Conference reconstruction inevitable for college football

This column was originally published with The Red & Black on June 17, 2015 and can be found here.

This week marks the five-year anniversary of one of the strangest times in the history of college football.

In a matter of days, Nebraska and Colorado bolted from the Big 12, Texas and Oklahoma flirted with other conferences and Utah moved up from the Mountain West to join the Pac-10. The strange summer of 2010 set off moves that are still happening, and at this point 34 Football Bowl Subdivision teams have new homes, and one conference — the Western Athletic Conference — no longer exists.

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For Georgia and Georgia Tech, all is fair in hate and rivalries

This column was originally published with The Red & Black on June 14, 2015 and can be found here.

Georgia Tech ruffled a few feathers around Athens this week when they revealed the rings that football players from the 2014 team would receive. The feature that fans found noteworthy was the emblem of the state of Georgia with the words “State Champs” nestled in the middle, a clear shot at Georgia and the Yellow Jackets’ 30-24 win over the Bulldogs last November.

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