Fun CFB facts of the day.

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Flag On The Play: One of the most legendary plays in Alabama history technically never existed. As big underdogs, the Tide ended Miami’s 29-game winning streak in the ’92 season national title game in part due to “The Strip.” Miami receiver Lamar Thomas before the game had planted his two championship rings on either side of a microphone and declared the third “will be icing on the cake.” He said the SEC wasn’t what it once was, and questioned the manhood of Alabama’s defensive backs. A member of Miami’s 400-meter relay team in track, after a poor start to the game, Thomas appeared poised to burst to an 89-yard touchdown catch. Then George Teague walked him down from behind and stripped the ball, a remarkable blur of speed and coordination. An offside penalty negated the play, but the Tide rolled and made Thomas eat his words.
























110/2: Alabama has won football games scoring both of those figures. The Tide beat Marion Military by a score of 110-0 on Sept. 30, 1922, and knocked off former SEC member Sewanee by a score of 2-0 on Oct. 23, 1926.






































8,969: Career passing yards for AJ McCarron, the winningest quarterback in Alabama history. McCarron secured two national championships as a starter and won 36 games, one more than Jay Barker for most all-time. At .934, Barker has a slightly better career winning percentage than McCarron, who was 36-4 as a starter (.900).
























An Elephant Story: The 1930 Alabama team coached by Wallace Wade went 10-0 with eight shutouts. According to the Paul W. Bryant Museum, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote a long soliloquy on the size of the Alabama players upon witnessing a game against Mississippi, after which writers referred to the team as the Red Elephants:

“At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, ‘Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,’ and out stamped this Alabama varsity. It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size.”
























Bear Bryant Like Pete Rose?: The legendary Alabama coach was just “the other end” opposite Don Hutson in the 1934 Rose Bowl as the Tide upset Stanford. Later, Bryant admitted he and some teammates had pooled together about $5 and bet on themselves as underdogs, making about $1 each. It wasn’t the only sneaky thing Bryant did — he married Mary Harmon Black in 1935 without telling anyone, because he feared coach Frank Thomas would yank his scholarship.
























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ALADAMYA said:
Flag On The Play: One of the most legendary plays in Alabama history technically never existed. As big underdogs, the Tide ended Miami’s 29-game winning streak in the ’92 season national title game in part due to “The Strip.” Miami receiver Lamar Thomas before the game had planted his two championship rings on either side of a microphone and declared the third “will be icing on the cake.” He said the SEC wasn’t what it once was, and questioned the manhood of Alabama’s defensive backs. A member of Miami’s 400-meter relay team in track, after a poor start to the game, Thomas appeared poised to burst to an 89-yard touchdown catch. Then George Teague walked him down from behind and stripped the ball, a remarkable blur of speed and coordination. An offside penalty negated the play, but the Tide rolled and made Thomas eat his words.
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One of the best stories I have heard on the aftermath of that game was told by Teague. According to him, he and Thomas got on the same elevator(I forget if it was at the combine or some similar event a couple of months later) and Thomas looked over and asked, "Do you really believe that Alabama was the better team"? "34-13. Yes" was the reply.
 
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns original mascot was the Bulldogs. In 1963 then Coach Faulkinberry changed the nickname of the football team to Raging Cajuns. It was later shortened to Ragin' Cajuns. The school made it official for all athletic programs in 1974.
 
We used the checkerboard pattern way before UTn.


"Tennessee Head Coach Doug Dickey started the tradition for the pattern in 1964. At the time, it was said to have been inspired by a magazine ad.
On the top of Ayers Hall, a popular landmark on Tennessee's campus, you can find the subtle checkerboard design. While Tennessee fans claim it as unique tradition, Kentucky fans claim that Tennessee copied them.
Old Stoll Field, the field before Kroger Field in Lexington actually had a checkerboard end zone. In fact, it had a checkerboard end zone all the way back to 1930.
For years, that was lost in the history books."

WYMT
 
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Flag On The Play: One of the most legendary plays in Alabama history technically never existed. As big underdogs, the Tide ended Miami’s 29-game winning streak in the ’92 season national title game in part due to “The Strip.” Miami receiver Lamar Thomas before the game had planted his two championship rings on either side of a microphone and declared the third “will be icing on the cake.” He said the SEC wasn’t what it once was, and questioned the manhood of Alabama’s defensive backs. A member of Miami’s 400-meter relay team in track, after a poor start to the game, Thomas appeared poised to burst to an 89-yard touchdown catch. Then George Teague walked him down from behind and stripped the ball, a remarkable blur of speed and coordination. An offside penalty negated the play, but the Tide rolled and made Thomas eat his words.
























110/2: Alabama has won football games scoring both of those figures. The Tide beat Marion Military by a score of 110-0 on Sept. 30, 1922, and knocked off former SEC member Sewanee by a score of 2-0 on Oct. 23, 1926.






































8,969: Career passing yards for AJ McCarron, the winningest quarterback in Alabama history. McCarron secured two national championships as a starter and won 36 games, one more than Jay Barker for most all-time. At .934, Barker has a slightly better career winning percentage than McCarron, who was 36-4 as a starter (.900).
























An Elephant Story: The 1930 Alabama team coached by Wallace Wade went 10-0 with eight shutouts. According to the Paul W. Bryant Museum, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote a long soliloquy on the size of the Alabama players upon witnessing a game against Mississippi, after which writers referred to the team as the Red Elephants:

“At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, ‘Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,’ and out stamped this Alabama varsity. It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size.”
























