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Green Wave Washes Away Trojan Lead, Wins Cotton Bowl

Posted on January 2, 2023 at 5:05 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  This was more than a game for the person writing you this article.


  The adult version of the kid who grew up with a Troy Aikman poster in a wooden frame on his wall, courtesy of a Dad, who bought the poster, saying simply, "I saw it...

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New American Athletic Football Schedule Format Released

Posted on November 9, 2022 at 2:15 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  The American Athletic Conference (AAC)  will be implementing a new conference football schedule as they prepare to welcome six new institutions to the league.


  After expanding to divisions in the 2015 season, back when having 12 teams and ...

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They...Are...Spartans! MSU Inflicts Their Will in 4th Q Surge to Victory

Posted on December 30, 2021 at 11:30 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  The first of the New Year's Six Bowl games came to us right before the ball dropped, with the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl kicking off from Atlanta, Georgia, featuring the Pittsburgh Panthers of the Atlantic Coast Cofnerence (ACC) and the Michigan State Spartans of the Big Ten Conference.

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Tim Lester Leads WMU to 2nd Bowl Win Ever

Posted on December 27, 2021 at 3:15 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  The Western Michigan Broncos have been to 10 Bowl games in their 60-year history.


  Coming into the 2021 season, they had only won one of their previous nine Bowl outings, when the Broncos defeated the Blue Raiders of Middle Tennessee Stat...

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The Fall of the Big 12: What Realignment Could Look Like

Posted on July 30, 2021 at 12:35 AM Comments comments (0)

 


  Article by Dan Tortora

 

  Since March 2020, our world here in America has been anything but normal.

 

  We spent time wondering who in our neighborhood was stock-piling all the toilet paper, why peanut butter became such a hot commodity, who was bathing in...

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Podlesny Ties Peach Bowl Record with Game-Winning Kick

Posted on January 1, 2021 at 3:50 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora 


  A new year...


  A new beginning...


  A new hope.


  Here in Atlanta, Georgia, the country watched as th...

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The Perfect Storm Sends the Sooners into the CFB Playoff

Posted on December 8, 2019 at 9:25 AM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  The perfect storm happened for the Oklahoma Sooners during this year's Championship Week.


  Oklahoma came into Championship Week ranked sixth in the most recent College Footb...

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Winning in Memphis, Third Time's A Charm

Posted on December 7, 2019 at 7:20 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  The stage was the same, but the setting was different.


  That is because the Memphis Tigers were playing in their third consecutive American Athletic (AAC) Football Champions...

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Mike Norvell Leaves Memphis to Take Over the 'Noles

Posted on December 7, 2019 at 5:55 PM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  Mike Norvell is hard to keep off of the radar of the rest of the world.


  After all, his lowest number of wins in a season at Memphis was eight wins, with an 8-5 record in hi...

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For Those That Think the AAC Plays No One...

Posted on November 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM Comments comments (0)


  Article by Dan Tortora


  There has unfortunately been a perception that the American Athletic Conference (AAC) does not play a tough non-conference schedule, which has become reality to those who have not taken the time to actually look at what is coming up for the AAC. 

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