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Candid Coaches: What percentage of your school's revenue sharing should go to men's basketball?

Talk to any sitting athletic director these days, and most of them will tell you that among the toughest decisions they've had to make in the past year is how to divide the up to $20.5 million their departments are now allowed to share annually with athletes. How much of that should go to men's basketball? It's a question with lots of answers. (CBS Sports)

College football report card grades highs and lows of season's first month

Arch Manning isn’t going to win the Heisman Trophy. Clemson isn’t going to win the national championship. Penn State still can’t figure out how to beat a top-five opponent. UNC and new coach Bill Belichick might not win a game against Power Four competition. No. 8 Indiana isn’t going anywhere. No. 10 Georgia’s defense has dropped off the map. (USA Today)

Candid Coaches: Who will be the best men's college basketball team this season?

This year we're leading with a question we ask every year, but typically save for the last publishing in Candid Coaches. Who's going to be the best team? We're coming off the most expensive, disorderly, temperamental college basketball offseason ever. Two thousand transfers, nearly 60 coaching changes, massive roster turnover yet again. (CBS Sports)

Sam Pittman is a great guy who once saved Arkansas football, but it was time for him to go

Sam Pittman saved the Arkansas Razorbacks five years ago from the dregs of the SEC. On Sunday, he lost his job. Arkansas fired its 63-year-old coach a day after a humiliating 56-13 loss to Notre Dame, ending a tenure that once felt like a dream marriage between a lovable, beer-drinking everyman and a program desperate for stability. (CBS Sports)

ACC confirms missed offside call in Georgia Tech-Wake Forest game

It will come as little consolation to Wake Forest but the ACC has admitted fault with a controversial non-call in Saturday’s game. The Deacons lost 30-29 in overtime to Georgia Tech on Saturday. In the last couple of minutes of regulation, a GT defensive player appeared to be across the line of scrimmage at the time of a snap. (Deacons Illustrated)

College football Week 5 highlights: Top games, plays, stats

The beauty of college football, the thing that keeps us coming back week after week in spite of the exasperating morass of everything that happens off the field, is that the sport keeps surprising us. Who would've thought that Alabama, reeling in the aftermath of a Week 1 loss to Florida State, would waltz into Athens and swat down Georgia? (ESPN.com)

ACC replay booth camera lauded during Virginia-Florida State thriller

Virginia’s unranked football team upset a previously unbeaten Florida State squad on Friday night, winning 46-38 in double overtime. The game was a showcase for the ACC’s decision to give viewers of some games a chance to see and hear what is going on at the ACC Operations Center during reviews. Several critical plays during the game were reviewed. (Awful Announcing)

NCAA rules former G League basketball player Thierry Darlan eligible

The NCAA has ruled former G League Ignite player Thierry Darlan eligible to play Division I basketball at Santa Clara, his agent, Todd Ramasar, reported. Darlan becomes the first player to obtain NCAA eligibility after playing professionally in the G League, where he spent the past two seasons. He will enter college as a junior with two years of eligibility remaining. (ESPN.com)

Takeaways from Week 5 of College Football: Penn State loses another big game, Alabama beats Georgia

Penn State still cannot win The Big Game. There’s not much else to say at this point. Everyone knows the narrative. Everyone knows the statistic. James Franklin is now 4-21 against AP top-10 opponents. The Nittany Lions were favored to win the game — against a young, inexperienced (albeit talented) Oregon team. And they couldn’t get it done. (NBC Sports)

How Virginia endured to topple No. 8 Florida State in ACC football thriller

You’ll have to excuse Carla Williams. She’s a bit emotional. As Virginia fans streamed around her, destined to bring down those goal posts (they never did), the Cavaliers athletic director wept. She’s got good reason. So does coach Tony Elliott. And quarterback Chandler Morris. So does running back J’Mari Taylor and all these fans trouncing on the grass. (Yahoo! Sports)

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