Ladies and gents, a Sam Elliot Mask reference…the Brian VanGorder era at Auburn is gonna be awesome Actual legitimate stuff happened outside of New Orleans this week and some of you may deem such information important to the advancement of your favorite collegiate football program.  The line for mustache rides forms to the left. The [...]

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The SEC Schedule was released this morning after much anticipation.  There are two new members and that means new match-ups, games in new exotic locales like Columbia and College Station, and just a whole lot of schedule reshufflin’.  A few initial thoughts: Mizzou and Texas A&M, assuming the position in Year One Mizzou and Texas A&M get [...]

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Flock minions, to the SEC website, and crash it post haste in an attempt to see the 2012 conference schedule with two shiney new members that will surely throw all kinds of chaos into your Fall travel plans with things like “Fly into Houston-Hobby, rent a car, drive into the great beyond until there is nothing [...]

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The University of Missouri Board of Curators emerged from a lengthy late-afternoon meeting yesterday to announce that University Chancellor Brady Deaton would be stepping down from the Big XII board of directors and that the University would begin exploring membership opportunities in other conferences.   Those “other conferences” are reported to be the SEC and, well, [...]

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Given the current climate of college football realignment, it’s interesting to see how the pioneering venture into conference expansion was accepted among it’s own members.  It’s also nice to see some vintage footage of Ray Goff.  I had previously assumed that the University of Georgia had had all evidence of his existence destroyed. [HT: SmartFootball]

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Either that, or they are strategically singling out candidates who have multiple Cracker Barrel franchises within a 20 mile radius of their campuses.  That’s the only explanation possible for Mizzou getting a rumored invitation to join the conference.  This would push the SEC to 14 teams and likely call for a bit of realignment within [...]

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Either South Carolina football players have found some sort of Hilton Honors Points loophole that the rest of us are not aware of or they’ve been receiving impermissible benefits from a certain Columbia hotel…the NCAA, via this letter, thinks it’s the later.  Add in some recruiting violations that include boosters paying for trips and incidentals [...]

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