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"[An] Excellent resource for all things college football. It’s blog index is the definitive listing of the CFB blogosphere... [A] must-read for fans." - "The big daddy of them all the nerve center of this twisted college football blogsphere" - "I guess you could say that you're selling an opportunity to be part of something special," Zook said. "Being in a program that wins all the time is obviously very very good. But being part of a team that takes a program to the top is really something special." Finally. Zook can show players his dream instead of just telling them about it."I think one thing about this profession is if you believe in yourself and believe in what you're doing it's always going to pan out," Zook said. on the struggles of the Notre Dame football program. That story cited two prominent issues that did not involve coaching: admissions and scheduling. More to the point my reporting led me to write Notre Dame simply was not willing enough to admit marginal students to be competitive at the top of Division I-A football. That and the school's brutal "national" schedule left any coach in a very difficult position. That story kicked up a lot of controversy. People I trust disputed some -- but not all -- of my reporting. They suggested Notre Dame had indeed admitted plenty of marginal students but not the right marginal students. (Having rejected the likes of Carson Palmer and T. J. Duckett). That gets into very gray areas. Let's just say that for a long time Notre Dame had serious issues regarding talent evaluation and admissions. Those issues affected the viability of the football program. For now we'll stick with Stanford. The Cardinal looked like a pathetic I-AA team for much of the season. I mean they were blown out by UCLA -- which should be shocking enough. They couldn't play defense the offense was anemic and -- AND -- they were playing with a backup quarterback starting the first game of his career. How fitting that this happened in Hollywood. Because really. I still don't believe it. Look. Stanford isn't good. There's a reason Walt Harris was fired after two years and Buddy Teevens was canned prior to that and Harbaugh was hired to clean up the mess. This team is devoid of talent. Period. I wouldn't be shocked in the least if this team didn't win another game. Their best shot is this week against struggling TCU on The Farm and Notre Dame at home on Nov. 24. I don't want to minimize what Stanford did because frankly it was monumental. I've said all along that Harbaugh was a fantastic hire; that he has the charisma (you think?) and the pedigree (he has played for Bo and Ditka among many other coaching legends) to make the Cardinal a winner. Look the Tigers won so let's not nit-pick but neither one of these guys is a great quarterback. They did just enough combined. But how about Jacob Hester at QB? Fans will point out that a two-man system worked for Florida last year but Tebow came in infrequently on big running downs. Flynn and Perrilloux were alternating plays at some points. The LSU defense didn't look great in the first half and blown coverage made them look silly. But Glenn Dorsey & Co pulled it together to contain and then stop Tebow late in the game. Earlier in the week. I asked coach Tommy Tuberville what lessons LSU could take from his team's upset over the Gators last week. Tuberville told me first they limited the Florida's running game. Second they managed to contain though not stop. Tebow. Third. Auburn gave up just 78 yards after contact meaning his defensive players made tackles without allowing the big plays. Again we turn to the stats from the game where LSU gave up 314 yards to Florida. 158 through the air and 156 on the ground. So what do we take from this game? Well for one. Miles has been elevated. His coaching decisions which somehow worked out endeared him to thousands of LSU fans who still questioned his chops. Good for him. We also took away the fact that this season. LSU has been the most dominant. But that's not saying too much considering they looked bad against last week and sloppy against Mississippi State. That's not domination but it is winning and a lot of other teams wish they could say the same. And finally. Florida may just be the best two-loss team in history. Play this game again in Atlanta in December and the result may change. But here's where I differ from the Professors. I think they are gravely flawed in their inability to recognize the benefits of participating in athletics. As I stated in a rebuttal to the op-ed piece by professor Palaima in the aforementioned - which the Statesman still has yet to print but I digress - as a direct result of sports. I win every day in life! Would you like to know why? Because athletics instilled in me the intangible qualities necessary to keep on persevering in this dog-eat-dog world. Athletics has taught me to take it a step further and on more than one occasion athletics has saved my life. Athletics was a father to this young boy from the ghetto of Lubbock. Texas who had no father. It was the daddy that taught me hard work. It was the daddy that taught me "tough times don't last tough people do." It was the daddy that whispered ever so quietly. "don't quit!" It's those lessons that carry me when I'm down when I'm overwhelmed when I'm close to throwing in the towel. Yes. I call on my faith but my experiences on the field and the court have played a vital role in helping me overcome so many obstacles in life. So. I take exception to the notion that "student-athletes lose." Nothing could be further from the truth. The student-athlete like non-athlete student loses if he or she is not able to fully grasp the extraordinary opportunities of college. And despite the well-publicized misdeeds of a few most student-athletes at The University of Texas and other schools throughout the country take advantage of the gifts afforded to them by athletics. Academia sometimes has too much time on its hands. It's like when I come across weird feminist articles about how useless or bad for the world men are. So then you hear people pick up that flag like