Do you want to share your predictions, analysis or thoughts on Saturday’s Notre Dame-USC game? Get involved with our coverage at live@theathletic.com. In my experience, there’s only one topic that can reliably fill an entire mailbag: conference realignment. But this week, I could have easily done so with Penn State/James Franklin questions. Or their logical offshoot: Indiana/Curt Cignetti questions. Stew: …
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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Lee Corso salute, Arch Manning’s shockingly bad day and more Week 1
Welcome to the sixth season of Final Thoughts, my weekly attempt to capture all of the college football weekend’s most important stories. Hopefully one day I’ll succeed. Here are 20 of them from the first three days of Week 1. (Sunday and Monday results still pending.) 1. You knew Lee Corso was going to don the Brutus Buckeye head for …
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