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College football reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. Indiana native. Northwestern grad. AP Top 25 & Heisman voter. mbaker @tampabay .com
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South Carolina's legal team is advising against the Gamecocks using the name Sir Big Spur moving forward because of some 💯college football bickering.
The State has some suggestions for a new name, including Cluck Norris, Marco Pollo and Cock Commander
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You mean a football team in Orlando is trying to claim a championship it didn't really win? Huh.
WATCH: Steve Spurrier says the
@aafAPOLLOS
should be champions, if this is indeed the end of
@TheAAF
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#Champions
#Apollos
#Orlando
#AAF
#WFTV
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The Mississippi State band honors Leach with Pirates of the Caribbean
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The jokes were easy when ex-
#Gators
HC Jim McElwain sold his home for a $400K loss.
The real reason isn't funny: He did it to help a family with two disabled children.
#Wolverines
@UMichFootball
@mgoblog
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If this tweet gets me fired then, at least I went out in the most college football way imaginable.
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The Instagram account that posted the Deondre Francois video Saturday evening just posted this.
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FSU honoring former coach Willie Taggart
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In accordance with Peach Bowl tradition, the Gators have won the national title
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For the second week in a row, FSU held an opponent to negative yards in the fourth quarter. Minus-15 against Florida, minus-23 tonight
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FSU Board of Trustees vs Atlantic Coast Conference
Judge John C. Cooper assigned to the case in Leon County
He’s an FSU alumnus
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My 2020 goal was to run 1,000 miles this year.
My total as of this morning: 1,000.5.
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Napier says dismissing Brenton Cox was a "healthy thing for our team."
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Interesting comment from
#Gators
TE Moral Stephens last night: “I think this team is pretty talented, but since I’ve been here, I feel like Florida teams have always been talented, I just feel like we needed the right person to lead us.”
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#Gators
are having a scrimmage, but we can’t take photos or videos. So here’s what has happened so far
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Whoa.
#FSU
president John Thrasher says the ACC presidents are meeting at 4:30 today, and he thinks it will be the final final decision on whether to play
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Statement from U.S. Rep Gus Bilirakis on
#FSU
’s playoff exclusion. He wants a briefing from CFP and NCAA about the decision
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Mississippi State lines up without a quarterback to start and takes a delay of game penalty (declined, of course). One more Leach tribute. Now, it's football time
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On a Zoom with reporters, ESPN's Tom Luginbill says
#FSU
is closing the gap with Clemson, starting with what Norvell has done with the culture
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I was wrong in my line of questioning with Dan Mullen today. With newly discovered October battery accusation against John Huggins, it’s five (not four) members of his program accused of violence against women during his tenure
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@a99barnsey
Indeed. Sometimes if you work hard enough for long enough and get a lucky break or two, you can accomplish your dream
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The final day of Willie Taggart's deal at FSU was yesterday, which means his buyout should be off the Noles' books.
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RIP Outback Bowl. It's now the Tampa Bay Bowl.
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Mullen: I think we offered (UCF) a 2-for-1, like we do for most schools in their position.
Mullen says it'd be a big deal for
#UCF
, to have an SEC school come play at their place.
"If they want to try to toughen their schedule..." Mullen says
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Five members of the
#Gators
' 2019 recruiting class have now left without ever playing a real snap. So that class that was No. 9 now would be the program's second worst of the Rivals era.
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Here's our John Romano this morning on FSU being shut out
Headline: 13 teams couldn’t beat FSU, but 13 faceless administrators just did🔗
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NEWS: Florida's Attorney General has requested communications and contracts between the ACC and ESPN amidst
#FSU
's legal fight.
Story⬇️
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Taggart on not signing a QB recruit for the second year in a row: "we have a plan. I think a pretty good plan. I don’t necessarily want to discuss it right now."
#FSU
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Brenton Cox says he was at a loss for words after this win.
#Gators
"I’m just too excited."
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*immediately moves KState into my top 10*
Sweet Kansas State helmets the Wildcats will wear Saturday vs. Tulane
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UGA DC Dan Lanning, a former Mike Norvell assistant at Memphis, just dropped a "how you do anything is how you do everything."
#FSU
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Kirby Smart on the debacle tonight with FSU's roster situation: This needs to be fixed.
College football has got to decide what they want.
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Michael Penix Jr. received quite the welcome in Dade City yesterday as grand marshal of the MLK parade , our
@TBTimes_Bulls
writes.
“He’s a hometown hero,” Mayor Jimmy Shive said.
