Conference realignment killed some of the best rivalries in college football. The ones that survived in the G6 are the ones worth protecting. Here are the best — and the ones that should be.
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@GoldnTickit The financial difference between being 14th (lottery) and, say, 25th, is several million dollars over a 4-year contract with the 1st 2 years guaranteed. It's exponential being 14th vs. slipping to pick 1 of the 2nd round.
No. 87: Hawaii Football Mattered
Torch-carrying warriors. The Ha’a Koa before kickoff. The run-and-shoot at midnight. June Jones took a program that went 0-12 and made it appointment television — from anywhere.
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100 Days, 100 Reasons G6 Football Matters
No. 88: Big Ben from the MAC.
Five NFL quarterbacks in six years. Pennington, Leftwich, Frye, Gradkowski, Roethlisberger. Big Ben was the best of them. They made Tuesday and Wednesday nights on ESPN appointment television. They put MACtion into the vocabulary.
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100 Days, 100 Reasons G6 Football Matters
No. 88: Big Ben from the MAC.
Five NFL quarterbacks in six years. Pennington, Leftwich, Frye, Gradkowski, Roethlisberger. Big Ben was the best of them. They made Tuesday and Wednesday nights on ESPN appointment television. They put MACtion into the vocabulary.
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With the commitment of top JUCO PF Antallah Sandlin’El from South Plains, here’s a revised look at The Board for UAB men’s basketball.
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12-0. One of two undefeated teams in the country. The other one played for a national championship.
Tulane played in the Liberty Bowl.
100 Days, 100 Reasons G6 Football Matters.
No. 90: 1998 Tulane.
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No. 89: The day Georgia Southern didn't complete a pass, upset Florida at the Swamp anyway and sent notice to the Sun Belt that they were coming to win.
100 days to kickoff. 100 reasons G6 football matters.
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We hope you're checking out our countdown to kickoff series: 100 days, 100 reasons G6 Football matters. Here are some of the covers.
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The war never stopped.
The current climate feels existential for the G6. But this class war has been raging since the first TV camera pointed at a football field.
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Back When: The day the people brought UAB football back from the dead.
On June 1, 2015 — 181 days after the program was killed — Timothy Alexander, Bill Clark and thousands of Blazer fans got their team back.
The full story, with video and newspaper coverage from that day.
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100 days until kickoff. 100 reasons G6 football matters.
No. 91: Southern Miss was Brett Favre's only D-I scholarship offer. Five weeks after a car crash nearly killed him, he started against Alabama at Legion Field. Southern Miss 27, Alabama 24.
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Joel Erdmann's last day as South Alabama's AD was Friday. He built the department from scratch — football, Hancock Whitney Stadium, $100M in facilities, six Bubas Cups.
The next AD inherits all of it. And a fundamentally different job.
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Back When: The day the people brought UAB football back from the dead.
On June 1, 2015 — 181 days after the program was killed — Timothy Alexander, Bill Clark and thousands of Blazer fans got their team back.
The full story, with video and newspaper coverage from that day.
https://t.co/Lg7V1gmotp