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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 8/31/2012
DO NOT TAKE THIS MAN'S BACON OR HIS FOOTBALL. Okay, he's a Wazzu fan. After two quarters last night, you could have felt free to take his football away from him because it was hurting him deeply....
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A MICHIGAN MAN REGARDS THE BARBARIAN WASTES OF DALLAS
Dallas? A Michigan Man's curiosity is like the noble albatross: ever soaring and observant, encompassing all without soiling its feet with the filthy soil of strange atolls--GADZOOKS I have stepped in...
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TEXAS A&M ROAD TRIPPIN': SOME QUICK HELPFUL TIPS
We went to College Station last fall for the final game against Texas and had what is best described as a fun, but ultimately kind of sad and weird time thanks to Texas playing its last scheduled game...
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FACTOR FIVE FIVE FACTOR PREVIEW: PITT AT CINCY
The first Factor Five Five Factor Preview of the year comes to you from Cincinnati, where the Bearcats and their once-arrested mascot host the ailing Pitt Panthers. Pitt lost to Youngstown State last...
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THE CURIOUS INDEX, 9/7/2012
MORE FLAMING FOOTBALLS. What's all that stuff around it? The hot molten passion of our commentariat, of course. It may also be wing sauce with a tinge of bourbon, because, bourbon. Not exactly a...
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NICK SABAN IS ALWAYS DOING SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT
At this very moment, Nick Saban is doing something very important. He is reviewing film, or catching up on his players' development as people, or perhaps talking to boosters about the important things...
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Rootability Index, Week 2: Weird Games Deserve Weird Outcomes
With its return this week, the Rootability Index attempts to help the non-invested college football fan lean one way or another in this week's slate of games using the same logic the random fan uses:...
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON GRRR FOOTBALL CHAT
Rootability is up over at the Mothership, and the deeper we got into this week's schedule, the more we realized what a bizarre week this was: oddball non-conference games, the SEC playing its first...
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FIRST SHIFT: AGRICULTURAMA SATURDAY
Party's at the Hate Barn, but Saturday's tour of Agriculturama and its member schools kicks off with the immortal Auburn/Mississippi State matchup. Should we be so lucky, we will somehow come close to...
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Kansas State's Collin Klein Is Not A Point Guard
Kansas State is hammering Miami, doing whatever they want for at least 85 percent of the first half in Manhattan, Kansas. The Hurricanes look like a ghastly shell of themselves, and do-everything...
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JIM GROBE REMAINS THE NUMBER ONE STUNNA
We did a quick commentary we're sure Cal fans will completely misunderstand over at the mothership. It's not that Jeff Tedford is not an excellent coach, and certainly not one without his...
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OUR OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENT: PRESEASON IN THAILAND
Our overseas correspondent @dannyfordisgod is soldiering through a football season spent overseas. He credits his endurance of such rigors to his strenuous preseason conditioning. His preseason...
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TEN THINGS WE HAVE ALWAYS APPRECIATED ABOUT YOU, TENNESSEE
1. Your mascot. Not the dude, or the plushie, but the real live dog. You cannot hate a dog, even if you picked the dog least representative of Tennessee as a populace, since the bluetick is active,...
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QUEEFCORE BEATDOWN. BRB, just watching this all day: On mute. ON MUTE. HOLTZ MEANS HARD WOOD, IRONIC WHEN USF COULD NOT GET IT UP. USF lost to Rutgers last night by the score everyone seems to lose to...
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Rootability, Week 3: Cheer For The Ultimate Underdog
College Football Rootability attempts to sort out the most likable teams in the weekend's given matchups so that the uninvested fan can clearly stake claim on one team or the other in whatever they...
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JOHN L SMITH RALLIES THE TROOPS
BANG! I'm shooting this gun why aren't you people all dying dammit-- A. John L. Smith has an assistant enter the locker room. "I'm sorry, Coach didn't make it. He's gone." A hush falls over the room....
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The Admiral-Guardian of Biloxi, Derek Dooley's amazing catch, and John L's lifetime of amazing unlocked achievements all make their appearances in the weekend recap from Shutdown Fullback. Are those...
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HOMERIC TENDENCIES: TENNESSEE, AND CELEBRATION
Relevant Kanye: "Celebration." 1. This game still makes me so nervous it spoils my appetite for hours, which is why I was dropping chicken on my laptop at 10:30 Saturday night. During the 2000 game I...
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