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National college football writer, @TheAthletic . 2022 President, @theFWAA . Aspiring eater. Tips/story ideas? DMs open. Email: dubben @theathletic .com

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David Ubben
14 days
Taking some time away for the best reason. Will be back in time for kickoff. Thankful and overjoyed. Psalm 139:16
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OU at the coin toss. He didn't die, guys. He grabbed his crotch.
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Chase Daniel has made $24.3 million over his career and thrown 78 passes in eight seasons. Judging solely by quality of life, this is one of the greatest NFL careers in history.
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ESPN to college football fans when Aaron Judge is up to bat.
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Clemson quarterback Cade Klubnikโ€™s parentsโ€™ flight out of Austin was canceled. They picked up a rental car at 10 p.m., drove overnight and are currently in the middle of a 20-hour drive across the country to Miami for the Orange Bowl, their sonโ€™s first college start.
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Showing up to play Texas Tech in a TTU anti-Baker Mayfield shirt is the most Baker Mayfield thing Baker Mayfield has ever Baker Mayfielded
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Deion Sanders: "People around the country will say this is what they needed to humble themselves. We werenโ€™t arrogant. Weโ€™re confident people. Our confidence offends their insecurity."
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7 months
I'm sorry, I thought this was America?
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7 months
Rain delay update: this man is being talked to by security after attempting to slide down the tarp like a water slide
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4 years
Peyton Manning on refusing to wear red and black to match Tiger Woods at #TheMatch : "I'm not gonna let Kirby Smart get a picture of me in red and black for their social media accounts."
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4 months
The Uncrustabowl is RIGHT THERE
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If youโ€™re a semi-weird foodstuff and youโ€™re not sponsoring a bowl game at this point you need to fire your marketing guy. Lockheed Martin sponsors a bowl and itโ€™s only trying to sell to like 3 midlevel managers with security clearance at the pentagon.
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Shoutout to oversaturating a player until an entire conference's fans hate him, then capitalizing on that by tweeting out an 18-year-old's bad decision to 34 million people. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ
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ESPN
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Trae Young tried to get a little too fancy. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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4 months
Tale as old as time: Ritual sacrifice sells
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4 months
The Pop-Tarts Bowl between Kansas State and NC State drew the largest audience of ANY bowl game so far โ€” averaging 4.3 million viewers on ESPN. (h/t @paulsen_smw )
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5 months
I would read 1500 words from the person who voted J.J. McCarthy first on their Heisman ballot. Somebody has to break that one down for me.
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3 years
Imagine how poorly a video of this robot doing โ€œThe Running Manโ€ will have aged when weโ€™re being hunted by these in 2045
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3 years
Way to go, Spot! The robot from @BostonDynamics joined @MarchingMizzou and @MizGoldenGirls in a halftime performance this afternoon at Faurot Field.
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4 months
There are too few bowls
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no context college football
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2 years
Smokey had to do it to โ€˜em.
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My condolences to Tennesseeโ€™s defensive staff. Nobody should have to spend a month watching Iowaโ€™s aptly named offensive film.
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2 years
Texas A&M vs. postseason selection committees is one of the hottest new rivalries in college sports.
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3 years
Tennessee in its termination letter to Jeremy Pruitt: โ€œYour failures are likely to lead to significant penalties to the University and has jeopardized the eligibility of our student athletes.โ€
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6 months
Credit to Michigan for perservering through the adversity of facing consequences for brazenly breaking a well-known rule for multiple seasons.
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2 years
Seeing a lot of reports surfacing tonight of undrafted players deciding where to go based on a combination of compensation and on-field fit and it's absolutely disgusting. What has football become?
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4 years
Said this for many years, but America needs to institute media literacy classes in high schools. The growing inability to sort between fact, opinion and fiction by so many people who should know better is troubling on so many levels.
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5 years
Lennay Kekua didn't die to be disrespected like this
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4 years
Just quarantine Oklahoma and Texas in a bubble together in Dallas and have them play a seven-game series for the Big 12 title.
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3 years
I love the Turnover Chain but breaking it out down 27-0, only for the fumble to be overturned is a tough look to come back from.