Sally Field saying there would be no wars if women and mothers were in charge. Uh huh... Sports are both meaningful and meaningless just like everything else. They are just as much art as entertainment the different side of the same coin as museums and opera except to the utmost snobs and non-thinkers who disproportionately end up at universities it seems. Yet those are given much higher prestige while consumed less by the public. I can't stand morning radio and shows like Today and Oprah but I don't think society is going to hell or ineficciently allocating itself because people follow those in droves. Just don't count me as a participant. Neither are sports and their followers fools. The majority of critiques are hilariously hollow and dripping with disdain and jealousy. --- The Rivals com crew is busy at work as usual. Be sure to check for stories from Olin Buchanan. Mike Huguenin. David Fox and Steve Megargee [Defensiv tackle Glenn] Dorsey decided to return to school for his senior season for several reasons. He was dealing with a nagging stress fracture in his right shin last season. He also wanted to complete his degree. Dorsey is a frequent speaker at his local YMCA and one of his messages is. "Stay in school and dream big." "Coming from a small little town (Gonzales. La. population 7,003) kids feel they can't do big things because of where they're from," Dorsey says. "I thought about that also when I made my decision." Plus he didn't want to leave LSU without winning a national title. He grew up 60 miles from New Orleans; the three other starters on the line were raised within 40 miles of the stadium. "That would be tremendous," Dorsey says of the possibility of ending his college career in the Superdome site of the Bowl Championship Series title game. "That's like the ultimate." Stanford replaced the subdued Harris with the more aggressive Harbaugh. He had angered U. S. C. Coach Pete Carroll with comments about how long Carroll would stay at U. S. C and heaped praise — and pressure — on the Trojans this year saying they may be “the greatest team in the history of college football.” The Marquette basketball coach Tom Crean. Harbaugh’s brother-in-law said those comments were indicative of Harbaugh’s toughness and confidence. Crean said he and his family celebrated wildly in their living room Saturday night. Crean said Harbaugh recently went through a divorce and was separated from his children who live in San Diego. Crean said he was happy to see something go right for Harbaugh. “I got a text from him last night that said: ‘I know you know how this feels. We love you guys. Calling recruits the rest of the night,’ ” Crean said. “I think that’s all they did the rest of the night. I’m proud of him. Everyone is.” The toughness that Harbaugh showed as an N. F. L quarterback is reflected in his team. Tomey and the Oregon offensive coordinator Chip Kelly said that Stanford’s effort was something that stood out to them in their games against the Cardinal earlier in the year. “When I watched them the one thing that impressed me is that they really played hard,” Kelly said. “There are no guarantees in this profession. It’s crazy. This whole year has been crazy. You have no idea what’s going to transpire but if you play hard you’ve got a shot.” In an aside. I’ve always had a beef with those pollsters — writers broadcasters and coaches — who refuse to put a team ahead of another team it just beat if only because the victorious team was unranked or rated far below the losing squad. Now if a team like an Auburn has two losses before it knocks off Florida on the road the Tigers still have some proving to do. But in the case of Kansas State which incidentally lost to that Auburn team but on the road and in a game that was tied late into the fourth quarter the Wildcats in my opinion should be ranked ahead of Texas. My ballot reflected that putting Kansas State 16th and Texas 18th. But nothing’s final. If KSU loses to Texas and Texas beats OU they could flipflop because it’s all about what you do most recently. That's exactly how to create a meaningless confused ballot and why I do power rankings instead. Do you really put Stanford ahead of USC in this week's - or any week's - poll? Absurd. It's over. Finally it's over. All you Gator haters can now rejoice and sing. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. And all you Gator fans can now reflect and sing. I've Had the Time of My Life. After all these months and years the phenomenal string of Florida national championships is now over. First it was a basketball national title. Then a football national championship. Then basketball again. And then. LSU 28. Florida 24. It was Florida's second consecutive loss and effectively removed UF from the national title conversation. And if it were going to happen this was a most fitting night -- and the most fitting site. Two weeks ago in the wake of the Mississippi State disaster the murmur among some Auburn boosters concerned who might be a good replacement for Tommy Tuberville after this season. Today in the wake of yet another spectacularly stunning upset over Florida the question might be about whether Auburn can keep Tuberville from jumping ship following this season. If someone just arrived back here after spending the month of September on a remote island with no Internet or phone service they missed one of the wackiest five weeks in Alabama and Auburn football history. <A HREF="http://ads al com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx ads/www al com/xml/story/Mobile/c/csfine/@StoryAd?x"><IMG SRC="http://ads al com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx ads/www al com/xml/story/Mobile/c/csfine/@StoryAd?x"></A&gt They saw the fans (and some of us real geniuses in the media) write Tuberville off after a disastrous start and crown Nick Saban Master of the Universe. They saw others proclaim that "Bama is Back," and "Auburn is Dead." In the end almost everybody was right about something but wrong about most things. And here we are in a brand new month without the faintest idea what is about to happen next. And you wonder why college football is the best sport on earth.

