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Writing about college football for @YahooSports; contributing for @On3 | Email dellenger@gmail.com

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1Oct 26, '23TCU coaches learned from other staffs about Michigan’s “elaborate” sign-stealing before the CFP semifinal. TCU changed signs but used “dummy” (old) signs to trick the Wolverines, c126×7.4M13k1.9k438
2Nov 29, '23Using tonight’s rankings, here’s how a 12-team playoff would look based on the approved 6+6 format. Format rules: *6 auto bids to highest ranked conference champs *6 at-large bids 114×6.7M8k568227
3Sep 12, '24The Pac-12 is mobilizing a long-discussed plan to rebuild the league with additions from the Mountain West, sources tell @YahooSports. Oregon State & Washington State are targe63.8×3.7M3.9k864234
4Jan 3, '25Marcus Freeman after the Sugar Bowl about being one of two Black coaches competing in the Orange Bowl semifinal: "Your color shouldn’t matter. Your evidence of your work should."52.5×3.1M20k1k389
5Sep 28, '25Oregon wins and its defenses rushed to the PSU students. Madness.51.6×3M26k1.3k1.5k
6Sep 28, '24Kirk Herbstreit on GameDay: “We’re all for the players getting paid, but we’re not all for the players having all the control. We went from one extreme where the players didn’t hav50×2.9M7.6k383524
7Dec 4, '24The get-in price, per Stubhub, for the Big Ten championship game: $12.45.6×2.7M3.6k206100
8Dec 30, '22At 13, CJ Stroud’s dad was imprisoned & his family left in financial ruin. They lived at a storage facility & couldn’t afford him new cleats or contacts. A decade later, he44.8×2.6M5.4k645127
9Dec 14, '24Marshall has notified officials that it is opting out of the Independence Bowl vs. Army, sources tell @YahooSports. Absent of 6-6 teams, officials are working to determine a replac42.6×2.5M4.2k407175
10Dec 3, '23Florida State held a CFP selection show watch party at its stadium. I cannot imagine the scene.40.4×2.4M9.9k48295
11Nov 6, '23On Monday, the NCAA notified the Big Ten that there are no known connections between Ohio State coach Ryan Day or his family and the organization’s investigation into Michigan, sen37.9×2.2M3.3k71172
12Dec 20, '22One of Mike Leach’s last acts in life: Writing a check to keep open a Black-owned soul food restaurant along Starkville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. On unexpected friendships &a36.1×2.1M23k2.6k223
13Oct 26, '25LSU administrators and university executives have held and are holding high-level discussions over the future of football coach Brian Kelly, sources tell @YahooSports. While there 34.8×2M3.5k554165
14Dec 16, '24Penn State's backup QB says he's left with an "impossible decision" as playoffs overlap with the open portal period. He's leaving the team a week before a 1st-round game. The timin34×2M6.6k274147
15Sep 17, '23Next week in college football: Ohio State at Notre Dame Colorado at Oregon Florida State at Clemson Ole Miss at Alabama Iowa at Penn State My God.32.7×1.9M13k1.1k105
16Jun 20, '25NEWS: In a landmark moment in college sports, the University of Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit against Miami for tampering, and eventually poaching, a college football player under 32.6×1.9M4.5k675287
17Jan 12, '24Mike Norvell and Florida State have agreed to a new eight-year contract that will pay him more than $10 million a year, sources tell @YahooSports.32.5×1.9M3.4k68134
18Dec 3, '23CFP chair Boo Corrigan on the Bama-FSU debate: "The questions we do ask from a coaching stand point is who do you want to play and who do you not want to play." Oh my31.4×1.8M3.2k32197
19Oct 21, '23UCF WR Javon Baker blew a kiss toward the Oklahoma sideline during his long TD pass. Brent Venables was *not* happy.30.2×1.8M4.4k21664