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Pruitt: "When you walk into a home and our basketball team is on the TV kicking somebody's ass, it makes it a little easier to sell the university of Tennessee."
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4 years
Jarrett Guarantano asked if heโ€™ll be back next year. โ€œIโ€™m a Tennessee Vol,โ€ he said.
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5 years
Oregon State embracing chainsaws doesn't make sense. You are the beavers, and you celebrate machinery that performs the function of your mascot far more effectively and efficiently?
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1 year
Texas A&M has now lost six consecutive games. The Aggies are No. 4 in 247 Talent Composite. The rest of the top five has three combined losses in 2022. I don't even know how to process that.
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4 months
If I'm keeping it ๐Ÿ’ฏ I am going to miss this Iowa team next year. The nation's No. 1 defense in YPP and last-ranked offense in YPP on the same team. It was a special three months. We may never see something like this again.
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4 years
Jeremy Pruitt: โ€œEverybodyโ€™s excited about us going 8-5. We need to raise our expectations. ... people have been kicking us around for awhile. Itโ€™s time for us to do some kicking.โ€
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7 years
So glad the NCAA rulebook can protect the sport from dangers like this. No place in college hoops for a person who'd play in a church league rec game
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7 years
Source: Houston senior guard Rob Gray has been suspended one game by the NCAA for participating in a church rec league game this offseason. He will not play in @UHCougarMBK season opener tonight against McNeese State.
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4 years
Brandon Kennedy said he was officially granted a sixth year of eligibility. He found out a couple weeks ago. Heโ€™s officially back in 2020.
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2 years
Tennessee is dishing out a decade's worth of revenge on sad fan shots in one season.
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2 years
If you didn't get to see the email sent to Mina, you can read a longer version with fewer grammatical errors below.
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Jason Whitlock
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My second column of the new year is just as spicy as the first. Mina Kimes wants to be Maria Taylor 2.0.
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1 year
LSU really has Wide Receiver U locked down for awhile.
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2 months
The real answer here is Eastern Michigan, where it should be easier/harder to break the cement wall depending on current team morale.
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Who will have the best entrance in EA Sports college football๐Ÿ”ฅ #CFB25
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5 years
Tennessee fans showed up in a major way tonight. And their team let them down for the fourth consecutive game.
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4 years
Big Conference Room Speakerphone Energy
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Lindsey Thiry
4 years
The latest look at SoFi Stadium from the sky.
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5 years
The amount of iffy calls that have gone against Tennessee tonight is rising.
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4 years
Donโ€™t tell the Aggies, but itโ€™s Kyle Field.
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4 years
Whatโ€™s the most awesome arena or stadium youโ€™ve ever watched a live sporting event?
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1 year
For the record, I think Tennessee should be above Bama based on resume but the committee's reasoning may be as simple as "Alabama would not lose to South Carolina by four touchdowns in any universe."
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5 years
Tony Bennett working Jim Nantz during a national title trophy presentation to get a free round at Augusta is such a calculated flex. You have no choice but to respect it.
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5 years
At the end of his presser today, Pruitt shook the hand of a new student radio reporter who is from Brazil. The student apologized for his English. "Nah, it's OK. Have you heard my English?" Pruitt said.
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8 years
Ohio State enjoyed that one, I think.
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5 years
Bill Walton: "You ever been to Iowa?" Jason Benetti: "Same answer as yesterday. No." ... awkward silence Walton: "You ever been to Eichelberger Farms in Iowa? They've got 50,000 female hogs there."
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4 months
There are too few bowls
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I will always remember watching Miami lose to Rutgers in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl with @MichaelRyanRuiz and @bykevinclark b/c where else can you see a DJ solemnly stand atop a lawn mower during the national anthem
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1 year
The only college football game to ever add stoppage time was the 2009 Big 12 Championship Game.
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5 years
If Houston wants to join the Big 12, leaving an 1100-yard receiver uncovered 35 yards downfield is honestly not a bad first step.
