predictions
Today was ESPN College GameDay's preseason preview show, and here are the predictions that the guys made. Just filing this away in case it's needed later. First Things First Lee Corso looked and sounded a lot better than he did a season ago. He seems completely recovered from his stroke now, and...
ESPN College GameDay Preseason Predictions
The ESPN College GameDay season preview show was this past weekend. If you missed it, here are the experts' picks for archival purposes. Lee Corso was not in studio yet, as he's finishing up his recovery from a stroke, but Chris Fowler did deliver them for your viewing pleasure. ACC Lee Corso: FSU...
ESPN's talking heads find solace in ignorance
Special thanks to reader VAC for sending in this fictional tale of his non-BCS conversation with Chris Fowler, Mark May, and Craig James that quickly devolved into ignorant and prejudiced non-BCS name-calling. At least, we think it's fictional. We can actually picture these guys saying some of...
Ten Television Personalities That Make College Football Great
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Nitt Picks Knows You Are Watching
With the Blue-White Game quickly approaching this Saturday, several players have been made available to the media this week. Yesterday Daryll Clark sat down to answer some questions. You can sense he realizes how important he is to Penn State's success this year, and yesterday he explained that...
Badger Bits: Supporting Watt and knocking down ESPN rumors
First off, we at Bucky's 5th Quarter want to make it clear that we side with the majority of the UW population that thinks MTV's "College Life" is the most craptacular show on television. But we also admit that as former UW students, we feel like we have some kind of duty to watch the show just to...
Talking points: What? No national championship this year?
Tennessee Football John Adams cautions fans that it will take years of solid recruiting to turn Tennessee into a championship program. Likely true, although, and I don't have the link for it handy, but Bruce Feldman has the evidence to show that most national championships occur in a new coach's...
Talking points: Lane Kiffin tweets, wants you to attend the Orange and White Game
Tennessee football Two items of social media news: Lane Kiffin is twittering, and I believe that there's an Eric Berry for Heisman Facebook group, which may even include one Eric Berry. The first depth chart has been released. Jonathan Crompton "seems" to be in the lead at QB. So just how does...
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