Any opportunity to being back this graphic will not be squandered It is a rite of passage for all SEC members, a bit of hazing, if you will, that any schools seeking membership into the conference must at one point endure.  Mizzou got the unpleasantness out of the way during the bowl season as it [...]

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As it is my birthright, I braved the cold and copious amounts of confectionery fair food to attend the 2010 installment of the Advocare Independence Bowl.  There was a double helping of triple option football, a pregame milking station, a party for nothing but poultry, a Tim Brando combover sighting…and, of course, a bird of [...]

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From time to time, I have been known to do a little grindin’ for my city…today’s no different as I’ll be on hand for what promises to be the shortest college football game ever played.  The 2010 Independence Bowl features Georgia Tech, Air Force, and an over/under of 8 total passes.  Ill be sporting a [...]

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This photo doesnt really have anything to do with the story, but its awesome, and Sansibelt slacks are prominently featured. Clearly running out of options, the Independence Bowl, for its annual Hall of Fame class, has chosen, among the honorees, one Jackie Wayne Sherrill, who brought his Bulldogs to Shreveport but once in the bowl’s [...]

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Out of a sense of obligation or perhaps morbid curiosity, FOTP made the trip to the Advocare 100 Independence Bowl for the final installment of SEC and Big 12 match-up  under the lights in the Port City. Its bittersweet really, theres something of a badge of courage for having to follow your team into mediocrity and the Fairgrounds in Shreveport.  [...]

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With a defensive coordinator as naturally intense as the originator of the Inside Trout, its fairly reasonable to believe that the Kids Clinic put on by Texas A&M would be a little more demanding than others. You may be expecting a few extra wind sprints, maybe another set or two of up/downs…but you’d be dead [...]

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With a new sponsor came a new lease on life for the good ol’ Independence Bowl in beautiful Shreveport, Louisiana…that is until its other two main assets, the SEC and Big 12, decided to jump ship after this year.  But have no fear residents of Northwest Louisiana…theres a plan in place to subject a whole [...]

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