Tag: Lang’s World
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Lang’s World: UGA is College Football’s Top Dawg. Again.
As Georgia head coach Kirby Smart hoisted his second consecutive National Championship trophy into the misty Los Angeles air, and as oddly large confetti fluttered from the sky and landed atop Stetson Bennett IV, the greatest player in College Football Playoff history…
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Lang’s World: Books for the SEC fans in your life
The SEC football regular season has finally come to an end, and it’s just in time for the holiday season! So, let’s combine these two pursuits and take a spin through the SEC while we knock out our holiday shopping.
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Lang’s World: Living in College Football Purgatory
The Tennessee Volunteers got throttled on Saturday night in Columbia, South Carolina, losing to the Gamecocks, 63-38. It was a real butt-kicking, a game where the ostensible fifth-best team in the country with everything…
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Lang’s World: When Finishing Fifth Really Matters
Someone recently mentioned to me that their father had played football at Georgia Tech, and after a few jokes about how bad Tech is these days, I pointed out that Tech used to be pretty good, even tying for a National Championship in 1990…
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Lang’s World: Bryan Harsin, we hardly knew ya
Through a somewhat convoluted series of events, I spent this fall as a volunteer assistant coach for my son’s flag football team. My qualifications for this job were few; principally, I was willing.
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Lang’s World: Let’s give the Heisman the Heisman
Everything changes. I told someone the other day that I knew I was getting old when I realized I was more excited to go to sleep at night than to stay up and play video games. As much as I wish I still had unlimited energy and free time, my body has changed, and…
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Lang’s World: The Tennessee Volunteers are real, and they’re spectacular
As the Memphis Grizzlies finished up practice on Monday morning, rookie point guard Kennedy Chandler turned to someone nearby and asked about the latest college football rankings, which had just been released.
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College Football’s Real MVP? The Transfer Portal
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to take my son to his first college football game at the University of Georgia. It wasn’t his first college football game–last year we went to a Memphis Tigers game, and had a great time walking up, buying tickets and sitting…
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Lang’s World: For Georgia Tech, it has to be Prime Time
One of my earliest college football memories was when Herschel Walker left the University of Georgia after his junior season in order to sign with the New Jersey Generals of the USFL. I wasn’t old enough to understand any of what was happening, other than to know that in Atlanta…
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Lang’s World: The College Football Elite
Having an elite season in college football is one thing. Being an elite program? Not great, but elite? That’s something different altogether. Lifting a team to the top of the charts is something that can happen every once in a while. Keeping a team atop the polls…