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The Big Ten Has A Very Complicated Relationship With Cold Weather

2012-05-16T20:07:32Z

At this point, I have no idea whether the Big Ten likes cold weather or not. If it asked all its schools to relocate to the equator, I'd be less surprised right now than at any other point in history. Try to square these two thoughts:

"Let's say Ohio State is hosting and it's January or December, and let's say it is 5 degrees. Is that right for the game? We're not pro." -- Gene Smith on the Big Ten ruling out playoff games at home stadiums, May 15
"New York City is the financial sports capital of the world. It's a global city like Chicago. We'll have conversations with them." -- Jim Delany on the Big Ten looking into December's outdoor Pinstripe Bowl, May 16

This all comes after a lifetime's worth of implications that weather-deprived teams from the pampered South would need to wheel enormous tubs of sizzling pork grease onto their sidelines just to survive a December game up North, though that one wasn't exactly an official Big Ten statement.

The cynic would allege that the only cold the Big Ten cares about is the hard cash kind, but let's stay on this case. We'll figure out the proper kind of terrible weather yet.

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TCU Football Sold Out ... In May

2012-05-16T19:43:53Z

How often did this happen way back in Conference USA?

Will Muschamp For College Station Tourism Board

2012-05-16T19:24:02Z

Tell you what, you can take the Longhorn out of the former Longhorns coach-in-waiting, but ...

"[Texas A&M] will be a very SEC-like atmosphere," [Florida coach Will] Muschamp said. "It's one of the few places in the Big 12 that I would say that about. "You ever been to College Station?" Muschamp asked. "It'll be the only time you go."

Recruiting: Truly A Neverending Story

2012-05-16T18:30:19Z

Recruiting never ends. It is, in fact, what one might call a "neverending" story. And with that important phrase, this important bit of news regarding a promising 2013 prospect.

If you do not get this joke, we feel so sorry for you and your loveless hellscape of a childhood. Call your parents. Tell them they were bad at their jobs.

What Else Is Craig James Maybe Not Telling The Truth About?

2012-05-16T17:52:49Z

Wayne Slater catches Senate longshot Craig James trying to reconstruct the timeline of just when it was that PR firm was hired to get Mike Leach fired:

James told MSNBC's Chuck Todd: "We didn't hire a PR firm." But when Todd pressed the issue, noting that James had indeed hired Spaeth Communications, James acknowledged that he had. "There are PR firms for what I needed," he said. "We needed somebody who could represent us."

No More Six-Loss Bowl Teams? But Which Bowls Are The Most Six-Lossy?

2012-05-16T15:36:07Z

With a playoff on the way, things are about to change for the bowls. There will probably be fewer of them, which raises the (sometimes) tough question of which ones must go. Big Ten ADs want to require seven wins for eligibility, up from six. Fewer bowl teams equals fewer bowls, unless Arkansas State's offense gets speedy enough to play in like three or four.

The last time we looked at this, we used TV ratings and attendance to find the BBVA Compass, Beef O'Brady's and Military among the bowls that would evidently be least missed. Now here's a look at which bowls have been most likely to feature six-loss teams over the last six years, according to CollegeFootballPoll.com's records:


	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	Total
Independence		1	1	1	2	2	7
New Mexico		2	1	1	1	1	6
Insight			2		1	1	4
Kraft	2				1	1	4
Little Caesars	1	1	1	1			4
Music City	2	1		1			4
Armed Forces		2			1		3
BBVA	1	1		1			3
Beef O'Brady's	1	1		1			3
Gator	2		1				3
Liberty	1	1		1			3
Meineke	2	1					3
Alamo			1			1	2
Hawai'i				2			2
MAACO	1				1		2
Military		1	1				2
GoDaddy		1					1
Holiday		1					1
Idaho Potato						1	1
New Orleans				1			1
Pinstripe	1						1
Texas		1					1

Might we think about adding the Independence and New Mexico to the list, even though the New Mexico's pottery trophy is excellent?

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Phillip Fulmer Nearly Got Meta

2012-05-15T21:19:35Z

Last month, Arkansas contacted soon-to-be College Football Hall of Fame inductee Phillip Fulmer about its open coaching position. Tuesday, Fulmer said the following:

RT @3HL1045: Phillip Fulmer tells us, "...the Arkansas job, I would've jumped all over." #SEC
— Robbie Neiswanger (@NWARobbie) May 15, 2012

Again, this is 2012 Arkansas we're talking about. Meaning we came so, so close to Fulmer himself winning the Fulmer Cup, at which point everyone involved would've simply had to retire.

Andy From 'Toy Story' A Clemson Man

2012-05-15T14:44:07Z

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