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The Conference announced all 6 matchups for Week 7 The Pac-12 Conference announced all Week 7 matchups ahead of the final week of the football season, headlined, of course, by the USC vs Washington Pac-12 Championship Game.
The conference announced the following matchups for Week 7:
Washington @ USC — Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday at 5:00 pm
Washington State at Utah at 10:30 am Stanford @ UCLA at 5:00 pm Oregon vs Colorado (at USC) at 6:00 pm...
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We took to the grade books to see who’s doing what The Pac-12 football season has been unlike any other season, ever, in the history of the conference. We’ve seen game after game get canceled, new opponents added and scheduled games just 36 hours in advance. Yet, we’ve made it past Week 4 of the season and with two regular season weeks left to play, we thought it was a good idea to take a look at the gradebooks to see who has been pl...
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The Pac-12 reversed its course and is set to allow the 12 member schools to play a non-conference football game this season Well now we have it. Two weeks into the Pac-12 Football season and we’ve already made some major adjustments around the protocol set in place to be able to play this season during a global pandemic.
The conference, previously staunch in their saying they won’t allow non-conference games to be played this seaso...
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The Pac-12 is back, baby! The Pac-12 was welcomed back with open arms from those in the national media and despite some cancellations that saw Utah vs Arizona and Cal vs Washington canned, we were still treated to some amazing matchups and dominant performances.
Here are your top players at each position in our Week 1 Pac-12 Team of the Week:
Quarterback
Sam Noyer , Colorado Buffaloes
Sure, Noyer didn’t throw for more yards than everyone,...
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Six games are set — will we make it to Saturday will all six still intact? The Pac-12 football slate is set to commence for Week 2. Even though we saw two games cancelled and four teams with a season-opening performance, optimism runs wild for a full slate of games this weekend.
The Pac-12 football season continues with
No. 20 USC (1-0) squaring off against Arizona (0-0) at 12:30 pm (3:30 pm ET) Colorado (1-0) facing Stanford (0-1) at 12:30 pm (3:...
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The Utes and Wildcats now join Cal and Washington as spectators to the Pac-12 in Week 1 The Pac-12 released a statement on Friday, announcing the cancellation of the upcoming Utah Utes vs Arizona Wildcats game, originally scheduled for November 7 at 1:00 pm local time.
According to the conference’s statement, the request to cancel the game came from Utah and came on the backs of an influx of positive Covid-19 test results.
“The Pac-12 has approved a r...
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ON CLARITY
You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That’s, that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out that life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game — life or football — the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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THE MICHIGAN MONEY CANNON TAKES RETURN FIRE When we get charitable around here, we expect certain things.
You’re going to step up in a big way.
You’re going to use some clever numerology in how you make donations.
Somehow, Michigan is going to end up on top.
Through the first day, that bore out — our largest Monday donation was made in honor of Michigan’s 40-34 win over Ohio State in Brady Hoke’s first year.
Now, there’s been some volleys overnight — big shots from Texas A&M, Louisia...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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I’ll make this brief: y’all are great.
Yesterday, in the third day of our charity drive to support Personal Counseling Services of Southern Indiana, the numbers understandably slowed for much of the day, after a blazing start on Monday and Tuesday.
And then came the bombs.
A couple BIG evening donations, capped late by a $666 donation with only the comment “Run up the score three times as much as Heisman on Cumberland”.
I can only infer that our new champion — current leader for the Ga...
From Every Day Should Be Saturday
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Some major football powers are built upon their ability to monopolize in-state recruiting. Over at SB Nation I have a piece examining Mack Brown’s early moves at UNC to try and build out the Tar Heel football program to be remotely as competitive as their basketball team. It’s pretty obvious that the major impediment to UNC being great at football is the fact that they seem pretty content as a basketball power. The school is very well situated to be better t...
