Florida State beats the SEC. In addition to that comment about Jameis Winston being considered a Tallahassee embarrassment “in some ways,” FSU architect Bobby Bowden told Paul Finebaum that he’d wanted to join the ACC in 1992, rather than the SEC, because it provided an easier route to national championships.
Florida State has more than held its own against SEC powers
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While FSU only has an 18-14-1 record vs. the SEC since then, those were almost all bowl teams. A lot of those games were against elites, and none were against, say, Vanderbilt.
(For what it's worth, Bowden was saying the same thing back in 1990.)
Carolina on their mind. The SEC typically has tremendous success recruiting the Deep South, but it has struggled to pull kids from North Carolina, which borders the Deep South but does not have an SEC school. North Carolina prospects are in a very interesting position:
Don't look, Iowans. Kirk Ferentz has lost a lot of games, and therefore he has lost to a lot of coaches — 46, actually. See if you can name them all!
Bielema kills cancer. Just another day in the HOG LYFE ... Here’s Bret Bielema getting ready to kill some cancer cells, but the truly amazing part comes next.
Here I am getting ready to kill these cancer cells just after viewing them under a microscope #CureCancer #WoooPig pic.twitter.com/438Xd7X2Mh
— Bret Bielema (@BretBielema) May 13, 2015 SEC West is still king. The SEC West didn't have a great time in bowl season, but that doesn't mean it wasn't the best division. In fact, the division probably had its best season ever.
Purdue is your national champion! Purdue football loses at a lot of things, including games. However, the Boilermakers are the national champions of keeping their fans away.
Biggest attendance drops, by fans per game, in college football in 2014: Purdue (13,684), Akron (8,680), Pitt (8,426), NIU (7,106)
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 14, 2015 In related news, college football attendance as a whole is at its lowest point since 2003.
Translating Spurrier. Steve Spurrier is great at talking, but if you put Spurrier’s words into Google Translate and cycle them through a few languages, he gets even better at talking.
I do not believe much trouble. Obviously, a coach, I think we have the same rules and other conventions. The players may be something else, and satellite camp is expected to come to the North and South. Securities and Exchange Commission was unable to get into the camp teachers. I want all the rules, but we, in my opinion.
’Cruitin? LSU is facing the prospect of bankruptcy, but in a move that it says does not affect its fiscal situation, it is adding an $84 million lazy river. Looks fun!
The proposed LSU lazy river. pic.twitter.com/UBARG9AjDK
— Jeffrey Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) May 14, 2015 One True No. 2. TCU is a close-to-consensus No. 2 heading into next season, behind Ohio State, but Sports Illustrated thinks Baylor is No. 2. That ought to be an interesting rivalry.
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