#PurpleReign
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#FSU
AD Michael Alford says during the BoT meeting that the Noles lead the nation in distance covered by fans to go to games. 55% travel at least 200 miles
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We just broke press box protocol with a standing ovation for
@RobbieAndreu
and
@pat_dooley
on their last games covering the
#Gators
for the Gainesville Sun.
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I really don't understand why we don't talk about that game much as one of the best in college football history, or at least one of the best title games the sport has had.
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Statement from
#FSU
AD Michael Alford (in part): "Our players, coaches, and fans - as well as all those who love this sport - deserve better. The committee failed college football today."
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2017: CFP title game
2018: NHL All-Star Game (?)
2019: Women's Final Four
2020: March Madness
2021: Super Bowl
Not bad, Tampa. Not bad.
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The Michigan DE running to shake hands with Tampa Bay Tech product Michael Penix Jr.? That’s Jaylen Harrell, another Tampa guy (from Berkeley Prep)
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Kyle Trask on the Heisman chant at the Swamp: 'I heard it, obviously."
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BREAKING:
#USF
board of trustees approve the plan for the $340 million on-campus football stadium.
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So Bob Stoops is coaching the Renegades at a high school whose mascot is the Colts.
Colts are horses.
Renegade is a horse.
I don't know how much clearer this could possibly be.
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#FSU
AD Michael Alford tells the BoT they've received $53 million in pledges for the football operations building. That process is going "very well," he says.
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Napier says his DC, Patrick Toney, is one of the best coaches he's ever been around...and Napier has been around a lot of good coaches
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A sentence I never thought I’d write:
#FSU
has no comment on a Reddit thread questioning its eligibility for the Independence Bowl.
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Pregame shot here in Miami, with 9 minutes and change before kickoff
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With the 4* WR gone, a
#Gators
class that was No. 9 would now be No. 17, between Notre Dame and South Carolina
Arjei Henderson will be released from his NLI, source says.
wide receiver who signed with Florida didn't get eligible.
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Dabo, leaving the ACC title game presser: "So Jimbo took that job, huh?"
Sitting outside the press conference room is more entertaining than actually being in it.
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I was curious how
#Gators
QB Feleipe Franks’ statistical improvement ranked nationally, so I looked it up. Turns out only two regular QBs had higher jumps in passing efficiency than Franks did.
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The Post and Courier ranked all the ACC and SEC coaches.
1. Dabo
2. Saban
3. Mullen
5. Jimbo
20. Manny
28. Taggart
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#Gators
QB Graham Mertz: "This flat out is not acceptable. That’s how it should be in the locker room."
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Cristobal calls
#FSU
QB Jordan Travis "one of the most explosive players in college football."
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NEWS: Florida's Attorney General has launched an investigation into
#FSU
's College Football Playoff snub.
Quick story⬇️
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Luke Del Rio's 320 passing yards are most for
#Gators
in an SEC game since....Chris Leak against Arkansas in 2004
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Two thoughts from Miami practice: Jarren Williams is better than I remembered him, and Shaq Quarterman is a dude
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SOURCES: SEC, ACC plan to play through this
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During breakfast, my 4 YO referred to Iowa as “the team that has parrots on their helmets,” and I’m very, very proud of him
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UPDATE: After a tweet from
#FSU
QB McKenzie Milton was read on the Senate floor, Florida's name, image and likeness legislation took another step closer to going into effect July 1, as originally scheduled.
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Gonna repost this for no particular reason, about FSU’s future in the ACC:
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Jimbo will owe $0.00 if he leaves A&M but is owed every cent that is left on his $75 million contract if he is fired (without cause).
A closer look at Jimbo Fisher's contract with Texas A&M:
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I count 62 potential felony charges w/ the nine
#Gators
. 6-2. Sixty-two.
Not including Jordan Smith and a Gainesville PD case.
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Mullen: "When we sell out the stadium, we’ll win a championship. It doesn’t go the other way."
Of note: Homecoming crowd today wasn't great
#Gators
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Players drafted so far
UConn: 1
Miami: 0
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#FSU
AD Michael Alford also says he recently met with a U.S. Senator for three hours about a potential NIL bill on the national level.
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Chauncey Gardner-Johnson says Percy Harvin is around
#Gators
just about every day. Calls him "Coach Percy," even.
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We know at least six ACC schools were in favor of filing a lawsuit against FSU without a full vote: Virginia, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, Duke, Wake Forest and BC.
That's according to a sworn affidavit by the UVA president.
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I love CFB so very much. But every now and then I have to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity of it all. Like, say, a program shutting down access because a student went to a public building to watch other students throw a piece of leather around a patch of grass.
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