Matt Baker
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National college sports reporter at The Athletic. Indiana native. Northwestern grad. Florida resident. Tampa Bay Times alum. mbaker@theathletic.com
Tampa, Fla.
Joined January 2010
I, uh, have some thoughts on this.
NEW: The story of 88-year-old Tennessee fan Thomas Bailey being priced out of basketball tickets he'd held for decades is tapping into a growing sense that college sports, in the NIL era, are losing a moral compass.
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Some interesting stuff in here on the SEC Netflix series premiering today.
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The show, which documents the 2024 season through the eyes of multiple SEC programs, contains authentic moments throughout.
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RT @skhanjr: Texas Tech hasn’t won a Big 12 football championship. But it’s spending roughly $25 million on its roster — more than Ohio Sta….
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Tech hasn't won an outright conference championship since 1955 but will head into the 2025 season with a Big 12-title-or-bust mentality.
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A Miami Northwestern reunion with Bucs LB Lavonte David.
Teddy Bridgewater is set to sign with the Buccaneers, a league source confirmed to @DMRussini. Tampa Bay will be Bridgewater’s eighth NFL franchise since becoming a Vikings first-round draft pick in 2014.
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Who are some CFP sleepers who aren't in the preseason coaches poll? I made the case for a very intriguing Big Ten team:.
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Four teams started last season unranked in the coaches poll and made the College Football Playoff. Who could pull off the same this fall?
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RT @ScottDochterman: Breaking down the Coaches Poll Top 25. Last year only 12 teams in the preseason top 25 made the final poll. Who's und….
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Last year, only 12 of the preseason top 25 finished ranked in the postseason Coaches Poll.
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RT @BruceFeldmanCFB: A 6-7, 366-pound left tackle who vertical jumped as high or more than five of the wideouts who were at this year’s com….
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The 2025 Freaks List is here. College football is close!
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See, other sports *can* have a playoff committee. A very interesting read. .
Inside NASCAR's playoff committee: The process, the discussions and where things could be headed. eventually.
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No more Skittles for Anthony Richardson?!?! I remember him regularly carrying a bag on his way into The Swamp. .
NEW: The way Colts QB Anthony Richardson Sr. has revamped his diet is just one small example of the seriousness with which he’s approaching 2025. And if last night’s sensational practice is any indication, it’s paying off. So long, Skittles. Details:
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RT @davidubben: How often do CFB players actually transfer now? . I looked at the top 50 prospects at every position from the Class of 2021….
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More than 60 percent of the 600 players we examined in the Class of 2021 transferred at least once.
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ACC Preseason Player of the Year voting:.1. Cade Klubnik, QB, Clemson (146).2. Haynes King, QB, Georgia Tech (9).3. Kevin Jennings, QB, SMU (5).T4. Carson Beck, QB, Miami (4).T4. Kyron Drones, QB, Virginia Tech (4).
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RT @jeff_gluck: Wall Street Journal reports Fox has bought one third of IndyCar for between $125-$135 million and extended their media righ….
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Hope you're sitting down for this: Clemson is the favorite to win the ACC, according to the preseason media poll. Tigers got 167 first-place votes. Miami was next with 7. SMU and GT with two apiece. Virginia Tech got one, and Florida State got 4.
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Lagway has made a lot of quick progress, Napier says. Something they're monitoring. Doesn't sound as if Billy is too concerned with Lagway's health, FWIW. .
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Billy Napier says QB DJ Lagway will be limited as the Gators start preseason camp. He's day to day, as are we all.
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RT @Lindsay_Schnell: Damn, this is crazy. More details from @davidubben here:
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Sanders was away from campus for three months this offseason.
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RT @davidubben: Colorado coach Deion Sanders was dealing with an aggressive cancerous tumor on his bladder this summer. Had his bladder r….
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RT @davidubben: Deion Sanders said he lost 25 pounds this summer dealing with the cancer/complications from surgeries. "I'll be transpare….
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RT @ScottDochterman: Why have Big Ten football coaches rallied around a CFP plan the rest of college football doesn’t like?. “They’re in sy….
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Coaches and ADs were in lockstep with Tony Petitti’s vision for an access-based CFP field rather than one dependent upon a committee.
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