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"[An] Excellent resource for all things college football. It’s blog index is the definitive listing of the CFB blogosphere... [A] must-read for fans." - "The big daddy of them all the nerve center of this twisted college football blogsphere" - "I guess you could say that you're selling an opportunity to be part of something special," Zook said. "Being in a program that wins all the time is obviously very very good. But being part of a team that takes a program to the top is really something special." Finally. Zook can show players his dream instead of just telling them about it."I think one thing about this profession is if you believe in yourself and believe in what you're doing it's always going to pan out," Zook said. on the struggles of the Notre Dame football program. That story cited two prominent issues that did not involve coaching: admissions and scheduling. More to the point my reporting led me to write Notre Dame simply was not willing enough to admit marginal students to be competitive at the top of Division I-A football. That and the school's brutal "national" schedule left any coach in a very difficult position. That story kicked up a lot of controversy. People I trust disputed some -- but not all -- of my reporting. They suggested Notre Dame had indeed admitted plenty of marginal students but not the right marginal students. (Having rejected the likes of Carson Palmer and T. J. Duckett). That gets into very gray areas. Let's just say that for a long time Notre Dame had serious issues regarding talent evaluation and admissions. Those issues affected the viability of the football program. For now we'll stick with Stanford. The Cardinal looked like a pathetic I-AA team for much of the season. I mean they were blown out by UCLA -- which should be shocking enough. They couldn't play defense the offense was anemic and -- AND -- they were playing with a backup quarterback starting the first game of his career. How fitting that this happened in Hollywood. Because really. I still don't believe it. Look. Stanford isn't good. There's a reason Walt Harris was fired after two years and Buddy Teevens was canned prior to that and Harbaugh was hired to clean up the mess. This team is devoid of talent. Period. I wouldn't be shocked in the least if this team didn't win another game. Their best shot is this week against struggling TCU on The Farm and Notre Dame at home on Nov. 24. I don't want to minimize what Stanford did because frankly it was monumental. I've said all along that Harbaugh was a fantastic hire; that he has the charisma (you think?) and the pedigree (he has played for Bo and Ditka among many other coaching legends) to make the Cardinal a winner. Look the Tigers won so let's not nit-pick but neither one of these guys is a great quarterback. They did just enough combined. But how about Jacob Hester at QB? Fans will point out that a two-man system worked for Florida last year but Tebow came in infrequently on big running downs. Flynn and Perrilloux were alternating plays at some points. The LSU defense didn't look great in the first half and blown coverage made them look silly. But Glenn Dorsey & Co pulled it together to contain and then stop Tebow late in the game. Earlier in the week. I asked coach Tommy Tuberville what lessons LSU could take from his team's upset over the Gators last week. Tuberville told me first they limited the Florida's running game. Second they managed to contain though not stop. Tebow. Third. Auburn gave up just 78 yards after contact meaning his defensive players made tackles without allowing the big plays. Again we turn to the stats from the game where LSU gave up 314 yards to Florida. 158 through the air and 156 on the ground. So what do we take from this game? Well for one. Miles has been elevated. His coaching decisions which somehow worked out endeared him to thousands of LSU fans who still questioned his chops. Good for him. We also took away the fact that this season. LSU has been the most dominant. But that's not saying too much considering they looked bad against last week and sloppy against Mississippi State. That's not domination but it is winning and a lot of other teams wish they could say the same. And finally. Florida may just be the best two-loss team in history. Play this game again in Atlanta in December and the result may change. But here's where I differ from the Professors. I think they are gravely flawed in their inability to recognize the benefits of participating in athletics. As I stated in a rebuttal to the op-ed piece by professor Palaima in the aforementioned - which the Statesman still has yet to print but I digress - as a direct result of sports. I win every day in life! Would you like to know why? Because athletics instilled in me the intangible qualities necessary to keep on persevering in this dog-eat-dog world. Athletics has taught me to take it a step further and on more than one occasion athletics has saved my life. Athletics was a father to this young boy from the ghetto of Lubbock. Texas who had no father. It was the daddy that taught me hard work. It was the daddy that taught me "tough times don't last tough people do." It was the daddy that whispered ever so quietly. "don't