Tag: Lang’s World
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Lang’s World: Three Things We Learned This Week
Who would have thought Nick Saban would be the college football coach in an AFLAC commercial most likely to lose his job?
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Lang’s World: GCM SEC Power Rankings
As I mentioned in my recap of the weekend, don’t look now but it sure seems like the SEC might be coming back to earth, at least just a bit. I know, I know – it’s just one week and there’s plenty of time for teams to grow and learn and…
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Lang’s World: Three Things We Learned This Week
Deion Sanders is my favorite athlete of all time. Growing up in Atlanta in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Deion was not only the best player on the Atlanta Falcons, he also managed to end up on the Atlanta Braves, where he was the most exciting player on an otherwise pretty boring team.
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Lang’s World: GCM Power Rankings
After a long, hot summer, relief is finally upon us: FOOTBALL IS HERE! And if football is here, that of course means we need to decide which teams are better than the other teams.
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Lang’s World: Three Things We Learned This Week
The transfer portal and NIL cash have brought a touch of madness to college football, that makes it feel almost like free agency, and in a lot of ways it’s something that many fans have wanted for a while.
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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.