Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (projectiles sold separately in Knoxville):
FIRST QUARTER: IT JUST MEANS … TOO MUCH
This weekend, the Southeastern Conference (1) completed its inevitable crossing of the Rubicon. The nation’s best football league transitioned from It Just Means More to By Any Means Necessary. They’ve gone from passionate to pathological, intense to desperate, urgent to ruthless.
A descent that started with adding Texas and Oklahoma (2) to the league during the summer—to the betterment of the league’s bottom line but to the detriment of the sport and even most of the rest of its members—accelerated Saturday and Sunday.