- Gene Chizik's first season at Auburn mirrors Nick Saban's first at Alabama, writes Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News.
- Don Kausler Jr. of the Birmingham News takes a look at Alabama RB Mark Ingram's Heisman chances.
- Alabama safety Mark Barron barely won a starting job this year. Now he has six interceptions, writes Michael Casagrande of the Decatur Daily.
- Jerry Hinnen of the War Eagle Reader has some SEC power rankings. He also has another installment of the schedule stockwatch.
- Georgia running back Caleb King has mentored freshman Washaun Ealey, writes David Hale of the Macon Telegraph.
- Former Auburn running backs coach and current Tennessee special teams coach Eddie Gran interviewed for the Memphis opening. Lane Kiffin calls this a good thing, writes Dave Hooker of the Knoxville News Sentinel.
- Ole Miss RB Dexter McCluster is good, writes ESPN.com's Chris Low.
- Pat Forde takes a look at some fallen college football powers in his latest Forde Yard Dash.
- Losses by USC, Miami and Notre Dame have made a BCS bowl a distinct possibility for unbeaten Boise State, writes Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated in his latest bowl projections. He's got Auburn in the Liberty Bowl against Houston.
- Could Texas Tech's Mike Leach be headed to Louisville? That's the buzz Rick Bozich of the Louisville Courier-Journal is hearing.
- Apparently Kansas coach Mark Mangino has an aggressive approach to coaching, like poking people in the chest a little too vigorously. Some players haven't taken kindly to this, writes Tom Keegan of KUSports.com. This is also an opportunity to post this awesome picture of Mangino and the Orange Bowl mascot a few years ago.
- Bad sign for Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis: the school has blocked tracking of the university-owned private plane on Flight Aware, which we journalists love to use to see where team officials might be flying to interview potential coaching candidates.
- This is not football, but it needs to be linked anyway. Here's Miami of Ohio coach Charlie Coles' response to a question about how his RedHawks let a close game at Kentucky "got away from him." Needless to say, he didn't agree with the phrasing.
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