20Jan 16, '25Significant news out today from the US Dept. of Ed, which classifies future revenue distributions from a school to an athlete for his/her NIL rights as “financial assistance,” whic29.8×1.7M3.6k539545
21Dec 1, '24Our second flag planting-triggered fight27.5×1.6M5.8k348369
22Oct 20, '24Kirby Smart on the PI reversal: “Now we’ve set a precedent if you throw a bunch of stuff on the field and endanger athletes, you have a chance to get the call reversed. That’s dang27.4×1.6M4.2k42464
23Dec 22, '24Rocky Top thunders throughout Ohio Stadium. It’s remarkable. More than 30,000 Tennessee fans expected.21.1×1.2M5.7k543376
24Jan 2, '25New Orleans BACK19.4×1.1M3.2k17670
25Jul 11, '24Pac-12 is holding a scaled-down media event with an open bar here in Vegas. Commissioner Teresa Gould opens the event by gesturing to the bar: “We are drinking tonight. If anyone h18.5×1.1M6k568208
26Sep 4, '25The NCAA FB Oversight Committee voted today to support a single transfer portal in January, sources tell @YahooSports, ushering in a significant change. The Administrative Committe17.7×1M3.6k557123
27Nov 11, '23The view at Beaver Stadium from the seat purchased by Connor Stalions for Penn State games against Indiana and UMass. Section WF, Row 1, Seat 4.14.3×840k4.1k41777
28Nov 24, '24Power conference title game situations: Big Ten - Oregon vs - Ohio State with win; or Indiana or Penn State ACC - SMU vs - Miami with win; or Clemson SEC - Georgia vs - Winner of T14.3×836k10k574309
29Sep 23, '23The Oregon duck enters wearing a white cowboy hat and sunglasses. Oh my.12×703k4.5k44637
30Jan 1, '25Both Notre Dame, Georgia and CFP officials have made requests to local New Orleans authorities to have the Sugar Bowl kickoff time Thursday be moved earlier in the day. There conti11.7×683k3.6k35073
31Dec 8, '24One minute before the selection show started, @Brett_McMurphy reported that SMU was in the playoff and Alabama was out, citing anonymous sources. It is believed to be the first lea10.2×597k4.2k333105
32Nov 24, '24The SEC confirms that Georgia has clinched a spot into the championship game. Bulldogs will play the winner of Texas and Texas A&M.9.0×526k3.5k34892
33Oct 26, '25Tommy Moffitt, Texas A&M's strength coach, was LSU's longtime strength coach who was fired when Brian Kelly took over. Moffitt helped build three national championship teams in8.9×521k4.7k344128
34Sep 2, '24If you’re wondering why it’s hazy on your TV, the smoke from the pregame fireworks here in Vegas - shot more than an hour ago - cannot escape the stadium.8.2×478k3.5k11968
35Jan 2, '24Good sunglasses-wearing dog7.6×444k7.7k40565
36Sep 25, '16BREAKING: Multiple sources confirm to The Advocate that #LSU has fired football coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron.7.5×03.8k8.7k5
37Oct 5, '24Diego Pavia said God gave him a vision as a kid and then said..6.4×372k3.5k207363
38Dec 13, '22I didn't think it was a question... but of course Mississippi State will play in its bowl game. As one State official told me earlier this morning, "Mike would be pissed if we didn5.8×020k1.4k83
39Oct 17, '21#LSU and Ed Orgeron have reached a separation agreement: He will not return in 2022 but expected to complete this season, sources tell @SINow. Negotiations began last week before U5.6×08.7k3.1k96
40Jan 16, '20Per multiple outlets, an arrest warrant has been issued for #Browns WR Odell Beckham. He is being charged with simple battery. He slapped the ass of a cop during #LSU's post-game l5.2×06.7k2.5k157
41Jan 3, '25Notre Dame SPT coach Marty Biagi has endured in two weeks.. the birth of twins, death of his dad, hospitalization of his wife & two CFP wins. Today, his unit scored 17 points &5.1×301k6.7k330105
42Dec 28, '24There really is nothing quite like this sport.5.0×295k9.4k241158
43Oct 20, '24Woo. Finger-wagging Kirby Smart was pissed after the PI reversal.4.9×288k3.2k137167