quit!" It's those lessons that carry me when I'm down when I'm overwhelmed when I'm close to throwing in the towel. Yes. I call on my faith but my experiences on the field and the court have played a vital role in helping me overcome so many obstacles in life. So. I take exception to the notion that "student-athletes lose." Nothing could be further from the truth. The student-athlete like non-athlete student loses if he or she is not able to fully grasp the extraordinary opportunities of college. And despite the well-publicized misdeeds of a few most student-athletes at The University of Texas and other schools throughout the country take advantage of the gifts afforded to them by athletics. Academia sometimes has too much time on its hands. It's like when I come across weird feminist articles about how useless or bad for the world men are. So then you hear people pick up that flag like Sally Field saying there would be no wars if women and mothers were in charge. Uh huh... Sports are both meaningful and meaningless just like everything else. They are just as much art as entertainment the different side of the same coin as museums and opera except to the utmost snobs and non-thinkers who disproportionately end up at universities it seems. Yet those are given much higher prestige while consumed less by the public. I can't stand morning radio and shows like Today and Oprah but I don't think society is going to hell or ineficciently allocating itself because people follow those in droves. Just don't count me as a participant. Neither are sports and their followers fools. The majority of critiques are hilariously hollow and dripping with disdain and jealousy. --- The Rivals com crew is busy at work as usual. Be sure to check for stories from Olin Buchanan. Mike Huguenin. David Fox and Steve Megargee [Defensiv tackle Glenn] Dorsey decided to return to school for his senior season for several reasons. He was dealing with a nagging stress fracture in his right shin last season. He also wanted to complete his degree. Dorsey is a frequent speaker at his local YMCA and one of his messages is. "Stay in school and dream big." "Coming from a small little town (Gonzales. La. population 7,003) kids feel they can't do big things because of where they're from," Dorsey says. "I thought about that also when I made my decision." Plus he didn't want to leave LSU without winning a national title. He grew up 60 miles from New Orleans; the three other starters on the line were raised within 40 miles of the stadium. "That would be tremendous," Dorsey says of the possibility of ending his college career in the Superdome site of the Bowl Championship Series title game. "That's like the ultimate." Stanford replaced the subdued Harris with the more aggressive Harbaugh. He had angered U. S. C. Coach Pete Carroll with comments about how long Carroll would stay at U. S. C and heaped praise — and pressure — on the Trojans this year saying they may be “the greatest team in the history of college football.” The Marquette basketball coach Tom Crean. Harbaugh’s brother-in-law said those comments were indicative of Harbaugh’s toughness and confidence. Crean said he and his family celebrated wildly in their living room Saturday night. Crean said Harbaugh recently went through a divorce and was separated from his children who live in San Diego. Crean said he was happy to see something go right for Harbaugh. “I got a text from him last night that said: ‘I know you know how this feels. We love you guys. Calling recruits the rest of the night,’ ” Crean said. “I think that’s all they did the rest of the night. I’m proud of him. Everyone is.” The toughness that Harbaugh showed as an N. F. L quarterback is reflected in his team. Tomey and the Oregon offensive coordinator Chip Kelly said that Stanford’s effort was something that stood out to them in their games against the Cardinal earlier in the year. “When I watched them the one thing that impressed me is that they really played hard,” Kelly said. “There are no guarantees in this profession. It’s crazy. This whole year has been crazy. You have no idea what’s going to transpire but if you play hard you’ve got a shot.” In an aside. I’ve always had a beef with those pollsters — writers broadcasters and coaches — who refuse to put a team ahead of another team it just beat if only because the victorious team was unranked or rated far below the losing squad. Now if a team like an Auburn has two losses before it knocks off Florida on the road the Tigers still have some proving to do. But in the case of Kansas State which incidentally lost to that Auburn team but on the road and in a game that was tied late into the fourth quarter the Wildcats in my opinion should be ranked ahead of Texas. My ballot reflected that putting Kansas State 16th and Texas 18th. But nothing’s final. If KSU loses to Texas and Texas beats OU they could flipflop because it’s all about what you do most recently. That's exactly how to create a meaningless confused ballot and why I do power rankings instead. Do you really put Stanford ahead of USC in this week's - or any week's - poll? Absurd. It's over. Finally it's over. All you Gator haters can now rejoice and sing. