ISML 2019: Two Days Into Topaz By Jo-Ryan Salazar The Bedlam on Baltic Avenue August 19, 2019 Match Day 2 of the 2019 International Saimoe League Topaz Period is in the books and there have been a lot of close races this period, with one reaching the limit. In the Female Division, Chino Kafuu defea...

Late report due to the ISML returns not being published to the site on time. ISML 2019: Topaz Period Kicks Off By Jo-Ryan Salazar The Bedlam on Baltic Avenue August 19, 2019 Match Day 1 of the 2019 International Saimoe League Topaz Period is in the books. In the Female Division, Rin Tohsaka routed K...

On its face, it seemed a pretty natural occurrence. After nearly three seasons, Texas State fired its head coach, Everett Withers, after he went just 7-28 in charge. A bad record leads to a firing, rinse and repeat.

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Hey, Steve Campbell, how did your first year at South Alabama go?

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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/8969/7AsK8n.png Down three points to UL-Lafayette in the closing seconds of the final game of the year, the ULM Warhawks had a chance to either win in regulation or send the game to overtime. A win would move them to 7-5 and all but guarantee a postseason bid;...

Well damn, Billy, you’re not messing around.

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“It’s a lot like Year One.” That’s how Blake Anderson described going into his sixth year as Arkansas State head coach. A cliche? Perhaps, but it’s also applicable.

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You can legitimately say that Troy hasn’t made a mediocre head coaching hire in more than three decades.

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What happens when a reset year is a reset year? Does the depth of the stumble matter if you knew a stumble was coming?

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What a roller coaster these last few seasons have been in Statesboro.

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The Joe Moglia Story was just missing another win or two.

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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1919/Nakwi7.png Mid-major program succeeds, loses its coach, and starts over. It’s been the way college sports work since “mid-majors” became a term. Nebraska hired program savior Bob Devaney from Wyoming. Ohio State’s Woody Hayes and Michigan’s Bo Schembechle...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/9738/CYHakl.png Before last season, Texas A&M made a bold investment in Jimbo Fisher, hiring him away from Florida State with a monster $75 million contract. The early returns were promising: The Aggies won nine games for the first time since 2013, beat LSU fo...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/3341/b8Zvcq.png Matt Luke, beginning his third season as an SEC head coach, hired big names and experienced hands in the offseason to help him rebuild Ole Miss football. Former Pac-12 coaches Rich Rodriguez and Mike MacIntyre hope to help the Rebels turn thing...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/3961/kFXVmx.png If the Joe Moorhead offense were correlated to the 26 letters of the alphabet, he estimates that he got letters A through M installed in his first season in Starkville. It was enough to go 8–4 in the regular season, but it wasn’t nearly enough ...

The LSU Tigers return seven starters on offense, eight on defense and landed a top-five recruiting class. But it may be the new $400,000-per-year assistant who makes the biggest impact.

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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/1136/J8fOgM.png Our college football 2019 season preview issue is here, which means we're checking in with all 25 teams from SI's official preseason Top 25 ranking. What do you need to know about each of this year's top contenders, from top-ranked Alabama down...

How far away from contender status are the 2019 Arkansas Razorbacks? Based on a winless conference circuit in Chad Morris' debut season and a couple of ugly nonconference losses, it would seem like a long way.

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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/4273/NCEU6R.png A new reality faces Alabama after what happened in January. Its decade-long stranglehold on college football has loosened, with Clemson now staking claim to the unofficial title as the best program in the nation. That 44–16 national title dethr...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8163/dGeSb3.png The Derek Mason era checks several important boxes: Vanderbilt has been to a bowl game twice in the past three seasons; the school's 17 wins over that stretch are the third most in a three-year period since the 1970s; and the Commodores have wo...