44Oct 14How did a former all-women’s college - tucked amid the Virginia mountains, football-less until the 1970s - become one of the nation’s fastest-ascending athletic programs? From Curt4.9×284k1.4k240298
46Sep 29, '24Trump is shown here at Bryant-Denny Stadium to roars from the crowd4.4×257k3.2k24840
47Dec 29, '19Before taking the field for warmups, #LSU OC Steve Ensminger called his son to comfort him over his wife’s death. Steven Jr. was in the hospital with high blood pressure. His dad m4.3×012k2k67
48Nov 30, '24Lots of late-game officiating calls/no-calls in Athens will be scrutinized heavily over the coming days.4.1×240k3.5k23547
49Jun 25, '20Egg Bowl 20204.0×011k1.9k65
50Sep 10, '22Bama LB Will Anderson says that the Texas atmosphere was the loudest and craziest he’s ever experienced in his college career.3.9×012k1.5k96
51Mar 31, '20When you hear things from ADs like "football allows us to have other sports," this is what they mean. Take #LSU. Here are profit/loss numbers from each LSU sport in the 2016-17 cyc3.8×08.1k2.5k273
52Oct 20, '24While on the field after the game, Georgia president Jere Morehead and AD Josh Brooks, clearly frustrated, declined comment on the reversal of the pass interference. Morehead was s3.6×211k3.1k22166
53Nov 2, '25The four unbeatens remaining in major college football: Texas A&M Indiana Ohio State BYU3.5×206k3.5k19634
54Jan 18, '25Will Howard just spotted Joey Chestnut at CFP media day. “The hotdog guy!”3.5×206k3.3k5831
55Nov 2, '24Will Howard: “We did it, man.” A long embrace at the end with Chip Kelly.3.5×205k3.3k14987
56Dec 20, '22Mike Leach was notorious for calling friends deep into the night. Said Bob Stoops at his memorial: “Let’s reach out and call each other after midnight every once in a while in Mike3.4×202k3.7k18712
57Dec 12, '22Mike Leach's health situation is critical. Keep the coach and his family in your thoughts.3.3×09.9k1.1k32
58Aug 30, '25One last ride.3.3×191k14k24290
61Jan 21, '25Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti: “That’s the greatest run in college football history.”2.9×167k5.3k36579
62Nov 6, '22No one is messing with the goal posts2.8×09.6k52564
63Jan 3, '25Marcus Freeman did a somewhat unusual thing on Wednesday. A day before a game - a big one at that - he permitted his players three hours to meet up with their families in New Orlea2.8×165k4.6k20257
64Jan 8, '24Good boy2.6×154k4.9k7821
65Dec 29, '18The eagle landed all right. On a Notre Dame fan.2.4×05.7k1.4k63
66Nov 16, '18NEWS: #Kansas is finalizing plans on a deal with former #LSU coach Les Miles, multiple sources have told @SInow. Barring a last-minute change, The Hat might just be back. #kufball2.4×03.7k1.7k8
67May 31, '19News: The #SEC has lifted the ban on stadium-wide alcohol sales, with restrictions, source says. Effective date is Aug. 1. 🍺 🍸 🍹2.4×03.8k1.4k16
68Dec 1, '19Joe Burrow on running to greet the #LSU students: “Obviously I don’t go to class - with online classes - so I don’t see any of those people.”2.3×07.6k49442
69Dec 28, '19An #LSU staff member this week called Oklahoma the fifth best team the Tigers have faced this season - behind Alabama, Auburn, Florida and Georgia. Things are materializing as such2.2×05.5k1.3k17
70Dec 13, '22Of the Leach stories, the best are those that highlight his inquisitive nature. Example: He once tracked a raccoon thru snow. Always a walker, Leach strolled thru a neighborhood, s2.1×07.6k37191
71Nov 6, '22At LSU, they don’t carry out goal posts. They carry out passed out bodies.2.1×06.7k67658
72Feb 21, '21Deion Sanders is “pissed,” he says. He says that all of his belongings were stolen out of the locker room during the game.2.1×04.5k77155
73Nov 28, '22Auburn is finalizing a deal to hire Liberty coach Hugh Freeze, sources tell @SINow. Freeze would return to the SEC, where in 2017 Ole Miss fired him amid NCAA and personal scandal.2.0×03.4k95533