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. And all you Gator fans can now reflect and sing. I've Had the Time of My Life. After all these months and years the phenomenal string of Florida national championships is now over. First it was a basketball national title. Then a football national championship. Then basketball again. And then. LSU 28. Florida 24. It was Florida's second consecutive loss and effectively removed UF from the national title conversation. And if it were going to happen this was a most fitting night -- and the most fitting site. Two weeks ago in the wake of the Mississippi State disaster the murmur among some Auburn boosters concerned who might be a good replacement for Tommy Tuberville after this season. Today in the wake of yet another spectacularly stunning upset over Florida the question might be about whether Auburn can keep Tuberville from jumping ship following this season. If someone just arrived back here after spending the month of September on a remote island with no Internet or phone service they missed one of the wackiest five weeks in Alabama and Auburn football history. <A HREF="http://ads al com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx ads/www al com/xml/story/Mobile/c/csfine/@StoryAd?x"><IMG SRC="http://ads al com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx ads/www al com/xml/story/Mobile/c/csfine/@StoryAd?x"></A&gt They saw the fans (and some of us real geniuses in the media) write Tuberville off after a disastrous start and crown Nick Saban Master of the Universe. They saw others proclaim that "Bama is Back," and "Auburn is Dead." In the end almost everybody was right about something but wrong about most things. And here we are in a brand new month without the faintest idea what is about to happen next. And you wonder why college football is the best sport on earth.

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"[An] Excellent resource for all things college football. It’s blog index is the definitive listing of the CFB blogosphere... [A] must-read for fans." - "The big daddy of them all the nerve center of this twisted college football blogsphere" - "I guess you could say that you're selling an opportunity to be part of something special," Zook said. "Being in a program that wins all the time is obviously very very good. But being part of a team that takes a program to the top is really something special." Finally. Zook can show players his dream instead of just telling them about it."I think one thing about this profession is if you believe in yourself and believe in what you're doing it's always going to pan out," Zook said. on the struggles of the Notre Dame football program. That story cited two prominent issues that did not involve coaching: admissions and scheduling. More to the point my reporting led me to write Notre Dame simply was not willing enough to admit marginal students to be competitive at the top of Division I-A football. That and the school's brutal "national" schedule left any coach in a very difficult position. That story kicked up a lot of controversy. People I trust disputed some -- but not all -- of my reporting. They suggested Notre Dame had indeed admitted plenty of marginal students but not the right marginal students. (Having rejected the likes of Carson Palmer and T. J. Duckett). That gets into very gray areas. Let's just say that for a long time Notre Dame had serious issues regarding talent evaluation and admissions. Those issues affected the viability of the football program. For now we'll stick with Stanford. The Cardinal looked like a pathetic I-AA team for much of the season. I mean they were blown out by UCLA -- which should be shocking enough. They couldn't play defense the offense was anemic and -- AND -- they were playing with a backup quarterback starting the first game of his career. How fitting that this happened in Hollywood. Because really. I still don't believe it. Look. Stanford isn't good. There's a reason Walt Harris was fired after two years and Buddy Teevens was canned prior to that and Harbaugh was hired to clean up the mess. This team is devoid of talent. Period. I wouldn't be shocked in the least if this team didn't win another game. Their best shot is this week against struggling TCU on The Farm and Notre Dame at home on Nov. 24. I don't want to minimize what Stanford did because frankly it was monumental. I've said all along that Harbaugh was a fantastic hire; that he has the charisma (you think?) and the pedigree (he has played for Bo and Ditka among many other coaching legends) to make the Cardinal a winner. Look the Tigers won so let's not nit-pick but neither one of these guys is a great quarterback. They did just enough combined. But how about Jacob Hester at QB? Fans will point out that a two-man system worked for Florida last year but Tebow came in infrequently on big running downs. Flynn and Perrilloux were alternating plays at some points. The LSU defense didn't look great in the first half and blown coverage made them look silly. But Glenn Dorsey & Co pulled it together to contain and then stop Tebow late in the game. Earlier in the week. I asked coach Tommy Tuberville what lessons LSU could take from his team's upset over the Gators last week. Tuberville told me first they limited the Florida's running game. Second they managed to contain though not stop. Tebow. Third. Auburn gave up just 78 yards after contact meaning his defensive players made tackles without allowing the big plays. Again we turn to the stats from the game where LSU gave up 314 yards to Florida. 