Thursday Thorns: Texas Tech Buys Its CFP Ticket We are back with a Thursday Thorns column for the first time in awhile, for no reason we can discern. But today we take on the sad state of college sports, again, with the reality of schools with d…

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Thursday Thorns: “Student Athletes” No More Our Thursday Thorns piece this week points out something kind of obvious: in the revenue-generating college sports these days, the athletes are no longer students, really, in the traditional sense.…

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Sunday Surmising: Is the bowl system done in college football? As the college football season comes to a close soon, it’s important to acknowledge the changes in the system that will affect the sport as a whole. With the 12-team playoff now, the transfer…

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