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College football will waste its time this weekend with the relic that is “Conference Championship Weekend” because the powers that be in the sport are old and unimaginative. To call Saturday an exercise in nonsense and futility doesn’t even describe the inanity of it. It makes no sense. None. Not competitively. Not in terms of entertainment. Not even in generating revenue. The only reason this is even accepted is that college football fans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and gladly accept the insanity that’s been repeatedly sold to them. Start with this very simple lesson: You don’t need to expand the...

Mack Brown is expected to return as head coach of North Carolina after he and the school have reached an agreement on a contract, reports 247Sports.com. According to the report, an announcement is expected as soon as Tuesday. The 67-year-old Brown is currently an analyst at ESPN. Brown was originally hired at UNC in 1988 and led the Tar Heels to three 10-win seasons and three bowl victories before being hired away by Texas in 1998.

Embattled USC coach Clay Helton will return for his fourth season, USC athletic director Lynn Swann announced. The Trojans finished the season 5-7, their first losing year since 2000. "It is my firm belief that we have a good team returning next year and a solid foundation in place, and that Clay Helton is a good coach," Swann said in a statement. "Let me be clear to everyone, our players, our recruits and our fans. Clay Helton is our head coach and he will continue to be our head coach.

1. The tenures of LSU coach Ed Orgeron and Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher will always be intertwined. Fisher is the coach LSU fans lusted for, as he’d served as a successful assistant to both Nick Saban and Les Miles there and had multiple flirtations to become head coach. Instead, Fisher got the Texas A&M job, which means starting this season Orgeron’s tenure will be forever judged through the prism of his success against Fisher.

Florida's 41-14 victory over Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. on Saturday ended a pair of streaks. The Gators' win snapped Florida State's five-game winning streak in the rivalry, and also ended the Seminoles' 36-year run of reaching a bowl game. 2018 will mark Florida State's first year without a postseason appearance since 1981, ending the longest streak in college football history. The Seminoles had three coaches in their 36-year streak, with Bobby Bowden leading the way for 28 seasons. Florida State went 26–9–1 in bowl games since 1982, winning 11 straight from 1985-95. The Seminoles won...

As I writing there is less than 7 minutes left in Michigan v. The Ohio State University. THE Ohio State University has put 55 points, incl 7 off a blocked punt, on supposedly the best defense in the nation. Dwayne Haskins has obliterated the Michigan secondary. Michigan's defense is a fraud, Michigan is a fraud, and Harbaugh is a fraud. Harbaugh is Meyer's rhymes with witch. This has to be the most bitter Michigan loss in recent history. Everything was in place to complete the so called Revenge Tour, beat Northwestern, and go to the playoffs. It all came to...

Mississippi State and Ole Miss had a Thanksgiving to remember. Instead of coming together to have a friendly game of football on the holiday, the two teams fought like family members on opposite sides of the political spectrum. A brawl broke out between both clubs during the Egg Bowl on Thursday. The entire incident took place as time expired in the third quarter.

This weekend marks the close of the college football regular season as Week 13's rivalry weekend kicks off with No. 21 Mississippi State visiting Ole Miss for a primetime matchup on Thanksgiving. Friday, No. 6 Oklahoma will take on No. 9 West Virginia at 8 p.m. as the Mountaineers attempt to put a stop to the Sooners six-game win streak and secure a spot in the Big 12 championship game. No. 18 Washington faces off against rival No. 8 Washington State in the Apple Cup shortly thereafter in another conference clinching contest, with the winner securing a win-and-in spot in...

A British newspaper is reporting lecturers at a university have been told not to use capital letters in assignments because it might frighten students into failure. The Express detailed a memo it obtained that was sent out to Leeds Trinity's School of Journalism staff. The staff was told to "write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions," according to The Express. The Express says course leaders told them capitalizing specific letters could emphasize the difficulty or importance of an assignment. In a memo the newspaper obtained, it says, "Despite our best attempts to explain assessment tasks,...

