Excellent cover photo. Does a great job of illustrating the theme of the game, a swarming Alabama defense. Not in love with the headline, though. Can pretty much write that for any winning team, no?
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Excellent cover photo. Does a great job of illustrating the theme of the game, a swarming Alabama defense.

Not in love with the headline, though. Can pretty much write that for any winning team, no?

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Floyd Mayweather’s $220,000 college basketball bet on Alabama (-4.5) last night at Georgia Tech. Final score: Crimson Tide 73, Yellow Jackets 48. Winner!
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Floyd Mayweather’s $220,000 college basketball bet on Alabama (-4.5) last night at Georgia Tech.

Final score: Crimson Tide 73, Yellow Jackets 48.

Winner!

Alabama’s new goal post. This would be funnier if the Crimson Tide didn’t advance to the BCS national championship game without even winning their conference’s division.
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Alabama’s new goal post.

This would be funnier if the Crimson Tide didn’t advance to the BCS national championship game without even winning their conference’s division.

Playboy ranks the top 10 college football programs since 1957, when Hugh Hefner introduced Playboy’s Pigskin Preview.

Assisting with the visuals is the lovely Jamie Edmondson.

Thank god they didn’t hire Lee Corso for the shoot.

Source: playboy.com

Sunday’s front covers of the Baton Rouge Advocate and the Tuscaloosa News after last night’s Field-Goal-Kicking Competition of the Century.

I’d cry, too, if someone ever made me wear a tie to a football game. (via @23toby)
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I’d cry, too, if someone ever made me wear a tie to a football game. (via @23toby)

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The Detroit Lions and Alabama Crimson Tide each get Sports Illustrated covers this week.

Stars from five top-10 teams grace the cover of Sports Illustrated’s college football preview: South Carolina’s Alshon Jeffery, Alabama’s Trent Richardson, Nebraska’s Jared Crick, Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Oklahoma’s Landry Jones.
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Stars from five top-10 teams grace the cover of Sports Illustrated’s college football preview: South Carolina’s Alshon Jeffery, Alabama’s Trent Richardson, Nebraska’s Jared Crick, Stanford’s Andrew Luck and Oklahoma’s Landry Jones.

ESPN’s Wright Thompson interviews the Alabama football fanatic who poisoned trees at Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner and finds he’s talking with two different men, a gentile 62-year-old grandfather named Harvey Updyke and his passioned sports radio caller alter-ego, Al From Dadesville. It’s a glimpse into the mindset of a man who’s so mentally and emotionally consumed by Alabama that he thinks about the team “18 hours a day” and named his daughter and son Crimson Tyde and Bear Bryant. An unsettling profile, for sure, of the former Texas police officer who could be headed to jail, a possibility that has made him contemplate taking his own life.
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ESPN’s Wright Thompson interviews the Alabama football fanatic who poisoned trees at Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner and finds he’s talking with two different men, a gentile 62-year-old grandfather named Harvey Updyke and his passioned sports radio caller alter-ego, Al From Dadesville.

It’s a glimpse into the mindset of a man who’s so mentally and emotionally consumed by Alabama that he thinks about the team “18 hours a day” and named his daughter and son Crimson Tyde and Bear Bryant.

An unsettling profile, for sure, of the former Texas police officer who could be headed to jail, a possibility that has made him contemplate taking his own life.

Source: ESPN