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National Signing Day: The South’s strangest holiday

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It’s February and the holiday season is in full swing. We are on the eve of the biggest holiday of the month. A day filled with love, hatred, happiness and sadness all packed into an eventful 24 hours. No, it’s not Valentine’s Day; it’s National Signing Day.

Social media and television have turned the first Wednesday of February into an all-day affair filled with controversy and lynchpin decisions that send college football fans into a state of euphoria — or, sometimes, a panicked and angry frenzy.

It has become a national holiday recognized by most in the college football world.