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2 years
Tennessee baseball is the exact team #Vols fans have been waiting literal decades to root for. Dominant most nights, clutch almost all the others and oozing swagger and fun every time they take the field.
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3 years
Baylor won its six tournament games by 15.3 points and no one got within nine points of them. Left no doubt.
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4 years
OL Brandon Kennedy says he wonโ€™t run through the T with the seniors on Saturday. He says he plans on returning for 2020.
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4 years
Tennessee is a 22-point favorite against Vanderbilt on Saturday. This is the first time Tennessee has ever been favored in an SEC game under Jeremy Pruitt.
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3 years
Tennessee QB Kaidon Salter plans on enrolling early, so because of the COVID-19 delays in #txhsfb , he'll play for a state title next Saturday and be in his first college class four days later. What a year.
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9 years
If TCU keeps playing like this, it's going to drop another three spots in the final poll.
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2 years
Lubbock is a criminally underrated town that gets a bad rap because it's near basically nothing else
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Clemson DE K.J. Henry on UT QB Joe Miltonโ€™s orange throw: โ€œJoe need to be in the outfield, bro. QB is cool and all but we saw what Aaron Judge just got paid. You hit a baseball 2 out of 10 times and you throw somebody out from left field? I might be Joeโ€™s manager. We gotta talk.โ€
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How far can Joe throw an orange ๐ŸŠ โ“ @OrangeBowl @Qbjayy7 #GBO ๐ŸŠ
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2 years
But really: College Gameday guest picker Dolly Parton should happen.
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6 years
Updated time zone power rankings: 1) Central 2) Mountain 3) Pacific 4) Eastern
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2 years
An Ole Miss fan lobbed a water bottle at Baylor's bench and about a dozen Baylor fans are AGGRESSIVELY snitching. Security is about to remove the fan.
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4 years
Tennessee WR Marquez Callaway is expected to sign with the New Orleans Saints.
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2 years
Taking some time away for the best possible reason. Quite a day. Should be quite a summer.
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1 year
The โ€œpeople doubted usโ€ narrative is actually very fair re: Georgia. Consensus before the season was Alabama was going to rule the SEC again. And that Georgia was rebuilding. Alabama got 158 votes to win the SEC in preseason. Georgia got 18. Iโ€™m just saying.
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1 year
TCUโ€™s cease and desist already in the mail
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1 year
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3 years
Pretty massive win for Josh Heupel and Tennessee. Inherited a 3-7 team that lost a dozen-plus players who would have started or contributed this year. Now in position to go 7-5. Amazing Year 1.
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3 years
Sam Pittman said Dave Van Horn canceled practice to attend today's game on the sideline. Eric Musselman was already coming when Pittman called him in the middle of the week. "It was really special for me to have them down there."
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4 years
In a little more than two hours, almost 10,000 Tennessee fans have watched a 15-second video of Harrison Bailey throwing a ball about 15 yards to an uncovered receiver in a half-speed position drill. Quite a place, Tennessee.
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David Ubben
3 years
If you ever wanted to hear a run of @finebaum callers accidentally advocating for socialism and overbearing, bureaucratic intervention, today is your lucky day.
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2 years
Heck of a scene on that Hail Mary. With a Josh Dobbs cameo.
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4 years
What my Heisman ballot looked like: 1. Joe Burrow 2. Justin Fields 3. Lynn Bowden Jr. Third place was wide open in my mind. I went with the guy who meant as much to his teamโ€™s success as anyone and did as much as anyone in such a difficult situation.
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4 years
Retired LB Darrin Kirkland Jr. will return to campus this weekend and be honored with the senior class to run through the T one last time before the Vanderbilt game.
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4 years
Jeremy Pruitt: "Every time I've played golf with Kirby Smart, he's the only guy who always finds his ball in the woods. Always."
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6 years
Michael Dickson has now surpassed Vince Young for the greatest bowl game performance in Texas history.
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Texas Tech fans taking over Austin is a fascinating new development. This feels like itโ€™s going to be A Thing for awhile.
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5 years
Tennessee went on the road in the SEC, defended 71 plays and ran 45, tied the turnover battle, got outgained, committed more penalties than Kentucky and still won.
