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The team I wanted to see face Alabama last season in the BCS National Championship was Oregon. It's the matchup the entire country wanted to see. No offense, Notre Dame fans, but seeing that high-octane Oregon offense go up against Alabama's defen...

You could ask 20 different people to rank the best coaches in the SEC 1 through 14, and you might get 20 different lists. It's hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't have Alabama's Nick Saban in the top spot. When you win three out of the last four ...

Remember Bret Bielema's comments when he was still Wisconsin's coach about what he suggested were illegal recruiting tactics by new Ohio State coach Urban Meyer? "I can tell you this," Bielema said at the time. "We at the Big Ten don't want to be ...

OK, I know I didn't cover all of the memorable SEC upsets from the last 30 to 35 years in my earlier post. And, yes, I've already heard from some of you about those that weren't included. So as promised -- and hoping that there are a few more c...

Making the rounds on a Monday: Jadeveon Clowney should think about skipping the 2013 season, writes Tom Sorensen of The Charlotte Observer. Behind the scenes with Tennessee coach Butch Jones. Donations to Tennessee's athletic department and t...

Let's face it. Nobody ever has a bad signing class. Can you imagine a coach standing up at his post-signing day news conference and proclaiming that that particular class simply didn't measure up? However, according to the ESPN Recruiting team,...

As long as Steve Spurrier is around, South Carolina is always going to be relevant. That's one of the perks when Spurrier is your coach. He's the quintessential newsmaker, as we were again reminded of this past weekend. Spurrier played a little...

Athlon Sports has graded the first-year coaching hires for the 2012 season, and Ohio State's Urban Meyer checks in at the top of the list. There were 28 coaches who took over programs in 2012, including three from the SEC. Texas A&M's Kevin...

Making the rounds in the SEC on a Monday: Texas A&M athletic director Eric Hyman stresses Johnny Manziel's new role to Manziel's parents. Comparing this Alabama national championship team statistically to the last two. If only Urban Meyer...

You ask, and we do our best to answer. It's time to empty out the SEC mailbag: Paul in Jacksonville, Fla., writes: Chris, I heard where you said (Will) Muschamp had done a good job of building the Florida program back up. Building the program back...

When you start selecting coaching villains, so much of it gets back to who's doing the selecting. For instance, in the realm of the Alabama Football Nation, good luck in finding somebody who doesn't revere Nick Saban. Of course, the folks in and a...

The sixth annual Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge golf tournament is being played today at Reynolds Plantation outside Atlanta, and five SEC head coaches are part of the event. The tournament consists of a 16-team field of NCAA head coaches and celebrit...

Urban Meyer is long gone from Florida, but he's sure not forgotten. We were reminded of that earlier this month thanks to Matt Hayes' piece in The Sporting News, a piece that painted the end of Meyer's otherwise ultra-successful tenure at Florida ...

Making the rounds in the SEC: Urban Meyer preaches discipline, but practices dishonesty, writes Mike Bianchi of The Orlando Sentinel. Ole Miss' quarterback battle is down to Bo Wallace and Barry Brunetti. Auburn's receivers are learning a new...

Matt Hayes of The Sporting News has an extensive piece on Urban Meyer leaving what Meyer himself once described as a "broken" program at Florida. Quoting sources and former players, Hayes paints a picture of a program that had a serious drug probl...

Linking our way around the SEC on a Friday: Former Georgia tight end Orson Charles is arrested early Friday morning and charged with DUI. With minimal experiments, Alabama kicks off spring practice on Friday. Eric Russell says all the uncerta...