158 through the air and 156 on the ground. So what do we take from this game? Well for one. Miles has been elevated. His coaching decisions which somehow worked out endeared him to thousands of LSU fans who still questioned his chops. Good for him. We also took away the fact that this season. LSU has been the most dominant. But that's not saying too much considering they looked bad against last week and sloppy against Mississippi State. That's not domination but it is winning and a lot of other teams wish they could say the same. And finally. Florida may just be the best two-loss team in history. Play this game again in Atlanta in December and the result may change. But here's where I differ from the Professors. I think they are gravely flawed in their inability to recognize the benefits of participating in athletics. As I stated in a rebuttal to the op-ed piece by professor Palaima in the aforementioned - which the Statesman still has yet to print but I digress - as a direct result of sports. I win every day in life! Would you like to know why? Because athletics instilled in me the intangible qualities necessary to keep on persevering in this dog-eat-dog world. Athletics has taught me to take it a step further and on more than one occasion athletics has saved my life. Athletics was a father to this young boy from the ghetto of Lubbock. Texas who had no father. It was the daddy that taught me hard work. It was the daddy that taught me "tough times don't last tough people do." It was the daddy that whispered ever so quietly. "don't quit!" It's those lessons that carry me when I'm down when I'm overwhelmed when I'm close to throwing in the towel. Yes. I call on my faith but my experiences on the field and the court have played a vital role in helping me overcome so many obstacles in life. So. I take exception to the notion that "student-athletes lose." Nothing could be further from the truth. The student-athlete like non-athlete student loses if he or she is not able to fully grasp the extraordinary opportunities of college. And despite the well-publicized misdeeds of a few most student-athletes at The University of Texas and other schools throughout the country take advantage of the gifts afforded to them by athletics. Academia sometimes has too much time on its hands. It's like when I come across weird feminist articles about how useless or bad for the world men are. So then you hear people pick up that flag like Sally Field saying there would be no wars if women and mothers were in charge. Uh huh... Sports are both meaningful and meaningless just like everything else. They are just as much art as entertainment the different side of the same coin as museums and opera except to the utmost snobs and non-thinkers who disproportionately end up at universities it seems. Yet those are given much higher prestige while consumed less by the public. I can't stand morning radio and shows like Today and Oprah but I don't think society is going to hell or ineficciently allocating itself because people follow those in droves. Just don't count me as a participant. Neither are sports and their followers fools. The majority of critiques are hilariously hollow and dripping with disdain and jealousy. --- The Rivals com crew is busy at work as usual. Be sure to check for stories from Olin Buchanan. Mike Huguenin. David Fox and Steve Megargee [Defensiv tackle Glenn] Dorsey decided to return to school for his senior season for several reasons. He was dealing with a nagging stress fracture in his right shin last season. He also wanted to complete his degree. Dorsey is a frequent speaker at his local YMCA and one of his messages is. "Stay in school and dream big." "Coming from a small little town (Gonzales. La. population 7,003) kids feel they can't do big things because of where they're from," Dorsey says. "I thought about that also when I made my decision." Plus he didn't want to leave LSU without winning a national title. He grew up 60 miles from New Orleans; the three other starters on the line were raised within 40 miles of the stadium. "That would be tremendous," Dorsey says of the possibility of ending his college career in the Superdome site of the Bowl Championship Series title game. "That's like the ultimate." Stanford replaced the subdued Harris with the more aggressive Harbaugh. He had angered U. S. C. Coach Pete Carroll with comments about how long Carroll would stay at U. S. C and heaped praise — and pressure — on the Trojans this year saying they may be “the greatest team in the history of college football.” The Marquette basketball coach Tom Crean. Harbaugh’s brother-in-law said those comments were indicative of Harbaugh’s toughness and confidence. Crean said he and his family celebrated wildly in their living room Saturday night. Crean said Harbaugh recently went through a divorce and was separated from his children who live in San Diego. Crean said he was happy to see something go right for Harbaugh. “I got a text from him last night that said: ‘I know you