[GOP_Raider]

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[Terpfen]

8. The NFL has better ball games.

[RabidBartender]

#8 We at ESPN despise the Big XII, so we won’t write anything about them. And we really, really, really, really hope that Texas, OU, or Nebraska doesn’t go undefeated. Otherwise we’d have to acknowledge their existence.

[Dog Gone]

I think the biggest secret is that Joe McKnight is the reincarnation of Reggie Bush at USC.

The kid is making what is probably the best defense in college football look helpless in practice. He’s that good.

[rickdylan]

Just once in my life I saw a situation in which an amateur verson of a sport for a while outgrew the pro version, and that was those last five years Paul Bryant coached at Alabama and devised a passing game keyed to the action of the wishbone ground game in such a way that it didn’t look like a desperation act when they threw the ball, and nobody could tell a passing play was on until the ball was snapped. THAT was cool.

[Dysart]

Speaking of McFadden, and secrets, here's a side of him you've likely not seen:

Arkansas' Darren McFadden is — shall we say — an interesting fella.

Now before someone twists off on me, I realize this was all in good fun and he was just doing a bit. But this IS funny!

[Man50D]

Even Frank Beamer, this journalist's last hope for open access, has gone to the dark side. He closed Virginia Tech's practices during preseason camp after suggesting that someone might have tipped off Georgia as to what plays the Hokies were going to run in last season's Chick-fil-A Bowl.

Closing practices to the public is nothing new. In 1972, after dropping off my sister at college in Ohio my father decided to visit a friend who worked at Penn State, while heading back home to Connecticut. We stopped to watch the football team practice while on campus. Minutes later a member of the coaching staff ran over to us and screamed at us to leave.