The Longhorns want you to forget that they ever played Texas A&M

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by Travis Normand

How quickly we forget; or should I say, how quickly the media forgets.

I don’t care what anyone (including DeLoss Dodds) would like you to believe, but the Longhorns do not have an annual Thanksgiving football game tradition. Despite the revisionist history being created in Austin, there is no tradition of the Longhorns playing a football game on Thanksgiving day against a random opponent.

If there is a Thanksgiving day tradition that involves the University of Texas’ football team, it is that they used to play a rivalry game against Texas A&M on Thanksgiving. However, 2012 was the first time (in almost 100 years) that the two schools didn’t play each other.

Why?

Because the Longhorns threw a fit when the Aggies decided to move from the Big 12 to the SEC; and in doing so, the Longhorns decided that they no longer wanted to play A&M anymore. At the time, the Aggies issued a standing invitation to the Longhorns to continue the rivalry, but so far the Longhorns have refused.

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Buckeyes’ FB players get rings? What did they win?

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by Travis Normand

As always, when I find something “trophy” related, I have to post it. I found this over at Get Witted Sports. Make sure you check them out (if you haven’t already).

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Urban Meyer posing

On Thursday, members of Ohio State Buckeyes football staff posted pictures of the team’s new rings, which displays “12-0” across the face.  The Buckeyes finished last season undefeated, but because of The NCAA hit Ohio State with a one-year bowl ban and additional penalties (for violations that started with eight players taking a total of $14,000 in cash and tattoos in exchange for jerseys, rings and other Buckeyes memorabilia),  Ohio State  was ineligible for postseason play.

Head Coach Urban Meyer rewarded the undefeated effort, mostly from players who were not involved in the scandal that led to the school’s NCAA-imposed sanctions, with a rather gaudy-looking championship ring.

“The players won the Leaders division championship of the Big Ten, so they’re going to get rings,” Meyer said during an appearance on SiriusXM College Sports Nation following the 12-0 season.

“We did a little pep rally after the season. I’m going to make…

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The Oregon Ducks’ 2013 Undefeated Season

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by Travis Normand

While looking at different schedules for the 2013 season, I couldn’t help but notice that Oregon’s is (at least on paper) really “manageable.”  Yes, I am using the word manageable instead of joke.

Oregon Ducks’ 2013 Schedule

  • 8/31: Nicholls State 
  • 9/7: @ Virginia
  • 9/14: Tennessee
  • 9/21:
  • 9/28: Cal
  • 10/5: @ Colorado
  • 10/12: @ Washington
  • 10/19: Washington State
  • 10/26: UCLA
  • 11/2:
  • 11/7: @ Stanford
  • 11/16: Utah
  • 11/23: @ Arizona
  • 11/29: Oregon State
  • 12/7: Pac-12 Championship Game

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Report claiming that Auburn coaches bribed players

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by Travis Normand

Selena Roberts has broken a story on her site at Roopstigo.com, and if true (and I am assuming it is or she wouldn’t have reported it), it would be the next big college football scandal to break in what appears to be an ongoing epidemic.

Over the past couple of seasons we have seen major scandals dominate the news at schools like Ohio State, Penn State, USC, Miami, and Oregon.  Now, the next story has been brought to our attention — at Auburn.

You can read the original report, written by Roberts, HERE at her site.  You can also read the ESPN.com report (with video) HERE.

2013 UCLA Football Preseason All-America Candidates

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It may only be March, but some programs are already starting up their marketing efforts! I received the following from UCLA the other day via email. I have always found it odd that programs don’t email more stuff like this out during the off-season. You would think that they would.

While I do my best to keep up with every program, receiving stuff like this via email makes it a lot easier.

All-America

For more info on UCLA Football, please visit: UCLABruins.com or follow @UCLAFootball on Twitter.com.

Manziel should not have won the Heisman because he is bad at twitter

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Johnny Manziel - 20Kby Travis Normand

I have never claimed to be more than I actually am.  I am a blogger.  I am a blogger that focuses primarily on college football, but that is it.  I am not a reporter, and calling myself a “writer” is really a stretch.

However, maybe I should have gone into covering college sports as a career? I mean, I am not very good at it, but apparently you don’t have to be.  In fact, if you work at the Orlando Sentinel, they will call you a College Insider.  One would think they would have to know a lot of information about a certain topic before they were given the title of “insider.”  However, the following article by Matt Murschel shows that that is simply not the case.

[Emphasis added]

Johnny Football shows maybe Heisman shouldn’t go to freshmen after all

Matt Murschel
College Insider
6:58 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2013
OrlandoSentinel.com

The Heisman Trophy honors some of the best young men that college football has to offer.

Men whose actions on and off the field exemplified integrity, diligence, hard work and perseverance.

Men whose painted portraits have hung in the hallowed halls for close to a century and represent what is supposed to be right about college football. Johnny Manziel‘s portrait hangs there as well, but lately it appears more like it was taken with Instagram.

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Jack Pardee [1936-2013]

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by Travis Normand

Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant’s “Junction Boys” at Texas A&M, died Monday, April 1, 2013.

For more on Jack Pardee, see this article at the WashingtonPost.com and/or this article at the Houston Chronicle (Chron.com).

Here is a link to a Q&A with Pardee from around the time The Junction Boys movie was released (2002).

The following is Pardee’s bio from AggieLettermen.org:

Jack Pardee joined the exclusive “1,000 Yard Club” after accumulating a total of 1,017 career rushing yards.  A tri-captain of the 1956 SWC championship team, Pardee was one of the legendary Junction Boys of 1954. Among his other athletic accolades can be counted:

— All American, 1956
— All-SWC Fullback, 1955, 1956
— Houston Post MVP Award, 1956
— Academic All-American, 1956
— NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship, 1956
— 2nd Round Draft Choice, LA Rams, 1957
— Played in the 1963 Pro Bowl.
— National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, 1986

From AggieLettermen.org

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