know how this feels. We love you guys. Calling recruits the rest of the night,’ ” Crean said. “I think that’s all they did the rest of the night. I’m proud of him. Everyone is.” The toughness that Harbaugh showed as an N. F. L quarterback is reflected in his team. Tomey and the Oregon offensive coordinator Chip Kelly said that Stanford’s effort was something that stood out to them in their games against the Cardinal earlier in the year. “When I watched them the one thing that impressed me is that they really played hard,” Kelly said. “There are no guarantees in this profession. It’s crazy. This whole year has been crazy. You have no idea what’s going to transpire but if you play hard you’ve got a shot.” In an aside. I’ve always had a beef with those pollsters — writers broadcasters and coaches — who refuse to put a team ahead of another team it just beat if only because the victorious team was unranked or rated far below the losing squad. Now if a team like an Auburn has two losses before it knocks off Florida on the road the Tigers still have some proving to do. But in the case of Kansas State which incidentally lost to that Auburn team but on the road and in a game that was tied late into the fourth quarter the Wildcats in my opinion should be ranked ahead of Texas. My ballot reflected that putting Kansas State 16th and Texas 18th. But nothing’s final. If KSU loses to Texas and Texas beats OU they could flipflop because it’s all about what you do most recently. That's exactly how to create a meaningless confused ballot and why I do power rankings instead. Do you really put Stanford ahead of USC in this week's - or any week's - poll? Absurd. It's over. Finally it's over. All you Gator haters can now rejoice and sing. Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. And all you Gator fans can now reflect and sing. I've Had the Time of My Life. After all these months and years the phenomenal string of Florida national championships is now over. First it was a basketball national title. Then a football national championship. Then basketball again. And then. LSU 28. Florida 24. It was Florida's second consecutive loss and effectively removed UF from the national title conversation. And if it were going to happen this was a most fitting night -- and the most fitting site. Two weeks ago in the wake of the Mississippi State disaster the murmur among some Auburn boosters concerned who might be a good replacement for Tommy Tuberville after this season. Today in the wake of yet another spectacularly stunning upset over Florida the question might be about whether Auburn can keep Tuberville from jumping ship following this season. If someone just arrived back here after spending the month of September on a remote island with no Internet or phone service they missed one of the wackiest five weeks in Alabama and Auburn football history. <A HREF="http://ads al com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx ads/www al com/xml/story/Mobile/c/csfine/@StoryAd?x"><IMG SRC="http://ads al com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx ads/www al com/xml/story/Mobile/c/csfine/@StoryAd?x"></A&gt They saw the fans (and some of us real geniuses in the media) write Tuberville off after a disastrous start and crown Nick Saban Master of the Universe. They saw others proclaim that "Bama is Back," and "Auburn is Dead." In the end almost everybody was right about something but wrong about most things. And here we are in a brand new month without the faintest idea what is about to happen next. And you wonder why college football is the best sport on earth.

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Off-the-field issues are mounting at Penn State. Less than a week after running back Austin Scott was suspended for violating a team rule. Coach Joe Paterno said Tuesday that he was looking into the possibility that some Nittany Lions may have been involved in a fight. Tebow forced to get new number play Tim Tebow said Tuesday he received hundreds of threatening messages on his cell phone leading up to Florida’s game at top-ranked LSU. Tebow said many of the messages contained physical threats and most included foul language. mention on this storyAfter signing in type in the box below to comment on this story. You must be a user to post comments. Your comment will be published at the furnish of the story. Once a comment is submitted you will not be able to edit or delete the comment. Before diving in to post a comment be sure to read and follow the pool rules. Pool Rules 1. Keep it clean. 2. Stay on topic. 3. Be honest and accurate. 4. Don't threaten anyone. It's against the law and bad manners. 5. No personal attacks. Don't bash anyone based on their race creed heritage or orientation. 6. Don't say anything here you wouldn't say in front of your mother at the dinner table. 7. Email us at when you spot a rule violation. (Don't report comments just because you disagree.) Participation is subject to our. By commenting you agree to be bound by these terms. We require our readers to and receive a password to comment on our site. Registration is free. Our remains in effect. We will not change or provide reader information to anyone outside our building.

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