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Corn Flakes: 400 Pounds - The Future Of College Football?

Dennis Dodd did a couple of pieces on the future of college football, starting with Baylor's 400-pound tight end Laquan McGown. McGown is 6'8" and 408 pounds. McGown is somewhat freakish right now, but Baylor's head coach Art Briles believes that 400 pound players will be common:

"To me, we're dealing with 2035," Baylor coach Art Briles said of McGowan. "We're dealing the future. We've got a physical specimen that plays football that I think will be common 20 years from now.

"If you have a team in 20 years, there will be three or four 400-pounders on it.