74Sep 25, '22In 30+ years of watching football, I’ve never seen this happen.2.0×05.8k629107
76Oct 13, '18#LSU just put up 36 on #Georgia. And Neck arrives.1.9×03.8k1.4k125
77Dec 15, '22Drew Brees, the former NFL quarterback, is being hired as an interim assistant coach at Purdue, source tells @SINow. He wanted to help during the coaching transition. He’ll assist 1.9×05.1k76037
79Dec 1, '19Joe Burrow asked Ed Orgeron if he could wear the jersey with the Cajun version of his name. Orgeron says he told him, “HELL YEAH.” #LSU1.8×06.3k46424
80Nov 18, '18It’s done: Les Miles will be announced today as the new #Kansas football coach, sources tell @SInow. He’s en route to Lawrence now. The Hat’s back.1.8×04k1.1k2
81Aug 8, '20Dear God.1.7×04.5k47125
82Jan 1, '22Nick Saban on Cincinnati: "There’s no doubt in my mind they belonged in the playoff. They gave us all we could handle."1.7×05.9k36115
83Oct 30, '17#LSU installed key card entry system at Alex Box batting cages after Bregman spent 2 years calling student managers for access - at midnight1.7×03.8k1.4k2
84Nov 18, '22As shots began, Mike Hollins ran back onto a bus to save lives. He then ran into the shooter, who pointed his gun & fired. Not all heroes wear capes. Mike Hollins wears scars. 1.7×04.5k92952
85Sep 16, '21Holy shit. Tulane did it. For their game against Ole Miss, they've brought back Greenie, the team's old mascot during their days in the SEC. (via @GreenWaveFB)1.6×05.1k40714
87Dec 27, '19The lobby restaurant of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, #LSU’s designated team hotel, has already run out of bottled beer. It is 5 pm. Kickoff is in 25 hours.1.6×04k7757
88Sep 12, '21Unbearable agony and unnecessary death. The most difficult two weeks of my life.1.5×03k925154
89Dec 16, '19Remember the #LSU fan who bet $50 on Joe Burrow to win the #Heisman at 200/1? Matt Porter will donate $3,200 of his winnings to Colton Moore, an Alabama boy stricken with spina bif1.5×04.6k55519
90Dec 1, '19#LSU’s Tiger Stadium roars as final moments of #Bama-#Auburn is played on jumbotron1.4×03.9k69464
91Dec 14, '22Mike Leach once took a call from Donald Trump - at practice. He tracked raccoons, sang karaoke, hung with Willie Nelson. He paddle boarded, wrestled turtles, swam with sharks. He l1.4×04.1k437217
92Oct 16, '22One of the people who supplied the Tennessee football team with cigars was none other than Jay Cutler, the former Vanderbilt QB. Why did he do it? “He wanted us to beat Bama,” says1.4×04.5k35026
93Feb 12, '20If you have to dip your crawfish in anything, your chef did a poor job. If you dip your crawfish in Ketchup, you should be shot on the spot.1.3×04k4844
94Dec 6, '19#LSU coach Ed Orgeron was just asked a question at the SEC championship game news conference and it made me think of this quote from him in February 2017 at a banquet in his hometo1.3×03.8k59217
95Nov 30, '19Born on the Bayou is playing and Ed Orgeron is upper cutting air. Fill my veins.1.3×03.6k60836
97Jan 14, '20View post on X1.2×03.7k60815
98Sep 10, '22Nick Saban: “This is like playing an SEC game on the road. They’re going to be in the SEC. If they were in the SEC now, they’d probably be in the top half of the league.”1.2×03.8k40917
99Dec 5, '19He has survived 9 head coaches & 6 ADs, has seen 509 games & 14 titles, been dog cussed by Saban & ate Thanksgiving with Burrow. Meet the man behind the #LSU program fo1.2×03k57197
100Feb 1, '22Lane Kiffin: “We don’t have the funding resources as some schools with the NIL deals. It’s like dealing with salary caps.” He says some schools can pay “5-10” times more. “I joked 1.1×03.1k39628
101Jan 14, '20Joe Burrow sucking on a cigar and blowing smoke into the air while exiting the #LSU locker room is a thing that has happened.1.1×03.2k42145

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