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    Waiting for the Game…

    Now that we have bid adieu to another regular season of college football, there are no games to watch this weekend (Army vs. Navy notwithstanding). Apparently, there will be some other games played over the next month or so, but I’m pretty focused on the one that will be played on January 9. Until then, I’ll be strung out on these hype videos. Enjoy.

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    Get your game-face on!

    The SEC championship is tonight, and it is time to get your game-face on! These hype videos make me wanna put on pads and a helmet and pulverize someone. Does anybody else feel that way after watching one of these? By the way, I love that this one features Reid’s goal line interception against Alabama, the crying Alabama fan, and Saban losing it on the sideline—three of my favorite highlights from the season. Classic! (HT: Steve Hayes, a.k.a. Cajun Roast Beef)

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    Rick Reilly against the LSU-Bama Rematch

    Mea culpa. I confess that I’ve gone a little overboard with the sports blogging lately. The excess induced one of my fellow elders to entreat me to go back to writing about theology. After that reproof, I took the first of twelve steps, and I admitted to myself that I had a problem. I committed to reign it in and save all my sports-pontification for one post on Saturdays. Well, my restraint was good while it lasted because I’m reneging right now with this post. It’s not every year that one’s team is on the verge of playing in the national championship. So if you all would bear with me…

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    The Only Stat That Matters

    Fans of college football are eagerly anticipating the BCS standings that will come out on Sunday night. These numbers are important, and there is a lot at stake in this week’s rankings. My prediction is that LSU will be number one, that Alabama will be number two, and that the teams will meet each other in the BCS championship game. I think that’s pretty much everyone’s prediction at this point. Still, everyone knows that in college football the only stat that matters is the final score. So while we wait to see how the BCS rankings shake-out, let’s take a look at how LSU and Alabama have done in final…

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    Louisiana Tech Clinches WAC Championship

    My Louisiana Tech Bulldogs started the season at 1-4 but went on from there to win the next seven games in a row. With their win over New Mexico State tonight, they finish the season at 8-4 and clinch the Western Athletic Conference championship. This is their first conference title since they entered the WAC ten years ago. Tech will be playing in the San Diego County Poinsettia Bowl on December 21. This is the fifth bowl invitation in the history of Tech football, and it is the first since the Bulldogs’ victory or Northern Illinois in the 2008 Independence Bowl. How ’bout them Dawgs!

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    LSU Ends the Regular Season 12-0

    I confess that I had a pit in my stomach going in to the Arkansas game. The Hogs always seem to give LSU trouble at the end of the year. Arkansas had beaten LSU three out of the last four times we played them, and before kickoff I felt like anything could happen. When Arkansas went up 14-0 in the second quarter, I thought, “Here we go again.”

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    Bowl Championship Stinkfest

    Okay, I confess. I wrote my last post before College Game Day was over and all the upsets were complete. With Oklahoma, Oregon, Clemson, and other one loss schools still out there, it seemed unfair to give Alabama a second shot at an unbeaten LSU. But that was before the top one-loss schools completed their stinkfest on Saturday.

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    Tim Tebow is True Grit

    The Broncos were 1-4 before Tim Tebow took over five weeks ago. Since Tebow has been starting, they have gone 4-1 to improve to 5-5 on the season. He’s turning their season around, but he’s not doing it with passing. He was only 9 for 20 in the air tonight for 104 yards, and yet it doesn’t seem to matter. He’s all heart and grit, and the guy just knows how to win. That game tonight—especially the finish—was just amazing. Watch the game winning touchdown above. As I mentioned when he started this run, Tebow still has a lot of folks rooting against him. They are not simply rooting against…