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• Dawg Sports pays tribute to UGA VII, who died yesterday of an apparent heart attack.
  
• In advance of the LSU-Ole Miss game tomorrow, And the Valley Shook and Red Cup Rebellion exchange Q&As.
  

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• Carolina March and We Will Always Have Tempe both react to last night's 77-73 victory by North Carolina over Ohio State. (Language alert for the loser; imagine that.)
• Maryland blog Testudo Times reacts to Tobias Harris choosing Tennessee.

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• We Will Always Have Tempe provides a public service to Ohio State fans struggling to drum up the hate for Michigan week:

  I have attempted to combine the reasons for hate into an easily digestible, four-part format, and in the future, I hope this will serve as a simple compendium of anti-Wolverine knowledge; a Buckeye manifesto for this special time of year.

• Now that's just mean. Black Heart Gold Pants lists the ten coolest things about Minnesota.
• Blogger So Dear tackles the question of which of the ACC and the Big Ten is better.
• Team Speed Kills has the results of this week's SEC Power Poll.

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• In advance of this week's Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament, Cal Golden Blogs, Nunes Magician, Carolina March, and We Will Always Have Tempe engage in a four-way hoops roundtable.

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• Red Cup Rebellion explains what exactly was supposed to happen during Auburn's bizarre pass to the offensive tackle play against Georgia last Saturday.
• The Rivalry, Esq. looks to the stats and concludes that Michigan has a chance at upsetting Ohio State this week.
• The BCS named Bill Hancock its executive director. BCS Evolution introduces us to the new top man and makes an excellent case that, even if pro-playoff fans get what they want, Hancock and the BCS should be the ones to administer it.
• Corn Nation looks at the merely average performance of Nebraska's normally dominant defensive line against Kansas.
• Mountain West Connection breaks down the possible candidates for the now-vacant UNLV head coaching job.
• Should Rutgers consciously aim to establish itself in the New York City market? Protect R Turf is wary.
• The Smoking Musket tackles the possibility of head coach Bill Stewart becoming Athletics Director.

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• A Sea of Blue, on Kentucky's last-second victory over Miami of Ohio last night:

  I think ... no, I am absolutely positive that John Calipari learned far more than the team did tonight.  He not only learned about the team, but about himself.  Calipari has approached this season a bit like an emperor who has the favor of the people -- a man who not only expects to succeed, but darn well knows he will.

  Oh, Coach Cal has been humble in person, and dutifully warned us that the team will look ugly at first, but all that pretense has not been able to hide the mien of an emperor.  I'd be willing to bet he doesn't feel much like an emperor right now.

   

• According to Carolina March, the Tar Heels' 88-77 win over Valparaiso showed that North Carolina was "not ready for the national stage," but fortunately, "[t]hey've got until Thursday to fix that."
• Michigan State blog The Only Colors and Gonzaga blog The Slipper Still Fits do a bit of tag-teaming in previewing tonight's game between the Spartans and the Bulldogs.

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• Both the men and the women play tonight, the men at home against UNC-Asheville and the women in San Antonio against Texas Tech. Bruce Pearl can notch his 100th Tennessee victory tonight, which would make him the fourth SEC coach to reach the 100 mark along with Florida's Billy Donovan, Mississippi State's Rick Stansbury, and Vandy's Kevin Stallings. Of course, Bruce has done it in only 137 tries while it took Donovan 154, Stansbury 158, and Stallings 179. So poo on them. And anyway, Pearl's more interesting in the second victory of the season than he is in the 100th of his tenure.
• Meanwhile, the Ladies are traveling to Texas without Alyssia Brewer and Kamiko Williams because of the dreaded "violation of team rules," which for the women probably means failing to sit in the first three rows at class rather than failing to pass a drug test. 
• Point guard Trae Golden, rated No. 55 in the Rivals 150, confirmed yesterday that he will enlist as a Volunteer this morning at 10:30. Golden joins shooting guard Jordan McRae, who signed last Thursday, in the Class of 2010.
  

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• The Rivalry, Esq., a Big Ten conference blog housing both Michigan and Ohio State bloggers, gets an early jump on the upcoming rivalry game between the Wolverines and the Buckeyes by noting the most annoying things about each school.
• Ohio State blog We Will Always Have Tempe reacts to the Buckeyes' Rose Bowl-clinching win over Iowa.
• Dawg Sports, even in the aftermath of an exciting, narrow Georgia victory, is reminded why Georgia fans hate Auburn fans.
• Twenty wins in a row for the Florida Gators, and they're still fielding questions about the offense.
• Tomahawk Nation says that FSU officials' continuing attempts to reclaim wins vacated by the NCAA could affect Bobby Bowden's 2010 plans.
• Team Speed Kills notes the lack of movement of the BCS standings this week.

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• Georgia blog Dawg Sports is bracing for the possibility that Auburn makes history against the Bulldogs tomorrow in terms of highest margin of victory. Meanwhile, Auburn blog Track Em Tigers believes the Tigers will win, but they'll have to play well to do it.
• Garnet and Black attack previews the Florida-South Carolina game.