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4 years
Tennessee today began the process of getting all its players registered to vote, Jeremy Pruitt said.
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2 years
Oklahoma did not come to Lincoln to mess around. This is pretty impressive.
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2 years
Matt Corral's X-ray was negative, Lane Kiffin said.
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5 months
In the long history of absurd college football things, the ACC keeping its grant of rights locked up, banning making copies and and requiring a conference employee to be in the room while it's viewed is near the top of the list.
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6 years
Freshman RB Jeremy Banks was working at LB in practice today. HC Jeremy Pruitt twice gave him 1-on-1 teaching away from drills during the open period.
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5 years
Pruitt on the spring game. "Can we just fill this place up? You talk about having an impact on a 17, 18-year-old in recruiting? Fill up Neyland Stadium. Let's make a goal to do that."
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4 years
Sometimes it takes 25 years to tell them, but some nights are too insane to let their stories go untold. Tomorrow @TheAthleticCFB ...
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Getting struck by lightning to own the libs
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Billy
6 years
@davidubben Sad. Back in my day a little weather didnโ€™t prevent the game from being played. Liberals have ruined the game. Made it soft. Too bad. These spoiled athletes wonโ€™t even play in some rain. So disappointing.
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4 years
Jauan Jennings, Marquez Callaway and Josh Palmer all wanted to do their postgame interview together.
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4 years
What if I told you Jeremy Pruitt won as an underdog as many times in the last month as Butch Jones did in five years? On researching a quarter century of a trend that tells us plenty about a coach, and what it says about Pruitt and his future at UT.
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David Ubben
4 years
It's crazy this game was postponed because national CFB reporters RT'd too many articles about issues with COVID-19 not enough positive pieces about how everything will be fine
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Bruce Feldman
4 years
SOURCE: tomorrowโ€™s Baylor-Houston game has been postponed.
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2 years
I know a lot of people questioned it, but it looks like Alabama's strategy of simply signing better players than every team in America is finally paying off.
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6 years
I remember when Dez Bryantโ€™s entire CFB career ended for lying to the NCAA about hanging out with Deion Sanders, something that wasnโ€™t even an NCAA violation.
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5 years
Texasโ€™ defense looks a lot better when it isnโ€™t facing Lincoln Riley calling plays for Kyler Murray.
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6 years
So amazing to see that in the NBA, any former MVP can join a 73-win team and win consecutive titles. Dreams really do come true.
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3 years
Tennessee coach Tony Vitello: "Heck of a day for Vol Nation. ... We got Peyton Manning saying Omaha again."
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5 years
Nigel Warrior, unprompted: "Can I say something real quick? I appreciated the fans. They came out tonight and I felt that."
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Aubrey Solomon on why he chose Tennessee: โ€œThe real question is why wouldnโ€™t I choose Tennessee?โ€
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4 years
Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt spoke at the rally against police brutality downtown.
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David Ubben
4 years
Tennessee F Yves Pons has been named SEC Defensive Player of the Year. John Fulkerson was named second-team All-SEC.
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Mizzou was 2-4, struggling and fought back to make a bowl game. Arkansas was 3-0 and ranked in the top 10 before it lost five of seven. Not all 6-6 seasons are created equal.
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4 years
Reporter asked Jauan Jennings how to attack Indiana's secondary. Pruitt stepped in. "We don't want to give too many secrets away now, Jauan." Jennings: "We're gonna go out there and play football."
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David Ubben
4 years
Cade Mays has won his immediate eligibility waiver appeal with the NCAA. Will need an official red stamp from the SEC to be available to play.
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4 years
True freshman QB Harrison Bailey (15) made his practice debut today.
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4 years
Jeremy Pruitt said after he had an opening for a RB coach, he came home, turned off the lights and started to go to sleep when he heard a voice. โ€œAre you gonna hire Jay?โ€ โ€œSo you know whoโ€™s the boss around my house,โ€ Pruitt said.
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2 years
Jimbo Fisher on Nick Saban: "We've built him up to be the czar of college football. Go dig into his past."
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