From Football Study Hall
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The zone-read play has come a long ways since it was originally developed as a way to run the ball from the shotgun spread and gave that formation legitimacy in the college game. Once teams realized they could run the option from the shotgun spread and use the spacing of the receivers to create space in the alley, then teams begin to build run-centric systems from the zone-read play.
Like with other major tactics within the spread offense, the zone-read inevit...
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This offseason Gary Patterson has quietly been assembling the staff and players to infuse his program with the one offensive tactic that has always given him fits. The greatest rivalry of the early 2010s in the Big 12 was the one between Gary Patterson’s TCU and Art Briles’ Baylor. It was an annual showdown between the state’s brightest offensive and defensive minds, played out through a pair of private schools largely considered as afterthoughts in th...
From Football Study Hall
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Kevin Steele broke against type and tried to utilize a few different tricks, including one borrowed from Bill Belichik, to bust up Joe Moorhead’s option offense at Mississippi State. Instead Nick Fitzgerald ran wild and the option guru came out ahead. When Joe Moorhead first arrived at Penn State in 2016 after a nice four-year run at Fordham at the FCS level, the big breakthrough he brought to the Lions was in the vertical passing game. Penn State loved going de...
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The Washington Huskies have had their rival’s number over the last few years in the Apple Cup. In 2018 they had a showdown against Mike Leach and Gardner Minshew in the snow and came out ahead once more. The 2018 Apple Cup was often treated as a sort of “that’s what you get for trying to throw all the time, Leach,” game by many commentators. Washington’s DB coach and co-defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake played that angle up with some of his quotes after the gam...
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LSU proved to be one of Florida’s biggest wins for Dan Mullen in year one and made two in a row that he’s put over on defensive guru Dave Aranda. The uniting of Dave Aranda’s defensive mind with LSU back in 2016 was always an intriguing and potentially devastating combo. He’d built a wildly effective defense up in Wisconsin that leaned on man coverage, which figured to translate nicely with LSU’s superior DBs, and then a versatile front built out of sturdy DL ...
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UTEP Athletics
UTEP is facing former Western Athletic Conference member UNLV for the eighth time and for the first time since the 1993 season. The game will take place Saturday, Sept 8 at the Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, NV. Kick off starts at 6 p.m. PT/7 p.m. MT.
The game will be televised on AT&T SportsNet.
The Miners are coming off a 30-10, season-opening loss to Northern Arizona on Sept. 1 in the Sun Bowl. Their last road victory came on Oct. 22, 2016, at UTSA, 52-49 in five ove...
From Miner Rush
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UTEP Athletics
EL PASO, TEXAS – Northern Arizona topped UTEP in the 2018 football opener. Case Cookus completed 19-of-26 passes for 211 yards, and connected with Emmanuel Butler for a couple of scores as Northern Arizona spoiled UTEP’s 2018 home opener with a 30-10 victory in the Sun Bowl on Saturday.
Butler reeled in six catches for 138 yards for the Lumberjacks (1-0), who are coming off a seven-win campaign in 2017.
Junior college transfer Kai Locksley saw the bulk of the action at ...
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UTEP Athletics
EL PASO – Graduate transfer Winston Dimel earned a spot on the 2018-19 Reese’s Senior Bowl Watch List.
The transfer is one of 12 student-athletes from Conference USA to receive recognition. Dimel is also only one of two fullbacks to be named to the watch list.
Dimel previously played three seasons at Kansas State and started in all 39 games at the fullback position. He garnered 2017 All-Big 12 second team honors and 2016 and 2015 All-Big 12 first team recognition.
The...
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Brown used the downhill to put himself in contention and the final straight to showcase his mile speed. Coming into the 2016 Footlocker Boys’ race, the only thing we really felt comfortable saying we knew is that we didn’t know how this race would play out at all. With as many as 10 boys in possible contention for the win, we expected that the race would be close throughout, but had no confidence to claim to know who would emerge from that group.
In the early ...
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What will the UK election mean for football?
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