Effectively allows colleges to cut underperforming student-athletes, just as colleges cut scholarships for underperforming students

You just knew someone was going to say it too.

However, it drops by two for every Bucky Larson one.

a) You are correct.

From the sounds of it, it was a great game and really entertaining (didn't watch, was at Vandy-UCONN game). But not sure you can call a game between two unranked teams epic.

Alabama continuously has the best 2nd string Running back in the country. Lacey is a beast.

It's been tough getting used to those as a Vanderbilt grad student. Got two college friends flying into town for next week's Vandy-Ole Miss game which is the 11:21 SEC Network game, and had to explain we'll have to be waking up at 8 to get properly 'hydrated' before the game.

Auburn will host No. 16 Mississippi State starting at 12:21 p.m., because chronological exact numbers don't seem count for much 'round 32.597684°N 85.480823°W

Future Gawker outings include a Yankees game, a cooking class in SoHo, and a Statistics Lecture at NYU on the topic of Sample Sizes.

Loved watching Belak as a kid growing up in Toronto, and then getting another chance to enjoy him when I moved to Nashville and got to root for an actual quality hockey team. Never met him but from all accounts was a great guy to be around. Really sucks this happened.

In that case he'll get at least 50 years.

If that analogy were true, the final score would have been 0-0 since nothing happened.

UF went 4-4 last year and is going to be changing their offense from the spread to pro style. USC won the East, didn't lose too many people to graduation or the NFL, has the top WR in the conference, and has a new DE who is projected to immediately be a difference maker. That's why.

The SEC West is not nearly as good this year as it was last year. Arkansas just lost their top RB (and arguably a top 2 RB for the entire SEC) and will now have to rely exclusively on a first year QB; LSU is going to have some issues moving the ball and Auburn is going to be fighting for a bowl game. MSU will be…

Agreed. Always thought that was a terrific movie, with Crowe doing a fantastic job.

Classes are good if you don't have much of a math background and need a good score in it. For the verbal section which will be important for you, you just have to get some cue cards and start memorizing words. Don't really see how a class could help you with the essay writing section either. Study book sounds like…

What do you want to go to grad school for? I did it for Economics, so for me only Math and Essay Writing really mattered. Math is basically the SAT but slightly more difficult, but it's all stuff you would have learned in high school. If you had a liberal arts background like I did in college, then the essay…

I drive from Nashville to Tuscaloosa for every Bama homegame, and I'll be making it to all of their away games this year too except Penn State and Florida. So no real major road trips since that only lives Oxford, Starkville and Auburn. I'll definitely be out in Dallas in 2012 though for Alabama-Michigan, since I…

Dyer and McCalebb are good. But how many total starts does that Offensive Line have between them? Same reason why I have a hard time envisioning Georgia being any good this year, even with Murray and Crowell.

Death Valley at night is the best gameday experience in the SEC. Which means it's the best gameday experience you'll find for a football game. Hell, even if LSU has the 11:21 kickoff time and you're seeing them play UL Monroe it'll still be a great environment.