Bear Bryant Like Pete Rose?: The legendary Alabama coach was just “the other end” opposite Don Hutson in the 1934 Rose Bowl as the Tide upset Stanford. Later, Bryant admitted he and some teammates had pooled together about $5 and bet on themselves as underdogs, making about $1 each. It wasn’t the only sneaky thing Bryant did — he married Mary Harmon Black in 1935 without telling anyone, because he feared coach Frank Thomas would yank his scholarship.
























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//Flag On The Play: One of the most legendary plays in Alabama history technically never existed. As big underdogs, the Tide ended Miami’s 29-game winning streak in the ’92 season national title game in part due to “The Strip.” Miami receiver Lamar Thomas before the game had planted his two championship rings on either side of a microphone and declared the third “will be icing on the cake.” He said the SEC wasn’t what it once was, and questioned the manhood of Alabama’s defensive backs. A member of Miami’s 400-meter relay team in track, after a poor start to the game, Thomas appeared poised to burst to an 89-yard touchdown catch. Then George Teague walked him down from behind and stripped the ball, a remarkable blur of speed and coordination. An offside penalty negated the play, but the Tide rolled and made Thomas eat his words.\\

Negated by a penalty but remains prolly my favorite BAMA play. Ran him down from behind AND stripped the ball. But the friggin penalty.
There was a very telling play in that game. After a play, forgot it exactly the Canes qb, Toretta slumped his shoulders and it was obvious he was saying, "How can we beat that?"

The canes talked a lot of trash, then BAMA went out there and trashed the canes. Don't disrespect your opponent.
 
LyquidMetal said:
//Flag On The Play: One of the most legendary plays in Alabama history technically never existed. As big underdogs, the Tide ended Miami’s 29-game winning streak in the ’92 season national title game in part due to “The Strip.” Miami receiver Lamar Thomas before the game had planted his two championship rings on either side of a microphone and declared the third “will be icing on the cake.” He said the SEC wasn’t what it once was, and questioned the manhood of Alabama’s defensive backs. A member of Miami’s 400-meter relay team in track, after a poor start to the game, Thomas appeared poised to burst to an 89-yard touchdown catch. Then George Teague walked him down from behind and stripped the ball, a remarkable blur of speed and coordination. An offside penalty negated the play, but the Tide rolled and made Thomas eat his words.\\

Negated by a penalty but remains prolly my favorite BAMA play. Ran him down from behind AND stripped the ball. But the friggin penalty.
There was a very telling play in that game. After a play, forgot it exactly the Canes qb, Toretta slumped his shoulders and it was obvious he was saying, "How can we beat that?"

The canes talked a lot of trash, then BAMA went out there and trashed the canes. Don't disrespect your opponent.
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That Bama defense was unbelievable! He was getting hit damn near every play, and he never knew where it was going to come from. Curry and Copeland were unblockable, and in his face the whole game. He was confused as hell!
 
Fact of the Day: Oklahoma State had the best 3rd down defense in the nation last year and were a top 10 defense the entirety of the year. Our offense sucked though.
 
RTR...USN (ret) said:
That Bama defense was unbelievable! He was getting hit damn near every play, and he never knew where it was going to come from. Curry and Copeland were unblockable, and in his face the whole game. He was confused as hell!
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Was that not the year that Brother Bill would put up to 11 on the LOS and then bring some, drop others at the snap? BTW it was Curry's first senior class that led as seniors.
 
On November 18, 1961, Colorado went to Lincoln and pitched a shut out against Nebraska, 7-0. The Cornhuskers have not suffered a home shutout loss since. UNL's head coach was Bill Jennings and he would be replaced by Bob Devaney the following season.
 
I would like to get back to really following all of college football. Can I get some suggestions as to some good websites for CFB news across all teams/conferences? TIA
 
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I would like to get back to really following all of college football. Can I get some suggestions as to some good websites for CFB news across all teams/conferences? TIA
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SB Nation-Search the Blogs, broken down by conference, and you’ll find the individual blogs of pretty much all the major programs

www.sbnation.com

Communities | SB Nation

Come fan with us. SB Nation is the largest independent sports media brand, consisting of SBNation.com, MMAFighting.com and over 300 fan-centric team communities.
www.sbnation.com www.sbnation.com

College football News-Still detailed and still solid

collegefootballnews.com

College Football News

collegefootballnews.com collegefootballnews.com

Football Outsiders and Pro Football Focus spend a fair amount of time to the College Game

Home | Football Outsiders

www.footballoutsiders.com www.footballoutsiders.com

NFL, Fantasy Football, and NFL Draft

The latest football news, analysis, and rankings from PFF. Featuring player grades, rankings and stats for the NFL, fantasy football, and NFL Draft.
www.pff.com www.pff.com

Reddit CFB Page

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com www.reddit.com

Then go to the preview mag spots: Athlons, Sporting News, Phil Steele

athlonsports.com

AthlonSports.com | Expert Predictions, Picks, and Previews

AthlonSports.com offers reliable predictions, provides expert analysis, reacts to breaking news, and helps shape the way fans view the game.
athlonsports.com athlonsports.com
www.sportingnews.com

Sporting News - NFL | NBA | MLB | NCAA | Boxing | Soccer | NASCAR

The latest news, videos, scores and more on the biggest sports, including NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, Soccer, Boxing, NASCAR and more with Sporting News
www.sportingnews.com www.sportingnews.com

Phil Steele

philsteele.com philsteele.com

I also recommend YouTube. There are a number of podcasts and Shows dedicated to teams if you wanna learn something.

Mark RogersTV
The Late Kick with Josh Pate

Are two guys who do a lot of National focus with Rogers having hour shows dedicated to specific programs

Then listen to podcasts like the Cover 3 who are currently doing their “Spring Gleaning” episodes. I believe they’re on the PAC 12 at the moment.
 
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