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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...
From Football Study Hall
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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 ...
From Football Study Hall
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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 ...
From Miner Rush
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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...
From Miner Rush
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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 ...
From Stride Nation
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