Top 10: 1: 'Bama 2: Clemson 3: Notre Dame 4: Michigan 5: UGa 6: Oklahoma 7: LSU 8: Wazzu 9: UCF 10: THE Ohio State University

The College of the Holy Cross canceled classes Friday afternoon at the College of the Holy Cross in response to an alleged anti-gay assault that occurred on campus. The alleged hate crime was reported in the early hours of Oct. 27, but the college has refused to release any other details regarding the incident, the Worcester Telegram reported. The sexes of both the alleged perpetrator and victim are unknown, as well as if the victim was injured. Holy Cross campus police did not file any formal charges or make any arrests, according to the Worcester District Attorney’s Office. A Worcester...

Arkansas has suspended two starting defensive backs for reportedly flirting with Mississippi State cheerleaders before the Razorbacks' 52-6 loss Saturday. Razorbacks coach Chad Morris announced the suspensions Monday at his media conference, citing "unacceptable behavior."

Les Miles to Kansas has become a reality. The Jayhawks announced Sunday that is has hired Miles as the replacement for head football coach David Beaty, who will be let go at the end of the season. “Since the beginning of our search, we focused on identifying and recruiting an experienced head coach with a strong track record of success on and off the field,” KU athletic director Jeff Long said. “Les Miles is exactly what we need for our program right now. His national reputation as a great recruiter and as a coach who student-athletes love playing for will...

Colorado has fired coach Mike MacIntyre on Sunday with the Buffaloes on a six-game losing streak in his sixth season at the school, and two years after he won AP coach of the year. Athletic director Rick George said in a statement he informed MacIntyre that the coach would not return and then met with the coaching staff and players. George said he will name an interim head coach for Colorado's final game against California on Saturday. MacIntyre is due about $10 million from the five-year extension he signed after the 2016 season, when he was voted AP college football...

The clip flittered out on Twitter on Saturday evening, and perhaps best summed up the conundrum facing USC athletic director Lynn Swann the next few weeks. A group of UCLA fans, sounding drunk on a bit more than an upset victory, began a sing-song chant that will send chills through the spines of USC administrators: “Keep Clay Helton, clap clap, clap clap clap. Keep Clay Helton…” That’s the latest sign of how much things have gone off the rails for the Trojans, who managed to somehow thrust the Los Angeles recruiting momentum cross town to Chip Kelly and 3-8 UCLA....

A draft of the new Title IX rules from the Department of Education was circulated a couple of months ago and they predictably had progressive groups setting their hair on fire. The final version has now been rolled out and, while there were some minor (but troubling) changes made, those same groups aren’t going to be any happier. The days of kangaroo courts hearing questions of criminal law at schools where cases of sexual assault or harassment are concerned won’t be ending entirely, but they will be decidedly more fair to all parties concerned. (Reason) This guidance will replace an...

The Department of Education has issued its long-awaited proposed regulations reforming sexual-assault adjudications on college campus. Not only will these rules restore basic due process and fairness to college tribunals, but they also — given how basic the changes are — highlight just how ridiculous university kangaroo courts have become. First and perhaps most important, the rules will not only require colleges to permit cross-examination of witnesses (including the accuser), but will also prohibit universities from relying on the statements of any witness who refuses to submit to cross-examination. Cross-examination is so fundamental to adversary proceedings that it’s is simply...

“The Vagina Monologues” used to be celebrated as a subversive blow against patriarchy, or something. Now it’s just viewed as another invalidation of transgender lives. The Women’s Resource Center at Eastern Michigan University is pulling the plug on productions, claiming it can’t legally alter the script created by Eve Ensler, MLive reports:

Week 11 was among the least exciting college football weekends in memory, but we anticipated that. Now some are worried we could have a repeat in Week 12, considering it’s SoCon Saturday in the SEC (and, quietly, cupcake week for the Power 5’s other top teams as well). There are some bad games. Alabama’s gonna destroy a lesser team this week, but so what? How is that different from every other week so far this year? Look beyond the filler content. True, there are also very few WATCH THIS games. The strength of Week 12 lies in the middle. Below,...

Paul Hoolahan announced his retirement as CEO of the Sugar Bowl earlier this month. He’d been on the job for 22 years. In a press release announcing it, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby called him “an integral part of the college football landscape.” ACC commissioner John Swofford hailed his “incredible standard of excellence.” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said “Hoolahan has served as a great steward of this revered bowl game.” Hoolahan is a nice person and a good businessman. Nothing against him here. And all of the above platitudes are accurate. He was all of those things. Yet his retirement...