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How Rich Rodriguez made his way back to West Virginia, & made up with most (not all) of the fan base
This is a love story gone bad — a man who felt unfairly vilified by his own people; a people who felt cruelly betrayed by a man. Seventeen years later, they are reunited, both seeking the same successful results as their previous time together. Rich Rodriguez describes his 17 years away as a sort-of nomadic venture, the consequence of leaving home. (
Yahoo! Sports)
The tall tales of Lee Corso: Friends, colleagues remember ESPN College GameDay legend
How do you begin to spell out that someone has meant so much? So much to a show. So much to a sport. So much to the world. Lee Corso isn’t interested in such conjecture. Legacy, fame — forget about it. This is entertainment, sweetheart. Football is just the vehicle, he (and everyone who’s ever been associated with “College GameDay”) will tell you. (
Sports Business Journal)
College football Week 1: What to watch, TV channels, streaming, Saturday kickoff times
College football is back. After an intriguing slate of Thursday and Friday games, the first full Saturday of the season is almost upon us. After several years following dramatic changes and upheavals, college football is at least somewhat stable as the calendar turns to fall. All of the Power Four conferences remain unchanged from the 2024 season. (
CBS Sports)
Ten bold predictions for the college football season: Arch Manning for Heisman, ACC gets No. 1 seed
The ACC will send just one team to the CFP — but it’ll be the No. 1 overall seed - I’m all-in on Clemson, and I’ve got a ton of questions for everybody else in the ACC. The Tigers checked in at No. 4 in the preseason AP poll, with Miami (No. 10) and SMU (No. 16) landing as the next-highest ranked ACC teams. Preseason polls are notoriously unreliable. (
NBC Sports)
Is this college football’s best Week 1 ever? From Columbus to Clemson to Miami, buckle up
It hit Dabo Swinney when the Clemson coach woke up this past Sunday: Game week. The season opener, the end of eight months of talking and preparing and practicing, and now a real football game that counts. “Then you look up and go, oh man, we’re playing LSU on national TV, at home,” he said. “It’s awesome. It’s a lot of juice. You can just feel it.” (
The Athletic)
ACC football discussing adding 9th league game, but how?
And then there was one. With the SEC joining the Big Ten and Big 12 by playing nine conference games, the Atlantic Coast Conference is now the only power league that will play eight conference games. But for how long? Also, how would the ACC actually schedule nine league games with 17 members since, well, it’s mathematically impossible. (
On3.com)
The NCAA was never going to drop the hammer on Michigan
The city of Columbus is still standing, even though the hopes of many of its citizens were dashed on Friday. After investigating the University of Michigan football program and Connor Stalions, the mastermind of an elaborate sign-stealing operation, for nearly two years, the NCAA opted for a wrist-slap over handing down any penalties with real teeth. (
NBC Sports)
Colleagues, coaches, celebrities pay incredible tribute to Lee Corso
It will surely be an emotional scene Saturday in Columbus when sports broadcasting legend Lee Corso puts on the headgear for the last time and retires from College GameDay and ESPN. But fans got a glimpse of what was to come this weekend thanks to a network television special. ESPN aired a tribute show to Corso, looking back on his life and career in football. (
Awful Announcing)
Virginia Tech A.D. names staggering budget figure Hokies need "to compete near the top"
Whit Babcock has worked more than two decades in college athletics administration, the last 15 years in the top athletics director's seat. On Monday, he laid bare the current situation at Virginia Tech, where he's been since 2014, and highlighted how woefully short Tech's athletics budget is "if you want to compete near the top of the ACC." (
Football Scoop)
Farewell to a fish called Muddy, and a logo that upended minor-league baseball
This week, the Mudcats will host their final homestand in Zebulon at the conclusion of their 35th and last season there, the end of an improbable era of minor-league baseball in eastern Wake County that began in 1991 when businessman Steve Bryant decided Raleigh needed a team of its own and this was as close as he could get. (
MSN.com)