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Derek Brown, on the cover of Sports Illustrated. "One Wacky Season."

Friday Roundup: The Sports Illustrated Edition

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Typically, this space is reserved for highlighting the best news stories that I came across over the week. But something happened this week that changed everything. Sports Illustrated has been an absolute staple of sports media since even before I took my first breath in this world. My parents purchased and SI Kids subscription. I had an SI subscription until I had had kids myself and ran out of time to read it like I once did. Despite that, SI never lost it's spot in my heart. Then, on ...

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They are here. Every college football Saturday. Repeatedly. Whether we like it or not.

Friday Roundup: The Fake Boy Band Edition

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If you've watched any amount of college football this season, you've seen them. AT&T's "OK Boy Band" lip syncing a hook to a fake song that you probably don't want to admit becoming an ear-worm. It turns out the fake band has a name, 300 Likes, which I discovered because their fake song, "Summertime Lover" released as a full-blown song last Friday. I've been wanting to write about the most hated/loved commercial of this football season for some time now. However, I don't want to talk ...

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Friday Roundup: The Collecting Receipts Edition

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Typically, the Friday Roundup collects news, stories, and hilarity from all around the college football universe. Although we all love Notre Dame, it's not the center of that universe and this space helps us enjoy everything that this beautifully stupid sport offers. Sometimes though, Notre Dame is the center of that universe. Notre Dame at Georgia is the lone CBS prime-time game this season. ESPN's College Gameday is in town. It's a top-ten battle with more playoff implications than anything ...

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Yes, I always imagined I'd be looking for public stock photos of A/C units for a college football blog.

Friday Roundup: The HVAC Edition

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Teams are always looking for ways to up their home-field advantage. Iowa paints their visitors' locker room pink. Notre Dame installed a comical tunnel for visiting teams to use. So when Ed Orgeron said that Texas cut off the air conditioning to the visitors' locker room, it sounded plausible even if it bordered on the bush-league absurd (even moreso than Weis' tactic of letting the grass in ND Stadium grow to absurd lengths). Coach O didn't stop there though. He said Texas pulled the same ...

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Popeyes Chicken Sandwich

Friday Roundup: The Ode to a Sandwich Edition

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Unless you live under a rock, you've heard about THE, as in Ohio State trying to copyright the word, chicken sandwich from Popeyes. I had heard about this fast food culinary masterpiece before Shane talked about it on the podcast. Despite the title, I'm not here to gush about it. It's good. I miss it. I downloaded the app to be notified when it's back. I'm more amazed about how this damn thing took off. A combination of social media, mainstream media coverage, and word of mouth watched a ...

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(Re)Introducing the Friday Roundup

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That's right y'all, the Friday Roundup is back! For those unfamiliar with this little feature, it's a time in which we move our focus from Notre Dame and look outward to the rest of college football. While Shane and I do this in the HLS Podcast, we can only cover so many stories before we lose everyone with a two-plus hour episode. The Roundup will house those stories, plus those that really don't need more than a quick link and mention. As is tradition, the Roundup will also have a cold ...

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Who has time for posting every day when they have to find a new elf stunt every night?

Friday Roundup: That Was Fast Edition

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Back when I ran this site, I'd try to do a Friday Roundup post every week. It was probably the most read, most clicked thing I did on a consistent basis, and actually probably my favorite thing to do because it gave me an excuse to buy new beers. When Biscuit and I set out to come back this week, I think we both meant to do a post a day, and I think we've both been reminded that it's damned hard to do that. Kudos to Ryan, Bayou, and Co in keepin' on keepin' on. It's a labor of love, and I ...

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Friday Roundup: The “Spring Tacos” Edition

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Spring practice has officially kicked off and the road to the Blue/Gold game has begun. Shane and I break down this first practice exactly how any long-time listener would expect that we would. Plus, we take a look at some interviews given by Jack Swarbrick and Brian Kelly in recent weeks. A lot of time is spent on BK's rather um...sudden change of heart and philosophy in this episode. In fact, this episode completely focuses on Notre Dame football this week. There's a lot to talk about and ...

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Friday Roundup: The “Down Goes Bama” Episode

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Well, the unthinkable happened. Clemson took out Alabama to win the national title and put an end-cap on the 2016 college football season with one final upset. Shane and I talk about this incredible game which saw nearly 100 (!!!) plays run by Clemson and some of the ballsiest calls we've ever seen in a game. Plus, the Notre Dame coaching staff puts in some final pieces and we talk about how the Irish are looking heading in to the final stretch before signing day. Perhaps we will talk you off ...

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Friday Roundup: The “Don’t Miss the Bus” Episode

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Yes, don't pull a Kiffin and miss out on a breakdown of the fun that was the New Year's Six bowls. Plus, we have more headlines from around college football and Notre Dame, and the final pick of the season with Eddie. Normally, this post is full of links of what is discussed; however, this post will bypass that usual practice for two reasons: (1) the day job kicked my ass and I absolutely won't have time to do and (2) we talked a lot of actual football so there aren't a whole lot of links ...

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